So long, marianne

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.

Tilda Swinton was 12 years old when David Bowie released the album ‘Aladdin Sane’, his follow-up to the monumental ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’. When Swinton saw the

John Maybury was a fellow graduate of the Derek Jarman school of filmmaking, and it was in those heady, early days that he first became aware of Tilda Swinton. The pair worked closely on two challengi

ON JUNE 23, the guitar world lost a true legend — Mick Ralphs of Bad Company and Mott the Hoople fame. He was 81. Besides being an amazing songwriter, Ralphs was a criminally underrated blues/rock gui

A short while after we married, Tom and I made the decision to leave behind our hectic London lives and relocate to the tranquillity of rural living. We wanted a slower pace of life where the countrys

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