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Think twice before insulting the Taffs because if it wasn’t for a little know portly young Welsh lass all us English would be eating frogs legs.

You can always judge a man by the t-shirt he wears. Brando made them cool, Che Guevara became ubiquitous and bands used them as a marketing device. I love them…

Frank Serpico was the New York Cop who blew the whistle on police corruption, survived an assassination attempt and was played by Al Pacino but whatever happened to the man who would only shoot straight?

Once upon a time, food was a simple matter. Sweet was sweet, savoury was savoury and never the twain shall meet. Last year, everything changed…

PJ Proby is a survivor of the first era of rock and roll who was blacklisted for splitting his trousers but refused to shuffle off and die quietly.

You think Gordon Ramsey swears a lot, he’s got nothing on Keith Floyd. The boisterous chef was on vintage form in this ace Loaded interview from 1996. He even punches the writer…

You never know what you’re going to get with Mark E Smith. Having been commissioned to interview him for the posh arts magazine Frieze, myself and novelist Michael Bracewell headed up on the train to Manchester in August 1992 to meet The Fall front-man.

It’s 25 years since Dennis Potter’s masterpiece, The Singing Detective, premiered on the BBC. This vintage interview from 1986 shows Dirty Dennis to be in fine fettle…

If you like your HBO dramas, OZ, Deadwood, Buffy, 24 this is the book that examines the explosion of superb modern TV drama

On the afternoon of July 2nd 2004 I was, like everyone else, absorbing the news that Marlon Brando had passed away the previous day. Then the phone went. On the line was a friend whose love for Brando’s best work burned as intensely as my love for Brando’s best work.

Duke Vin & The Birth Of Ska is an ace new documentary that explains how one man’s fierce passion for Jamaican music helped bring ska to the masses. We talked to the director about Duke, ska and the West London scene…

The enigmatic frontman always hated being bundled in with the Britpop bands, but not as much as he hates them all reforming…

Patrik Fitzgerald, once described as “the new Bob Dylan” is the punk hero who refused to go pop. He’s just released a new record and it’s his best yet.

From the Rumble In The Jungle and Potato Head Blues to The Great Escape and your first paycheque. Our man defines his greatest tastes of freedom.

It is often remarked that it is a hotbed of incestuous behaviour. It’s actually quite rare, it’s bestiality that’s all the rage…

A huge in-depth interview with Dexys’ frontman from 1999

Long before Johnny Depp based Captain Jack on him, Keith Richards was just the pirate blues chief of the Rolling Stones. And not averse to the odd frank conversation about sex…

The first time I met Manchester United legend George Best was in London’s Cavendish hotel in 1984, but I’d been dreaming about meeting him for years…

Shortly before his death in 1988, the great Roy Orbison talked about his sudden rise to fame, overcoming his shyness and and that growl on ‘Pretty Woman’.

One of the most famous and resonant names in the music industry, Marshall Chess has a Zelig-like knack for being in the right place at exactly the right time. Here he reels back through his rampantly incident-packed past in this rare, exclusive and definitive interview with Jon Wilde.

Three years ago, Ryan Bingham’s music career was going nowhere in a hurry. After a long, arduous life on the road, he was reduced to playing slummy, low-life dives, second on the bill to organised rodent-racing. Eighteen months later he was picking up an Oscar for Best Original Song (for The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart).

Ryan Bingham regales me with tales of his uproarious hell-raising, working with Jeff Bridges and explains how he managed to emerge from rank oblivion to become music’s next big thing.

Six years after my first meeting with the Manchester United legend, the George Best I encountered in the Phene Arms in 1990 was an entirely different character. Maudlin, bitter, and talking of the boozy brawls that had become commonplace…

Olly Reed was one of the greatest hell raisers of all time and before he died I was lucky enough to join him on a boozy bender in Minsk.

Looks like Penelope Cruz, acts like her too, but Veronica Echegui is more of a live-wire than her amigo could ever be. A seafood dress sense, fleeing the cops and naked interviews – all in a day’s work for this sizzling Spaniard.

On his seventieth birthday William ‘Smokey’ Robinson grants exclusive access to Jon Wilde to talk cocaine, the roots of Motown and why The Stones still kick ass

Not only is Sir Chay Blyth one of the world’s best-known yachtsmen, he is universally regarded as one of the bravest. Born 1940 in the Scottish town of Hawick, he decided from an early age that the humdrum world was not for him and that he was better suited to a life of adventure.

X-Factor introduced Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ to a new generation, much to the disgust of his long term fans. He has of course been a longtime influence on Nick Cave, The Sisters of Mercy and many more.

When you get two fancy dans and a hatchet man together in a room what happens? Well, at first oceans of booze and some rum tales of the 70s. Then Charlie George threatened to kneecap me…

One of the most famous and resonant names in the music industry, Marshall Chess has a Zelig-like knack for being in the right place at exactly the right time. Here he reels back through his rampantly incident-packed past in this rare, exclusive and definitive interview with Jon Wilde.

Part two of this 1995 classic sees the lads chat turn to drugs, women, playing abroad and why Brian Clough was a grade one lunatic.