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Jane Birkin, France's favourite English rose, is singing songs that she wrote herself. Serge would approve, she insists
Four boys from Las Vegas have become the world’s most exciting band. But the Killers are burning up in the spotlight
Opera boyband Il Divo and their svengali, Simon Cowell, tell Dan Cairns why they don’t care if critics sniff at their music
A new breed of female MCs is revitalising hip-hop, bucking a long history of male chauvinism, says Robert Collins
After Life on Mars, the actor is happy to be himself and to play the anti-hero in new period drama The Devil's Whore
The juggernaut reality-TV show format now licensed across the world returned last night, for its eighth series in the UK
No longer just the big gobby sidekick, Ruth Jones is a sharp comic talent who is popping up all over our screens
38-year-old father-of-three Daniel Evans reveals he never thought he could win The X Factor, but wanted to make final
Family shows at Christmas needn't be the usual predictable fare.Here are ten rules for mounting a successful alternative
Is Australian comedian Pam Ann a flight to remember or running on autopilot? Alex Hardy books a seat to find out
David Morrissey tells Kevin Maher about an acting career of wildly eclectic roles fuelled by loss and profound grief
Next summer, in arenas across Britain, 15 life-size dinosaurs will stalk the Earth, roaring and snorting over their audiences
Failure of another important work to attract a single bid at auction is further evidence that the art boom is over
A marvellous bicentennial show, stuffed with eureka moments, pays proper respect to the great naturalist
A £15m work featuring multicoloured stalactites covering the UN ceiling is unveiled and heavily criticised on its cost
Some treasured myths of Babylon are exploded in the British Museum's new show, but the truth shines all the more brightly
New biography chronicles Led Zeppelin's years of rock'n'roll excess
Jack Kerouac’s hedonistic classic is 50: Cosmo Landesman sorts the good, the bad and the ugly of the Beat legacy
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On her tally of famous kisses, not liking Jennifer Saunders, and Lenny Henry's bottom
An actor's progress, as revealed by his copious correspondence, from stardom to self-mockery and self-pity
Name-dropping, nosy and relentlessly entertaining, the writer revisits the route of The Great Railway Bazaar
How an eighteenth-century hoax has taken in Dava Sobel and other historians
The success of the Normandy landings depended on the creative quarrels of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt et al
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