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Memories: PJ Morton of Maroon 5, who recently put out an autobiography titled Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in Louisiana in May. Photo: Erika Goldring/Getty Images

PJ Morton: Listening to his authentic artist’s voice

Singer-songwriter and Maroon 5 band member PJ Morton has just published his autobiography. This is an edited extract

Night fever: Mr Shakes (above) headlined at the Godfather, a club in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth, in the Eighties. (Facebook)

Say goodbye to 80s disco in PE? Never!

Fifty years ago, disco started having an impact. Its influence was felt even in apartheid South Africa

Prince of hits: The Purple One’s Top 10

Today Prince would’ve turned 64. To celebrate this legend, we narrow his canon down to 10 of his best songs.

Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars of music group Silk Sonic perform onstage during the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards broadcast on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

The refreshing nostalgia of Silk Sonic

Silk Sonic’s adventurous nostalgia is not a testimony to older music being better but rather the artists offer a listening experience that is refreshing because it is so…

Author Ntozake Shange speaks at the 40th anniversary of For Colored Girls. (Rob Kim/Getty Images/AFP)

Shange paid the price for her honesty

Her book gifted me a vision of myself and many black women who carried my world

Explaining: ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe (centre) made the party’s first submission to the Zondo commission. (Masi Losi/Gallo Images/Sowetan)

Prince: So long you sexy motherf*cker

Three South African musicians talk about the spell of the purple one.

No chameleon: Prince sat comfortably with his myriad conflicting selves.

The politics of Prince

Rhodes University’s Vashna Jagarnath explains why she teaches her history students about Prince.

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Music Review: Prince and his two-phase revolution

A year after his successful twin-album comeback, the Purple One does his thing again.

Electric Monáe plugs into pop future

Janelle Monáe’s latest release "Electric Lady" is a welcome creative offering in the seriously lacking genre of pop music.