“in bloom”

Music was an all-consuming escape. Now, every song he writes is a love song At 16, I was just starting to take writing seriously. I became obsessed with lyricism and writing lines and my heroes were a

Director James Mangold on his Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown

Fondly remembered this month...

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Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

Vincent van Gogh made sunflowers his personal motifs, but, when he looked to experiment with colour, a full florist’s roster of irises, roses, poppies, poured out of his brush, as Michael Prodger discovers