In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

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For over 50 years, BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND has been a secret master of spiritual electronica, receiving inspiration from a “higher power” to provide healing songs for the disenfranchised. Now, he and his wife face long-deserved acclaim and grave new challenges with equanimity. “I can’t explain it, but I feel joyous,” he tells VICTORIA SEGAL .

From the Sex Pistols to Sinatra, CHRISSIE HYNDE has spent 50 years moving between musical worlds. Now, as she releases a new album of diverse superstar duets, she confides in TOM DOYLE all about Debbie Harry, Kate Bush, Morrissey, forging Beatles signatures, having hysterics at a CSN gig, and how to deal with the most obsessive Pretenders fans... "Go fuck yourselves!"