Never mind the Royal Wedding - 2011 is a jubilee year for Queen. March 1 is the 40th anniversary of completing the line-up of what would become one of Britain's most successful bands... more
Four architecture firms, including those responsible for the glass pyramid at the Louvre and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Ohio, have been shortlisted to design the new US embassy... more
Noel Gallagher's guitar and the outfit David Bowie wore in his Ziggy Stardust incarnation will go on show in a new exhibition of the history of British rock and pop... more
Soul singer Isaac Hayes - who wrote the Shaft film soundtrack - died after being found unconscious by his wife beside a running treadmill at his home, it was revealed today.... more
Amid speculation her marriage is in trouble, Madonna has turned to her best friend Gwyneth Paltrow. It was strictly a girls' night only as the two dined together at celebrity haunt Locanda Locatelli restaurant in Marylebone last night... more
His morose tones attracted a cult following in the 1960s. Now at the pensionable age of 73, Leonard Cohen is set to make a comeback more than 40 years after he first took to the stage
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More than four decades have passed since those bright eyes and dazzling smile helped his band conquer the pop world. But it would seem that Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five is still feeling - and looking - youthful all over
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It started with the lips and the unflattering 'trout pout' look - but now it seems Meg Ryan truly is morphing into British actress Leslie Ash. America's former sweetheart was attending a film soiree in New York on Monday night, where her uncanny resemblance to Ash was hard to miss. However besides their fondness for collagen implants and both being 47, their remarkable similarity is no doubt just a matter of coincidence
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It's what you might expect from the woman who popularised the pointed-cone basque as outerwear earlier on in her stellar career. But despite this year reaching the landmark age of 50, mother-of-three Madonna is clearly in no hurry to give up her outrageous behaviour... more
As Madonna was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the world's most successful female musician admitted that she suffers from panic attacks on stage.... more
Justin Timberlake looks more like a seventies porn star than the golden-boy of pop in his new film. Pictured on the set of The Love Guru, the singer who is usually the epitome of cool, resembles a character from 1970s-set film Boogie Nights more than a superstar who counts Timbaland and Christina Aguilera as close friends... more
Mike Smith of Sixties group The Dave Clark Five has died aged 64, it was announced last night. He died yesterday from pneumonia at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, agent Margo Lewis said... more
The Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame will welcome Van Halen, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, REM, Ronettes and Patti Smith to its hallowed space in March.... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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