After releasing two celebrated albums in quick succession during the heyday of "indie sleaze," new music started to become less of a growing concern for Franz Ferdinand. In fact, The Human Fear ...

New music has swung fruitfully between US and UK influences for half a century. The British charts began in 1952, initially populated by crooners and light jazz. American rock'n'roll livened things up ...

Franz Ferdinand are not only one of the UK's most successful bands of the last 20 years, they are also one of the last remaining bastions of the huge wave of new UK bands that swept the world with ...

Kate Ferdinand has revealed she and her husband Rio Ferdinand won't be having any more children after welcoming five between them.

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Described by Liszt as “the most poetic of composers,” Franz Schubert became the quintessential composer of the early Romantic period. He composed prolifically, writing music in almost all of ...

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