Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

Guitar also played by George Harrison on Norwegian Wood could sell for millions in May auction, alongside other memorabilia including a book of Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics

‘Nothing is going to stop me’: Celine Dion details life with stiff person syndrome

The chart-topping singer’s career has been on hold since she was diagnosed with the autoimmune condition in 2022

Cher, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest among 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

Cher finally recognised 60 years after her first recordings, while Mary J Blige, Peter Frampton and Dave Matthews Band are among the other inductees

Dickey Betts obituary

Guitarist, singer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band best known for writing their 1973 hit Ramblin’ Man

Swifties queue up for special letter from singer in boost for UK’s Record Store Day

New album The Tortured Poets Department flies off the shelves as Swift breaks record for most Spotify streams in a single day

‘Hundreds will come out on a weeknight in Canberra’: is the Baso Australia’s best music venue?

A rare constant in the national capital’s changing live music scene, the Baso fosters an intimacy that can bring music lovers of all stripes together

Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry: ‘I was fixated with death… I needed to live in reality’

The frontwoman of the Scottish synth-pop trio had a dream pop career, but it came with years of online misogyny and artistic frustration. As she prepares to release her debut solo album, she discusses going her own way

Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles

It was billed as a futuristic, glass-walled city, but was only ever realised in the digital sphere – where it should remain

On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie set

One to watch: Annie-Claude Deschênes

The frontwoman of Montreal punk band Duchess Says goes solo with a synth-pop album that started life in the cutlery drawer…

Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – a whole lotta love gone bad

On her 11th album, the American singer-songwriter picks apart her romantic travails in unsparing fashion, while her ability to turn sorrow into songwriting gold remains unparalleled

Pop is awash with nepo babies – Lennon and McCartney are just the latest. But why aren’t they better at it?

Other fields are plagued with famous people’s offspring too, yet musical genius seems particularly difficult to pass down the generations, says music journalist Simon Price

Taylor Swift’s new album is about a reckless kind of freedom. If only it sounded as uninhibited

The Tortured Poets Department depicts a spell of post-breakup mania against the perfect backdrop of the Eras tour – a thrillingly immature reality undermined by safe music

Claire Rousay: Sentiment review – the sound of life happening elsewhere

Largely recorded on the road and full of found sounds, this beguiling record from the US ambient artist captures the feeling of self-inflicted solitude

Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson & Charles Hazlewood: Death Songbook review – a vivid time capsule

Recorded live, this pandemic-era collaboration covering songs on death and loss by Depeche Mode, Mercury Rev, Suede and more occasionally transcends its source material