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• People can't quite believe that The Sound of Music Live! is actually live

  20-12-2015 21:23
  
  It’s the first ever live televised musical in the UK.
  
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• Cara Delevingne Sprays Paparazzi With Water Pistols & We Loved It

  20-12-2015 18:24
  
  You can always count on Cara to put the paps in their place...
  
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• We’re gloving it: the LED trend lighting up US raves

  20-12-2015 18:00
  
  The latest craze to hit the American EDM scene is sitting in front of a friend waving light-up gloves in their faceEarlier this year, a man called Brian Lim appeared on Shark Tank, the US version of Dragons’ Den. He arrived wearing a giant cartoon headpiece with oversized headphones, like the Homepride man arriving at Fabric. The lights dim, and Lim and three other guys are revealed to be wearing gloves with light-up fingers. They wiggle their hands and the LED colours change. A few minute
  
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• Kurt Masur obituary

  20-12-2015 17:46
  
  Conductor who rose from the closed musical scene of East Germany to become an international figureThere was a time when the German term kapellmeister (literally, the music director of a chapel, and so a total all-rounder) stood for the conducting virtues of good preparation and solid hard work. Then it took on pejorative overtones: to be kapellmeisterish was to show a lack of imagination and fire.In today’s musical climate the notion has become virtually obsolete: the chief conductors of t
  
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• Are Taylor Swift And Calvin Harris Planning To Get Married?

  20-12-2015 17:37
  
  New Year wedding bells, anyone?
  
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• Are Liam Payne And Ex-Girlfriend Sophia Smith Back Together?

  20-12-2015 16:05
  
  We're crossing our fingers and our toes, if Instagam's anything to go by...
  
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• André Rieu: 'I spent £34m on fountains, ice rinks and gold carriages'

  20-12-2015 16:00
  
  He has outsold Beyoncé and played to bigger crowds than Take That. He also lives in D’Artagnan’s castle and has his very own orchestra. An audience with André Rieu, the violin superstar nicknamed King of the WaltzWhatever your opinion of the Dutch superstar violinist André Rieu, there’s no denying that he knows how to make an entrance. As the lights go down on a packed arena in Dublin, Rieu appears, waving and smiling, from the back of the auditorium and le
  
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• Zayn Malik Posts First Selfie Of Him & Gigi Hadid & The Internet Almost Breaks

  20-12-2015 15:23
  
  You have to admit, they're a rather cute couple...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby Reveals Cheeky Under Boob In Sunday Morning Selfie

  20-12-2015 13:28
  
  She probably didn't even realise, honest...
  
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• Adele: If I'd carried on smoking, I'd probably have died

  20-12-2015 13:07
  
  Celebrities are sometimes the best promoters of good habits as well as bad. Singer Adele has now spoken about her experience with smoking cigarettes and why she quit.
  
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• Vicky Pattison Says She Wouldn't Have Won I'm A Celeb If She'd Not Lost Weight

  20-12-2015 12:42
  
  Queen V's being way too hard on herself...
  
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• Sir Elton John feeds passion for music with radio DJ slot

  20-12-2015 11:54
  Sir Elton John says his passion for music is as strong as ever, having turned his attention to the DJ world.
  
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• Kurt Masur, music director emeritus of the New York Philharmonic orchestra, dies at 88

  20-12-2015 11:08
  
  German conductor Kurt Masur, who was the former music director of the New York Philharmonic orchestra, died on 19 December at the age of 88. Paying tribute to the conductor, the New York Philharmonic praised Masur's "profound belief in music".
  
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• Hidden gems of 2015: great records you may have missed

  20-12-2015 10:00
  
  From the thrill of Brittany Howard’s alter ego to joy on the Wirral, modern rockabilly and Nico Muhly’s homage to Philip Glass, our critics pick some of this year’s under-the-radar releases that didn’t get the acclaim they deserved(Blackfootwhitefoot) Continue reading...
  
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• Find The Xmas Stocking In MTV TRAX To Win BRITs Tickets!

  20-12-2015 09:48
  
  How can you get your hands on them? Find out here...
  
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• London contemporary music festival; Shostakovich day – review

  20-12-2015 09:30
  
  Ambika P3; Milton Court, London
  The bunker-bound London contemporary music festival conjured up its wildest programming yet. And the Barbican’s Shostakovich day was beautifully doneThe choice of venue was obvious. Where else to combine Martians and dystopian fembots, a 92-year-old Ethiopian nun, Egyptian electro-chaabi music, sound poetry and the UK premiere of an opera by Ezra Pound, to list only the more ear-catching of the jubilant extravaganza of events that is London contemporary musi
  
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• Florence Welch: ‘It was intense. And really cathartic. I’d been living with these new songs for a long time’

  20-12-2015 09:30
  
  From a broken foot in January the only way was up, and Florence soared with a hit new album, No 1 in America, headlining Glastonbury…• See the Observer’s faces of 2015 in full here
  • Marlon James: ‘I’ve been threatening to write a Viking novel for almost 10 years’What would turn out to be a noisy and hectic 2015 for Florence Welch – hit album, hit festival slot – began in muted, meditative fashion. She was in the Nevada desert on 31 Decem
  
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• FBI snooped on singer Pete Seeger for 20 years

  20-12-2015 01:05
  
  Bureau amassed huge file from 1943 on writer of classic songs – and even sent an agent to his schoolThe campaigning singer Pete Seeger, composer of classic American folk tunes including If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, was spied on by FBI agents for more than two decades because he wrote a protest letter as a young man concerned about plans to deport tens of thousands of Japanese American citizens at the end of the second world war.A vast file on Seeger was released
  
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• Elvis Presley 'didn't feel he was taken seriously' for his music, says ex-wife Priscilla

  20-12-2015 01:02
  
  Elvis Presley’s ex-wife says he was a frustrated artist – and a new re-working of his music with an orchestra is something he would have loved.
  
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