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Exclusive audio: Neil Tennant talks David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Take That

April 16, 2026
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The winners took it all: ABBA’s Waterloo at 52

April 6, 2026

One could almost call it an altar: ten things you didn’t know about Elizabeth Taylor

March 23, 2026

Licence to flop: The trouble with Timothy Dalton

March 21, 2026

Even better than the real thing: 11 Irish Icons that aren’t U2

March 17, 2026

Formidable femmes: The 115 women who changed the world

March 7, 2026

Russell Crowe: Another one who’s ballooned

March 4, 2026

45 at 45(ish): Adam Ant is The Human League’s Mirror Man

February 28, 2026

Six degrees of separation: How often do you think of Fanny?

February 26, 2026
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Random Jukebox: Duran Duran’s A View To A Kill + how they took over Bond from Bowie

May 12, 2025
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Die young, stay pretty: the intimacy and iconography of James Dean

February 8, 2026

Remembering Robert Palmer: Bryan Ferry on Johnny & Mary

January 22, 2026
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The Frank that drank: when Pet Shop Boys did dinner with Sinatra

Before every performance on 1989’s Ultimate Event triple header tour with Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli, the American icon born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken NJ one hundred and ten…
December 12, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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These are the crimes: The time David Bowie sung John Lennon’s Imagine

I met John Lennon in Hong Kong in 1977. He was travelling with Sean, who was about two years old, and was on his way to meet Yoko in Japan. I was with David Bowie and Coco Schwab, on our way…
December 8, 2025
bySteve Pafford

June Whitfield at 100: Mum and Gran’s most Absolutely Fabulous one-liners, dear

June Whitfield, the nonagenarian national treasure who died at the tail-end of 2018, had one of the longest, most remarkable careers in the entertainment industry. In a world where the…
November 11, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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Random Jukebox: Dinah Washington’s Mad About The Boy

One hundred years ago, jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington was born in Alabama. The Grammy-winning “Queen of the Jukeboxes” would leave this bitter earth behind at the tender age of 39,…
August 28, 2024
bySteve Pafford
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There ain’t nothing like a Dane: Appreciating Agnes Obel

With her hushed and wistful grace, classically trained Danish singer-songwriter/composer Agnes Obel writes serene, sombre works of art surrounded by intimate concepts of the reflective self.…
October 28, 2025
bySteve Pafford

80 Words For Bryan Ferry

When David Bowie issued his penultimate Blackstar single in November 2015 I posted something online — alas, long lost to cyberspace — that commended the Dame as the “greatest songwriter after…
September 26, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: Freddie Mercury’s Infamous 39th Birthday Party

Not about to bite the dust just because he was turning 38, on his birthday party at London’s Xenon nightclub on September 5, 1984, Freddie Mercury chomped his way a five-foot-long birthday…
September 5, 2025
bySteve Pafford

Beau, Oui: The tale of the tabby tigress

To mark International Cat Day, I wanna tell you a story. The tale of a pretty kitten fur ball who waltzed into my garden five years go with her band of brothers. This is how I came to adopt…
August 8, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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