Musical memories
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Everything has been prep for today: Jazz vocalist Radha Thomas looks back on five decades in music
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‘50 years on, I feel like a rock star again’: A pioneering album by an Indian band gets another life
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In Yangon, a song for Bahadur Shah Zafar – and Myanmar
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‘All music comes from seven notes’: Sitarist Kartick Kumar on his career in film and classical music
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‘That is why I sing’: How Mumbai’s vibrant musical scene nurtured Amarendra Dhaneshwar’s talents
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‘Sweet, beautiful voices’: When a troupe of African American musicians sang at the Taj Mahal in 1889
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Music beyond language: Can a song be truly loved without understanding the lyrics?
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In ‘Then & Now’, Susmit Bose’s social blues create a time warp to reach the counterculture years
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Music and lyrics: ‘Thodi Si Bewafaii’ and the magic of one-off collaborations
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Music and lyrics: Songwriter Gulshan Bawra combined soul and depth with a sense of fun
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Notes scribbled in a 14th-century musical treatise trace Aurangzeb’s journey from Delhi to Kashmir
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Songs of solace: A playlist to take comfort in and words to live by
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How film composers have used raag Maand to express love and longing
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How techno music reunited Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Singers like Toby Keith have won Country a conservative label. But the genre has a progressive heart
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Singing on a jet plane: A brief history of Pakistan International Airlines’ in-flight music
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Gandhi Requiem: The link between a musical masterpiece and the death of the Mahatma
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In Fanney Khan’s remixed ‘Badan Pe Sitare’, the real Mohammed Rafi fan is behind the scenes
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Why Mammooty’s toddy song for his latest film is making my Madhavan Uncle’s family a bit peppery
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Fats Domino: The quiet rock ‘n’ roll rebel who defied US segregation
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Sitar used by The Beatles’ George Harrison auctioned for $62,500 in United States
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Yoko Ono will receive songwriting credit for ‘Imagine’
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Watch: George Michael is back, this time through an animated interview
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Watch: First Bangladeshi female drummer takes to the stage after 44 years
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Bappi Lahiri burnt up the dance floor but he could rock the raag too
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Margin notes: The pioneering conference a century ago that aimed to preserve Indian classical music
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Jagjit Singh’s velvety voice returns in a cover of an old hit, but does it work?
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Nazia Hassan may be gone but her music is eternal
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From generations of infidelity and pain, Beyoncé makes ‘Lemonade’
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Yehudi Menuhin birth centenary: How India shaped the legendary violinist
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What would the late Glenn Frey have thought of 'Hotel Keralafonia'?
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Altaf, Azad and Ram Singh: A musical history of Kumaon's brass bands
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Which ‘Happy Birthday To You’ from Hindi films is the best?
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Jamalpur jazz: The forgotten story of a Filipino swing musician in 1930s Bihar