We aimed the airgun of enquiry at this week’s rock and roll side-stall and dislodged the following coconuts …     … sports star, Rhodes scholar, bohemian: why Kris Kristofferson was a whole new breed of American hero.     … the letter his parents wrote disowning him.   … how he invented the...

Christine McVie - one of only two British girl rock musicians in the ‘60s and part of the greatest pop soap opera of all time. Neither in the backline or the frontline but occupying a unique middle ground. Packed it in for 16 years then returned to the fold. Lesley-Ann Jones’ fresh and emotional...

Nick Heyward was one of our favourite cover stars when we were at Smash Hits in the ‘80s, the days when hardcore Haircut One Hundred fans turned out in Fair Isle sweaters and Sou’Westers. He now lives mostly in Florida, he’s made nine solo albums – one magnificently titled Open Sesame Seed - and...