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American-Swiss singer and actress, Tina Turner performs at the Joe Louis Arena during her “Private Dancer Tour” on August 18, 1985, in Detroit, Michigan.  (Photo by Ross Marino/Getty Images)

Simply the best: Tina Turner dies at 83

Tributes poured in from around the world, with some of music’s biggest names lamenting the loss of a singular and instantly recognisable performer

L’Wren Scott leaves $9m estate to Mick Jagger

The fashion designer and partner of musician Mick Jagger has left her $8m apartment and $1m in valuables to him, according to the New York Post.

The Rolling Stones cancel show after L’Wren Scott’s death

Mick Jagger has reportedly left Perth, where the band is set to play, after the death of his girlfriend, fashion designer L’Wren Scott in the US.

Jagger’s girlfriend L’Wren Scott found dead

Fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Mick Jagger, has been found dead at her apartment in New York.

Swinging Sixties: Marsha Hunt

Mick waxes lyrical in love letters

‘I’m broke,’ says Marsha Hunt, inspiration for the song Brown Sugar, explaining her reason for selling Jagger’s letters to her from the summer of ’69.

The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger.

Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years

Mick Jagger may rethink the words he sang over 45 years ago – "what a drag it is getting old" as the Rolling Stones enjoy 50 years in the industry.

Money, not revolution

Pop culture icons John Lennon and Mick Jagger were clever capitalists who cashed in on the mood of the 1960s, says a British academic.

Rock’n’roll pioneer Bo Diddley dead at 79

Guitarist and songwriter Bo Diddley, who died of heart failure on June 2 at age 79, was an innovative R&B pioneer who forged rock’n’roll’s signature beat but rarely got the…

All that smooching was far too cordiale

In the end, it was the pictures of Carla Bruni photogenically snogging President Sarkozy on a boat on the River Thames, during their state visit, that made me wish they’d both…

French president may marry ex-model

First it was Disneyland, then love on the Nile, now it’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s starry settings for his showbiz romance with…