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Byline: Catherine Shoard Take That will perform the single Greatest Day at the Bafta film awards later this month, while the actor Jeff Goldblum will play piano during the in [...]

Byline: Daniel Lavelle Fans of the singer Linda Nolan have gathered as her funeral took place in Blackpool. People applauded as a hearse, carrying a pink glittery coffin lined with [...]

Byline: Graeme Tiffany My friend Bill Cox, who has died aged 83, was a youth worker and founder member of the Federation for Detached Youth Work. He worked for more [...]

Byline: Chris Wiegand The actor Joan Plowright, who was celebrated for her long career in theatre and film, has died at the age of 95, her family have announced. Plowright [...]

Byline: Anthony Hayward In 1971, when the BBC chat show Parkinson began, its host, Michael Parkinson, asked his friend Laurie Holloway to be the musical director. 'I unfortunately had to [...]

Byline: Corrections and clarifications column editor * A feature about the new Bob Dylan biopic mentioned that the folk singer and activist Pete Seeger 'served a year in prison' for [...]

Byline: Emma Higginbotham My father, David Higginbotham, who has died aged 85, was an inspirational teacher known for using humour to help young children understand maths. Determined to breathe life [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting In their 20-year career, the duo of Sam Moore, who has died aged 89, and Dave Prater recorded several of the most memorable records in the history [...]

Byline: Laura Snapes Peter Yarrow, vocalist with US folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died aged 86. The cause was bladder cancer, which Yarrow had been battling for four [...]

Byline: Adrian Horton Wayne Osmond, the smooth baritone of pop group the Osmond Brothers and later the Osmonds, has died at the age of 73. Osmond died at a hospital [...]

Byline: Sian Cain Australian country music singer Chad Morgan, who was known as the 'Sheik of Scrubby Creek' after one of his most famous songs, has died aged 91. Known [...]

Byline: John Keenan Richard Perry, who has died aged 82 from cardiac arrest, was one of the most successful record producers of the last 50 years. Among his best known [...]

Byline: Guardian sport Puerto Rican boxer Paul Bamba has died at the age of 35, his manager, the R&B singer Shaffer 'Ne-Yo' Smith, announced Friday. The news comes less than [...]

Byline: Mick O'Hare Syd Hynes, who has died aged 80 after a short illness, gained notoriety by becoming the first player to be sent off in rugby league's Challenge Cup [...]

Byline: Katie Cornthwaite My uncle, Jeremy Walker, who has died aged 67 of cancer, dedicated his life to inspiring young musicians and performers. As director of music at Westminster Under [...]

Byline: Francis Harvey My father, David Harvey, was a classics lecturer at Exeter University who co-founded and chaired the Exeter Bach Choir. An accomplished musician, primarily a pianist and organist, [...]

Byline: John Fordham A squint through the metal fence around Martial Solal's tree-shrouded villa, in Chatou, the suburb of Paris known as the ' ville des impressionistes ', could have [...]

Byline: Kevin Rawlinson and agency The former prime minister Gordon Brown and the Scottish first minister, John Swinney, were among those who gathered at a memorial service for Alex Salmond [...]

Byline: Jon Henley Charles Dumont composed melodies for French and international stars ranging from Dalida to Jacques Brel, Juliette Gréco and Barbra Streisand. But the singer-songwriter, who has died aged [...]

Byline: Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Safi Bugel Roy Haynes, a drummer who was one of the last remaining musicians of jazz's swing and bebop eras, has died aged 99. His daughter [...]

Byline: John Fordham The droll, sleek-haired saxophonist Lou Donaldson, who has died aged 98, was disinclined to let a good lick or a good gag wither on the vine. Alongside [...]

Byline: Stephen Bourne Nadia Cattouse, who has died aged 99, had a distinguished career as a singer and actor that began in groundbreaking productions of the 1950s and continued across [...]

Byline: Veronica Horwell The actor and singer Mitzi Gaynor, best remembered as the star of the 1958 film musical South Pacific, began her showbiz career as an ingenue -- the [...]

Byline: Caroline Sullivan 'When we finished [the TV talent show The X Factor], we thought something might happen, but never anything like this,' said Liam Payne in 2012. 'This' was [...]

Byline: Silvia Rothlisberger Raymi Saldaña Rojas, who has died aged 14, was a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, known for winning young artist awards and playing at prestigious venues and music festivals. He [...]

Byline: Andrew Jarvis My niece Clare Jarvis, who has died aged 51 from cancer, was a fine actor and a talented singer and musician. After graduating from the Manchester School [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting Arriving in Los Angeles from Texas in the late 1960s, the singer-songwriter JD Souther became part of the burgeoning California music revolution that would include Joni Mitchell, [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting It was a source of frustration to Frankie Beverly, who has died aged 77, that he and his group Maze never enjoyed huge pop success, though they [...]

Byline: Chris Welch When Georgie Fame called his old friend Zoot Money up on stage to sing at Ronnie Scott's Club one autumn night in London in 2022 -- 'Come [...]

Byline: John Keenan The bassist Herbie Flowers, who has died aged 86, was one of the most prolific session musicians of the 1970s. He played on an estimated 500 hit [...]

Byline: Peter Bradshaw James Earl Jones, who has died aged 93, was a massively accomplished and distinguished African American star of the stage and screen, an Egot titan and a [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Tributes have been paid after the death of Herbie Flowers, the session musician whose instantly recognisable bassline on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side is considered [...]

Byline: Robin Denselow Sérgio Mendes, who has died aged 83 after suffering from the effects of long Covid, was one of the most successful Brazilian artists of all time. A [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting The art of the musical arranger has faded somewhat into history thanks to changing tastes and the galloping advance of music technology, but Charles Blackwell, who has [...]

Byline: Juliet England My friend Sarah Packwood, who has died aged 54, had many talents -- she was a scientist, worked in humanitarian aid and as a disaster preparedness consultant, [...]

Byline: Nicholas Till Michael Graubart, who has died aged 93, was a composer, conductor and educationist. He spent a significant part of his career as director of music at Morley [...]

Byline: Richard Williams One of the most distinctive hits of the early rock and roll era, Stay by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs was, at 1 minute and 36 seconds, [...]

Byline: Sheila Whitaker Gena Rowlands, who has died aged 94, was in the tradition of formidable performers such as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford yet, unlike them, she always remained [...]

Byline: Alan White My father, John White, who has died aged 104, was an English teacher in London. He became a humanist representative on the standing advisory council on religious [...]

Byline: Dyan Sheldon My friend John Foreman, who has died aged 93, was a folk singer and maker of broadsheets who played an important part in the UK folk revival [...]

Byline: Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent Martin Phillipps, the founder of the New Zealand rock band the Chills, has died at the age of 61. Phillipps' death was announced [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting Stealers Wheel were more than one-hit wonders, but they will always be remembered for their trademark single Stuck in the Middle With You (1973), from their eponymous [...]

Byline: Brian Baxter Show-business history records how the young Françoise Sorya was walking with her parents in Paris when they were approached by the director Henri Calef, who asked whether [...]

Byline: Robin Denselow The Senegalese guitarist and singer Mansour Seck, who has died after a short illness, aged 69, recorded solo albums but was best known for the crucial role [...]

Byline: Ronald Bergan Janis Paige, who has died aged 101, shone in films and numerous television shows, but her greatest triumph came in the Richard Adler /Jerry Ross Tony award-winning [...]

Byline: Sian Cain John Blackman, the Australian radio and television presenter who was best known as the voice of Hey Hey It's Saturday, has died aged 76. His death was [...]