‘Skin is an incredible contradiction’: Derrick Santini’s portaits of British creatives – in pictures
Photography: the great and good of Britain’s cultural life
May 2023
Name and shame
Growing up, every girl has a pop star they idolise – for me it was Neneh Cherry
Emma Forrest
The singer and rapper gave me my template of how to be a grown woman, and now my daughter is transfixed, too
November 2022
‘The baddest technician’: how Don Cherry is still making jazz new
The man who turned bebop upside down with Ornette Coleman went on to work with artists from Sonny Rollins to Ian Dury – and the London jazz festival is set to show he’s still inspiring
October 2022
Ranked
The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!
As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions
July 2022
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S3 E11: Neneh Cherry, musician
Mabel: About Last Night… review – tears and cheers on the dancefloor
June 2022
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Neneh Cherry: The Versions review – all-star covers album can’t touch a true original
Sia, Robyn and Anohni are among those interpreting Cherry’s back catalogue, but it works best when it strays from the big hits
March 2022
‘The canon is so heavy with the male genius’: Neneh Cherry and Robyn on changing the face of pop
As they reboot the classic Buffalo Stance, the friends talk sisterhood, being Swedish and fighting the system
December 2021
How we made
‘I used every chord on the Casio’ – How we made Manchild by Neneh Cherry
‘The first verse came to me as I was going up the stairs of a double-decker bus with a hangover’
July 2020
Life on a plate
Andi Oliver: 'When people are in trauma, they need the love of food'
The chef and broadcaster on the horrors of rural Suffolk in the 1970s, cooking with her best friend Neneh Cherry and the only way to eat oysters
February 2020
The look I love
Neneh Cherry: ‘A lot of the best looks can happen by accident’
Mabel review – a blast of charisma from the warrior queen
January 2020
Neneh Cherry: ‘Rap is a kind of freedom’
The singer recalls how hip-hop broke the mould for women as we chart 30 years of British women in the genre, from Cookie Crew to Cassie Rytz
August 2019
Mabel: ‘Boris Johnson? It’s not a world that I want to be a part of'
The pop star talks Grenfell, getting beaten to No 1 by Ed Sheeran and her unconventional childhood
February 2019
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Burning to Robots in Edinburgh, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
January 2019
This much I know
Neneh Cherry: ‘I love being a grandma’
Lana Del Rey, George Ezra and Snow Patrol to headline Latitude
December 2018
Best music of 2018
The 50 best albums of 2018: the full list
Our countdown is complete, and top spot goes to a timely blast of identity pop – adding to a fine selection of albums that range from the socially conscious to the political, as well as pure slices of ecstatic rock and cutting rap
October 2018
The music essay
'We were sad of getting old': how pop stars are growing up gracefully
