All good things must come to an end — it’s our last print issue of the year! Let Joe Casson’s selection of album closers help you to wipe the tears away

Following February’s LGBT history month, Jack Ashworth looks back over some of the dominant LGBTQ+ pop icons of the late 20th century

Some of the best songs ever written have sat proudly at the top of their album’s track listing, after all, the opening track needs to sell the rest of the album to the listener

William Bain deliver’s The Mancunion’s verdict on the deceased icon’s final recordings: a fond farewell to an exceptional career

“2016 is gonna be MY year”, you said on January 1st, and chaos descended thenceforth

With the death of Leonard Cohen, Jack Ashworth shows us the songs that have looked at the passage into ‘that great gig in the sky’ with more nuance

Bowie’s ghost haunts this week’s crop of new tracks

Laura Mills talks you through her top 5 iconic beauty looks from the past couple of thousand years

Much of the late legend David Bowie’s music has been used brilliantly in film—here are our picks for the five best times his songs elevated movie scenes to brilliance

Not long before he died, we reviewed Blackstar in the context of the time. Now the dust has settled on Bowie’s death, his parting gift deserves a new perspective in the context of his passing

On top of transforming his own career multiple times, David Bowie transformed a few others too

In celebration of David Bowie’s life and career, we look back on his legendary Berlin Trilogy and the city that spawned it

Dedicated to the memory of the gender-transcending and timeless rock star, we reappraise Bowie’s most confessional album, Low

David Bowie doesn’t like looking back down memory lane in heritage rock docs. Instead, he delivers strange, serpentine albums like Blackstar with both eyes set firmly on the future

Our pick for what to watch this Welcome Week is the Manchester-set 70s crime drama Life on Mars

From Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust, Will Brooker will spread different personas throughout the year to better understand the 70s artist

Cordelia Milward discusses the music industry’s growing trend for surprise releases and shock returns