Scott Beauchamp, TAC contributor: The strength of the autodidact is the same as any outsider, only amplified by passion: critical perspective. What the self-educated man lacks in polish, convention, ...

My connection to Mark E Smith will be forever framed by the infamous NME “summit meeting” interview that took place in the otherwise empty Montague Arms in south-east London in January 1989. There, my ...

Sean Connery's memoir is surprising, not least because the actor emerges from its thoughtful pages as self-taught: how inspiring I had the misfortune to appear at the Edinburgh Festival of Books ...

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Sir, Dan Fox (“Pretentious — and proud”, Life & Arts, February 6) quotes Billy Bragg’s inaccurate but widely repeated assertions that David Bowie grew up on a council estate and went to art college.