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Joan Armatrading

November 2023

  • Chineke! Orchestra: Joan Armatrading & Tchaikovsky, Fri 24 November 2023, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

    Joan Armatrading world premiere review – how did a brilliant pop melodist produce such a baffling mess?

    Armatrading’s first symphony, premiered by Chineke! conducted by Andrew Grams, was underdeveloped and dull. Neither composer nor ensemble come out well from this

November 2022

  • Joan Armatrading

    This much I know
    Joan Armatrading: ‘Nelson Mandela gave great hugs’

    The singer on arriving in the UK alone aged 7, her first £3 guitar, and meeting the anti-apartheid activist

June 2022

  • Crowds at the Glastonbury festival in 2008l

    ‘I popped the question. Of course she said yes – she was as wasted as I was’: the Glastonbury festival I’ll never forget

    Billy Bragg, Joan Armatrading, Tim Jonze and Leonie Cooper reflect on their most magical days at Worthy Farm

June 2021

  • ‘Genuinely hard to pin down’ ... Joan Armatrading.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Joan Armatrading: Consequences review – strikingly inventive songwriter deserves her due

    The 70-year-old Brit may cut an unassuming figure, but she refuses to trade on comfort, essaying pop head-on without ever sounding like a trend-chasing heritage act

May 2021

  • Tony Armatrading as Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come And Gone by August Wilson at the Tricycle theatre, London, in 1990.

    Tony Armatrading obituary

    Stage and screen actor who enjoyed success with the RSC and in many TV and film roles, including Empire Road and Notting Hill

February 2021

  • Carole King performing in 1972, the year after Tapestry was released.

    'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry

    James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece

November 2020

  • ‘There weren’t any role models for me’ … Armatrading in 1980; the singer has won the Woman of the Year’s lifetime achievement award.

    Joan Armatrading: 'I want to make a heavy metal album – with lots of guitar shredding'

    At the age of seven, she flew to Birmingham from Antigua on her own – and became the first globally successful British female singer-songwriter. As she wins the award she once gave to Margaret Thatcher, Joan Armatrading looks back

October 2020

  • Marcus Rashford

    Marcus Rashford given MBE in birthday honours for school meals campaign

    Footballer urges PM to extend voucher scheme after being named on list delayed by Covid

September 2020

  • Dave, Little Simz and Jamie Cullum.

    Dave, Little Simz and Jamie Cullum win at 2020 Ivor Novello awards

    Songwriting and composition awards herald politically conscious work including Dave’s Black, described as ‘important and eloquent’

June 2018

  • Phyllida Lloyd.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Phyllida Lloyd’s cultural highlights

    The British director on the genius of Joan Armatrading, the best organic pub in London, and the film she turns to for inspiration

May 2018

  • Joan Armatrading, who will take on your questions.

    Culture webchats
    'I was born to write'… Joan Armatrading on Dylan, songwriting and stage fright

    The songwriter, whose new album is Not Too Far Away, weighs in on Post Malone, recording with Queen and learning to play on a £3 guitar in a webchat

April 2016

  • JD Samson - DJ press portrait

    The playlist
    JD Samson’s playlist: Joan Armatrading, Tracey Chapman, Chemise and more

    The Le Tigre founder, DJ and producer picks a selection of mix staples, a compelling activist chant and an ever-evolving easy listening track

February 2016

  • CURTIS MAYFIELD<br>FILE-- Curtis Mayfield is shown in this undated handout photo. The composer and songwriter, whose string of hits include "Superfly," "People Get Ready,'' "Talking About My Baby,'' and "Keep On Pushing,'' died Sunday, Dec. 26, 1999. Mayfield was 57.(AP Photo/Curtom Records, ho)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about overturning the odds – and a new theme

    RR regular sonofwebcore has come up with this week’s playlist – listen to it and nominate on next week’s theme ‘songs about knives’ here

March 2015

  • Joan Armatrading Performs At The Brighton Dome

    Joan Armatrading review – her voice is ageless, her powers are undiminished

    Armatrading jokes she is too old and tired to play more than three songs after a 100-date tour – then raises the roof for 90 minutes, writes Dave Simpson

December 2013

  • Melissa Etheridge

    Where were all the lesbians in Queer as Pop?

    Ray Filar

    Ray Filar: No Wendy Carlos, no Tracy Chapman, no riot grrrls, no female DJs – this music documentary was historical revisionism at its worst

May 2012

  • Krystle Warren

    Krystle Warren – review

    Warren manages to fuse almost every American style, from country and folk to soul and jazz, in a classy original set, writes Robin Denselow

April 2010

  • Joan ARMATRADING

    Joan Armatrading: Saint Joan

    Four decades after starting out, Joan Armatrading is still writing and touring. She talks to Paul Sexton about her work with Gordon Brown – and why she loves The X Factor

November 2005

  • 'I prefer birdsong to chatter'

    Joan Armatrading, who shot to fame in the 70s, this week became president of the Women of the Year lunch. Helen Birch asked the famously private singer about a very public role.

April 2003

  • Joan Armatrading

    Lowry, Salford

March 2003

  • My favourite table
    My favourite table

    Joan Armatrading at Le Shop.

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