19 h. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Bucks Fizz Jay's home bid falls flat with locals

Pop stars have often moved to the country when they made their fortunes. But not all of them have been embraced by the rural set.

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29 h. ago ‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giantI worked with Tom when I was quite young, on Arcadia in 1993, and again on Rock’n’Roll 13 years later. In the interim it slowly dawned on me that not all jobs were like that. He was one of the most intelligent people you could ever meet but the extraordinary thing was that you’d walk away from conversations with him feeling like you were not unintelligent or unwitty yourself. That’s not always the case with incredibly brilliant writers and funny people. That generosity of spirit marked my time with him. He was incredibly good company, very sweet, and you felt encouraged to put forward your own ideas, make your own jokes. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago ‘No party on the planet was safe from Hoggy rocking up!’: Irvine Welsh on his friend Pam Hogg

‘I spent the 90s with Pam – clubbing and partying in the way those times demanded. What I saw was a truly groundbreaking artist, and a life marked by independence, courage and kindness’• Pam Hogg, fashion designer with a rock’n’roll spirit, dies at 66 – news• Pam Hogg – obituaryThere are people who live life to the full, then there’s Pamela Hogg. Pam’s tenure on this earth is a trawl through just about every significant cultural and creative moment in the UK over the last 30-odd years. One of our most groundbreaking artists, Pam was a colourist of Warholian proportions, creating art to be hung on the body rather than the walls of a gallery. She was a punk who provocatively mashed up gender and sexual stereotypes. Fashion was the art form that freed her imagination, and her success was due to her talent and drive being greater than her disdain of the conformist industry and the gatekeepers surrounding it.I sat in St Joseph’s hospice in London by her unconscious but serenely beautiful...

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33 h. ago Surreal, erudite and always experimenting: Tom Stoppard was a playwright never likely to stand still

David Lister remembers the brilliant, complicated man whose work explored politics, science, love, Shakespeare, and even rock’n’roll

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3 d. ago Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriterThe playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

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3 d. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Good Samaritan Felicity Kendal frightens off phone muggers

As Barbara Good in classic BBC sitcom The Good Life, Felicity Kendal tried to achieve domestic bliss in the London suburbs. In real life, she is under siege from rising crime the lawless capital.

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4 d. ago Rolling Stones’ legendary concert film At The Max returns to IMAX – and features final performance by one band member

“LADIES and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones!” For decades, those six simple words have heralded the arrival on stage of the world’s greatest rock and roll band. The announcement most likely paves the way for the raw, staccato thrill of Start Me Up, followed by at least two more hours of music mayhem. It is the...

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5 d. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Prince Harry's ex Chelsy is set to move her family to paradise

Chelsy Davy, 40, whose on-off relationship with Harry lasted for seven years until 2011, has revealed she exchanged vows with Norfolk hotelier Sam Cutmore-Scott, 40, on a beach in Mauritius.

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6 d. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: TV's Amanda now WEARS phone after London theft

She's known for having the longest legs in Belgravia, but they didn't help wealthy divorcee Amanda Cronin outrun one of the thieves who plague Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan 's lawless London.

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7 d. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Queen's love rival and pal Lady Amabel dies aged 90

She was a love rival in the Swinging Sixties who became a firm friend of Queen Camilla. Lady Amabel Lindsay, daughter of the 9th Earl of Hardwicke, has died at the age of 90.

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1 week ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Cheryl Cole's name stripped from royal youth centre she raised £1million for

When the King visited the youth centre Cheryl Cole established in Newcastle in 2021, the star declared it a 'special' day. However, her name has now been dramatically stripped from the Cheryl's Trust Centre.

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1 week ago Bad Company and Queen star rushed to hospital for surgery with 50/50 chances of surviving

"My hope was to be at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and to perform for the fans, but at this time I have to prioritise my health."

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1 week ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Let me host Strictly, says oldest ever contestant Angela Rippon, 81

SHE dazzled viewers with her jaw-dropping high kick on Strictly Come Dancing two years ago. Now, Angela Rippon wants to become a presenter of the hit BBC show - at the age of 81.

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1 week ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Heather Mills' 'nightmare' as vandals hit factories

Heather Mills never usually shies away from confrontation. Who can forget her fury at her £24 million divorce settlement from Sir Paul McCartney when she drenched his lawyer with a jug of water?

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2 w. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Tragic end to comedy star ex's romance as lover dies

Jeremy Rainbird's whirlwind romance with actress Sharon Horgan inspired her hit Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe. Today, the businessman is reeling from tragedy.

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2 w. ago Rolling Stone with £150 million fortune confesses he stole his first Fender guitar

A new book celebrating 50 years of the Rolling Stones reveals what it was really like being a rock and roll superstar in the 70s

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2 w. ago The 'most important rock n roll pub in Britain' might just be ready for its encore

"Every music fan in Manchester treasures the pub and its role in the city’s legendary music scene"

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2 w. ago Buddy Holly crosswalk in Texas hometown to be removed following governor's order on road safety

A crosswalk honoring Buddy Holly with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend's iconic glasses will have to be removed from his hometown of Lubbock, Texas

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2 w. ago ALISON BOSHOFF: The extraordinary night Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose shunned the Dorchester and slept on an IKEA bed in Spurs' dressing room

Even in the crazy world of rock and roll, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has got a reputation for being a bit of a wild man: fighting, showing up late - or failing to show up at all, and much, much more.

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2 w. ago AC/DC review – a thrilling show stuffed with classics and your eardrums will never be the same

Melbourne Cricket Ground, then touring AustraliaIn the band’s ‘ancestral homeland’, Accadacca’s first Australian concert in a decade shows Angus Young is still a frenzied force to be reckoned withOn Wednesday afternoon, 374 bagpipers gathered in Melbourne’s Federation Square to play AC/DC’s It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock’n’Roll), setting a new world record just up the road from where Bon Scott and the band famously played the song on the back of a flatbed truck riding up Swanston Street 50 years before.It’s the one hit AC/DC no longer plays live, retired out of respect to Scott after his death in 1980. But you barely notice it is missing when their live shows are this stuffed with classics: an audible thrill ripples through the 80,000 punters in Melbourne Cricket Ground when AC/DC opens with If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It) then tears straight into Back in Black. Who else could play such a huge hit so early in a show? But Accadacca can, in what is essentially a great...

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