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Anthony Valentine, who has died at the age of 76, was a distinguished actor with urbane features and a fine voice. His two best-known television characters showcased his versatility he had a controlled, chilly stillness as Major Horst Mohn in Colditz (1974), yet was dashing and suave as the eponymous hero of Raffles (1977).

The music legend has just released a fabulously filthy album. He looks back on his incredible life in songwriting, and his friendships with Marvin Gaye, Berry Gordy and Aretha Franklin Smokey Robinsons first collection of new songs in 14 years is gorgeous, tender and utterly filthy a concept album about sex called Gasms. Robinson,

Hes the go-to actor when it comes to menace, but does the new Jungle Books King Louie have a softer side? The hair is as wild as a brushfire, but everything else about Christopher Walken is softer, friendlier, more amused than anticipated a domestic cat to the killer of his onscreen persona. At his

It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldnt have existed without it. Frank Herberts Dune should endure as a politically relevant fantasy from the Age of Aquarius

Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood, who has died aged 69, was a member of Frank Zappa's original Mothers of Invention. He appeared on all the group's early albums, up to and including Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970), as well as on Zappa's solo disc Lumpy Gravy. He later performed with the Grandmothers, a group of musicians who