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After closing her scene-making record label and moving to the US, Barnett decamped to Joshua Tree - where she learned to slow down and make noise again ...

In her teens, the Mercury prize-winning musician was stuck on tour buses when she should have been on the dancefloor. Now she is throwing herself into club culture - and living on her own terms ...

When the Emmy-winning comedy star was diagnosed, her body started giving up on her. She writes about losing control, gaining weight - and refusing to be a 'good girl'

From being a writer for hire in the 1950s to his solo pop stardom and emphatic 1970s comeback, the late musician's catalogue is stuffed with stunning, surprising songcraft ...

After a Grammy and a global breakthrough, the 26-year-old singer could sweep the board at next week's Brits. Her closest collaborators explain her massive appeal ...

The singular director has made a second film about the King of Rock and Roll and this time audiences will get to see a side of him they've never seen before ...

Butter, her novel about a female serial killer, was a global hit. As Asako Yuzuki's second book is published in English, she talks about criticism at home - and why she'll be writing darker stories in the future ...

Steve Conrad's dark comedy is full of twists and sad laughs. As for the fate of Harbour's character, does Lily Allen have an alibi?

He's the Democratic politician with movie-star looks and a picture-perfect family, dogged by accusations of being a smoothtalking elitist. Can he really unite the American left and win the most powerful office in the world?

The fourth season of TV's once underrated drama has maxed out on everything - sex, nastiness, nihilism - and it's been a major miscalculation ...