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<p>Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Bob Dylan: Like Prospero in ‘The Tempest’, these stars are preparing to hang up their magic forever, looking to shore up their legacies and shape how they’ll be remembered</p>

Legacy acts won’t stop releasing music – have we reached Peak Archive?

As Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Elton John and others keep serving up unreleased songs and demos, Stevie Chick looks at the artists whose ever expanding back catalogues test their fans’s patience – and purchasing power

<p>Biopics: Sam Mendes will direct four separate films about The Beatles, with one focusing on each band member </p>

Sam Mendes is making four Beatles films – but which will be the best?

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Kanye West’s weak efforts on Vultures won’t enable a comeback

<p>‘This is someone who has faced difficult challenges head on,’ says Betsy Schechter, director of ‘Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive’ </p>

Disco queen Gloria Gaynor on trauma, survival, and her life story

Interviews

<p>‘I looked at Ronnie Wood and thought, “He looks good,” so I modelled my style on him,’ says poet John Cooper Clarke</p>

Interview

John Cooper Clarke: ‘I wouldn’t swap my life for the life of a junkie’

<p>‘Visiting Nashville and meeting people who loved themselves helped me figure out why I wasn’t happy,’ says Brittany Howard </p>

Interview

Brittany Howard on grief, heartbreak, and life in Alabama: ‘I didn’t believe in any higher power anymore’

<p>Jason Isbell: ‘I’m not Adele, people aren’t paying to hear my beautiful voice’ </p>

Interview

Americana star Jason Isbell: ‘I can handle stupid rednecks, but I don’t want Nazis’

<p>The OG Riot Grrrls are set to release ‘Little Rope’, their 11th album as Sleater-Kinney </p>

Interview

Sleater-Kinney: ‘Loss tears at the scaffolding of one’s life’

Music Box

Watch Dylan John Thomas perform his single ‘Fever’ on Music Box

Watch the beautiful performance of ‘the author’ by Luz on Music Box

Damian Lewis sings ‘Down On The Bowery’ for Music Box

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New Sensations

<p>Chappell Roan released her lauded debut album ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’ in September </p>

Interview

Chappell Roan on Elton John, queer stardom and Olivia Rodrigo’s advice

<p>Skinny Pelembe embarks on his UK tour this month </p>

Interview

Iggy Pop-approved artist Skinny Pelembe on his music that eludes genre

<p>Saint Harison grew up as a musical theatre kid in Southampton, where he attended a local pop academy</p>

Interview

R&B; artist Saint Harison on Elton John, going viral, and his debut EP

Reviews

<p>Usher’s new record arrives days ahead of his Super Bowl halftime show </p>

Usher’s new seduction album will make for an entertaining Super Bowl

<p>The Last Dinner Party releases their debut album on 2 February</p>

The Last Dinner Party lives up to the hype on their decadent debut

Live music

Beyoncé harnesses perfectionism in Renaissance: A Film

<p>Little Simz is dressed like an undercover agent, wearing an oversized white shirt, a neat black tie, matching leather gloves, and a pair of blacked-out Prada shades</p>

At Alexandra Palace, Little Simz arrives home in style

Retrospectives

<p>‘The College Dropout’ positioned Kanye as an awkward polo-clad Peter Parker next to the alpha supermen who dominated the rap game at the time</p>

Chipmunk soul and pink Polos: The College Dropout is a tragically distant snapshot of Kanye West’s genius 20 years on

<p>Sinead O’Connor photographed in 1988</p>

Losing Sinead was devastating for so many, this is how I remember her

<p>All eyes on me: Tupac Shakur, photographed for ‘Poetic Justice’ in 1993</p>

‘He never stopped hurting’: Tupac Shakur and the women who shaped him

<p>For older musicians, there’s a sense of pleasure as well as bemusement at seeing young artists replicating the past</p>

Forget Led Zeppelin and the Eagles – the new sound of classic rock is ‘shoegaze’ and Nineties indie

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