Paul Weller occupies a strange place in the cultural sphere. Especially since he was adopted as an elder statesman of Britpop ...

Having played Sherlock Holmes’s politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC’s hit crime series Sherlock, Mark ...

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...

Comedian Tony Hancock’s vertiginous rise and fall is neatly traced in the two films he completed in the early 1960s. The ...

Now 45 years in the past, its dazzling star gone a decade or so, The Long Good Friday is a monument of British cinema. Its ...

Following the success of its screen version of Michael Connelly’s veteran detective Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, ...

It started like Sunday afternoon band concert on a seaside promenade, a massive ensemble playing it light. But while there ...

The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining ...

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One ...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and ...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the librettist ...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the ...