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
As a general rule, it's pretty much accepted that accountants - and, indeed, accountancy - are boring. I mean, no one ever died of over-excitement during a year-end audit, did they?
Of all the elders of pop, Paul Simon is the most open to new ideas - in the studio, that is. On tour, he has been putting on much the same show ever since Graceland, 30 years ago.
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.
Peter Hall's original staging of Peter Shaffer's play about the bitter rivalry between Salieri and Mozart deliberately muted the music. But Michael Longhurst's revival has a very different emphasis.
Tracey Emin can get attention and in this strange joint show of Emin and Blake (combined at Emin's suggestion), her 1998 work My Bed attracted by far the most comments when I went.
Did you know Mozart once proposed marriage to Marie Antoinette? He was six, and they probably ate cake. But nothing came of it. Nor did his attempt, aged seven, to kiss Madame Pompadour.
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
If you like travel and adventure, the most spectacular thing is probably what we did in the desert in California,' says James May, beaming as he describes his lavish new motoring series.
The author is pictured on the cover, slogans pinned all over her dress, rather like the gent who used to stand on Oxford Street wearing a sandwich-board warning that protein increases libido.
There's no doubting who's the boss at The Greyhound, near Henley, Oxon. His portrait looks down to the right of the door, while his books, and there are many, sit just above the whisky.
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.
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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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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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.
...read
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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'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
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
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
Following the adventures of the four friends in the English countryside, Julian Fellowes' version remains faithful to the novel but there are some eye-catching modern touches.
Born in New York in 1947, Carole Bayer Sager has written more than 400 songs for artists including Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Neil Diamond and Diana Ross.
I have managed to straddle epochs. How many of your readers can honestly say that? Most of them would be lucky to straddle anything.
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