How to have a number one album, from U2 to The Beatles: An Irish expert shares his music industry experience

Michael Mary Murphy’s new book hails the managers who have steered U2, Hozier and The Beatles to the top of the charts

Rumer: B-Sides & Rarities Vol 2 – Decent collection of offcuts

We can’t sleep. The beaches are bananas. Even the bees are bunched - but isn’t it great?

Soon as we see the Met Éireann map plastered in sunshine motifs, all bets and shirts are off

Mike Wallace Is Here: Portrait of a great American interviewer

Review: Fast-paced documentary of a hard-edged US media showman

John Prine obituary: Songwriter with gift for tender, witty, wise lyrics

A singular talent of country music whose ‘Proustian existentialism’ Bob Dylan admired

Carly Simon on Trump: ‘He was all over me like ugly on an ape’

The singer on #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and why she has no time for the US president

Learjet hit by market turbulence

Once the epitome of luxury travel, the brand is suffering as competition takes off

Amazon suitors in US should learn from Ireland’s seduction moves

We have turned corporate and political courtship into an art form

May’s foreign policy cannot be judged by its electoral effect

Janan Ganesh: For the rest of the world, the UK election is a complete non-event

Various - The Ladies of Too Slow To Disco review: rich grooves, textured sounds, serious voices

Stage fright: the monster that scuppers the tour

Adele has it bad. So does Barbra Streisand. And Kate Bush got help with hers to enable her to get back on stage after 35 years