George RR Martin has opened up about experiencing depression during a “stressful” and “overwhelming” year, as readers continue to await the long-delayed sixth instalment of his A Song of Ice and Fire series. The 77-year-old American author, whose fantasy novels shaped and inspired the hit HBO television series Game of Thrones, wrote candidly about his…
Vini, you’ve created some of the most beautiful, ethereal music of the last 40 years. Is it true that in your youth you were in a violent Manchester street gang? Songy24Vini Reilly [guitars, vocals, keyboards]: Gangs then had a different meaning. It was just “their lot” and “our lot”. We’d sling insults at each other….
Salvador Dalí, El Mago, courtesy of Taschen, via Another Man In the early 1970s, the producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned the artist Salvador Dalí to make a tarot deck for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 novel of the same name, Live and Let Die was released…
Is it too early to talk about Christmas? Sorry for mentioning it, but I have a fantastic deal that will be a perfect fit for a children’s present. It’s the Fujifilm Instax Pal, which is on sale at Argos for £44.99 (was £71.99). That’s a big discount that makes the cute little camera more affordable…
“It’s interesting that some people discover science really easy, and others discover it sort of boring and difficult,” says Richard Feynman on the startning of his 1983 BBC sequence Enjoyable to Imagine. “One of many issues that makes it very difficult is that it takes a variety of imagination. It’s very arduous to imagine all…
