Spark of life

Released on 7 August 1995, It’s Great When You’re Straight... Yeah was, in Shaun Ryder’s words, his great “fuck you” album after the dissolution of Happy Mondays. Still battling drug problems, and wit

I guess my main preoccupations at 16 were just trying to stay out of trouble. I was incredibly unsuccessful with finding girlfriends and things like that. Really, very, very unsuccessful. I think I wa

Michael Henderson on Radio

Sandra Holloway is on a mission to share the joys of later-life romance…

Paul Weller’s career is a rare phenomenon in British music. Six decades in, he’s still making records that matter, still selling out tours, still chasing the next thing. What makes Weller endure? Afte

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