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Freeman and Van der Merwe miss chance to make impression in tough Lions opener | Brendan Fanning

Andy Farrell will want players to display a bit of attitude as well as talent but Argentina showed it will take time

Swag is a word more common in the US than in this corner of the world. It’s a made-…

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Queensland stay alive after holding off stirring NSW comeback in State of Origin classic

  • Maroons win 26-24 after Blues rallied from 26-6 down at half-time

  • Result at Optus Stadium in Perth sends series to decider in Sydney

They had been all but written off, rudderless and adrift with a ratt…

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‘His music documented an America that no longer exists’: Brian Wilson’s brilliance, by key collaborator Van Dyke Parks

Wilson bought Parks a Volvo when he’d barely met him – and together they brought sublime poetry to pop. He remembers the making of Smile, Surf’s Up and more

It was the Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor …

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‘Always something I can watch’: why Spotlight is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers drawing attention to their mood-lifting favourites is a robustly made Oscar winner from 2015

Halfway through Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s understated retelling of the …

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Cloughie’s notes, Hillman Imps and Bela Lugosi: my glorious trove of old Forest programmes

Dusting off a pile of matchday gems from the City Ground spanning 50 years reveals a rich seam of cultural and sporting delights

What to do with the pile of vintage Nottingham Forest programmes that c…

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Brian Wilson was a musical genius. Are there any left?

In pop, which equates genius with innovation, recent artists have not pioneered new forms like those from the 60s. Has the digital age sidelined invention and promoted the derivative for ever?

By all …

‘I yearned to be a California Girl – but I lived in Burnley’: readers on their love for Brian Wilson

From memories of photoshoots and telephone calls with the late Beach Boy, to appraisals of his complex but pure music, Guardian readers pay tribute to a great

  • Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson…

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