The Big Interviews with Graham Walker

The Tour de France will return to Yorkshire, not if but when - says ASO’s Tour de France Director Christian Prudhomme. He promised to bring the race back to the county as the Tour de Yorkshire 2017 routes were revealed at a press conference hosted by his pal Welcome to Yorkshire Chief Executive Sir Gary Verity at the Impressions Gallery, Bradford on Friday, December 2, 2016. Here they both address...

Listen to the full 75 minute event as 17 winners are announced at the Scarborough News Business Awards 2016, sponsored by Scarborough Campus University Of Hull. with compere Jon Hammond, at The Spa, Scarborough on Friday, November 25, 2016. It includes speeches by Linda Hockley, Principal of the Scarborough Campus; Jane Kinroy, joint MD of Hunprenco, who picked up two awards, including Overall Win...

Bros pop superstar turned Las Vegas crooner Matt Goss will bring Christmas cheer to UK fans with a seven date 2016 Christmas Tour ahead of his 25th anniversary Bros reunion tour with twin Luke in August 2017. In an exclusive chat with Graham Walker the When Will I Be Famous and I Owe You Nothing star reveals details about both tours, a new album, recording the solo gigs for a Radio 2 Christmas Eve...

Paul Jones had some of the biggest hits of the Sixties as the original voice of Manfred Mann but today revealed he turned down what could have led to him fronting the Rolling Stones. The Do Wah Diddy hitmaker was asked by Stones founder Brian Jones to be the lead singer of a band he was forming with Keith Richards. He said no and they signed up Mick Jagger. Here Paul, on the Maximum Rhythm N’ Blue...

The Puppini Sisters founder Italian-born singer Marcella Puppini previews their guest performance at an all star Hidden Wounds concert for Help for Heroes, at the Vulcan war plane cold war hangar at Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood Airport on Saturday, November 12, 2016. Marcella, with band mates Kate Mullins and Emma Smith, are a close harmony vocal trio in the style of The Andrews Sisters and have...

Meet Hospitality Sheffield's 206 award winners, including Alicja Zalewska - the inspirational hard working single mum of four with an award winning smile. The 30-year-old hotel worker is beaming after she won the Sheffield Smile trophy at the annual Hospitality Sheffield Awards. And she revealed she's done it with her own amazing mum, helping her to bring up four young children while giving everyo...

Yorkshire's ex-Saturday Kitchen TV celebrity chef James Martin is coming home to cook up a tasty treat for fans at a new food festival. He's the special guest - doing live demonstrations - at the Flavours Food Fest at Elsecar Heritage Centre near Barnsley, on Sunday, October 23, 10am to 5pm. Here he talks to Graham Walker about what fans can expect, reveals his favourite Yorkshire foods and even g...

Never Ever hitmakers All Saints may have said they would never ever be back - but the 1990s girl band have smashed into the charts and are touring again after 15 years. All Saints founder Melanie Blatt and Natalie Appleton took time out from their busy schedule to chat to me Graham Walker. They talk about how they have been overwhelmed by the response of fans' to their return, how the music indust...

Will TV action man Bear Grylls be drinking his own urine on his first live arena shows? It's what every fan wants to know and we dared to ask. The ex-SAS man, famous for swallowing just about anything to survive, didn't disappoint with his answer. Grylls, who takes his Endeavour: Your Adventure Awaits show around the UK in October, here also tells Graham Walker about the challenges of taking the g...

Golden great Tony Christie today revealed how he has been blessed with a 50-year recording career - thanks to help from his guardian angels. The 73-year-old Amarillo legend said he could not have gone on some nights without their help. He even sings about it on his new 50 Golden Greats album, of life defining hits and new songs, which he is taking on the road on his Golden Anniversary Tour. Here h...

Grammy Award winning songwriter producer Eliot Kennedy and singer Jo Heselden-Edwards - daughter of tragic Yorkshire entrepreneur Jimi Heselden - talk about Hidden Wounds, her debut album in memory of her late father to raise funds for the Hidden Wounds charoty, a division of Help For Heroes...and how they will launch it with an all-star charity concert at the Vulcan hanger, at Doncaster Airport,...

Slaves star Isaac Holman chats about forthcoming album Take Control, 2016 UK autumn tour and playing headline stage at Reading Festival on Saturday, August 27...then Leeds festival on Sunday, August 28.

Reggae queen Dawn Penn entertained huge crowds on the main stage at Sheffield's Tramlines 2016 music festival - but beforehand she talked to me about her upbringing in Jamaica, how she went from playing churches to some of the biggest venues in the world and recorded one of the most famous reggae songs of all time...You Don't Love Me (No, No, No).

Snooker legend Steve Davis has hung up his snooker cue but he's returning to Sheffield, home of his greatest triumphs, to showcase his talents as a superstar DJ. And not the wedding variety,. The 58-year-old is into 1990's electronic dance music - Leftfield to give it the right name - and he is bringing his critically acclaimed DJ skills to the city's Tramlines music festival. He's spinning the wh...

And they called it Puppy Love...but that was five decades ago when superstar Donny Osmond was the poster boy on millions of bedroom walls and graced the front cover of what seemed like every other issue of Jackie magazine. Now America's very own Peter Pan of pop is celebrating 50 years in the business with a UK tour of a new life defining album - made in Sheffield. The steel city's song king Eliot...

Lightning Bolt hitmaker Jake Bugg is areal life Robin Hoody - taking ad money from rich and instruments for needy kids. Here in conversation with Graham Walker he talks about his new album On My One - out June 17, 2016 - and his forthcoming UK gigs including Sherwood Pines Forest homecoming on June 23 and autumn dates, with Leeds O2 Academy on October 26, 2016. For more news, album and tour detail...

Punk rock legend John 'Rotten' Lydon - as he now likes to be called - has ruled out a Sex Pistol's reunion to celebrate the 40th anniversary next year of their iconic album. And he doesn't want a knighthood. Here he talks to me exclusively and puts the world to rights ahead of his Sheffield O2 Academy gig with band PiL on Tuesday,June 7, 2016.

UK soul queen Beverley Knight, now doyenne of the West End, is on a UK tour promoting album. Soulsville, out June 10, 2016. She plays Sheffield City Hall on Wednesday, June 1, York Barbican on Friday, June 3 and a host of other dates. Here she talks about the tour, album, her West End musical career and future plans. Full story, tour details and ticket links at http://www.thestar.co.uk

If I were to say to you...can you keep a secret? Well the secret is out, Sheffield music icon ABC's Martin Fry is back to his gold lamé best with a follow up to their million selling 1982 debut chart-topper Lexicon Of Love and a full UK tour. Here he talks to me about the album, the tour and whether those gold lame suits. Full interview, video and features at http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/rev...

Britain's strongest man Eddie Hall tells me he in eating 10,000 calories a day to be the first man to deadlift half a ton in strongman competition - at European's Strongest Man and Deadlift World Championships, at First Direct Arena in Leeds, on July 9, 2016.

America singer songwriter Sunny Ozell will play a Yorkshire 'homecoming' concert - she's the wife of famous white rose county son and Star Trek legend Sir Patrick Stewart. And she's been telling how they were married by his X-Men co-star Sir Ian McKellen. The marriage makes her a real life Lady Stewart. Not that she uses the title, except for some fun with her Hollywood royalty other half, she rev...

Singer songwriter and fan favourite Frank Turner talks about celebrating a record breaking tenth consecutive appearance at Leeds and Reading Festivals in 2016. He also gives top tips to festivalgoers and bands playing for the first time. He will open the main stage in Reading, on Friday, August 26, then Leeds Festival on Saturday, August 27 - supporting the likes of Foals, Disclosure and Churches....

Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen is coming to the UK for one night only to talk about his life past, present and future - here I caught up with him for a sneak peek at what he's going to be talking about. Don't miss An Evening With Charlie Sheen, hosted by Piers Mogan, a Rocco Buonvino and EJB Events presentation, in association with WOW247, at London’s prestigious Drury Lane Theatre on Sunday, Jun...

Fancy some Beans On Toast? Not the breakfast variety...but the festival favourite folk singer, Jay McAllister, who is serving up his greatest hits on his Small Town Celebrations Tour. He will stray from the beaten track to some of the country’s finest small towns, an adventure into the heart of England, in May 2016. Here he talks to Graham Walker about the tour, how it includes pub crawls, showcas...

Liz McIntyre, Sheffield DocFest CEO & Festival Director, here previews the 2016 festival, June 10 to 15, in conversation with Digital Editor Graham Walker. Highlights include talks by Oscar winners Tilda Swinton and Michael Moore, Lord David Puttnam, DA Pennebaker, plus appearances by Absolutely Fabulous TV star and now documentaries queen Joanna Lumley, Kes director Ken Loach, TV documentary...