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Northern Ireland at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, including three current Olympic champions in Rhys McClenaghan, ...

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Amy Winehouse listened to a little bit of everything when she was growing up, picking up pieces from family members and other ...

This has been a strange summer. Usually, in the UK at least, music lovers can divide their time into pre-Glastonbury and post-Glastonbury, but that hasn’t happened this time around. These fallow years ...

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This week's Five Burning Questions looks at the rising singer-songwriter scoring her first No. 1 album.