Financial Times Magazine, Saturday 4 November

On rap star Jay-Z’s comeback tour the champagne flows fast but the own-label clothing sells faster. A quarter of a century after it first appeared, one thing is certain: hip-hop is now big business. By Carl Wilkinson
It’s a Sunday afternoon, and in a private drawing room at the Lanesborough hotel [...]

The Observer Music Monthly, 13 August 2006

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A year after Hurricane Katrina, half the population has yet to return to New Orleans.But in the mouldering decay, musicians are still trying to keep the city’s cultural heart beating.
In Dr Michael White’s ruined house in the Gentilly district of New Orleans a cross hangs over [...]

The Observer Music Monthly, 17 October 2004
For the first time, the full backstage story of Live Aid, in the words of the people who made it happen.
On 24 October 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk reports on the terrible famine that has hit Ethiopia. The dispatch subsequently airs on 425 stations around the world.
Michael [...]