5 h. ago Secluded Essex island where Rihanna and Stormzy have recorded albums hits the market for £25 million

Want to start your own offshore community? Osea Island has 38 residential properties and its own village pub

Economics

5 d. ago Secret party island which inspired Stormzy, Rihanna, The Woman in Black film and Olly Murs' wedding could be yours (if you have a spare £25million!)

Osea Island in the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, which is owned by music producer Nigel Frieda, has 90 bedrooms and 61 bathrooms across a total of 38 residential properties.

Society

6 d. ago Island which inspired Stormzy, Rihanna, The Woman in Black film and Olly Murs' wedding could be yours (if you have a spare £25million!)

Osea Island in the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, which is owned by music producer Nigel Frieda, has 90 bedrooms and 61 bathrooms across a total of 38 residential properties.

Economics

1 week ago Father John Misty’s trenchant songs about mortality come to life at Royal Albert Hall

Joshua Tillman and his seven-strong backing band bring the dynamic arrangements of new album ‘Mahashmashana’ to his greatest hits, as well – once he’s warmed up, that is

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1 week ago Father John Misty’s songs about mortality come to life at Royal Albert Hall

Joshua Tillman and his seven-strong backing band bring the dynamic arrangements of new album ‘Mahashmashana’ to his greatest hits, as well – once he’s warmed up, that is

Politics

2 w. ago ‘Unmatched’ Blondie drummer Clem Burke dies aged 70 after cancer diagnosis

The New Jersey-born drummer featured on all of the band’s studio albums, including hits such as Call Me and Heart Of Glass.

Events

3 w. ago Sir Elton John 'makes outrageous admission' about having to make another solo album as he 'insists he needed Brandi Carlile' to keep going

On Friday the hitmaker, 78, is set to release a collaboration album with American country singer Brandi, 43, called Who Believes in Angels?

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3 w. ago Cyndi Lauper review – 80s pop eccentric hasn’t changed a bit

Rod Laver Arena, MelbourneHer farewell tour is a pockmarked history of her roots and wide-ranging influences, full of her trademark elan and vigourGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFandom isn’t a good look on a critic; we’re supposed to be sober and impartial, analytical and measured. What to do, then, when called upon to review your favourite idol, the singer who first turned you on to the power of pop? Judicious rumination or tinny screams of delight? There’s room for both in this swan song from 80s pop eccentric Cyndi Lauper, as irrepressible here as when I saw her as a teenager, then touring her new album True Colours. She’s had an illustrious career, including a side gig composing musicals – Kinky Boots, and soon an adaptation of 80s workplace comedy Working Girl – but the bulk of her hits are drawn from her first two albums, including the astonishing debut She’s So Unusual. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – the song that gives this farewell tour its name – is also by far La...

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