ART / And What's More. . .

Northern Shell is to publish Britain's first mainstream gay lifestyle magazine, a 136-page glossy - expect the first issue around February 1994 . . . Thanks, but no thanks (1): Phil Collins turned down the chance to singalong with Ol' Blue Eyes on the Duets album, preferring not to sing down a telephone to the crooner's recording studio . . . Thanks but no thanks (2): John Major declined the opportunity to appear on the final episode of Thatcher: The Downing Street Years (BBC1) - he was 'too busy' . . . Julian Clary's tour video is memorably entitled My Glittering Passage, complete with alternative version of 'Over the Rainbow' and disco dancing tips . . .