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James Hall

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Freelance journalist and author. Debut novel, The Industry of Human Happiness, out now. Writes for Telegraph, Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, FT, Observer.
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The forgotten bands Gen Z should discover next

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Rock 'n' roll once represented the shock of the new. But members of Gen Z – aged between 14 and 29 – are obsessed with musicians from their parents' and grandparents' generations. Queen, Fleetwood Mac, the Cure, Nirvana and the Smiths are all giants of the streaming era. “Turn and face the strange,” sang David Bowie in his hymn to ever-evolving tastes, Changes . Turn and face your mum and dad's record collection, more like.
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Jalen Ngonda is bringing the music of love, from Maryland to Streatham

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By James Hall Verified
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James Hall Mon 3 August 2026 at 5:00 am UTC 8 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As culture shocks go, they were pretty seismic. When rising US soul sensation Jalen Ngonda first left his Maryland home to study music in Liverpool in 2014, he flew via Dublin, where he required a 24-hour stopover. "I'd never seen vast amounts of Irish people, going from, like, a black and Latino neighbourhood in Maryland to seeing just white people.
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Andrew Ridgeley on Wham!’s shocking tour of communist China

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You can blame George Michael’s throat polyps. Back in April 1985, some pesky nodules on the Wham! heartthrob’s windpipe were directly responsible for one of the most groundbreaking and chaotic concert tours in pop history: when Wham! became the first Western band to perform in China.
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