The best Australian songs, as voted by Crikey readers
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Singer Cleo Laine, Britain’s greatest jazz voice, dies at 97
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Organiser says smaller festivals need government support
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Hayley Westenra ‘heartbroken’ after LA homicide of lifelong friends
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Grammy-winning British Jazz singer dead at 97
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HR chief Kristin Cabot resigns from Astronomer on heels of Coldplay kiss cam scandal
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Phil Gifford: When Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath lit up a farm in Ngaruawahia
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‘Eterno’ singer on new music, workouts, gaming
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‘Buckingham Nicks’ by Stevie, Lindsey to be reissued for first time
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Black Sabbath frontman and heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, family says
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‘Building the Band’ has Liam Payne’s last major appearance before his death
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Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76
Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling…