Here, Olly Alexander invites us to the making of his debut album. Eighties synth-pop pioneers and “gay heroes” like Erasure, ...

Eighties synth-pop pioneers and “gay heroes” like Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Jimmy Somerville, and George Michael helped inform Polari, Olly Alexander’s self-described “crazy, electronic ...

The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in ...

Olly Alexander has been smashing it in showbiz for more than a decade. The 34-year-old's been a star on screen — like in the hit show Skins and in music, as the spirited front man of the Brit ...