Kenny Everett

Rod Stewart: ‘I got Elton a fridge for Christmas. He got me a Rembrandt’

Answering Guardian readers’ questions, the singer discusses his epic railway modelling, his admiration of the Sex Pistols and the secrets of his hair regime

As told to Dave Simpson

18, Nov, 2021 @1:00 PM

Sheila Steafel obituary

Versatile stage, screen and radio actor admired for her comic timing

Toby Hadoke

27, Aug, 2019 @4:08 PM

TV tonight: Princess Di in drag – did this big night out really happen?

The new series of Urban Myths gets off to a glittering start with Diana, disguised as a man, partying with Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett. Here’s the best TV to tune in for

Phil Harrison, Gwilym Mumford, Graeme Virtue, Ellen E Jones, Lanre Bakare and Paul Howlett

10, Apr, 2019 @5:01 AM

Have the Tories found their new Kenny Everett? | Brief letters

Brief letters: Western movies and the American civil war | Salty pesto | Boris Johnson | Classical music | Benjamin Whitrow on radio

Brief letters

04, Oct, 2017 @5:41 PM

Desert Island Discs: 75 defining moments from 75 years of castaways

The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic

Stephen Moss

06, Jan, 2017 @3:56 PM

Ed Stewart obituary

DJ, broadcaster and television presenter best known for his radio request show Junior Choice and the children’s TV series Crackerjack

Anthony Hayward

10, Jan, 2016 @3:35 PM

Lovely jubbly: what the Christmas 1985 Radio Times tells us about Thatcher's Britain

Christmas Day audiences were faced with a choice between Del Boy and Arthur Daley – but what else do the festive schedules tell us about the era we lived in?

Neil Clark

22, Dec, 2015 @11:30 AM

Jim Davidson’s white nights with Freddie and Kenny are a real cocaine hell

The comedian claims he spent much of the 90s snorting coke with the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury and funnyman Kenny Everett. Anyone buy his implausible bohemian rhapsody?

Alexis Petridis

16, Apr, 2015 @5:30 PM

What We Do In The Shadows: the return of the living deadpan

Spinal Tap meets The Only Way Is Transylvania in this Kiwi vampire spoof. Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine tells us what’s at stake…

Alex Godfrey

01, Nov, 2014 @6:00 AM

Readers suggest the 10 best Kate Bush moments – in pictures

Last month, we brought you our 10 best Kate Bush moments. Here, we present your thoughts on the ones that should have made the list

17, Sep, 2014 @11:00 AM

Hello, Darlings!: The Authorised Biography of Kenny Everett by James Hogg and Robert Sellers – review

The real Kenny Everett remains obscured in in this cliched, sanitised life story, writes Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke

15, Sep, 2013 @8:01 AM

Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review

Hunted fails to follow in Homeland's footsteps, James Nesbitt returns as wisecracking surgeon Monroe and uncomfortable truths surface about pop's past, writes Andrew Anthony

Andrew Anthony

06, Oct, 2012 @11:05 PM