‘my daughter has become my anchor’

Inside the US singer-songwriter’s path from early DIY explorations to modern country-folk force

How Eno-supervised jams and a playful tale of obsessive relationships yielded the Manchester veterans’ biggest hit to date. Just don’t wear those dresses on American TV!

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.”

→ What has been your standout moment of 2025? A really small moment, something I just happened to overhear. When I dropped my daughter off at pre-school, she told her teacher “I just love my daddy so

When Blur won four trophies at the BRIT Awards on 20 February 1995, the band changed forever. Britpop, or whatever you want to call that scene, had entered the mainstream. After the success of Parklif

→ Sara Cox can’t keep still. “It’s like, you know when you get back from a club, you’re at a mate’s house and you’re still dancing in the kitchen? I’m giving that vibe.” But superstar DJ Cox, more nor