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Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

Grace Williams loved the sea. In later life, BBC television cameras captured one of her daily morning walks in Barry on the coast of Glamorgan – she strides purposefully along, looking out over the Br

Although formed in 1985 by Dundee native Ricky Ross, a former school teacher who released a solo album So Long Ago in 1984, Deacon Blue quickly established themselves as the definitive Glasgow band. B

Co-founder Otis Williams traces six decades of the soul institution: “I can still pull a few moves!”

Louisiana soul man ROBERT FINLEY overcame his hardscrabble origins, loss and blindness to finally find success in his later life. Amazingly, he believes he still has much to prove. “Most people retire at 65,” he tells Kevin EG Perry. “Hell, I came alive at 65.”