After growing up poor in east London, Winstone became one of the UK’s most adventurous jazz performers – and is now unexpectedly on a huge rap hitA song that has had 94m plays on Spotify since its October release begins with 64 seconds of cosmic, atmos...
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The actor on 80s stardom, growing Tuscan veg in Sussex and why theatre remains her sacred spaceGreta Scacchi, 63, is an Emmy award-winning actor. Born in Milan, Italy, she spent her childhood in England and two years of her teens in Australia, where sh...
The pop star on charming Glastonbury, his difficult childhood and the secret of his long marriageBorn in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, in 1966, Rick Astley signed a production deal with Stock Aitken Waterman in his late teens, where he also worked as ...
As the epic poem turns 100, devotee Jude Rogers examines the work’s thrilling, intriguing female characters and the women who inspired Eliot, including his first love, Emily Hale, to whom he wrote more than 1,000 lettersA red lever-arch folder, well-lo...
This week the supergroup begin seven months of gigs in a purpose-built London arena… with the band members elsewhereJust over 41 years ago, Abba played their last concert together. It wasn’t a live show for salivating fans, but a short set for Swedish ...
The Flying Pickets’ Only You unlocks such visceral emotions for Jude Rogers that it can stop her in her tracks. In this extract from her new book about music’s deep-rooted role in our lives, she asks what science lies behind its power to make the past ...