Lauren Bacall & Frank Sinatra’s Affair Began Before Humphrey Bogart Died

Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, and Anita Ekberg at Romanoff's Restaurant in 1955

Thanks to their marriage and the movies they made together, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall became known simply as Bogie and Bacall. And since their names are often mentioned in the same breath to this […]

‘She hasn’t just raised the bar – she’s obliterated it’: readers on Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour | Beyoncé

Anton Wiltshire

‘The set design was spectacular’ I have been fortunate enough to attend Beyoncé’s concerts seven times over the years. The audience really got into the Renaissance theme at this one, dressing up in a range […]

Casting Guardians of the Galaxy’s Pom Klementieff in the DCU

Casting Guardians of the Galaxy’s Pom Klementieff in the DCU

Not many are aware, but one naive and endearing Guardian of the Galaxy has had her share of both DCU and MCU projects. Pom Klementieff‘s DCU appearance was a small role as a dancer in […]

Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts | Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue’s new single, Padam Padam

It’s been hailed as Kylie Minogue’s “comeback” single and has generated countless memes and dance videos on social media. Yet when it was first released earlier this month, Padam Padam was not played on youth […]

Arctic Monkeys review – a mirrorball vision of what rock music can be | Arctic Monkeys

Alex Turner and Jamie Cook.

‘Very good,” Alex Turner exhales after delivering the final crunching note of Teddy Picker, hitting the nail on the head. The Arctic Monkeys frontman, dressed like a Laurel Canyon troubadour in a wide-collared denim shirt […]

Water From Your Eyes: Everyone’s Crushed review – style-hopping indie duo find focus in chaos | Music

Everybody’s Crushed album artwork.

We live in an environment that encourages rock and pop artists to make an immediate splash, to cut through the digital noise and the plethora of musicians jostling for attention on streaming services by appearing […]

‘I couldn’t outrun my grief’: Julie Byrne on the death of her musical partner | Music

Profound connection … with Littman at SXSW in 2017.

Julie Byrne precisely remembers the day she met the man who would change her life. “I loved him right away,” she says. It was the 2014 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas and Eric Littmann had […]

Am I the only gamer who has no interest in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? | The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

I have absolutely no interest in Zelda: The Tears of the Kingdom. Phew. That’s the Band-Aid ripped off in one go. Hairs clinging to it like memories of bad decisions. I’m just not into Zelda […]

‘An inspiration to women around the world’: readers remember Tina Turner | Tina Turner

Lenneke and her mother.

‘My mum and I bonded over her’ Lenneke and her mother. Photograph: Guardian Community I saw Tina Turner in August 1990, at a concert in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I was 20 and a veterinary science […]

Tina Turner: legendary rock’n’roll singer dies aged 83 | Tina Turner

Tina Turner performs in Cologne, Germany, in January 2009.

Tina Turner, the pioneering rock’n’roll star who became a pop behemoth in the 1980s, has died aged 83 after a long illness. She had suffered ill health in recent years, being diagnosed with intestinal cancer […]

‘Beyoncé is wearing my jeans!’ Markus Klinko’s best shot | Art and design

Photographer Markus Klinko for My Best Shot

I was a classical concert harpist before I became a photographer. I studied at the Paris conservatoire and signed with EMI Classics. Then, in 1994, aged 33, a hand injury prevented me from playing. I […]