Blackadder, Red Dwarf and QI: How I wrote comedy’s best-loved theme tunes

I was very nearly a pop star. At 17, I signed a record deal with my band, Half Brother. Our album – of love songs – came out in the same month as the Sex Pistols’ debut, Never Mind the Bollocks, so ...

‘A lot of late 70s bands wore grey. But we were determined to have fun’: the return of the mega-influential Swell Maps after 46 years

Championed by the BBC’s John Peel and signed to Rough Trade, the band were punk when that meant DIY, psychedelia and prog as well as screaming chords. What’s more, they loved Pink Floyd ...

Nick Mohammed looks back: ‘Magic became the superpower I needed growing up a short, brown kid in 1980s Leeds’

The comedian and magician on his teenage survival tricks, the teacher who inspired Mr Swallow, and how Ted Lasso and Traitors changed his life ...

9-Year-Old Playing Music for Shelter Animals Starts Nonprofit

When 9-year-old Yuvi Agarwal practiced piano, he noticed it instantly calmed his energetic goldendoodle puppy. Intrigued, he began playing music for anxious shelter animals, a move that would end up ...
Roll Tide Wire

Shaboozey teams up with Kidz Bop for kid-friendly 'A Bar Song' cover

Grammy-winning artist Shaboozey teamed up with Kidz Bop to create a kid-friendly version of his hit "A bar song (Tipsy)." ...