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Hankie not hunky

NICE. Nice nice nice nice nice. Whatever puny criticisms I might make of Tom Hanks and I will do my best the fact remains that he belongs to the underpopulated James Stewart school of totally nice, honourable, decent movie stars. We met in the nastiest of interview settings a one-hour slot in a hotel-room publicity treadmill and Hanks had a streaming cold, but he was charming and courteous and friendly and helpful. He and I and Jane Bown, such old hands at this game, went through the familiar stately gavotte and I kept wishing that a gang of grenade-toting guerrillas would burst through the windows and take us all prisoner, or at least one of the hotel employees would run amok.

By Lynn Barber19 Jan

Is this music to die for?

February 1 1995: On this day Richey Edwards (James), Manic Street Preachers' guitarist, disappeared. In the months following Andrew Smith looks at the reaction of the fans.

Andrew Smith31 Mar

Sweet exile

February 1 1995: On this day Richey Edwards (James) from the Manic Street Preachers went missing. Caroline Sullivan and Alex Bellos reflect on his career in the aftermath of his disappearance.

Caroline Sullivan and Alex Bellos22 Feb

Kurt Cobain obituary

Adam Sweeting9 Apr

Sound of the outsider: Obituary of Kurt Cobain

April 8 1994:On this day Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home. He had committed suicide. This is how the Guardian reported the event.

Adam Sweeting9 Apr

Band Aid gears up for action after 'ultimate day'

'Desperation is the mother of excellence,' Bob Geldof reflected yesterday as the total known pledges for African aid in Britain alone rose above pounds 4.2 million, with substantially more due in the post. The response raised buoyant hopes that the British harvest from Saturday's record-breaking pop concert would be more than half the pounds 10 million which Live Aid originally expected from the world-wide series of events. The global total for famine relief and development was being estimated with increasing confidence yesterday at pounds 50 million.

John Ezard16 Jul

Comment on the Live Aid rock concert

Having watched and heard ten hours of the Live Aid bash at Wembley, you have to be a bit amazed and abashed at the sheer, sweet, innocent, hopeful, impossible altruism of the whole idea, and of the thousands upon thousands of people in that stadium. Christian missionaries are long out of fashion, but I believe some of these people have that same hope of a perfect world. But the missionaries were more prudent, since the world of which they had such high hopes was the next world.

Terry Coleman15 Jul

Benefit pop concert for famine relief

Live Aid, history's biggest pop concert, aims to raise around pounds 1 million an hour today for African famine relief. Its begetter, Bob Geldof , the 32-year-old Irish rock musician, now more famous as a fund-raiser than lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, acknowledges the irony of pop stars saving Ethiopians from starvation: 'It's pathetic that the price of a life is a plastic record. But if that's the way it has to be, you have to use glamour.'

Gareth Parry13 Jul

A record for pettiness

Condemnation of UK government's refusal to reimburse VAT accruing on pop record made to boost Ethiopian famine funds

Leader20 Dec

PM rejects famine record plea

December 14 1984: On this day Margaret Thatcher refused to waive the VAT on the sale of the Band Aid charity record. This is how the Guardian reported the events.

David McKie15 Dec

Lennon's killer to serve 20 years

August 24 1981: On this day Mark Chapman was sentenced to at least 20 years imprisonment for the murder of John Lennon. This is how the Guardian reported the news.

Terry Coleman in New York25 Aug

Sid Vicious dies of drug overdose

February 2 1979: On this day Sex Pistols’ bassist, Sid Vicious, died in New York. This is how the Guardian reported the news.

By a Staff Reporter3 Feb

Fans mourn the king

Stunned reaction in Britain followed the announcement of Elvis Presley's death last night.

17 Aug

Four Giorgio panels are rediscovered

From the archive: On this day in 1937 the National Gallery acquired four small panels believed to be by the rarest of the great masters, Giorgione.

20 Oct

Death of Henrik Ibsen

From the archive: We regret to announce the death of Henrik Ibsen, which took place at Christiana yesterday afternoon.

The Guardian26 May