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November 2024

‘I named my son after him’: readers on the greatness of Quincy Jones

Whether advising him on restaurant menus or meeting him at Prince’s house, Guardian readers recall their encounters with the entertainment icon

September 2024

Ranked
Glam, gospel and glorious grooves: Patti LaBelle’s 20 best songs – ranked!
As her mega-hit Lady Marmalade celebrates 50 years on the dancefloor, we count down the artist’s top tracks – from doo-wop to trailblazing 70s funk-rock to smooth R&B

August 2024

Autumn arts preview 2024
‘You should be partying when you write party music’: pop hedonists Confidence Man on their super-sweaty new album
They want to hurl cash over their audiences, fire lasers, and make pantomime horses sexy. But, the Australian band say, there’s a dark side to their DayGlo dance-pop

July 2024

‘I sexed it up’: 1970s disco queen Asha Puthli on Warhol, Dali and influencing Donna Summer

Her spacey jazz-disco almost made her a huge star in the mid-1970s. Now having a long-awaited renaissance, Puthli reflects on working with Ornette Coleman and inspiring young south Asian artists

June 2024

Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on

Chaka Khan review – queen of funk sounds as majestic as ever

May 2024

Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review – ‘psychedelic pop-infused’? Pull the other one!
The British superstar has said her new album is influenced by Britpop, rave culture and Primal Scream, but you could go mad trying to find the evidence

April 2024

Book of the day
Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life review – down the rabbit hole with a musical maverick

‘With a Strat you can rule the world!’ Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything

February 2024

Kanye West sued by estate of Donna Summer over ‘stealing’ I Feel Love

Henry Fambrough obituary

January 2024

Chaka Khan to curate 2024’s Meltdown festival in London

Frank Farian: Boney M’s mastermind was one of pop’s greatest oddballs

Alexis Petridis

December 2023

Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Winter King; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Vanishing Act; Gyeongseong Creature – review
ITV’s answer to Game of Thrones doesn’t stint on gore; disco gets the glittering treatment it deserves; Crimewatch meets Kath and Kim in a botched Australian true crime drama; and a sinister ‘creature’ stalks 1940s Korea

Best music of 2023
The 50 best albums of 2023, No 4 – Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!
Ware’s fifth album is a strident call to embrace pleasure and liberation – and its luxe sound holds up her side of the bargain

TV review
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution review – an absolute feast of a music documentary
This wonderful series documents the passion and idealism of the 70s music scene. It’s an immaculately soundtracked history lesson – and so much more besides

November 2023

George Brown obituary

Kool & the Gang drummer and co-writer of hits including Celebration, Ladies Night and Jungle Boogie

September 2023

Kylie: Tension review – Padam was just for starters…

After this summer’s megahit single, Kylie Minogue remains firmly on the dancefloor – and the 1980s – with this largely irresistible set of disco and R&B cuts

‘He was brave and defiant’: the lost jazz and blues songs of disco icon Sylvester

Years before You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) made him a star and LGBTQ+ hero, Sylvester’s music was very different. His pianist recalls their astonishing sessions together in San Francisco

Mercury prize 2023: London group Ezra Collective secure first ever jazz win

Band say unexpected win is ‘testimony to good, special people putting time and effort’ into helping young people to play music

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