‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees

He was in one of the biggest groups in the world – all without playing a note. As the last surviving Monkee turns 80, he remembers 60s fame – and what happened when the band broke free

Mishka Rushdie Momen review – the poignancy and power of Schubert unleashed

The pianist captured the vast dynamic contrasts of Schubert’s sonatas; and her fine playing of William Byrd was a refreshing foil foil

Andy Peebles obituary

Pop radio DJ and presenter who recorded the last interview with John Lennon in December 1980

Dig! XX review – amazing film of battling 90s psych rockers revisited two decades on

Rereleased documentary study of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre is an epic story of success and failure

‘They’re still under there, they never got out’: the Futureheads’ Barry Hyde commemorates his mining heritage

The musician was commissioned to create an album inspired by the north-east’s mining history – and then discovered his ancestors died in a local disaster

‘I was too shy to tell Bieber how much I loved him’: Lisa from Blackpink’s honest playlist

The K-pop superstar on the pop hit that kickstarted her music career, and why she can no longer listen to one of her band’s biggest songs

Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism tour review – momentous show for a star who contains multitudes

Lipa’s voice is resonant and fit and she holds her own as a dancer; while there are lulls in energy between the show’s acts, they’re forgiven when she brings the hits

Andy Peebles, former Radio 1 DJ and presenter, dies aged 76

Host of Top of the Pops and My Top Twelve among other shows was one of last people to interview John Lennon

Elton John backs Ed Sheeran’s call for UK to put £250m into music education

Coldplay, Harry Styles and Stormzy also join Suffolk songwriter in campaigning for music funding in schools

ACO/Tognetti review – a masterclass in chamber music-making

The Australian Chamber Orchestra played with fearlessness, curiosity and style in music by Bach, Shostakovich and, most poignantly, Sofia Gubaidulina, who died earlier this month

The week in dance: Lyon Opera Ballet: Cunningham Forever (Biped & Beach Birds); Giselle… – review

Lyon Opera Ballet perform alongside digital forms to the music of Gavin Bryars in a Merce Cunningham double bill. Plus, a new twist on Giselle

Clemency Burton-Hill: ‘I can say now, after my brain injury, that music can save a life’

The broadcaster on a new documentary about how music helped her recover from catastrophic brain injury, having a tricky name, and why Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta and Declan Rice are her ‘angels’

Thank you Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor – how my 1990s teenage self found somebody to love

In her new book, music writer Kate Mossman looks back at her favourite type of encounter – interviews with charismatic, ageing, male rockers. Here she remembers the band – and specifically drummer – who electrified her as a girl growing up in Norfolk

‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother

Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleys

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie review – let it be the new gold standard in Beatles studies

The author’s brilliant account of Lennon and McCartney’s songwriting relationship challenges myths, finds new meanings in their music, and even throws up a few surprises