The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst: ‘Goth is about being in love with the melancholy beauty of existence’
The band’s co-founder on reconciling with Robert Smith and the real meaning of the dark music subculture
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On my radar: Jamie Lloyd’s cultural highlights
The award-winning theatre director on being stopped in the street to talk about his tattoos, the influence of the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and the play he’d love to direct
Bernie Taupin: even after 300m album sales, why is Elton John’s lyricist still underrated?
A new autobiography sheds light on John’s songwriting partner – someone who wrote lyrics with astonishing empathy, and cleverly documented the music scene that surrounded the pair
Kazuo Ishiguro song lyrics collection to be published
The prize-winning novelist’s lyrics, written for US jazz singer Stacey Kent, will be published with illustrations next March
‘The most fun!’ Paul Simon unveils collaboration with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse illustrator
Charlie Mackesy created his new drawings while listening to Simon’s music, the pair explain at the exhibition launch, with Simon outlining how the Covid-19 pandemic helped his creativity
The golden age of music street press: how Australia’s free weeklies grew entire scenes
The pay was low and the pressure high at local weekly magazines, which became a training ground for journalists – and a bible for music fans
On my radar: Naomi Klein’s cultural highlights
The Canadian author and activist on the self-deprecating comedy of Mae Martin, a mind-altering memoir, and the singer she drove miles to see live
‘It’s a sickness’: Chuck D on his new graphic novel and the ‘madness’ of US gun culture
The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his country
Geri Halliwell-Horner: ‘Through the Spice Girls people saw that they could be themselves’
This singer and writer, 51, on the Spice Girls, white-water rafting – and aiming for Oxford University
From quadruple amputee to much-loved DJ: ‘Resilience is a buzzword that annoys me’
After contracting meningococcal at 19, Tom Nash spent 18 painful months in hospital having his limbs amputated. Two decades later, ‘DJ Hookie’ explains why his experience left him better off
Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife
Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, the film shows how a naive schoolgirl became trapped behind the gates of Graceland in a bizarrely co-dependent relationship
Jimmy Buffett obituary
American singer and songwriter best known for his 1977 hit Margaritaville who went on to become a successful businessman
On my radar: Hayley Squires’s cultural highlights
The Bafta-nominated British actor on the book that broke her heart, a gig to remember with 50,000 Geordies, and Daniel Kaluuya’s new film
Top of the List: the best things to watch, read and cook in Australia this weekend
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