25 years after its release, John Freeman looks back at Polly Jean Harvey’s torrid and brilliant second album, Rid Of Me, a slate-cleaning ball of fury that would shock and awe in equal measure If ...

Imagine you're Vincent Gallo and your girlfriend, Polly Harvey, dedicates a track to you on her new album. It's a morose guitar and harmonium instrumental called "The End", all of 80 seconds long.

Musician and poet Polly Harvey - known as PJ Harvey - has said she feels "honoured and very grateful" to have won an award for her contribution to music in her native Dorset. The Original Music ...