Category: Culture

Quincy Jones, producer and entertainment powerhouse, dies aged 91

Widely and wildly talented musician and industry mogul worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Will Smith and others10 of Quincy Jones’s greatest productionsQuincy Jones, a titan of American entertainment who worked...

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Don’t let under-18s join pop bands, says leading songwriter after Liam Payne’s death

Guy Chambers among industry figures calling for changes in wake of former One Direction star’s tragic deathUnder-18s should not be pushed into pop stardom, one of the UK’s leading songwriters has said, in the wake of...

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Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagallMaggie Smith, the prolific, multi-award-winning actor whose work ranged from The Prime of Miss Jean...

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Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ discovered under Thomas Hardy’s home

Enclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...

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