Brian Boyd

People advised her to ‘just shut up and sing’. But there was no separating the singer from the song

Singer produced more than 70 albums and had chart success in every decade from 1950s to 2020s

The most downloaded and most played song of the entire 1960s

Opinion: The tennis player is part of a new socio-political movement – ‘conspirituality’

As thousands of Americans succumbed to the virus, Trump continued to be the Pollyana-in-Chief

The extravagant amount of outrage over his Covid-19 songs is commensurate with his exalted status as an Irish artist

We have a pathological need not just for The Famous Person to visit but through some ritual process of transubstantiation become like us

The Monty Python founder had the idea of dropping punchlines for an absurdist style

The roots of the Tory victory can be traced back to Eric Joyce’s misbehaviour in 2012

Focusing on the impact of aviation is to miss the point about global warming

Our understanding of what constitutes actual racist language and behaviour has become devalued

Erotic capital may be all the reality television show’s contestants have or need

These eight YouTube clips show Brendan Grace’s pioneering, inimitable comedy style

Grace was a pioneer in Ireland, writing and performing his own comedy as a headline act

Anything could happen at a Starr show. That was the appeal of his now dated comedy