Along with The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, the Grammy-winner made some of the greatest pop ever. But success never seemed a given

For all the Kendrick Lamar background heat, Drake sounds like an artist adrift, with little to cling to beyond an enthusiastically nurtured sense of victimhood

Television: Did someone look at the personal life of Boris Johnson and think, hey, you could get some really great telly out of that?

Television: Riding into the sunset with the actor Liam Cummingham and the comedian PJ Gallagher, it’s like an Irish version of old Top Gear specials

Television: Alex Fegan’s documentary will hopefully go some way towards opening people’s eyes – it lets its subjects speak for themselves

Claire Kinsella and Laura Quirke form the duo Lemoncello, now one of the most important young folk acts in Ireland

If you appreciate music that’s in little hurry to be liked, Aldous Harding is the acquired taste you’ve been looking for

Television: Excellent drama about an unglamorous cabal of customs officers tackling gangs who are flooding the UK with heroin

The world’s most famous chat show host visits Dublin in September

Television: Amandaland’s greatest asset is not its cast but a steady supply of zingers, which keep the action ticking along

Sadly, a letter from a posh man on the BBC - the same one who turns 100 on Friday - was not seen as that big a deal back then

Review: The programme brings a satisfyingly human touch to our understanding of the 1926 census, showing the complicated lives behind the raw facts and figures

The actor, who also had roles in The Clinic and Love/Hate, was born in London to Irish parents and returned to Wexford as a child

Hanging out with The Beach Boys’ troubled genius a signpost for still-youthful industry veterans Michael and Brian D’Addario

Television: With contract-renewal negotiations seemingly in limbo, there’s a chance the RTÉ host won’t be back next season