Ewan MacColl

Happy 60th birthday, Shane MacGowan

An appetite for excess has often distracted from the rare talent and songwriting brilliance of The Pogues frontman

Peggy Seeger needs your help to track down an obscure recording

The only time she heard Ewan MacColl sing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was on the phone but a recording apparently exists. Can you help find it?

TV review: Christy Moore: Journey - An intense portrait of a conviction musician

The man we meet in the two-part documentary is an activist whose weapon is a guitar

Radio review: Peter Sutherland’s secular sermon sits uneasily with his high-flying history

With his elite CV, the UN envoy is an unlikely but vocal champion of refugees, while Brian Eno goes high and low in a compelling talk

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Christy Moore: ‘Some of the things I did back then would make me wince now’

After almost 45 years of recording, Christy Moore has gathered his 45 best songs on a triple CD, ‘Where I Come From’

Bad Bob? Another listen to Dylan’s most derided era

‘Self Portrait’, Dylan’s first album of the 1970s, was his attempt to besmirch his image as a cultural icon. It worked. Will the most recent trawl of the archives change any minds?

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