Can rotund characters be represented by less rounded actors?

Donald Clarke: If authors can keep an open mind about appearances, so can readers

Drop the needle, it’s the 1970s on screen – again

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

Former Sex Pistols win legal battle against John Lydon over use of music

Frontman known as Johnny Rotten had objected to use of material in new series

Fight the power, fire your bandmates – after a tweet about Bernie Sanders

Flavor Flav has been sacked from Public Enemy, a band he helped create 35 years ago

Same as it ever was as Dublin see off Mayo again

Dessie Farrell’s side win comfortably at MacHale Park

London Calling 40 years on: How The Clash rewrote the rule book

The Clash filleted rock, politics and history with swagger and biting social commentary

What to expect from U2’s Irish shows: the political and the personal

The band’s Experience + Innocence tour is deeply nostalgic yet very plugged in

Béatrice Dalle: ‘I’ve never thought I’m beautiful, but I have a power of attraction’

The ‘Betty Blue’ actor on her love affair with Rupert Everett and why Jesus is sexy

Sid and Nancy review: Sex, drugs and a Vicious circle

Made just seven years after the couple died, Sid and Nancy emerged at a moment when punk was still fresh in the collective consciousness

Vivienne Westwood opens up about punk, politics and McLaren

The pioneering fashion designer reveals some hard truths that chime with her motto, ‘the living deserve respect, the dead deserve the truth’. Malcolm McLaren does not come out of it well

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The Chelsea: bohos, bad behaviour and bed bugs

Jackson Pollock puked there, Dylan wrote lyrics there, Nancy Spungen was killed there – could a space as chaotic as the New York hotel exist today?

Being Behan: death by celebrity and alcohol

Adrian Dunbar, who takes the lead role in a play about the twilight of Brendan Behan’s life, thinks the time is right to resuscitate his legacy