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Sophie Ellis-Bextor

March 2024

  • Gregg Alexander of New Radicals and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

    ‘Hit the Hague, hit the bong!’ Hear Gregg Alexander’s original demo of Murder on the Dancefloor

  • With the fans … Gregg Alexander with Barack and Michelle Obama in 2022.

    ‘In January, it was the most heard song on Earth!’: the amazing story behind Murder on the Dancefloor

January 2024

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor performing on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, 25 June 2023.

    ‘It’s all magic’: Sophie Ellis-Bextor back at No 2 after 20 years with Murder on the Dancefloor

    In 2001, the song reached No 2. As it gets there again – thanks to hit film Saltburn and the power of Gen-Z and TikTok – the singer talks about privilege, second chances and Liam Gallagher dancing in the nude
  • Barry Keoghan wears a dinner jacket outside while holding a glass in Saltburn

    Pass notes
    Class war on the dancefloor: how rich gen Zers started a Saltburn craze that is beyond satire

    The film’s final scene, in which Barry Keoghan’s Oliver dances naked to Murder on the Dancefloor, has spawned a whole new way to show off daddy’s country pile
  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor in 2000.

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Saltburn scene sees Murder on the Dancefloor re-enter Top 10

    The pop star’s 2001 chart smash has had a major resurgence thanks to its use in Emerald Fennell’s divisive thriller

November 2023

  • High kicking, self-deprecating entertainer … Sophie Ellis-Bextor in Southend.

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Christmas Kitchen Disco review – the festive season starts here

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor torches a gingerbread house

    Pass notes
    ’Tis the season to be emotionally manipulated: the battle of the Christmas adverts has begun

September 2023

  • Sophie Ellis Bextor

    This much I know
    Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘When a song becomes a hit it goes on its own journey’

    The singer, 44, on playing Glastonbury, disappointing her children and hitching a ride on Elton John’s plane

June 2023

  • Illustration of celebrities having fun at a summer barbecue

    Smile, it’s summer
    A birdsong app, an allergy cure and a cool glass of gavi: Alan Carr, Mary Berry, Maya Jama and others on the thing that makes their summer

  • Version 3*** Glastonbury 2023 composite image showing (from left) Weyes Blood, Stefflon Don, Fatboy Slim, Thundercat, Jake Shears, and Becky Hill

    ‘People complained that I had my ass out’: all-star Glastonbury veterans advise festival first-timers

July 2022

  • Calvin Harris onstage in Philadelphia, in 2015.

    Ranked
    Calvin Harris’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

    With his new album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol 2, out next week, we take a look through the Scottish producer’s hit-studded career

January 2022

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor

    Honest playlist
    ‘I want Mickey by Toni Basil played at my funeral’: Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s honest playlist

    The singer loves a bit of disco on the dancefloor and Prince in the bedroom, but when it comes to karaoke, she keeps faith with George Michael

November 2021

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Sophie Ellis-Bextor: never stop dancing, it’s the best tonic for these pandemic times

    Rebecca Nicholson
    The singer’s 24-hour marathon feat not only raised a fortune but a nation’s spirits along the way

September 2021

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor, left, and Janet Ellis

    Flashback
    Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Janet Ellis: ‘Having a famous mum was a high value currency when I was little’

    For this new series, the pop star recreates a childhood photo with her Blue Peter presenter mother, as they talk clothes, careers and childhood friendships

August 2021

  • Performers such as Mabel and Rudimental have joined a UN campaign calling for an end to sexual harassment at gigs and festivals.

    UK musicians back call to end harassment of women at live gigs

    Exclusive: Safe Spaces Now initiative launched as data reveals 40% of women under 40 have been sexually harassed at music event

July 2021

  • Billy Reeves

    Experience
    Experience: amnesia made me forget ever making an album

    A car crash left me with major memory loss. When I listened to the songs afterwards, I was hearing things I had written but had no recollection of

January 2021

  • The maestro… Joe Wicks leads another PE class.

    Celebrity fab abs: who’s top of the lockdown dance fitness classes?

    Whether it’s dancing with Oti Mabuse or hopping with Marcus Rashford, our reporter has the numbers and abs to find out who is Joe Wicks’s biggest rival

December 2020

  • Stockport Spider-Men Jason Baird (front) and Andrew Baldock (up lamp-post), photographed with other superhero runners they inspired

    Lockdown living
    ‘The idea was to put smiles on faces – and it snowballed’: the people who saved 2020

  • Left to right: Michael Kiwanuka, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tim Burgess.

    My perfect Christmas playlist, by Michael Kiwanuka, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Tim Burgess

September 2020

  • ‘I don’t like dance music!’ … Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

    How we made
    Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Spiller: how we made Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)

    The dance classic was the first song ever to be played on an iPod. But, as its creators reveal, the demo was left in a car – then tossed on to a floor and forgotten
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