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The nation's favourites Happy birthday Radio 1 - this month the station hits 40. It's been the story of all our youths, as the key players tell Simon Garfield. The nation's favourites (part two) |
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'Let's get plastered' When Klaxons won the Mercury Prize earlier this month, Jaimie Hodgson was on hand to join the 'nu ravers' for a bout of old-fashioned rock'n'roll carnage. |
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Abba to Zappa Is Billy Bragg's latest venture the Worst Record Ever Made? And who has the best face for radio? Have your say at Observer Music Monthly's new blog. |
New world order
The critics are raving on both sides of the Atlantic that M.I.A. has made one of the albums of the year. She tells Steve Yates how she journeyed around the world to make it.
Northern lights
How to make a film about the short and tragic life of Ian Curtis? On set, and talking to the cast and to members of Joy Division, Paul Morley reports.
Carl Wilkinson picks 10 classic rock biopics
No sleep till Kiev
On the Black Sea, a month-long dance festival, populated by some of the former Soviet bloc's most beautiful people, and by the most repellent, pushes new boundaries. Andy Capper reports.
The first cut isn't always the deepest
In association with Audi TT Remastered,OMM asked you to pick the 50 greatest cover versions ever. Garry Mulholland examines the results ...
The top 50 greatest covers as voted by you
A message from you, Rocky
OMM reader Daniel Kellingley was the winner of the competition in our July issue to interview one of the artists who have reworked their favourite tracks as part of the TT Remastered campaign. He met Rocky from X-Press 2 in London on 20 August ...
Back covers
A selection of your alternative suggestions from the OMM blog Abba to Zappa
Making waves
Radio has rarely been so popular - and never has it faced so many challenges. Which is lucky for the listeners, says Miranda Sawyer.
It's a shambles. And it must never happen again
Twenty years ago, from a crowded field, one record emerges as the pick of the pops, writes Paul Morley.
Irvine Welsh
For the Trainspotting author and reformed hedonist, no one comes close to Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan and Bowie. Paul Mardles searches for some viable alternatives.
Hot tunes
This month, Britney convinces in a way that Ian Brown and Sinead O'Connor cannot ...
Bat for lashes, Rock en Seine
Gig: The childlike pop siren is, according to Bjork, 'amazing'. Sarah Boden is inclined to agree.
Soundtrack of my life: James Blunt
The velvet-voiced former army officer doesn't like the way he is portrayed in the press. But, he tells Will Hodgkinson, Pink Floyd and the Beach Boys remind him why he has the best job in the world.
The ten unlikely comebacks
They're all at it, from Whitney Houston to the Police. But can their returns be as good as these, asks Caspar Llewellyn Smith.
Flash forward
Late of the Pier were, literally, too cool for school. Now the self-styled 'confrontational pop' pals are the hottest group on the under-18s scene, says Jaimie Hodgson.
Flashback: 16 sept 1977
Thirty years after Marc Bolan's death, his lover Gloria Jones recalls the glam star's fondness for his family - and London Zoo.
Letters & emails
Letter of the month | Avril: so misunderstood | Weather forecast | Come over here, all ye faithful | Starry eyed | Enemy territory
Barometer
Uppers and downers
A postcard from ...
... Paris
Your call
Does it matter if a star takes drugs?
