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‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify?

As a new book skewers Spotify’s effect on music, two Guardian music writers spent a week assessing the limits of living with and without it

Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

Hannah’s second feature about her husband follows him on tour, but the offstage footage is rather less compelling than the music

Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story review – original rude girl is still impossibly cool

The Selecter frontwoman recounts her own astonishing personal journey interwoven with her pioneering presence in 70s musical history

Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and four others arrive back on Earth after space flight – as it happened

Pop star kisses ground after landing and all-female crew describes feelings of joy, camaraderie and connection to our planet post space flight

‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness

Fifty years ago, the Black Country legends made Slade in Flame, about a band screwed by the music business. It tanked and almost finished them. Now, as it’s re-released, the film is being seen as a prescient gem

‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir

The actor’s aptly named memoir Say Everything has been praised as raw, revealing, disarming and horny

One to One: John & Yoko review – Lennon and Ono storm Manhattan in intimate post-Beatles doc

Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’s spry study of the couple in early 70s New York is as much as jittery collage of the era’s culture as it is a revealing portrait

From The Return to The Last of Us: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for an ancient Greek yarn, while the dystopian video game adaptation powers up for a second series

‘There was always a male gaze behind it’: Madrid exhibition rewrites cliches of Latina artists

Show looks beyond tropes of exoticism, hyper-sexuality and diva behaviour to how stars gained control of their own image

Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads

Michael B Jordan plays a double role in Coogler’s intriguing period tale of anti-heroic brothers making their way into much wilder country

She’s got the Midas touch: Shirley Bassey songs – ranked!

As a new compilation with unheard material is released, we assess the Cardiff legend’s diamonds and deep cuts

One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream

A collection of staggering TV clips and amazing audio of Lennon and Ono’s life in 1970s NYC, this film is a mosaic of countercultural moments

Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama

Goggins and Affleck play Donnie and Joe Emerson, whose album wins acclaim decades after it was made, but it’s rather a mono film

Val Kilmer was electric as Jim Morrison in heroically ridiculous biopic The Doors

The late actor’s sense of mischief and self-doubt offset the bombast in Oliver Stone’s swaggering, staggering 1991 film

The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain

In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lucier. It raises a storm of questions about AI and authorship – and it’s also incredibly beautiful

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