Linda Keith: The Rolling Stones muse who discovered Jimi Hendrix

Alongside her modelling career, in her personal life, Keith was an avid blues fan, listening to the BBC radio and attending ...

How one yelled line in ‘Cut Your Hair’ helped shape Kurt Vile: “He was just a trailblazer”

In 1994, Pavement were doing something that shouldn’t have worked on the radio, and Kurt Vile happened to be listening and ...

In 2007, Reese Witherspoon developed and produced a movie from the ground up. Three weeks before shooting, she quit

Reese Witherspoon was ready to reboot a 1960s classic, and she got involved in it as a producer as well as a star, so why was ...

In 2007, Bruce Springsteen was growing disillusioned. Four words from a folk icon set him back on track

Even The Boss needs a push sometimes. Here’s the folk icon whose simple question helped Bruce Springsteen rediscover his love ...

The 1987 movie Judi Dench thought “smacked of a recital evening” until it became one of her most cherished roles

Already one of the UK's best-loved actors in the 1980s, Judi Dench almost turned down a Bafta-nominated movie for feeling too ...

The “very beautiful” words of advice that David Cronenberg gave to Guillermo del Toro: “A filmmaker has to have two skins”

Guillermo del Toro sometimes relies on his friend David Cronenberg, director of 'Crash' and 'Videodrome', for advice when ...

In 1998, Sandra Bullock named the one movie she’d never make “in a million years”. 28 years later, she changed her mind

Sandra Bullock was adamant that she's never reprise her role as Annie Porter in a third 'Speed' movie after the failure of ...

In 1978, Lionel Richie wrote a song reflecting on his parents’ marriage. It became the Commodores’ biggest hit

Lionel Richie is a soft soul at heart, never better proven than in the 1978 hit he wrote, having been inspired by the ...

The career-defining role Kevin Costner refused to reprise: “I’m not best served doing that”

Kevin Costner refused to reprise his career-defining role, arguing that he wouldn't be best served to do that in the ...

The 1975 movie that “had the biggest impact” on Mark Wahlberg explains a lot, and not in a good way

Now a veteran of action films of very varying quality, Mark Wahlberg grew up on the hard-hitting movies of the 1970s, ...

In 2008, Ryan Reynolds was given “one of the all-time foolish studio notes.” A decade later, it was worth billions

In 2008, Ryan Reynolds watched as "one of the all-time foolish studio notes" ruined a character he loved, but he didn't give ...

In 1953, Joni Mitchell heard the song that made her fall in love with music. Now, she calls it “the most beautiful melody ever”

Joni Mitchell was always destined for a path of music, but it found her in 1953 when she fell in love with a "beautiful" ...