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THEY met as four year olds at a nursery school in Lanarkshire. Now as they prepare to enter the decade of their retirement, they’re recording their first album together. Best pals Stevie Rooney and St

A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B

The onset of 1985 found Eurythmics in a commercial sweet spot as they rode a wave of successive hits on the global stage. It was barely two-and-a-bit years since Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) in Jan

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What’s the best way to deal with middle-aged menopausal rage? Form a punk band, says Sally Wainwright

For Tamsin Greig , a Sally Wainwright drama was a pipe dream. Until, she tells Amy Raphael , she joined a punk band and learned to play bass