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CDs of the week

18.09.09
Among the CDs of the week are Dizzee Rascal's mainstream album Tongue N Cheek and Mika returns with perfect pop in We Are Golden ... more

All you need is ... a second Lennon blue plaque

04.09.09
John Lennon is set to be honoured with a blue plaque outside the London house that was the setting for a notorious nude photo shoot with Yoko Ono for an album cover... more

Victoria commuters (like bees in honey) inspire haiku winner

30.06.09
The winner of a competition to write a haiku about summer in London today revealed the inspiration for his poem - his fellow commuters at Victoria... more

Sir Paul McCartney: Go veggie for climate change

15.06.09
Sir Paul McCartney and his family have launched a campaign to urge people to go veggie once a week to help combat climate change. ... more

Yoko Ono steps out of John Lennon's shadow

15.06.09
Yoko Ono's music mesmerised a crowd including Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes and ex-Smith Johnny Marr. ... more

Reunited Blur collect their Mojo award

12.06.09
Blur made their first public appearance since reuniting as they collected an award at the Mojo Honours List.... more

Gigs of the week

12.06.09
Unstoppably huge Tennessee rockers Kings of Leon come to town, Britney continues her 02 reign and Jolie Holland brings on the blues.... more

Sound check: Schoolboy ready to rap and roll

12.06.09
Before setting off on the festival circuit, rapper Chipmunk is taking his A-levels.... more

Sound check: Sounding a free horn

05.06.09
Jazz legend Ornette Coleman has assembled a line-up of eclectic excellence for next week's Meltdown.... more

Haiku contest stirs anger among the poets over too many syllables

29.05.09
Haiku Society attacks entries for high-profile haiku competition for having too many syllables... more

Thousands enter comp / Seeking haikus for London / Can you do better?

27.05.09
New breed of 'commuter poet' is capturing London's spirit in, ideally, just 17 syllables. Now you can have a go... more

Miliband 'failed to help hunt for model feared murdered abroad'

17.03.09
Foreign Secretary David Miliband is accused of failing to take action over a British former model feared to have been murdered in Hungary... more

Leibovitz gives up rights to her life's work for £10m loan

25.02.09
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has borrowed £10 million in exchange for the copyright, negatives and contract rights of her pictures... more

Yours for £40 ... and it could be a Tracey Emin

05.11.08
YOKO Ono, Tracey Emin and photographer David Bailey have created new works to help future artists... more

Buy Hirst art for £40 ... if you're lucky

22.10.08
An exhibition that gives art lovers the chance to buy a Tracy Emin, David Bailey, Yoko Ono or Damien Hirst for just £40 returns next month.... more

Yoko Ono to shed light on her art at London fair

22.09.08
Yoko Ono is giving the keynote lecture at this year's Frieze Art Fair... more

ICA scraps admission charge to have a happy 60th birthday

01.09.08
Admission charges at one of London's best-known modern art galleries have been scrapped... more

John Lennon's 'still dangerous' killer denied parole for fifth time

12.08.08
John Lennon's killer has been denied parole for a fifth time. Mark Chapman will remain in a U.S. prison for at least two more years after a parole board ruled that he remains a threat to the public.... more

McCartney and her eye for the iconic

23.04.08
Linda McCartney's skill as a photographer is highlighted in the James Hyman Gallery exhibition that took three years to compile.... more

Stella McCartney and Yoko Ono's tearful embrace at funeral of 'Fifth Beatle' - but Macca stays away

07.04.08
The Beatles he loved couldn't be there to say goodbye. It was left to the women to pay the band's final respects to Neil Aspinall, the man who ran the group's business empire for 40 years and was known as the 'fifth Beatle'... more

Amy Winehouse celebrates Grammys by visiting husband Blake in prison

11.02.08
Amy Winehouse celebrated cleaning up at the Grammys with a visit to Pentonville Jail. The 24-year-old troubled star went to see husband Blake Civil-Fielder today after winning five awards at last night's ceremony. Winehouse, wearing jeans and red high heels, looked healthier than ever as she appears to have put on weight since checking into a rehab clinic last month... more

Comic chops from the best

28.01.08
Laughing In A Foreign Language offers welcome relief from the otherwise unremitting January gloom.... more

Shots that mark the years

07.12.07
Remember Love: John Lennon is a commemorative exhibition of the anniversary of John Lennon's death. Photos from seven international photogrophers make an irresistable collection.... more

CDs of the week

16.02.07
This week's CD releases include Yoko Ono, post-rockers Explosions in the Sky and a memorial album to the late jazz trumpet virtuoso Maynard Ferguson.... more

Off the record: David Smyth's column

02.02.07
David Smyth discusses the threat to the Astoria, albums with excessively long track lists and buying songs direct from radio stations in his regular column.... more

Take me out: the best weekend events

11.01.07
Fancy something a little different? Richard Godwin leads you through some of the capital's less well-trodden attractions.... more

Rekindling the counterculture vibe

10.01.07
Fisun Guner feels the vibe in the second part of a show dedicated to the work of influential, short-lived 1960s art gallery Indica.... more

Giving peace a chance

07.12.06
Yoko Ono says that, of all the documentaries that have been made about John Lennon, The U.S. vs John Lennon is the one he would have loved.... more

The art of revisiting the Swinging Sixties

22.11.06
The founders of legendary Sixties gallery Indica have curated a show at Riflemaker displaying art from their original exhibitions next to that of young artists today. ... more

Sean fails to shake off Lennon legacy

10.11.06
Sean Lennon will never be as good as the Beatles and if he sounds a little like his father, it merely serves as a reminder that he'll never be as good as him either.... more

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