Figures from across worlds of entertainment and politics hail ‘true country music great’

The country star’s music was as adored in Ireland as it was back home in Tennessee

Parton’s songwriting was characterised by its vivid storytelling, emotional acuity and melodic strength, all sung with strident clarity

Dolly Parton says she is ‘responding really well to meds and treatments’ and is ‘improving every day’

Mission impossible star Tom Cruise is a four-time Oscar nominee who has never won the award

Frieda Parton calls for prays after singer postpones Las Vegas residency scheduled for December

The country music singer has paid tribute to her husband of over 60 years

Tony Clayton-Lea on publications about Abba, Greenwich Village, Fleetwood Mac, 1990s indie, John Grant, Dolly Parton and Britpop

Plus: Pizza man Brian MacGoey buys an upper-crust pad, Google eyes Boland’s Mills merch, and Young Fine Gael in a flap about proposed social media ban

The singer’s pivot into country music, via her hit Texas Hold ‘Em and her new album, Cowboy Carter, is the latest smart move in a glittering career

Rockstar is a waggish nod to the mild controversy that engulfed her last year

Radio: Oliver Callan, on The Nine O’Clock Show, and The Ray D’Arcy Show take divergent approaches to the same material

As Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood release their new album, we pick our favourite over-75s in music

Dolly Parton is hitting new highs. Despite her stardom and pressures around feminism, business and fashion, she has always done it her way

CMAT has a real skill for presenting living and breathing issues on a silver platter

Group workouts will also come later this year

The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes

The singer on mental health, hyperfemininity and using humour as a shield

‘If the people of Europe decide their leaders have yet again failed them, the political backlash could be severe’

Volume one of Gibb Brothers’ songbook with Nashville twist