T here is a low-level hum that forms the soundtrack to many women’s lives. It’s a conditioning. The silent expectation to be the architect of everyone’s day, managing the moods of daily life. Being th

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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.”

From singing sensation to popular presenter, bestselling author to agony aunt, Coleen Nolan has many strings to her bow. But, out of the limelight, she is a working mum whose first priority is her fam

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Mica Paris has no plans to fade into the background — even if her last role in EastEnders technically left her behind bars. “EastEnders was a while ago now,” she laughs. “Would I ever go back? Well, I