Freddie Mercury

Record companies often crack open the vault and release what is touted as new material by late artists. Some have worked wonderfully, like Queen's mid-90s release Made In Heaven, pieced together from unfinished demos featuring the late…

“It was either going to be massive or it was going to be nothing” - Roger Taylor, Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody', one of the most celebrated songs in the history of music, is utterly unique. With the recent biopic bagging 4 awards at the…

It's time for your beloved NO ENCORE music podcast to take a deep dive into the world of cinema. NO POPCORN is our new semi-regular look at a film that boasts a certain music-themed flavour; be it a biopic, a musical or something that…

This is deeply uncool, but then again I freely admit to being deeply uncool when it comes to music, so here goes. I first became obsessed with Queen because in the textbook we used for English in Transition Year – a slim volume that tried…

Too beautiful to live; too elegant to grow old – and David Bowie is dead. The pop superstar/artist’s passing took millions by surprise. The news led bulletins around the world, including the serious BBC morning programme. When I caught…

Despite my repeated attempts to get Shmigtember off the ground, Movember is once again upon us. Here’s a lowdown of some of the most iconic hirsute upper lips in music history. 10. Little Richard Ever since his first hit with…