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Mike Ragogna: From Foreigner to Songwriters Hall of Fame: A Conversation with Mick Jones

Mike Ragogna : So how do you feel about being inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, Mick? Mick Jones : Well, I was pretty taken aback when I first heard the news. It was my first induction into a hall of fame, so I guess the first one is always good.

Top of the crops: Michael Bolton on critics, crooning and why the mullet had to go

I meet Michael Bolton – 'Grammy-award winner' and 'humanitarian', but never 'crooner' or 'soft-rock balladeer' according to the instructions to TV producers that somehow got caught up in my own press bumpf – at a London hotel and the first thing that strikes me is how small he is. Not tiny. He couldn't sit under a mushroom, for example, or crawl in through your cat-flap. But I had expected him ...

Dylan's influence reaches far and wide

Singer-songwriter Chris Smither was once called "an American original" by the Associated Press. But Smither makes no bones about it. He writes songs because of Bob Dylan.