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The Mail on Sunday

Beauty and the Beat

She’s sold over 30 million CDs, got a rock-star husband and likes nothing better than playing music loud on her headphones. So who better than Gwen Stefani to kick off our luxury hi-fi special?

The neoclassical interior of the London private club Home House, with its gold piped organ, gold candelabra and gilt-edged friezes, seems an appropriate place to interview pop’s golden girl. Not least because Gwen Stefani, who lives with her rocker husband Gavin Rossdale in the trendy north London enclave of Primrose Hill, says it was her love for all things British that brought her here from Los Angeles. Read the rest of this article »

No doubting Gwen’s return to musical form

Facing the critics, working with Keane, recording with No Doubt again and Britney’s meltdown… We talk exclusively with superhot singer Gwen Stefani.

No Doubt about it
I had lunch with my band yesterday and we were just talking about the weird journey we’ve been on.

I made the last record not to intentionally go solo, it wasn’t like there was any problems in the band, it was just a fun album to make.

Then it got kinda drawn out because it was more successful than I thought. Then I wanted to tour, and I got pregnant, and I couldn’t see me doing a No Doubt record.

It didn’t seem like the right time. Creatively I wasn’t inspired by it, but the moment I finished recording this last record, I was like: “I think I know I want to record with No Doubt now.” It was so obvious that’s what I wanted. Read the rest of this article »