Michael Zagaris's intimate images of rock royalty have now been collected in Total Excess, a coffee table book chronicling the degenerate exploits of superstars from the Stones to the Sex Pistols. ...read
EVENT COLUMNISTS
- PIERS MORGAN: 'Ricky Gervais may as well have just said, "Movies suck, movie stars suck, and movie awards shows particularly suck"'
- CHRIS EVANS: How I fell for the Phantom of Love - the most magical Rolls-Royce ever from 1926, inspired by Marie Antoinette (and one very lucky wife)
- JACI STEPHEN: A royal feast... now just watch me binge! Faultless is the only word for The Crown with its exquisite writing and magnificent acting
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TOM PARKER BOWLES ON FOOD
Wozza surprise! After an epic lunch at the TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson's pub, guess who emerges from the kitchen...
There's no doubting who's the boss at The Greyhound, Rotherfield Peppard, near Henley, Oxon. His portrait looks down, pensively hirsute, to the right of the door, while his books, and there are many, sit pretty behind glass, just above the whisky.
Woz, Wiz, Wozza, AWT. Call him what you will (and in a career this long running, they certainly have), Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson is a survivor.
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OLLY SMITH ON WINE
My sherry amour: from a crisp Fino with olives to a rich Amontillado with cheese... and not forgetting 007 Roger Moore's amazing butt
Earlier this year, I had my photo taken next to Sir Roger Moore's butt. Of sherry. It's a beauty.
These butts are giant 600-litre barrels of maturing sherry, which evolves during fractional blending.
For their provenance, quality and age, there is simply no better value than sherry.
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TECH
Surreally good: Dali's Katch Bluetooth speaker offers premium sound quality at a (relatively) affordable price and is splendidly easy to use
Bookshelf hi-fi systems used to be aimed squarely at teenagers - and were, accordingly, cheap and awful, like most 'treats' one buys for children.
But over the past year, there's been a sudden surge in tiny, posh speakers that should never be bought for children under any circumstances. Dali's Katch is one of these.
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CHRIS EVANS ON CARS
How I fell for the Phantom of Love: the most magical Rolls-Royce ever from 1926, inspired by Marie Antoinette (and one very lucky wife)
I have long been a believer that time does not pass but rather it is us who pass through time. Which means, therefore, we have the innate super-power of being able to slow time down.
Have I lost my marbles? Absolutely not. Take a bath instead of a shower, read by candlelight instead of halogen bulb, listen to vinyl instead of your iPod, or switch off the telly and play a board game with the family and I guarantee that minutes will begin to stretch out like golden threads of you-time, quality time, extra time.
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PIERS MORGAN: MY LIFE & OTHER CELEBRITIES
'Ricky Gervais may as well have just said, "Movies suck, movie stars suck, and movie awards shows particularly suck"'
'Wow!' Gervais exclaimed. 'Someone always says, "I haven't prepared a speech because I didn't think I'd win." Well I knew I'd won and I still didn't prepare a speech. That shows you the contempt I have for this award, and this town..!' ...read
LAST WEEK'S EVENT
Adele? She's ruining her voice. Kanye West? Absolute rubbish. Justin Bieber? Waste of a concert ticket. Is anybody safe from Gareth Malone?
While Gareth Malone is used to reducing the nation's TV viewers to tears as he cajoles the most unlikely members of the public to sing, Britain's most beloved choirmaster is disarmingly old-school, endlessly patient and quietly spoken. He is not a man who could ever be considered controversial. Or so I thought until we met to discuss his new TV show and Christmas album. ...read
'It's a much healthier addiction to buy photographs': A new exhibition of stunning classic photographs owned by Sir Elton John reveal the passion that has kept the rockstar sober since leaving rehab
As an exhibition of his vast collection of rare photographs opens in London, Elton John reveals the extraordinary story of how - fresh out of rehab - he developed the addiction that's kept him sober to this day ...read