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• Lionel Ritchie makes legend spot his own at Glastonbury

  28-06-2015 21:08
  By Paul Sandle GLASTONBURY, England (Reuters) - Lionel Ritchie led a 100,000-strong karaoke session on Sunday as Glastonbury festival-goers sang along to a string of hits including "Easy Like Sunday Morning" and "Dancing on the Ceiling". The former Commodores singer deployed his charisma to full effect in the Sunday afternoon slot filled by Dolly Parton a year ago, affecting mock horror at the enthusiastic participation of the audience and saying the enormous crowd was "
  
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• Tinie Tempah Tops UK Singles Chart With Not Letting Go

  28-06-2015 20:46
  
  As Florence + The Machine return to top of albums chart...
  
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• Dalai Lama joins Patti Smith on Glastonbury festival stage

  28-06-2015 18:04
  
  LONDON (AP) — One of the most talked-about appearances at Britain's Glastonbury music festival wasn't a singer or rocker — it was the Dalai Lama.
  
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• Paris Hilton Terrified By Plane Crash Prank

  28-06-2015 17:32
  
  Socialite screams during simulated emergency...
  
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• Janet Jackson, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown set for BET Awards

  28-06-2015 17:06
  
  Janet Jackson will make one of her first public performances in some time Sunday at the BET Awards, weeks after the singer caused Internet frenzies with several announcements about her comeback to music.
  
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• WWE Video: Watch The Rock Make Unscheduled Cameo At Live Event!

  28-06-2015 16:18
  
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• MTV Review: BST Hyde Park Proves Why Taylor Swift Is Just The Best Pop Star

  28-06-2015 15:49
  
  Is that an over-exaggeration? We don’t even care.
  
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• Nick Grimshaw: Why I'm Not Doing TFI Friday

  28-06-2015 12:26
  
  Grimmy spills the beans on his big career decision...
  
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• One Direction's Louis Tomlinson Linked To 'Kinky' Model

  28-06-2015 12:01
  
  Fans whip themselves into a frenzy after star spotted holding hands with woman...
  
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• Comic Lee Nelson In Kanye West Stage Invasion At Glastonbury

  28-06-2015 10:42
  
  Rapper gets a taste of his own medicine during headline slot...
  
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• Taylor Swift Recruits Kendall Jenner And Cara Delevingne For London Show

  28-06-2015 10:04
  
  Pop star surrounded by supermodels on stage at her Hyde Park gig...
  
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• The mixtape: Dried Spider, Kenzie Fromwelly and Knovell Capote

  28-06-2015 04:35
  
  Gutsy, lyrical rap from Brisbane MC Kenzie Fromwelly, neo-soul artist Dried Spider on electric encounters and Jack Grace’s unorthodox popIn Sunny, Brisbane-based, Wellington-born MC Kenzie Fromwelly takes a page from early 90s hip-hop, where lyrical flow and jazzy piano samples play over a lightly tapping drum part. There’s plenty of political bite and gutsy, honest feeling to her lyrics, including: “The world went and snatched you / nothing to go back to / didn’t your mama teach you the
  
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• Of Every Dollar Spent on Music, Just 3% Goes to Streaming…

  28-06-2015 03:40
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: Saturday night liveblog – Kanye West headlines the Pyramid Stage

  28-06-2015 02:25
  
  Big hits, long pauses and a stage invasion – but will it go down as a festival classic?Thursday at Glastonbury – as it happenedWednesday at Glastonbury – as it happenedFriday daytime at Glastonbury – as it happened
  Friday night at Glastonbury – as it happenedSaturday daytime at Glastonbury – as it happened 1.25am BST And that’s my lot for tonight. See you tomorrow for The Who and Weller. The daytime liveblog will be back on in the morning. 1.11am BST Here’s what Mr Petridis had t
  
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• Kanye West at Glastonbury 2015 review – out on his own

  28-06-2015 02:23
  
  Pyramid stage
  The hip-hop giant proclaims himself the greatest living rock star, and his set has a potent ferocity – but there are gaps and stutters, and he cuts a strangely lone figure in front of the vast crowd
  A weird sense of trepidation surrounds Kanye West’s headlining set. On Friday afternoon, when the lead singer of Catfish and the Bottlemen tells the audience at the Other stage he hopes they enjoy Kanye, the sentiment is greeted with boos. Among his fans, there’s a feeling that no
  
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• George Clinton's Mothership/Todd Terje at Glastonbury 2015 review – out of this world

  28-06-2015 02:04
  
  West Holts stage
  The Norwegian cosmic disco producer prepares the landing site for the Funkadelic singer’s Mothership – and then the party really gets going
  To mount Kanye a worthy challenge, West Holts summons cosmic aid. Its landing site prepared by a rousing set of android Bond tunes and tropical carnival house from Norwegian DJ Todd Terje and his troupe of huge-haired dancers, George Clinton’s Mothership descends, carrying Dr Funkenstein himself alongside his various agents of supergro
  
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• Kanye West Glastonbury headline show disrupted by comedian's stage invasion

  28-06-2015 01:39
  
  The comedian turned prankster Lee Nelson ran on to the Pyramid stage, dancing with the bemused rapper before being wrestled off by a security guardKanye West’s hotly anticipated headline slot at Glastonbury festival was briefly interrupted when a comedian invaded the stage. Lee Nelson, the comedian turned prankster, ran on to the Pyramid stage during the American rapper’s fourth song before being quickly wrestled off by a security guard.Continue reading...
  
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• Glastonbury round-up: Kanye West divides the field, and his set lacks the dazzle to reunite it

  28-06-2015 01:17
  
  Even the hip-hop star’s fans might have been disappointed by his performance. Meanwhile, Mary J Blige weeps and Mark Ronson brings all his funky friendsA divisive headliner is rapidly becoming a Glastonbury tradition and Kanye West outdoes even Metallica last year when it comes to inspiring extreme reactions. During Welsh rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen’s Friday afternoon set, frontman Van McCann asks, sincerely, if people are looking forward to the rapper’s performance and the boos dr
  
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• The many ages of Glastonbury – it’s not just for young people keen to get hammered

  28-06-2015 01:04
  
  From first-timers in their 60s to kids learning carpentry, there’s something for everyone – even a WI cake stall When the first hippies came through the Glastonbury gates in 1970, the ladies of the Women’s Institute were busy campaigning to ban smoking in public places. This year, the members of this august institution were limbering up to watch six half-naked Australian hunks writhe around on stage at the burlesque cabaret. Continue reading...
  
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• Glastonbury: Instagram beer for 1D and trolls for the Dalai Lama

  28-06-2015 01:03
  
  Worthy Farm’s temporary residents are tweeting furiously – probably because they hate music, sunshine and funIs anyone reading this? I only ask because it seems as if every left-liberal with an iPhone and an interest in composting toilets is at Glastonbury this weekend, and that group probably has a healthy crossover with “readers of the Observer”.How do I know that so many middle-class people have headed west to stand in a muddy field and torture themselves over whether not liking Young
  
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