‘A legend in her own right’: Carolyn Franklin, Aretha’s forgotten sister | Soul
Some of the most remarkable footage of Aretha Franklin was taken in 1968, as she rehearses Ain’t No Way, written
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Feed your soul: the 31-day literary diet for January | Books
Our revels now are ended and January looms, with its exhortations to get fit, lose weight, dry out. So here’s
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Father of tragic Emily Jones, 7, recalls day his ‘beautiful little soul mate’ was killed
Wearing a navy jacket with red and white spots, seven-year-old Emily Jones was a blur as she zipped up and
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JENNI MURRAY bares her soul on her Full Monty moment as she goes topless on TV aged 70
For the past two months I have been suffering more than a little daily anxiety: not sleeping, waking each morning
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Steve McQueen: ‘It’s rebel music that moves me’ | Culture
Reggae music is the beating heart of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, which traces Black British experience from the late
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Craig Charles: ‘This is my midlife crisis – I should have just bought a Porsche!’ | Culture
Craig Charles calls it his midlife crisis. There he was sitting at home, mid-pandemic, in a fuddle. Because of social
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Adele – every song ranked! | Music
40. Now and Then (2008) Released on the flipside of 2008 single Cold Shoulder, Now and Then really sounds like
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The straight cis men at a corporate gym helped save my trans soul | Life and style
“The number of people who’ve been murdered in an Equinox locker room,” I speculated to my then boyfriend as we
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Mariah Carey: ‘They’re calling me a diva? I think I’m going to cry!’ | Music
It is a rainy Thursday afternoon and Mariah Carey is talking to me from her home in Los Angeles, her
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Bettye LaVette: ‘James Brown would have fired Kanye West 12 times’ | Music
Bettye LaVette is talking about James Brown and liberally fire-hosing one of her favourite words down the fuzzy line from
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