Jim Kerr: ‘I’d been a rock star. I thought, What happened my life?

The singer talks about Live Aid, ex-wives and four decades of Simple Minds

Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’

New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring

Tributes to ‘most wonderful’ Joy Beverley as singer dies at 91

One of the three members of 1950s group the Beverley Sisters has died of stroke

Bernard Sumner: ‘I’m happier in myself. Better behaved. Less of a f***ing idiot’

He took a bath on ‘Blue Monday’, lost a pile in the Hacienda and was part of a scene that has become music myth. Bernard Sumner of New Order on living in the present

The Delines: Colfax