The gender gap

The first Band Aid single featured just four women; this year's project represents a considerable improvement on that figure. But, asks Fiona Sturges, have things really changed for women in music in the intervening 20 years?
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Just hear my song

On the eve of her UK tour, kd lang tells Fiona Sturges why she has turned her back on the showbiz world of celebrity
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The artist of noise

Music produced by Trevor Horn provided the soundtrack to the Eighties - and now he's back. Fiona Sturges meets him
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The Megalithic European by Julian Cope

Meet the new teacher in the school of rock (formations). Fiona Sturges meets Julian Cope, standing-stone supremo
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Venus & Mars

Marianne Faithfull's 40-year career has been dogged by tales of sex, drugs and 'that bloody Mars bar'. But, asks Fiona Sturges, could it be that the original wild child has mellowed?
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That's why the lady is a star

Nancy Sinatra was a one-hit wonder with a famous dad, but then Morrissey put her on her feet again, she tells Fiona Sturges
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Joan Rivers: The Rivers edge

After two comebacks, a $38m debt and half a century on stage, Joan has some advice for you, girlfriend: get yourself a sense of humour, some surgery and a rich old pig to pay for it. Fiona Sturges listened and learned from the acid queen
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The star of India

Hrithik Roshan is that rare commodity - a Bollywood idol with real Hollywood potential. But Fiona Sturges finds him reluctant to embrace Western cinema
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A pair of guns for hire

Velvet Revolver are better than Guns N' Roses. Who says? Slash and Duff McKagan, for starters. They talk to Fiona Sturges
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Brian Wilson: just wasn't made for these times

Say Smile, and music fans smile with you. But the composer of that legendary pop album, Brian Wilson, is still wrestling with his demons, despite the adulation accompanying his comeback. Fiona Sturges meets the former Beach Boy in California
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The Rembrandts: 'So no one told me it was going to be this way'

You'll have heard it hundreds, no, thousands of times. Chances are you don't know who sings it though, if requested, you could probably recite it word for word, backwards if necessary. It's a song that has, over the last 10 years, wound its way into your consciousness uninvited and languished there like a drunk that doesn't know when to leave the party.
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We love Leonard Cohen

The most gifted songwriters of our time are paying tribute to the Godfather of Gloom this weekend. Fiona Sturges celebrates his enduring appeal
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Stephen Tompkinson: Made in Britain

Ballykissangel turned Stephen Tompkinson into one of our most popular TV actors. Hollywood offers followed. But, he tells Fiona Sturges, he rates respect at home above fame in the USA
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