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Who’s so vain? Carly Simon still isn’t saying
Carly Simon From The Times
Rarely in recent popular culture has there been a more fevered debate about the identity of a person being addressed in a hit song. It is now 38 years since…
5 March 2010
Nick Kent, the music writer whose rock’n’roll lifestyle almost destroyed him
Nick Kent From The Times
He fell in love with Chrissie Hynde, took drugs with Keith Richards and partied with Iggy Pop. Alan Franks meets Nick Kent, the music writer whose rock’n’roll lifestyle almost destroyed…
27 February 2010
Ron Arad: a rock star and his thrones
Ron Arad From The Times
His offbeat designs have featured on TV and in music videos. The man himself is full of intriguing contradictions
2 February 2010
Ray Davies on insecurity, solo work and the Kinks
Ray Davies From The Times
As a songwriter, king Kink Ray Davies, ranks alongside Lennon and McCartney. As a man he’s dismayed by his “untidiness”. The great Ray Davies says he’s the most insecure person…
11 December 2009
Alfred Molina — a Spaniard in the works
Alfred Molina From The Times
British-born of Spanish and Italian stock, the actor has never felt at home in England. Why, then, is he so good in English roles?
24 November 2009
The rehabilitation of Boy George
Boy George From The Times
Once Boy George had it all – not just the music career, but national treasure status to boot. Heroin dependency followed by cocaine addiction sabotaged all of that, culminating last…
17 October 2009
Stephen Sondheim: 'My ideal collaborator is me'
Stephen Sondheim From The Times
With A Little Night Music back in the West End, the master of music theatre gives a rare interview
25 April 2009
Pieces of me: the puzzling life of Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble From The Times
Margaret Drabble suffers from depression, but finds solace in jigsaw puzzles. They have even helped the author with her new book
21 April 2009
Philip Pullman faces his demons
Philip Pullman From The Times
As his trilogy reopens at Birmingham Rep, the author of His Dark Materials explains why he's so angry about God. You don't expect to hear one of Britain's most famous…
17 March 2009
Me and Mrs Jones: we're still strong
Tom Jones From The Times
For 40-odd years women threw their knickers - and themselves - at Tom Jones. Now the Welsh Lothario seems to be saying sorry to his long-suffering wife
28 February 2009
Regrets, moi? No, I just try to forget
Charles Aznavour From The Times
He has written a thousand songs and has as many memories, but often it's just better to move on, he says. It's not quite right to call Charles Aznavour the…
31 January 2009
Seconds out for Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke From The Times
Round two of the actor's fiery career sees him grappling with redemption. As a new film, The Wrestler, holds a mirror to his own life, he lays bare the torment…
11 January 2009
Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn From The Times
In 1977 Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn collaborated on a work about Soviet dissidents. Its revival at the National is timely. When the playwright Tom Stoppard and the conductor André…
22 December 2008
Cameron MacKintosh on Oliver! and his success with musicals
Cameron MacKintosh From The Times
With a new production of Oliver! opening in the West End, Cameron Mackintosh explains how success at doing what he loves just comes naturally. Just as the West End producer…
24 November 2008
Life after revolution
Vaclav Havel From The Times
The former Czech President's departure from office is uncannily like the plot of Leaving, his first play for 20 years
16 September 2008
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