I interviewed Otis Williams the last surviving member of the Temptations, talking about My Girl, Motown and 'let my people go' contracts. What a guy! In tomorrow's Telegraph and online now
I’ve written the obituary, online at the Telegraph today,of the wonderful Chime Rinpoche, who died last week at the age of 84.
Chime was the last of the Tibetan lamas to be born and brought up in Tibet before the Chinese occupation.
He was David Bowie’s# first Buddhist teacher, founded his own teaching centre and for 16 years was curator of the Tibetan Language Collection at the British Library. He liked to joke he was the only Tibetan lama to qualify for a Civil Service pension and a free bus pass.
Who was Jeffrey Epstein? My colleagues @robert.mendick , Poppy Wood @poppyeh and I have done a deep dive into the life of the predator who contaminated everyone he came into contact with.
It's in the @telegraph magazine today and online
Two very different faces of British art - David Hockney being...David Hockney at the Serpentine, and the vibrant physicality of Cecily Brown, five minutes away at Serpentine North. Both well worth your time
I’ve written this in collaboration with my brilliant colleagues Robert Mendick and Poppy Wood, in an attempt to to answer the question- who exactly WAS Jeffrey Epstein? It’s very long, but there’s an audio version too. On the Telegraph website now
I've written about Marianne Faithfull and this very interesting new film about her, Broken English, which is as affecting as it's revealing. In the Telegraph magazine today and online.
Marianne was truly great.
Last chance to see the fascinating Peter Doig exhibition, House of Music, at the Serpentine. Doig’s evocative paintings inspired by his time in Trinidad, and a wonderfully eclectic selection of music played over gigantic cinema speakers. (Klangan Euronor Junior Speakers CA 1950s) to be precise. A rhythmic delight, which ends Feb 8.
I interviewed Jimmy Tarbuck, last of an era, with stories about Sinatra, Judy Garland and Bob Hope, who 'shagged anything that moved', and a very funny joke. Online at the Telegraph
