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  Mini-skirts, bouffants and forgotten hits: The unsung women of the British Invasion

  As Beatlemania sweeps the world once more with Peter Jacksons’s ‘Get Back’, it’s high time that the women who took America by storm – from Dusty Springfield to Cilla Black – are equally recognised for their part in pop history. Key figures of the Swinging Sixties, including Petula Clark, speak to Alli Patton

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  Avril Elgar obituary

  Avril Elgar obituaryStage and screen actor admired for her versatility and comic timing Avril Elgar in 1964. Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock

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  TV tonight: the Stones at their saturnine peak

  TV tonight: the Stones at their saturnine peak. A new documentary about The Rolling Stones’ 1968 BBC special. Plus: a wealth of game show action. Here’s what to watch this evening

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  Listen to every song from the Pursuit of Love soundtrack

  For decades now, period TV dramas and films have used modern soundtracks to give themselves a contemporary edge and command viewer attention. The latest example is The Pursuit of Love, Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel that has just launched on the BBC. In using music that is deliberately at odds with the period being depicted, Mortimer is hoping to lend universality to her themes. Here is a track-by-track breakdown of The Pursuit of Love’s glam-rock stomps and incongruous bal

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  Lord Rossmore, architectural photographer who wooed Marianne Faithfull away from Mick Jagger – obituary

  Lord Rossmore, who has died aged 90, was a lanky and diffident Irish peer who established a reputation as an architectural photographer and briefly made headlines when he became engaged to the ultimate rock chick, Marianne Faithfull. The link was Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, who had become involved in efforts to conserve Ireland’s architectural heritage with Mariga Guinness, and her husband Desmond, co-founders of the Irish Georgian Society. After coming down from Cambridge Paddy Rossmore

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  Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis: She Walks in Beauty review – a magical return

  Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis: She Walks in Beauty review – a magical return. (BMG)Faithfull is on impeccable form in beautiful settings by Ellis of the Romantic poetry beloved of her youth

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