Capitol is 75 this year and the subject of a major new photo-packed book charting its talent-strewn history, which stretches from Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra via The Beatles and the Beach Boys to Coldplay, Radiohead and Sam Smith. Launched in 1942 by record store owner Glenn Wallichs, singer and songwriter Johnny Mercer and movie producer Buddy DeSylva, Capitol was a record company in a movie town, at a time when the rest of the music business was in New York, 3,000 miles away.
In less than five glorious minutes, two crucial basics have been established - it's a musical and it's a promisingly good one.
'I'm probably the best-known foreign author living in France,' announces Peter May. The Glasgow-born crime writer isn't using poetic licence.
With their first two albums, The xx carved out their own sound - sparse, introspective, sorrowful, supremely sorted. This time, they retain their distinctiveness while having a lot more fun.
The minutes-long scene took a gruelling full weekend to shoot. Punishing 3am starts were coupled with temperatures pushing 40C. An LA freeway had to be blocked off too...
The first Impressionist show was in Paris in 1874; the first Australian one in 1889.
PIERS MORGAN: 'Imagine if I'd died eating a saucy chipolata!' James Corden laughed. 'It would be so humiliating'
Fasten your seat belts, look what's coming down the road... in 2017
Event reveals the most exciting cars and Chris Evans picks his top three
DEBORAH ROSS: Oh, Sherlock... you've really lost the plot now
Sherlock is certainly still full of itself.
I close my eyes, lips aflame with chilli, head abuzz with mescal, belly filled with tacos. Real tacos. For a minute, I could be back in Mexico. My greedy dreams have, at long last, come true.
My crystal balls, or at least wine glasses, are clanging together and the future of 2017's flavour resonates deep within.
Stanley Spencer's prose lacks the consistency of his painting. It can be tangled and opaque, straggly and shapeless. But it shows at all times the profundity of his artistic vision.
While the play's preoccupations with male hegemony, born-again patriotism and religious fanaticism sound loud and clear, the updating often feels forced and doesn't always make sense.
El Pastor is a proper taqueria in Borough Market, with tacos made fresh every day. With the excellent Santo Remedio recently closed (some problem beyond their control), could El Pastor feed my Mexican yen? ...read
My crystal balls, or at least wine glasses, are clanging together and the future of 2017's flavour resonates deep within. My first prediction is easy, as I'm backing the quality of English sparkling bottles to continue their dazzling trajectory. Currency fluctuations may also help their prices look tastier in the short term this new year. But that's just the tip of the wineberg. ...read
Few are better value than Monitor Audio's S150, recently reissued in gold for the brand's 30th anniversary, to remind us politely that the company has spent three decades producing vast, improbably expensive stereo speakers for hi-fi nerds. ...read
Here, Event reveals the most exciting cars heading off the production line - and our motoring guru Chris Evans picks the three he can't wait to road-test this year. ...read
James Corden and his wife Julia threw a delightful cocktail party tonight at Little House in Mayfair, for all the mates they've barely seen since they moved to Hollywood. 'To be completely honest,' said the invitation, 'they've missed you.' ...read
The shows you'll smash the internet to book. The TV programmes you'll fight over the remote to watch. The books you won't dare to put down. And more! Diaries at the ready, as our critics preview the best of the year ahead ...read
Lara Pulver is the actress who scandalised Sherlock viewers in the most infamous scene in the show's five-year history. Today she is in London to talk about her latest role, in Blood Wars, the fifth instalment of the vampire franchise Underworld with British actress Kate Beckinsale ...read
Forget all those oafish imposters. If Pitt Cue were the UK pioneers, and Neil Rankin the High Priest, then it's at Smokestak where this much maligned art really comes of age.
Happily there are some alternatives to wine, and even genuine wines that are naturally low in alcohol, to ease yourself into a more abstemious regime this new year.
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