British music

The singer wrote her chart-topping debut single Wuthering Heights when she was just 18, beginning a unique career in music that reaches all the way to Stranger Things.

From a 17th-Century Italian violin stolen from Japan to Drake's lost Blackberry in Mexico, here are musical lost and found mysteries that rival Sir Paul McCartney's.

Released 50 years ago, the song has become a rallying cry against homelessness, touching lives across the world, writes Hélène Schumacher.

The Face was the UK ‘style bible’ that encapsulated the 80s and 90s. Lindsay Baker, who worked there, looks back at the iconic magazine.

Music legends in the making once had to face the BBC’s strict audition panel to gain national airplay. Some passed with flying colours, others did not, as Howard Timberlake discovers.

John Dowland’s songs were massively popular in the Elizabethan era, and played into an idea of English melancholy that continues today, writes Andrea Valentino.

One study identified the girl group’s debut as pop’s most recognisable hit, but 20 years later, what’s really behind its continued success?

A newfound confidence has transformed Scottish identity – and nothing shows that better than the country’s art, music and literary scenes.