The Beach Boys’ Mike Love returns to the stage despite ‘facing serious health challenges’
The 85-year-old was helped on stage by actor John Stamos, who shared an emotional message about his ‘musical hero and mentor’
Emma Joyce
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Eugene Onegin review – passion and pathos as Tchaikovsky’s opera is dragged into the oligarch era
Patrick Nolan’s thoughtful staging for Opera North shifts Pushkin’s story forward to explore the transition from Soviet state to elitist excess
Clive Paget
‘We look like soft, made-up blokes, but we’re really tough’: Duran Duran on 80s excess, tabloid scrutiny and their Halloween glow-up
They spent their heyday on yachts, then rolled up their sleeves in the wilderness years. Ahead of a Halloween show at the O2, pop’s great survivors explain their staying power
Alexis Petridis
‘I’d wander through the park all angsty listening to Arctic Monkeys’: Arlo Parks’ honest playlist
The singer shamelessly blasts Lady Gaga in the car, and is brought to tears by Portishead – but which song does she have to be careful listening to?
As told to Hannah Newton
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Add to playlist: the fizzing fuzz-pop racket of Pushbike and the week’s best new tracks
Huw Baines, Michael Cragg and Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Freddie Jackson, romantic US singer with 10 R&B chart-toppers, dies aged 70
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Bob Davenport obituary
Derek Schofield
