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Joe Muggs | The Guardian

Taking cues from Detroit techno and showcasing Autechre and Aphex Twin, the famed compilation found hedonism in the wind-down. As it is reissued, famous fans from then and now explain why they love it

My life in sex: the man who enjoys being spanked

I enjoy the loss of power when I am across my girfriends knee I have always fantasised about being spanked. Then one day, several years ago, my girlfriend gave me a few playful smacks on the bottom. I dared her to put me across her knee. She did and we both enjoyed it.

Paul Marsh obituary | Publishing

In my travels across publishing, nobody has compared with the Buddha-like figure of the literary agent Paul Marsh, who has died, aged 56, of a pulmonary embolism. I remember him standing in front of the great golden statue ofBuddha in Kamakura, Japan, each with the same benign smile, the same soothing calm.

Sam Beazley obituary | Movies

Few actors can have enjoyed a career as unusual as that of Sam Beazley, who has died aged 101. After appearing as a child actor in Where the Rainbow Ends, the Edwardian childrens standard, and as a teenager with John Gielguds company in two of the most famous Shakespeare productions of the 20th century, he

Sugar and Spice and allthings notsonice

The Richard Prince photograph of Brooke Shields that Tate Modern recently withdrew from the exhibition Pop Life, after Scotland Yard suggested it might break obscenity laws, travelled across the Atlantic carrying a long history of controversy. It shows a 10-year-old Shields, oiled and glistening, naked and made-up, posing in a marble bathtub with a seductive