‘The day Saff came into the studio with red hair, I said, “We’re gonna be massive!” It was the missing link’

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Boris Karloff’s daughter and composer Michael Shapiro, whose musical score for the 1931 film is finally coming to London, talk about how it became a much-loved classic

From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music mov...

Chrissie Hynde and director Joss Crowley talk about persuading her to talk for 'Pretenders,' an overdue band documentary at the Toronto Film Festival.

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ALT: Robert Smith 1982

I know you all come to me if you need expert musical knowledge because there is nothing I don’t know.

He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing

This newsletter provides details of new events and further research on John Boorman and Bristol in the 1960s.

ALT: Mickey Mouse Sorcerer's Apprentice Story Time

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As Yorkville Murals ends its seven-year run, Toronto’s poet laureate Lillian Allen honours the area’s artistic past.

As his new film Bitter Christmas is released the legendary Spanish director turns his fire on Donald Trump, Will Smith, Netflix – and himself

The maverick former Public Image Ltd bassist takes us on a typically picaresque journey through his ‘Kafka-esque’ days at Transport for London, being named by Sid Vicious and his spiritual learnings

Famed for playing loners, cranks and wayward angels, the Hollywood star is now a wolfish 90 – but he still jogs daily. As he takes his latest film to Edinburgh, we meet the man Hitchcock called ‘the g...

Finding treasures is part of the fun of travel. Here, experts share their top tips on what to buy where

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In the age of AI we are once again hearing about Luddites, the 19th-century textile workers who sought to protect their livelihoods in early industrial England.