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Books blog Bruce Springsteen is a great songwriter – but that rarely makes for great memoirs

After 18 albums, the star is publishing his autobiography. Precedent suggests he’ll be hard pressed to make his book match the quality of his music

Published: 27 Sep 2016

2 out of 5 stars.

Blur: New World Towers review – press-kit-style documentary
2 out of 5 stars.

Concert bits get across the group’s charismatic energy as performers and evoke the rapture of live performance, even if the film is serviceably thin

Published: 26 Nov 2015

To the end: Blur’s Parklife and me

Christopher de Bellaigue was working abroad when he formed an intense attachment to Blur. Two decades later, he reflects on a musical passion, homesickness and the extent to which the London of Parklife is not the city of today

Published: 4 Sep 2015

4 out of 5 stars.

Alexis Petridis's album of the week Blur: The Magic Whip review – friends reunited for a beautiful comeback
4 out of 5 stars.

Blur’s made-in-Hong-Kong album, their first for 12 years, overflows with lovely songs and touchingly reveals a band now happily reconciled

Published: 22 Apr 2015

Blur announce The Magic Whip, their first new album for 12 years

Album features full quartet of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and fans can celebrate with summer gig in London’s Hyde Park

Published: 19 Feb 2015

Sophie Heawood's Weekend column Sophie Heawood: please Madonna, step away from your smartphone

‘She never bothered with social media before, but now she’s all over Instagram and Twitter like a rash’

Published: 10 Jan 2015
Lost in showbiz Thought the Chipping Norton set had disbanded? Along comes Alex James to shatter the illusion

Marina Hyde: After The Unpleasantness, one might have assumed David Cameron’s Cotswolds cronies would have gone to ground. But activity over the New Year indicates something far more disturbing

Published: 8 Jan 2015

The hot tickets The hot tickets – international Ibsen, Late Turner and Rupert Everett

Line up for Ibsen at the Barbican, Turner at the Tate, Jamie Oliver's Feastival … and a last chance for Rupert Everett in Chichester's Amadeus

Published: 28 Jul 2014

Greenslade The Sun marks the World Cup by giving away 22m papers to English homes

Special issue distributed free across England

Published: 11 Jun 2014

Celebrities and their dogs, portrait auction – in pictures

Stars of stage and screen pose with their pets for The Company of Dogs – a portrait exhibition raising money for Dogs Trust

Gallery

Published: 17 Mar 2014

Blur's Alex James makes first foray into film with A Slice of Life

First it was bass, then cheese – now the Britpop musician turns his hand to directing with debut short film

Published: 10 May 2013

The 10 best ... The 10 best celebrity reinventions – in pictures

From the Governator to the former Britpop bassist now churning out cheese, here's our pick of the shrewdest direction shifts in modern culture

Gallery

Published: 28 Apr 2013

Blur release Olympic closing concert as live album

ParkLive is already available on iTunes, and a deluxe box set is due in November featuring a 60-page book

Published: 15 Aug 2012

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