In her new book, music writer Kate Mossman looks back at her favourite type of encounter – interviews with charismatic, ageing, male rockers. Here she remembers the band – and specifically drummer – who electrified her as a girl growing up in Norfolk

The standup talks about tensions behind the scenes of Blackadder, his Wiggles movie that never happened and his opinions on hecklers

The Queen singer on pineapple on pizza, chicken legs and toasting with Freddie Mercury

Items also include Queen singer’s moustache comb and the piano used to write Bohemian Rhapsody

The former frontman is the real attraction on a previously unheard single. While hardly a classic, it still packs an emotional punch

How do you give the star-cross’d lovers a lift? Drop them in 12th-century Japan and add a classic Queen album. As it opens in Britain, A Night at the Kabuki sends shivers down our writer’s spine