While appearing in a production at the National Theatre in 1977, the English folk singer Shirley Collins lost her voice to nerves, and her musician husband to an actress. She rarely performed in public again, eschewing the peripatetic life of the entertainer to raise her children alone. But, in the previous quarter-century, she had travelled…
Four decades after his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15, Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man movie has honoured the original adolescent anti-hero with an undisclosed budget so high that, according to its director, “if you knew how much it was, it would give you a nosebleed”. Spider-Man once survived attack from an alien entity disguised as his…
The assumed rivalry between Blondie’s vocalist, Debbie Harry, and the poet and singer Patti Smith is one of the most persistent subplots in histories of the 1970s New York punk movement. Apparently, downtown wasn’t big enough for the both of them. But despite their shared pedigree, Harry has become an icon and Muppet Show guest,…
In the early 1960s, Iceland didn’t have the music of Bjork, or even the quizmaster skills of Magnus Magnusson, to put it on the cultural map; it didn’t even have television. But, somehow, Iceland did have its own home-grown garage-rock group, every bit as vibrant and vital as the more famous counterparts then flowering in…
In the coffee bar of the 1976 Comics Convention at the NEC in Birmingham, a bearded American introduced himself to my mother: “I’m Chris Claremont.” Then he turned to me: “I write X-Men. Do you read that?” I was eight years old, but I suddenly realised, with some regret, that penning stories of spandex-clad mutants…
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Brighton Argus
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Al Murray, Comedian
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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John Robins, Comedian
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Stuart, Chortle
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com