Supreme lovely … John Coltrane channels the divine through his sax. Photograph: Redferns Miles Davis was a good authority on the saxophonist John Coltrane, who played in one of the trumpeter’s bands in the 1950s. Their time spent working together began with Davis’s rise to stardom and ended not long after the magnificent Kind of [...]

The ‘extraordinary’ Jimi Hendrix with the Experience at Olympia, London, on 22 December 1967. Photograph: Ray Stevenson/Rex Features On the morning of 21 September 1966, a Pan Am airliner from New York landed at Heathrow, carrying among its passengers a black American musician from a poor home. Barely known in his own country and a [...]

Tantastic! Dale Winton shows off his glowing complexion Looking back at her photographed skin since the Spice Girls, it’s possible to plot Victoria Beckham’s journey to infamy in various shades of citrus. Before she married David, Victoria was white, if bronzered on the clavicles. The wedding pictures from 1999 are a festival of bright fake [...]

Beat that … Michael Jackson has dominated UK record sales since his death last year. Photograph: Barbara Gindl/EPA “Music industry up 5% in 2009″, “Music piracy crisis ‘over’ as industry revenues rise to £3.9bn”, “Consumer spend on live music hit a record breaking £1.5bn”, screamed headlines the other day. Great news! So what have all [...]