Jane Graham

Sue Cleaver, aka Eileen from Corrie, speaks to Big Issue about adoption and fitting in for her Letter to My Younger Self.

In his Letter to My Younger Self, Johnny Vaughan recalls how, when he was six years old his biggest ambition was to be a daddy, then a pirate.

When her family of musical prodigies were attacked by online racists, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason decided she'd finally had enough.

Big Issue's summer books 2025 include tales of boys finding friendship through learning birdsong and scathing putdowns of pretentious bohos.

Leona Lewis had her heart broken by her first love at age 16, but her parents gave her the blueprint for her own couple goals.

There's no handbook to rock stardom, says Belinda Carlisle, and her and her Go Go's bandmates handled it in different ways.

Ronan Keating thought everyone else at Boyzone auditions looked like pop stars, but he surprised himself by making it big.

When Huey Morgan left the Marines he returned to New York City as homeless veteran trying to start a band. Pop stardom followed.

Adam Buxton grew up obsessed with TV, films and music, so it was natural that he'd eventually end up in that world.

Sir John Rutter became one of Britain's most cherished composers despite neither of his parents having musical backgrounds.