Music industry risks excluding working-class talent, says Tinie Tempah

Singer Skye Newman also highlights how becoming a performer is becoming inaccessible to those without money

Blind UK pop producer to take legal action over alleged lack of support at work after surgery

Disability rights campaigner Robin Millar reveals he is taking owners of music business he founded to a tribunal

I didn’t think it was possible to love Kylie Minogue any more – her new Netflix series changed that

After the glut of brand-building shows from other celebrities, the Kylie documentary is radical for simply allowing the star to come across as human, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

‘This keeps the dream alive’: the bands sleeping at venues to make touring work

A new UK scheme is encouraging venues to provide accommodation for touring acts. But what if someone hurls a TV through a window?

Giant green pickle tells us UK’s Jewish culture month has begun

Inaugural festival aimed at bringing ‘less oy and more joy’ has events that span food, fashion, music and literature

Belle and Sebastian write Scotland anthem after dramatic World Cup qualifier

Self-deprecating It Only Takes One Lion is partly inspired by team’s current song, Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

The south London community where ‘pioneering’ scholarship choristers are made

St John the Divine, Kennington has built one of UK’s largest youth choral programmes in area marked by deprivation

‘Build it and they will come’: the hopes new life for former lido will revive Weston-super-Mare

Council has voted to lease the Tropicana to entertainment company Live Nation which plans to turn abandoned space into events venue

Bring Me the Horizon and Eric Clapton struck by objects thrown by audience members

British pop-metallers’ frontman Oli Sykes suffers concussion after phone strikes him on the head, in latest in spate of similar incidents faced by musicians

‘He’s inspired generations’: Stormzy to produce biopic about football great Ian Wright

The Crystal Palace, Arsenal and England striker says his life story – now in development with the rapper’s Merky Films – has ‘hard-hitting moments, but in the end I want it to give people hope and joy’

Buyers of Liza Minnelli memoir claim it was not signed by hand

Premium editions of Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! cost up to $250 but some say signatures are unnaturally identical

Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’

Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes

Royal Opera House calls for release of Georgian bass singer jailed over democracy protests

Casting director urges Keir Starmer to intervene in case of Paata Burchuladze, 71, jailed for seven years after singing at anti-regime demonstrations

Get back: Beatles’ Apple Corps to turn former London base into seven-storey visitor attraction

Paul McCartney hails plans for 3 Savile Row, which include access to rooftop where the band played their final gig

‘It’s a bit emotional’: Paul McCartney plays new songs to fans at Abbey Road

The ex-Beatle hosted a playback previewing his next album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, telling stories along the way