Plastic Betrand as pictured on the original single of ‘Ça plane pour moi’. When he hit European television screens in 1977, pogoing across music stages with a glint in his eye and a flower in his buttonhole, Plastic Bertrand gave no reason for anyone to doubt him when he yelled... 

Up in flames … Win Butler, left, and Richard Parry of Arcade Fire during a performance in London on 7 July. Photograph: Barney Britton/Redferns Pop has always loved a visit to the suburbs, whether in the sleazy undertow of Suede’s eponymous debut album or the high-street hellraisers... 

The City skyline – banks are believed to have set aside £5bn to pay staff bonuses, despite calls for pay restraints. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images British banks with big City operations have amassed pay and bonus pools of more than £5bn in the first six months of the year,... 

AP July 16: Actor George Clooney leaves a tribunal in Milan, Italy. Clooney appeared in court as a witness in a fraud trial against defendants charged with co opting his name for a line of clothing. MILAN Actor George Clooney has testified at a fraud trial in Milan and even the judge said it seemed like a... 

Clockwise from left: Julie Myerson, Lethal Bizzle, Grayson Perry, Maggi Hambling, Sara Cox. Photograph: Composite Stephen Fry, writer and actor They were monstrous, magnificent, traumatic, explosive, lyrical, emotionally sodden, eternal, shameful and fantastically alive. What I wish I’d...