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'I'm bringing back sexy' Could Justin Timberlake get any hotter? With his sexually provocative new record, Hollywood girlfriend and confessions of drug taking, the former child entertainer is making his play to be the world's biggest pop star. In an exclusive interview, Camilla Long finds herself seduced. Observer blog: what do you think? |
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Dread, beat and blood
Late 1976, and rival political factions are warring on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, with only Bob Marley calling for peace. In an exclusive extract from her major new book, Vivien Goldman remembers life with Marley at his home on Hope Road and reveals exactly what happened when gunmen came to kill him.
Louder than bombs
Every conflict has its own soundrack. The Observer's award-winning war correspondent Jason Burke tells why hip hop, Aerosmith and Wagner still echo around the world's hot spots.
Melody makers
Whether it be in Fife, Southend or San Francisco, the art of the singer-songwriter is being reinvented by artists who are more likely to have grown up with hardcore punk and rave than with an armful of James Taylor records. Meet five very different (and often very strange) young men ...
The hidden faces of country
Country music has always been looked at as white folks' business. But in Nashville and the Deep South, black artists from the working class are trying to claim their own stake in its heritage. Martin Hodgson reports.
'Top of the Pops' shows
The last ever broadcast airs on July 30. These are the moments by which we'll remember it ...
Flash forward
The Puppini Sisters live in the past. The Forties, to be precise, when life was more decorous. So what's with the musical saws and Smiths songs, asks Liz Hoggard.
The 10 best CDs
Lamb chop | ESG | New York Dolls | Cortney Tidwell | Fun-Da-Mental | Free Hole Negro | Triosk | James Dean Bradfield | Paris Hilton | Cansei De Ser Sexy
Other releases
More Eighties treasures come out of the vaults, while wine producers muscle in on the action.
Are you Judy in disguise?
Rufus Wainwright, Carnegie Hall, New York, 14 June
Labelled with love
One label defined jazz for 15 years from the onset of the Sixties. Stuart Nicholson finds much to savour in the story of Impulse! and John Coltrane.
Singles
From OutKast to Jarvis's MySpace download, these tracks are hotter than July.
Recommended
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How I found the link from Manilow to the Son of Man
The Da Vinci Code novelist has a little-known musical past. But there's a good reason why it's little-known, says Paul Morley
Vic Reeves
The comic enjoys discussing history with Mark E Smith but can't find much new music he likes. Paul Mardles tries to help him out.
Sounding off
Festivals are for everyone, whether rich or poor. Or at least they were before the emergence of the 'restival', says Miranda Sawyer.
Soundtrack to my life: Toumani Diabaté
He has a soft spot for German rockers the Scorpions and for a fellow singer, whom he calls his wife. Then again, the Malian maestro is at heart a storyteller, learns Will Hodgkinson.
Flashback: July 1996
Julian Henry remembers his role in the birth of a pop phenomenon.
A postcard from ...
... Peru
Barometer
Uppers and downers
Letters & emails
Letter of the month | Final countdown | Bad education | Cut to order | Etymology of Indie
