Hollywood may have a long and storied tradition of visionary directors coming to blows with meddling producers, but Ralph Bakshi would like to make clear he’s not part of it. “I never punched Frank Mancuso Jr,” says the 83-year-old pioneer of independent animation, speaking over the phone from his home “on top of a mountain” […]
Max Pope’s music sounds like how summer feels. It’s soulful and sun-drenched – the sort of sound that wafts through the speakers of beer gardens in the summer. Like this one in Dalston, where we meet on the hottest day of the year yet. The 27-year-old, whose debut album has just been released, has a […]
Faith Hill stars as matriarch Margaret Dutton in ‘1883’, a prequel to Paramount Plus’s ‘Yellowstone’ Forty million album sales; a string of timeless country-pop ballads such as “This Kiss” and “There You’ll Be”; and an impressive haul of Grammy awards: Faith Hill’s achievements over a three-decade career have made her one of country music’s biggest […]
Adele returns to the stage for her first night at BST Hyde Park – and the audience is thrilled to have her “It’s so strange to be in front of a crowd,” Adele babbles midway through one of many motormouth banter segments. For her first public show in five years, what a crowd to be in front […]
Released from the clutches of a major label, Raye is now making music on her own terms. In early February of this year, Rachel Keen was getting ready for the Brit Awards. She was nervous; her heart was pounding. The shimmery orange gown she was wearing suddenly felt tight, like a boa constrictor around her neck. […]
The jazz singer is at a Paris cafe to talk about her new album, lockdown blues, media negativity and posing naked for the sleeve of her much-loved live record. The Melody Gardot I met 10 years ago felt like the Greta Garbo of jazz. Cool, striking, blonde (usually), with a dramatic sense of style and […]
The versatile actor David Harbour speaks about how his experiences with mental health led to his new West End play, family life with pop star Lily Allen, and ‘the problem with James Bond’ David Harbour denies he’s become British. And yet… the evidence is stacking up. Firstly, the Stranger Things star begins our interview by making a […]
Russell T Davies’s Manchester-set series was groundbreaking when it arrived more than two decades ago, When the original British version of Queer as Folk premiered in February 1999, I was a painfully shy 15-year-old who hadn’t told anyone I was gay. I watched the first episode alone in my bedroom with the volume turned down so my […]