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Classical trumpeter Alison Balsom has revealed that the 2025 Last Night of the Proms will be her final performance. During an interview for BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life, Balsom revealed for the ...

In popular memory, 1977 is often reduced to a single, jagged safety pin. It is celebrated as 'Year Zero', the moment punk rock detonated in London and New York to incinerate the bloated remains of the ...