The big easy

The ’60s pop star, ’70s troubadour and life-long spiritual seeker who can’t keep it in.

John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band Power ...

A teenager’s unusual folk-soul experiment comes around again.

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

Fifty years ago, Heart ’s Ann and Nancy Wilson gatecrashed a male-dominated, payola-fuelled rock scene with with Dreamboat Annie , a platinum debut album powered by passionate vocals, guitar heroics and unshakeable self-belief. “We were young people on fire!”

Breakfast Special Super’ trouper: keyboard king Rick ...