Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and with her husband, Steve Lawrence, has died. She was 84.

It’s hard to believe, but moody musician Van Morrison wanted to be a vet before he was bitten by the music bug.

THE return of Stock Aitken and Waterman at a Hyde Park festival this July will, for some, confirm that we are living in an Eighties timewarp, reliving all the worst aspects of the decade: namely the recession.