‘I’m often the only woman in the room’: the female music managers changing the industry’s tune
Black Sabbath’s manager, Don Arden, was nicknamed “the Al Capone of pop” for his ruthless business dealings. His protege, Peter Grant of Led Zeppelin,...
Bigger than the Beatles and Rolling Stones: Shampoo on tour in Tokyo, 1995
‘They’re young, female and they don’t care: they want their 15 minutes and they’re getting it now.’ In 1995, the Observer accompanied Shampoo –...
Return of the green fairy: once-notorious absinthe enjoys UK revival
It was the spirit of choice for history’s most bohemian creatives, from Oscar Wilde to Vincent van Gogh, popular during the belle époque for...
Heston Blumenthal fears watching TV series The Bear could trigger bipolar episode
Heston Blumenthal has said he fears that watching the high pressure depictions of kitchen life in the TV series The Bear could trigger a...
Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds
Young people from working-class backgrounds are being “blocked” from entering the creative industries, which remain “elitist” and inaccessible, according to research.A report from the...
‘Every hammer blow makes a difference’: handcrafting whisky stills in Scotland – photo essay
The sharp, repetitive sound of hammers steadily beating copper into shape echoes around the fabrication hall on an industrial estate just outside Edinburgh. At...