The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Ganymed – Takes You Higher
Their one Euro-disco smash overshadows the glorious bonkersness of this brilliance Austrian space-dance-cruise-ship hybrid
Woman’s Hour – Our Love Has No Rhythm (Motèl Mari/BLK JKS remix): New music
Woman's Hour's creeping melancholia has been given a welcome shot in the arm in this exclusive remix
Journey/Whitesnake – review
Journey's set has the feel of a triumphant Hollywood training montage, while Whitesnake's David Coverdale still looks determined to lick it in this vintage double-bill, writes Graeme Virtue
Ray Manzarek obituary
Co-founder of the Doors whose keyboard playing shaped the band's trademark style
Ray Manzarek was the key to the Doors
Laura Barton: As a teenager, I stuck a picture of Ray Manzarek on my school pencil tin – no other musician could make you feel like you were just one small step from wildness
Ray Manzarek: keyboard maestro and custodian of the Doors’ legacy
Alexis Petridis: Standing out in a band featuring Jim Morrison takes something special, yet people instantly identify Ray Manzarek's distinctive keyboard lines
Prince signs new record deal with Kobalt Music Group
Contract will allow singer who changed name over rights dispute to maintain ownership of his work and control distribution
Michael Jackson promoter ‘worked without a contract’
AEG's Kenny Ortega was hired on an agreement laid out solely via emails during ill-fated This Is It tour, court hears
Breakbot (No 1,516)
Paul Lester: A French man in a basement quietly creates an exquisite disco-pop companion piece to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
Beyoncé reveals new single Grown Woman – but no baby
Singer finally posts new track online, but husband Jay-Z denies speculation that she is pregnant with their second child
Doors co-founder, Ray Manzarek, dies aged 74
Founding member of band was touchstone of hits like Break On Through to the Other Side and Light My Fire
The Clash to release new box set of remastered albums and rarities
Sound System set to be accompanied by best-of album, sequenced to copy a 1982 Brixton show
Ane Brun – Feeling Good: New music
The world shouldn't need another cover of Feeling Good, but Ane Brun's reworking is subtly captivating
Alicia Keys – review
A slick, high-energy show by a consummate performer who rarely lets the mask slip, writes Dave Simpson
How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells
Virgin Records founder Richard Branson and composer Mike Oldfield recall how a leftfield offering by a bedroom genius kickstarted the Virgin empire