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‘Lost Beach Boy’ David Marks looks back on his early days beside the Wilson brothers, injecting rock and surf elements into Brian Wilson’s songs

Reminiscences Joe Brainard I Remember 208pp. Daunt. ...

After a life-threatening illness spurred Helene Kröller-Müller to make plans for a museum, she bought modern art voraciously, forming an extraordinary collection that shaped the early-20th-century perception of Vincent van Gogh

The recording artist Simon Fisher Turner wields an impressively varied CV. Entering showbusiness as a child actor, he endured a brief spell as a teen pop idol before evolving into a sharp-eared curato

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue: Roy Harper . Since the mid-60s, the progressive folk singer-songwriter has enjoyed a successful solo career that’s also found him collaborating with everyone from Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel to Kate Bush and Ian Anderson. But he’s never quite reached the commercial heights of his peers. As his Final Tour: Part Two fast approaches, he looks back over highlights from his career so far and teases a brand-new album.

Has anyone enjoyed as many lives as YUSUF CAT STEVENS ? From ’60s pop star to ’70s singer-songwriter, religious convert and now sagacious elder statesman. But what connects all these different threads of his life? “People who don’t change are stuck,” Nick Hasted finds out