‘i connected with olivia both musically and spiritually’

Everybody’s favourite Yorkshire lass tells Shereen Low why life in her sixties is better than ever

YOUR MONTHLY ENTERTAINMENT ROUND-UP

JOHN LYDON WITH PHIL MEARS “This pic of myself and John Lydon was taken at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale, Greater Manchester, as part of his I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right spoken word tour on

As she prepares to return to the stage and screen, Jane McDonald, 62, tells us how she’ll spend her Christmas

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.”

→ 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