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“I feel despondent about the world of humans.” Queen legend Brian May reveals the fears that keep him awake at night

Brian May is concerned about our future

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Kitchen Chronicles Part Two – I'm comparing high street vs online suppliers to see just how far smart choices (and a little patience) can stretch a budget

I'm on the hunt for the perfect fit

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“I’m fascinated to know what people think!” Brian May gifts Queen fans never-before-heard "work in progress" version of Christmas song Not For Sale (Polar Bear)

Brian May teases 2026 re-issue of Queen's second album with broadcast of unreleased song dating back to 1969

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Lily Allen Breaks Her Silence On Her Brutal Album About David Harbour, Reveals If It’s “Revenge”

After a painful breakup with her husband David Harbour, Lily Allen revealed why it feels “awful” to be back on the dating apps.

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Lily Allen feels 'humiliation and shame' with dating after David Harbour split

Smile hitmaker Lily Allen has admitted she has found dating "bitterly disappointing" after her split from ex-husband David Harbour.

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Lily Allen has 'first date' with James Norton at London festival after David Harbour split

The Smile singer, 40, and Happy Valley actor, 39, reportedly met on the celebrity dating app Raya

Evening Standard

Brian Wilson interview: "I don’t like SMiLE any more. I got so tired of it and did it so many times I've forgotten it"

The late Brian Wilson on carrying the legend of the Beach Boys, Macca’s tears, and how soft drinks messed him up for years

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“Thom was like ‘No, get rid of all of that - you’ve lost what’s good about it!’”: Mark Pritchard tells us how he and Thom Yorke made the sublime Tall Tales

The Warp Records’ heavyweight joined forces with Radiohead and the Smile’s main man to craft a bewitching document of 21st century anxieties

MusicRadar

“I just remember her playing with a pick. I didn't care how she played, as long as she played the notes right”: Brian Wilson left his mark on the bass world through studio musicians, especially Carol Kaye, who he requested play his basslines note-for-note

In a rare interview, The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson reflected on bass playing, studio craft and his 2004 masterpiece, Smile

Guitar World

Lily Allen plays guitar with her toes as she returns to selling feet pics on OnlyFans

The Smile singer, 38, had not posted on the adult subscription service since September

Evening Standard

Lily Allen 'quits' OnlyFans following split with husband David Harbour

The Smile singer previously claimed that she made more money from selling pictures of her feet on the site than from her music with Spotify streams

Evening Standard

"We look so young. We were so young": Brian May's guide to rarely-seen Queen photos, from before they were famous

Sir Brian May talks us through a series of previously unseen photographs from Queen's early days as featured in the new Queen I Collector’s Edition

Louder

Smile 2 Review: "Naomi Scott demonstrates her talents with a raw, no-holds-barred performance in this largely successful horror sequel"

Total Film

Smile 2 director talks the horror sequel's brutal, one-shot, "really surprising" opening scene: "It wasn't going to feel like anything we did in the first film"

Exclusive: Writer/director Parker Finn says he wanted to do something completely different with Smile 2's one-shot opening scene

Total Film

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“There seems to be an idea among guitarists that something as remarkable as a box that creates a perfect echo is old, played out or overused”: Why Jonny Greenwood downsized his rig to just a guitar, amp and delay pedal to write the Smile’s new album

The sound of the Radiohead offshoot’s latest record stemmed from a challenge the famously tech-savvy guitarist set for himself – and his renewed love of delay

The Guardian - UK

The Smile: Cutouts review – as intricately crafted as Radiohead but with added groove

The trio’s second album this year is full of foreboding but the drumming of Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner continues to provide a different dynamic

The Independent UK

The Smile review, Cutouts: Expansive, brilliant and surprisingly fun

Who needs a Radiohead ‘reunion’ when the band’s side projects are as fruitful as this?

The Independent UK

Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood gives fans hope for the band’s future

Bandmembers have been working on their respective solo projects since the release of Radiohead’s most recent album, ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’, in 2016

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“I played the slide part of Layla with Eric Clapton… 15 minutes later I was back in the office making copies”: Brian Wilson guitarist Probyn Gregory on living an incredible double life, between desk job and rock star

His cautious career approach has given him the chance to play Jeff Beck’s rig, avoid taking a doomed TV gig, bring Pet Sounds back to the stage – and help Wilson revive the Smile project he’d run away from in 1967

Evening Standard

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood in 'intensive care' with upcoming The Smile gigs cancelled

The Radiohead guitarist ‘will soon return home’ according to a statement from The Smile, which said the band has been told to cancel upcoming gigs

Guitar World

“Mercifully he is now out of danger and will soon return home”: Jonny Greenwood hospitalized for emergency treatment, forcing The Smile to cancel tour dates

The Radiohead offshoot have postponed eight headline and festival gigs across August while Greenwood recovers

Louder

The Smile cancel European tour due to serious Jonny Greenwood illness

The Radiohead side-project have scrapped all dates to give the guitarist time to recover

MusicRadar

“These huge machines, created centuries ago, were tackling the same challenges of synthesis and sampling and sound reproduction that we struggle with today": Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood is bringing church organ music to the modular masses

But, says the thinking fan's rock star, “I think a lot about Never Mind the Bollocks"

The Guardian - UK

Jonny Greenwood: ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’

The Radiohead guitarist changed rock music, then conquered the world of soundtracks. But can he revolutionise the church organ with an eight-hour composition?

Evening Standard

Charity given eviction notice 'thrilled' to find new home following fundraiser success

Smile London & Essex has secured a new site three times bigger than its last one

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