(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Tue 30 December 2025 11:00, UK Billy Bob Thornton has been around a long, long while now, but not long enough that he’s too far gone to be able to do things like full-frontal scenes in his modern western drama series Landman, for which he should either be applauded or told to […]

(Credits: Bryan Berlin / Kevin Paul) Tue 30 December 2025 10:23, UK Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo are among the names from the entertainment industry to feature on the 2026 New Year Honours List. Elba will become Sir Idris Elba due to his charity work with the Elba Hope Foundation, which he co-founded with his […]

(Credits: Far Out / surrealuv) Mon 29 December 2025 11:25, UK It’s hard to ignore Led Zeppelin as one of the more macho bands of the 1970s. Aside from Robert Plant’s penchant for a blouse and the kind of conditioned hair to make L’Oreal blush, the band were a quartet pulsating with machismo. Their rock […]

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Mon 29 December 2025 11:15, UK By the time of Rumours, Fleetwood Mac were starting to use their songs as musical weapons. After both relationships within the band collapsed in on each other, every songwriter channelled frustrations into the songs, either making peace with their past or growing more spiteful […]

(Credits: Far Out / Warner Bros. Records) Mon 29 December 2025 11:00, UK When you’re a singer like Rod Stewart, there is usually a stack of songs waiting to be sung on your desk. Stewart’s sultry voice certainly has its admirers, and songwriters will fling their material at the coroner, especially during the 1980s, to […]

(Credits: Far Out / Larry Busacca – Alamy) Sun 28 December 2025 11:35, UK Bruce Springsteen’s guttural roar is like the throbbing grumble of a greased motorbike engine, but it undoubtedly comes from one place: New Jersey. The star stings with a tangible earthiness and floats with a honeyed sense of nostalgia and reminiscence when […]

(Credit: Wikimedia / Creative Commons) Sun 28 December 2025 11:24, UK “Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.” – Brigitte Bardot French actor and singer Brigitte Bardot hadn’t acted in nearly 50 years before she passed away, but was still revered as one of the most unstoppably iconic […]

(Credits: Bent Rej) Sun 28 December 2025 11:03, UK Jimi Hendrix was perhaps the most fluid and fearless electric guitarist of his time and has remained unrivalled since his death in 1970. The skilled stringman shaped rock music from the 1950s and early ’60s rhythm and blues style, pioneered by the likes of Chuck Berry […]