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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The great rock chick con?

We all know that teenagers are a fickle lot, and no one understands this better than the record business...
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Chrissie Hynde: The Great Pretender

The expression 'rock chick' could have been coined to describe her. She has weathered drug deaths, punk, stormy relationships and stardom. Now 52, Chrissie Hynde tells Fiona Sturges why she no longer sees music as the be-all and end-all
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Alison Goldfrapp: After the gold rush

Alison Goldfrapp doesn't play safe, in life or in her music. Her band's first album won her critical acclaim and huge sales - so now she's changed her sound. She tells Fiona Sturges why
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Marilyn Manson: His satanic majesty

He's the man America loves to hate. His lifestyle and his music have been blamed for most of the country's moral ills. But does Marilyn Manson actually have something important to say? Fiona Sturges takes a deep breath and finds out
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Marr's Attacks

Johnny Marr is the only member of The Smiths to have moved on from their bitter, infighting past. With a new group and new songs, he's back on the warpath, he tells Fiona Sturges
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Morrissey: Still miserable now?

The former leader of the Smiths hasn't made a record in six years. He's been accused of arrogance, self-pity and even of racism. So how come he's still named regularly as the most important songwriter of our time? As Morrissey prepares to return to the London stage, Fiona Sturges explains why he remains such a potent cultural icon
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Bald ambition

Once upon a time, he was just another musician with strong views on God, politics and vegetarianism; then 'Play' quietly turned him into the voice of his generation. Now he's a global, multi-platinum-selling pop phenomenon - and even David Bowie plays in support when he tours. But Moby is still something of an enigma - as Fiona Sturges discovered when she joined him on the road in America
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Lee Hazlewood: Singular Lee

He discovered Duane Eddy and practically invented country rock, but Lee Hazlewood is best known for his collaboration with Nancy Sinatra. The secret of their success? Singing dirty songs, he tells Fiona Sturges
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Music review - Brian Wilson, Royal Festival Hall

It's not often that a musician gets a standing ovation before he has played a note. But Brian Wilson, erstwhile Beach Boy, composer, arranger, singer and living legend, gets just this as he arrives on stage...
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'Thingy out of Cold Feet'

Until ITV's hit series Cold Feet came along, Robert Bathurst was just another struggling actor. Now he's an unwilling celebrity who's fighting off Hello! magazine. Fiona Sturges met him

Todd Solondz: Why's everybody always picking on me?

He may be a master of black comedy, but the director Todd Solondz - whose new film Storytelling is about to be released - finds it hard to laugh off criticism. Fiona Sturges meets a man wounded by the 'incredibly horrible things' people say
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