‘touring is like a travelling circus’

From pop star to Kitchen Disco icon, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has brought joy to lives and homes across the globe. She talks to Rosamund Dean about marriage, menopause and why the music must go on

Music is in Cat Bateman’s DNA. With a dad who was a guitarist and singer, and a childhood that’s reminiscent of The Partridge Family, she can’t remember a time when she wasn’t belting out a tune. “On

Coleen Nolan describes the past six months as an “emotional roller coaster” — with incredible highs and devastating lows. But the Loose Women favourite, who turned 60 in March, is at her bubbly best w

Once upon a time, Casey Batchelor was a party-loving girl with a glitzy reality TV career. These days, she’s a mum-of-three, a yoga instructor and a wellness expert, who loves nothing more than being

From the noisy streets, community cafés and surprisingly verdant cemeteries of Southeast London have risen CAROLINE : a confoundingly brilliant eight-piece band with no obvious frontperson, fusing choral folk with fractured post-rock and experimental pop. As Sam Richards discovers, they haven’t made life easy for themselves. “But there has to be a vulnerability of some sort. Otherwise, what’s the point?”

Welsh icon Bonnie Tyler, 74, on achieving her dreams while staying grounded