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ALTHOUGH HE WAS 84 and had been ill for several years, the passing of soul-funk-R&B legend and general jack-of-all-trades Steve Cropper still stings — a lot. Perhaps it’s because Cropper, despite his

Fondly remembered this month...

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

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.”

In the Kent cottage where he has lived since 1964, Malcolm Binns reclines in an armchair, reminiscing. A mischievous gleam lights up his expression as the stories tumble out, from his lessons with Dam

I’m playing Bob the mechanic in the UK tour of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The show is very current in this age, which has become more about identity, and who you are and who you aren’t. I grew up