Harry Styles to curate Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre – and play an intimate gig
The pop superstar will oversee the annual music and art celebration in June, marking the festival’s 31st edition and the venue’s 75th anniversary
The hill I will die on: ‘Being a DJ’ isn’t a proper job
In what other field is a couple of hours’ work taking the credit for somebody else’s brilliance so venerated, says Guardian Opinion joint production editor Phil Mongredien
Bad Bunny gets first solo UK Top 10 hits thanks to Super Bowl boost
The Puerto Rican star’s album Debí Tirar Más Fotos jumps to No 2, while the song DTMF rises to No 4
‘Holy grail’ footage of David Bowie at his peak to feature in immersive London show
Earl’s Court performance of Heroes in 1978 is among highlights of exhibition exploring singer’s life and work
Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire
Podcast by Adam Batty and BBC 6 Music DJ Afrodeutsche follows the leads to Leeds
‘That make-or-break feeling? I love it’: can André de Ridder put ENO back on its feet?
Budgets have been slashed, morale is through the floor and the company has been forced to find a second base in Manchester. But the new musical director is up for a challenge. We meet the man with the hardest job in music
Taylor Swift casts ‘insanely charismatic and lovable’ Graham Norton in music video
Opalite video reunites host and guests including Domhnall Gleeson and Lewis Capaldi from Swift’s October chatshow appearance
Elton John accuses Daily Mail publisher of ‘abhorrent’ invasion of privacy
Singer says articles about his health and birth of son ‘outside even the most basic standards of human decency’
‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find
Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says
David Furnish calls alleged phone hacks of him and Elton John ‘an abomination’
Furnish says he and his husband felt ‘violated’ by the Daily Mail, which allegedly used information gained unlawfully
‘They are not manufactured’: how Brit school stars took over the Grammys
Croydon school’s principal says success of Olivia Dean and Lola Young is a ‘brilliant celebration’ of free arts education
Chumbawamba call on Spain’s far-right Vox to stop using their best-known song
British pop collective decry use of 1997 hit Tubthumping to promote the party’s ‘small-minded, hate-fuelled agenda’
UK hospitality firms demand more help with business rates amid questions over Heathrow discount
Airports identified as biggest winners of government’s £4.3bn support package with Heathrow alone taking £900m discount
First stills from Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles film released in Liverpool
Postcards showing Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan in character were printed as postcards and secreted around the performing arts school co-founded in the city by Paul McCartney
A night without Nessun Dorma: what does booing at the opera say about UK audiences?
Critics worry that heckling, such as that at a recent Royal Opera performance, is becoming more common