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Peter Crouch: a fallen idol? Photograph: Back Page Images / Rex Features So Peter Crouch is the latest footballer to be the subject of allegations of infidelity, as published in the News of the World and elsewhere last weekend. These must not be proven to be true, because there was much emotional investment in Crouch, [...]

‘It blows my mind that Jimmy Page wanted to play with us’ … Aerosmith. Photograph: Andre Csillag / Rex Features/Andre Csillag/Rex Features Corinne Bailey Rae, singer There have been so many amazing moments in my career so far: coming off stage to find Prince had been in the audience, playing for Nelson Mandela, being introduced [...]

Massive … MIA at the Underage festival. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Alice Glass shrieks wildly at the crowd, and they shriek back. The lead singer of rave group Crystal Castles – a band whose goal is to write a song that “can make the entire world vomit in unison”– is certainly giving it some. The watching [...]