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Willie Nelson celebrated his 90th birthday last weekend with some of his talented friends and admirers — from Keith Richards to Billy Strings — at the Hollywood Bowl in L.A. Just a few days later, the iconic singer-songwriter also added to his accolades by becoming a newly elected member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. From covering rock and pop classics to collaborating with non-country acts both live and on record, here are 10 of the mercurial master’s best rock-influenced performances.

“All Things Must Pass” (with Lukas Nelson)

Ex-Beatle George Harrison...

Alex Westthorp Oct 3, 2016

It's 40 years since Multi-Coloured Swap Shop made its television debut and kick-started the Saturday morning kids' TV slot...

Imagine the excitement - it's just before 9.30am on Saturday 2nd October 1976. It's almost like Christmas has come early, such is the anticipation. The nation's kids, who hitherto got their kicks at the Saturday morning pictures, settle in front of their television screens and press the button marked 'BBC1'. Those who read their parents' Radio Times know a new show is about to start with Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ Noel Edmonds at the helm. 28 year old Noel is cool and down with the kids. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen - the Doctor and Sarah Jane from Doctor Who - are to be the first star guests, and you can actually speak to them live by telephone! The TV set warms up and the familiar blue and yellow BBC...

Whatever happened to the children's TV presenters of our youth? Where did they go when the Broom Cupboard was shut down and when Edd the Duck went back to his pond? Digital Spy has hunted down 9 classic faces of '90s children's television on Twitter to answer those questions.

1. Dave Benson Phillips @DaveBensonPhill

Famous For: Playdays, Get Your Own Back, Wake Up in the Wild Room

Sample Tweet:

So, it begins... pic.twitter.com/bxWkD2tSsI

— Dave Benson Phillips (@DaveBensonPhill) November 18, 2013

And lots of chat about his appearance in Cinderella at the Palace Theatre, Mansfield.

2. Andy Crane @andycrane64

Famous For: Cbbc's Broom Cupboard (1987-1990), Motormouth, Bad Influence! and What's Up Doc?

Sample Tweet:

Heard of the Golden Flannel awards? They celebrate dreadful management speak - examples to use on the radio today would be very welcome!

— Andy Crane (@andycrane64) January 6, 2014

He's now a radio presenter for the BBC. And only occasionally veers into Partridge-isms.

With its unforgiving landscapes and raw emotion, Wuthering Heights is a perfect match for director Andrea Arnold. Just don't call her work bleak

Andrea Arnold was recently asked to mount a retrospective of her work for a film festival, a rather unusual request for a director who has made only three features: Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009) and her savage new version of Wuthering Heights. Her immediate response was one of concern. "I thought, 'That poor audience, watching those films together.' I almost felt like I shouldn't do it. Or that I should say, 'Don't watch them back-to-back. Leave a week in between.'"

Still, she doesn't have much time for critics who label her work bleak. "I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's." The 50-year-old, Dartford-born film-maker is huddled inside a navy-blue duffel coat as she sips tea in the library of a London hotel.

When some people reflect on the Cbbc Broom Cupboard, they think of Andi Peters. Others might recall the glory years of Schofield and Gordon the Gopher. A rare handful may even pick the long-forgotten cheeky scamp Simon Parkin. However, a name who is all too often left off the Broom Cupboard history books is Andy Crane. Usually found larking around during the breaks between Willy Fog and Byker Grove with Edd the Duck and Wilson the Butler, Crane was an unpretentious game-for-a-laugh born entertainer.

Crane and the 'Motormouth' gang After he eventually left the Broom Cupboard, he ventured to the pastures of ITV, where he struck gold with the likes of super cool gaming series Bad Influence and Saturday morning Going Live! rivals Motormouth and What's Up Doc?. In recent years, he has retreated to his first love - radio and (more)...

Long before she became an Oscar-winning filmmaker, Dartford native Andrea Arnold settled on a path that was anything but conventional. After moving to London in the late ’70s, she worked as a dancer on Top of the Pops, and later became a TV presenter in Britain for Saturday-morning kids’ programs like No. 73, Motormouth, and the enviro-awareness series A Beetle Called Derek. Never entirely comfortable in front of the cameras, Arnold was always writing, logging story ideas and character sketches. She left television in the early ’90s, went to film school, and made two shorts that screened at Cannes. In 2003, her 26-minute short Wasp, about a chronically stressed, emotionally desperate single mother living in a Dartford housing project,...

Long before she became an Oscar-winning filmmaker, Dartford native Andrea Arnold settled on a path that was anything but conventional. After moving to London in the late ’70s, she worked as a dancer on Top of the Pops, and later became a TV presenter in Britain for Saturday-morning kids’ programs like No. 73, Motormouth, and the enviro-awareness series A Beetle Called Derek. Never entirely comfortable in front of the cameras, Arnold was always writing, logging story ideas and character sketches. She left television in the early ’90s, went to film school, and made two shorts that screened at Cannes. In 2003, her 26-minute short Wasp, about a chronically stressed, emotionally desperate single mother living in a Dartford housing project,...

She may have been bumped off the Children In Need job in place of Fearne 'Isn't everything a-ma-zing' Cotton and she may not be as regular a figure on our screens as she was during her '90s heyday, but here at Digital Spy we've still got plenty of time for Gaby Roslin. She cut her teeth on cutting edge ITV kids show Motormouth (alongside Neil Buchanan and Andy Crane), before coming into her own on The Big Breakfast. Managing to add glamour without resorting to coarseness and cleavage fashions, she cut a distinguished figure opposite the madcap and 'wacky' Chris Evans. Once Evans left her in the lurch, Roslin was forced (more)...