"That’s all very well for you to say Richard Ashcroft, you're a middle-aged really successful white person, who won’t have to have gone through a lot of the things I or indeed many other girls would have to have gone through"Lily Allen and Richard AshcroftLily Allen and Richard Ashcroft have to come to blows over the former Verve frontman&am...

It's a very very.... Lily AllenLily Allen has recorded her own soulful take on Tears For Fears‘ ‘Mad World’ as part of Spotify’s Singles series. The track, which is available now, sees the singer offering a stripped back version of the track. Characterised by Allen’s haunting vocals, it isn&#...

Tears For Fears' 1983 hit "Mad World" is one of the few songs from the synthpop era that has completely escaped from its original context. A lot of that has to do with the haunted, stripped-down version of "Mad World" that Gary Jules and Michael Andrews recorded for the Donny Darko soundtrack in 2001. (The…

"I can be a moron. But my intentions were straightforward and without any agenda"Lily AllenLily Allen has reflected upon the way in which she she ‘apologised on behalf of the UK’ in 2016 after witnessing the appalling conditions for child refugees in the Calais ‘jungle‘ – and the aftermath of ‘violent threats she rec...

"As a woman, I'm not meant to be an angel or a saint or a martyr or to have faultless encyclopaedic answers all the time"Lily Allen at the Mercury Music Prize 2018Lily Allen has written an emotional response to Twitter trolls attempting to silence her, arguing that she refuses “to be bullied or backed into a corner”. Allen ha...