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Derren Brown may be best known as a mentalist and illusionist, with his latest stage production Showman wowing audiences last year. Yet the 52-year-old is a man of many talents, as he’s also an accomplished author and artist. During lockdown, Brown focused his creative efforts on celebrity caricature paintings with …

Girlschool on 4/16/82 in Chicago (Image: Getty) “I’d picked up the mic and got a huge electric shock,” the Girlschool singer and rhythm guitarist tells me. “My body was thrown backwards into the drum riser – the audience thought it was part of the show. “Then suddenly I was looking …

When Elvis Presley hit the big time and moved into Graceland in 1957, he generously housed his close relatives there too. His paternal grandmother Minnie Mae, who tragically ended up outliving her son Vernon and grandson Elvis, lived at the Memphis mansion until her death in 1980. She’s now buried …

Back in April, out of the blue, Freddie Mercury’s former fianceé Mary Austin gave a rare interview with the BBC. The woman who the late Queen singer left his Garden Lodge home and its contents to, announced she was ready to sell off everything at auction. As for why now, …

Queen’s back catalogue is full of household name hits, but some of them almost didn’t happen. Back in the early 1980s, Roger Taylor heard his son utter the words “radio ca-ca” while listening to a bad song on the radio. The drummer then spent three days in the studio, locked …

Tyler Childers is best known for releasing such incredible hits as In Your Love, Lady May, and Whitehouse Road. And with more than 12 million Spotify listeners each month, it seems like his popularity is continuing to grow each year. Now, he is gracing Great Britain with his presence in …

The ex-husband of late singer Amy Winehouse says it’s time he stopped carrying the burden of being blamed for her death. And Blake Fielder-Civil said he would do “almost everything” differently if he could go back in time. Blake, 41, was married to Amy for two years between 2007 and …

The title says it all. Chrissie Hynde won’t stop – she can’t. Music is in her veins, her heart and soul. This album, co-written by Hynde and guitarist James Walbourne, is The Pretenders’ best work this century. It opens with Losing My Sense Of Taste, a sublime rocker that marries …

Elvis Presley dated many women in his short 42 years and one of the longest and most famous relationships he had was with Linda Thompson. The Miss Tennessee model lived at Graceland with The King from 1972-76 and she often shares fond memories of her time with the megastar. Speaking …

Next month The Rolling Stones are set to release their first studio album in 18 years. Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood have already revealed that late drummer Charlie Watts features on two tracks called Mess It Up and Live By The Sword, having recorded them back in …