Although she's seen and done it all since she made her film debut in the 1960s, Helen Mirren still has boxes to tick in terms of characters to play.

While Radiohead went on to become a global phenomenon, their first time performing on US television almost ended in tragedy for the band and Thom Yorke.

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Tina Turner, for all her roaring success, spent her final years in the cocoon of relative anonymity in Switzerland. What led her to the country? Find out here.

This UK distributor played a vital role in making once-banned video nasties, like 'The Driller Killer' and 'Cannibal Holocaust', widely available.

While Brian Wilson wasn't always good with words, he knew that the right person could filter what he was trying to say on Beach Boys records.

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A role in a Coen brothers film is often too good to pass up, regardless of its size, like when Woody Harrelson showed up for a few scenes in No Country for Old Men, even though he was already an ...

Rod Stewart always seems cool, calm, and collected, but when it comes to his own musical idols, he admits he finds it "impossible" to work with them.

CBGB was a New York institution, only opening its doors to a British punk band for the first time in 1977. But who was it? Read more about it here.

Looking back at the strike benefit gig in 1968 that first established John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival as an iconic band of the Sixties hippie age.

The greatest trick the Dropkick Murphys played was making a set of lost Woody Guthrie lyrics sound like they were forged in a South Boston dive bar basement.