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Event Magazine

Event Magazine is a celebrity and culture supplement launched with the Mail on Sunday in 2013.

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Burt Bacharach: Inside the head of... Burt Bacharach

Interview by Jon Wilde, Event Magazine, 30 May 2015

The composer says he's a perfectionist to the point of obsession (as Dionne Warwick or Cilla Black will tell you). It caused his biggest regret: ...

Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof: "I'm terrified of loneliness and poverty. I'm never going back": Bob Geldof on Live Aid, losing Paula and what he really thinks of Bono

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 31 August 2014

He's 'OK, wedge-wise'. But this summer the bolshiest man in pop was back on the road with the cash-strapped Boomtown Rats. Event was with him ...

Alice Cooper: Alice's biggest shock of all

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 18 November 2017

Forget the guillotine, noose and snakes – the master of the macabre's fans will be stunned by his enduring passion for God, golf and marriage ...

Dexys Midnight Runners: Dexys: Duke of York's Theatre, London    

Live Review by David Bennun, Event Magazine, 20 April 2013

IT CAN'T BE pointed out too often that the entertainment industry is lying to us about what constitutes soul music. The clue is in the ...

Chrissie Hynde: "Alcohol is worse than heroin and my pal Kate Moss should lose the fur coats": Chrissie Hynde on fighting form

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 12 April 2014

She has single-handedly built the template for the modern female rock'n'roller: she has out-partied, out-married and, in many cases, outlived her contemporaries. ...

Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders: Chrissie Hynde

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 4 August 2018

Still super-hip (and all lip) at 66, the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde tells Event why she swears at fans, enrages sex abuse victims… and has swapped ...

Billy Idol: "I've been a total idiot, but now I'm approaching 60... clean and soberish": Billy Idol confesses all

Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 11 October 2014

THE SIGNATURE sneer is nowhere to be seen, the rebellious fist, so often raised and pumping, rests limply in his lap. Billy Idol, the wild ...

Jessie J

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 23 August 2014

Jessie J reveals she's quitting Britain because she's fed up with gossip about her sex life... and she's heading to America "where they take me ...

Little Steven, Steven Van Zandt: Steven Van Zandt: why playing in Springsteen's band helped me become right-hand man to a very different boss... Tony Soprano

Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 3 August 2019

FOR FANS of The Sopranos, Steven Van Zandt will forever be Sil, consigliere — chief adviser — to troubled mob boss Tony Soprano. In reality ...

Lulu: "I've had the most unbelievable life"

Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 February 2015

POP STARDOM at 15. Two failed marriages – one to a hard-drinking Bee Gee. An "insane" affair with David Bowie. Turning down Frank Sinatra. Cheating ...

Jeff Lynne: The starry life of Mr Blue Sky: He's sold 50 million albums with ELO, but Jeff Lynne is most proud of his work with The Beatles

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 26 October 2019

MODESTY IS a rarity in rock 'n' roll. But for a hit-writer, producer and rock star, Jeff Lynne displays none of the super-sized ego normally ...

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London ****

Live Review by David Bennun, Event Magazine, 1 June 2013

Just drop the chat and give us the rap, Mac ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers, New York Dolls: Bob Harris: Whistle Test is back…

Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 10 February 2018

… not with a bang but a WHISPER, as its softly-spoken host Bob Harris recalls being hit by Sid Vicious, paying John Lennon in chocolate ...

George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, Wham!: Andrew Ridgeley: Wham! George & Me (Michael Joseph)

Book Review by Graeme Thomson, Event Magazine, 26 October 2019

Despite being crushed' at his bandmate's death, Andrew Ridgeley's memoir, Wham! George & Me, is merely a bland look at the duo's career. ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: How OMD manoeuvred themselves back from the dark

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 16 November 2019

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES In The Dark aren't bitter, not a bit of it. They have missed out on millions, seen marriages collapse and, at one point, ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: How OMD manoeuvred themselves back from the dark

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 16 November 2019

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES In The Dark aren't bitter, not a bit of it. They have missed out on millions, seen marriages collapse and, at one point, ...

Marti Pellow: Just call me mellow Pellow

Profile and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Event Magazine, 25 February 2017

He can smile about it now, but the singer with the megawatt grin knows how close drink, drugs and 'Love Is All Around' came to ...

Lionel Richie: "There was something seriously wrong with Michael Jackson. But this is Hollywood"

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 25 April 2015

The downside of marrying a model half his age. The day he discovered Michael Jackson was as mad as a snake. And why the Ku ...

Spandau Ballet: "To Cut A Long Story Short, we nearly lost our minds...": After 20 years of fighting, why Spandau Ballet finally buried the hatchet

Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 30 August 2014

Spandau Ballet had it all – monster hits, screaming girls, ludicrous hair and kilts. Then they spent 20 years fighting over cash. It wasn't until ...

Rod Stewart: Sir Rod Stewart: "Maggie May? I prefer Theresa May!"

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 May 2017

Wake up, Theresa, I think I've got something to say to you... which is that you may be PM, Mrs May, but you're also "a fair ...

Tinie Tempah

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 24 May 2014

Prince William high-fives him. Harry Styles is his wingman at fashion shows. Lewis Hamilton asks him for styling tips ... why everyone wants to know ...

The Who: "Pete came at me. I knocked him spark out."

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 25 October 2014

The real reason Roger punched Pete, why he still feels guilty about Keith Moon's death... and his problem with immigration. Pete's heroin overdose, his man-crush ...

Kim Wilde

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 11 January 2020

"Touring with Bowie was a thrill. But I was on a high for weeks after winning gold at the Chelsea Flower Show": Kim Wilde on ...

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