Bobby Womack

Jackie Brown review – Tarantino’s most romantic film is a stone-cold classic

Pam Grier and Samuel L Jackson are explosively good in this stylish crime thriller, with superb supporting turns from Robert Forster, Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda

Peter Bradshaw

15, Sep, 2022 @8:00 AM

Readers recommend playlist: songs about clouds

Some blue-sky thinking leads a reader to include the Rolling Stones, Broadcast, Bill Nelson, Love and Gene Kelly on this week’s list

George Boyland

26, Oct, 2017 @11:00 AM

Readers recommend playlist: songs with proverbs and idioms

A reader waxes lyrical in taking us through a playlist from your suggestions. BB King, Frank Sinatra and New Radicals all feature

attwilightlarks

30, Mar, 2017 @11:00 AM

Van Morrison to release duets album featuring Bobby Womack and Michael Bublé

The soul icon’s new album will revisit 16 old songs with a variety of star guests, including Mick Hucknall, Steve Winwood and Joss Stone

Tim Jonze

18, Feb, 2015 @9:27 AM

Bobby Womack remembered by Richard Russell

Producer and XL Recordings owner Richard Russell on recording with the soul man with the ‘otherworldly’ voice

Richard Russell

21, Dec, 2014 @9:00 AM

Bobby Womack: watch an unseen interview

As part of XL’s 25th anniversary celebrations, here’s a previously unseen interview with the late, great soul legend

Guardian music

05, Aug, 2014 @2:00 PM

Bobby Womack, gospel-soaked baritone and the very last of the Soul Men

Rock journalist Barney Hoskyns recalls being on the road with the R&B star, who has died aged 70

Barney Hoskyns

28, Jun, 2014 @11:34 PM

Bobby Womack obituary

Soul great who worked with musicians from Sam Cooke to Damon Albarn during a career spanning nearly six decades

John Lewis

28, Jun, 2014 @3:00 PM

Bobby Womack: a talent undimmed to the end

Even Womack himself didn't always fully appreciate the scope of his remarkable abilities as singer, writer and instrumentalist

Alexis Petridis

28, Jun, 2014 @12:29 PM

Soul singer Bobby Womack dies at the age of 70 - video

Bobby Womack, an American soul singer whose professional career lasted nearly six decades, died on Friday at the age of 70

28, Jun, 2014 @12:18 PM

Bobby Womack: six great performances

Our resident Womack obsessive shares his favourite moments from the late soul legend's incredible career

Paul Simon

28, Jun, 2014 @11:21 AM

Stars pay tribute to the great Bobby Womack

Damon Albarn and Ronnie Wood are among scores of musicians offering respects to the great soul singer, who has died at the age of 70