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• Carey, 50 Cent, Minaj part of TV's new music partnerships

  22-03-2016 19:50
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The love affair between television and music stars is getting personal.
  
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• Quiz: What Would Your Kylie Jenner Lip Kit Name Be?

  22-03-2016 18:46
  
  Momager M? Or are you more of a Your Sister's Going To Jail K?
  
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• Kesha appeals court decision, likening recording contract to slavery

  22-03-2016 18:29
  Pop star Kesha has appealed a court decision that ties her to a recording contract with companies owned by music producer Dr. Luke, who she has accused of rape, saying the ruling was akin to slavery. The "Tik Tok" singer, 28, has been seeking to nullify her six-album recording contract with her producer Dr. Luke, his associated record labels, and Sony Music.
  
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• "I Was P**sed Off": Vicky Pattison Blasts Paparazzi Over Spencer Matthews Date Night Photos

  22-03-2016 18:08
  
  Although she admits she did have a lovely time…
  
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• Niall Horan And James Corden Lead The Support For World Water Day 2016

  22-03-2016 18:03
  
  #W4Water
  
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• Chloe Ferry Shows Off Weight Loss In Naked Pics As She Reveals She's 'Addicted' To Surgery

  22-03-2016 18:00
  
  Busy day.
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Plants A Kiss On Son Freddie In Adorable New Picture

  22-03-2016 17:07
  
  OH LORD.
  
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• Win The Chance To Meet 5 Seconds Of Summer!

  22-03-2016 16:56
  
  ...at their 'Sounds Live Feels Live' UK Arena tour...
  
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• Geordie Shore's Gaz Beadle Reveals The Moment He ALMOST Told Charlotte Crosby He Loves Her

  22-03-2016 16:42
  
  #CHAZ FOREVER!
  
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• 26 years with the King's Singers: Chicken testicles, Stravinsky on the wall and ushers with laser pens

  22-03-2016 16:32
  
  This year, David Hurley passes on the baton after 26 years as countertenor and more than 3,000 concerts with the much-loved a cappella group. Here’s what he’s learned …
  Over the years people seem to have become less freaked out by the male falsetto voice – maybe because it’s more regularly heard in music now. But after one concert in San Diego back in 1990, someone came up to me, cupped me down below, and said “Just checking”. I turned to my companions:
  
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• Lewes Psychedelic festival review – spectral sounds in fey British bohemia

  22-03-2016 16:18
  
  All Saints Centre, Lewes
  A varied lineup brings psychedelia back to its whimsical, provincial roots, with the audience fuelled by little more than real aleStarted in 2009, this festival resembles a church hall evening social rather than a psychedelic frenzy, and that is its charm. It’s a small, friendly and parochial event, bringing a varied lineup of ostensibly druggy music to a genteel audience, few of whom appear to have taken anything stronger than bitter and roll-ups.Related: Temples,
  
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• Big Sexy Noise review – Lydia Lunch devours the stage with thrilling ferocity

  22-03-2016 16:03
  
  Lexington, LondonLunch unites with Gallon Drunk’s James Johnston and Ian White for the most joyfully bawdy music of her careerIt’s hard to think of a performer who makes it clearer that you shouldn’t mess with them than Lydia Lunch. With a mouth like a sailor who just stubbed a toe, and a heart colder and blacker than onyx, Lunch walks on stage, sips from a large glass of white wine and throws up devil’s horns with ineffable nonchalance. Moments later she’s stabbing
  
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• Exclusive! Holly Hagan reveals she considered "extreme measures" to lose weight after she was trolled online

  22-03-2016 16:01
  
  The Geordie Shore lass nearly went under the knife after receiving abusive messages...
  
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• Green days: why outsider musicians are putting eco-consciousness on record

  22-03-2016 16:00
  
  Anohni and THEEsatisfaction are in the vanguard of artists using their music to challenge ecocide and resist big business on behalf of minoritiesLast month, Anohni (formerly Antony and the Johnsons) became the first transgendered artist to be nominated for an Oscar - a benchmark moment organisers felt was important enough to warrant a mention on their trivia page, but not a live appearance: “I want to be clear — I know that I wasn’t excluded from the performance directly becaus
  
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• Manic Street Preachers create Euro 2016 anthem for Wales

  22-03-2016 15:51
  
  The track, Together Stronger (C’mon Wales), will celebrate the Wales football team competing in its first major championships for 50 yearsFollowing in the fine tradition of New Order, Rod Stewart and Chas and Dave, Manic Street Preachers will prove their patriotism by releasing the official anthem for their country’s football team.Related: There’s a buzz among fans. This is the best team Wales has ever had | Kevin RatcliffeContinue reading...
  
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• You Can Now Send A Real Life Eggplant Emoji By Post

  22-03-2016 15:33
  
  As in it's just an aubergine. That you put in the post.
  
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• Gaz Beadle's Fittest Selfies Yet

  22-03-2016 15:27
  
  In honour of his birthday, obvs.
  
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• Cult heroes: Peter Bruntnell – the alt-country genius from Surrey

  22-03-2016 15:16
  
  Album after album, the Kingston upon Thames solo artist produces rich and refined song-craft, yet hardly anyone has heard of him. Could this be his time?If we lived in a just world, Peter Bruntnell would by now be in the middle of his third or fourth global arena tour, his biggest worry working out how to courier his latest armful of Grammy awards back to the UK so his butler could have them installed in the west wing of mansion by the time he got home. Instead, the Kingston upon Thames-based, D
  
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• From the archive: The Manchester Guardian reports on the first ever Bayreuth festival

  22-03-2016 14:44
  
  From the archive, 11 August 1876: The Guardian reports from the very first Bayreuth Wagner festival, presided over by the composer himself.See also: The battle for BayreuthBaireuth [sic] is no ordinary city. The present capital of the Bavarian district of Upper Franconia was once the residence of the powerful Margraves of Brandenburg, and shows at once their impress in almost every quarter. Broad handsome streets wind away between stately stone buildings, picturesque towers, and ancient gabled h
  
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• Scenes from Goethe's Faust – didn't quite hit the heights

  22-03-2016 14:38
  
  Barbican, London
  Even a top-class cast cannot hide the unevenness of Schumann’s at-times beautiful, strange choral work Though it’s been pretty well represented on disc, with Britten, Abbado and Harnoncourt among the conductors who’ve recorded it, Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust remains a rarity in the concert hall. In recent years, the other evening-long Schumann choral work Das Paradies und die Peri has been much easier to hear live, but the London Symphony
  
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• Van der Aa: Blank Out review – enigmatic but effective and fluent

  22-03-2016 14:32
  
  Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
  Michel van der Aa’s new opera, featuring video, 3D effects and passages of prerecorded music, is compellingly performed by Miah Persson and Roderick WilliamsMemory, and how it shapes our lives, is a recurrent theme of Michel van der Aa’s theatre pieces. In his latest chamber opera Blank Out, premiered as part of the Dutch National Opera’s Opera Forward festival, a woman, the soprano Miah Persson, is alone on stage, attempting to make something meaningful
  
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• Beyonce and Rihanna rivalry: Kelly Rowland says the singers 'support each other'

  22-03-2016 13:40
  
  Kelly Rowland has waded into the rumours of a feud between Beyonce and Rihanna, insisting that the pop stars are not competing with each other. Queen Bey and RiRi have been pitted against one another for years but Rowland, 35, says the media and fans are responsible for creating the false rift. Speculation has circulated for years that Beyonce, 34, and Rihanna, 28, have been at loggerheads, with Roc Nation boss Jay Z reportedly in the middle of the feud between his wife and protege.
  
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• Deaf Model Nyle DiMarco Delivers Incredible First Dancing With The Stars Performance

  22-03-2016 13:35
  
  Wow.
  
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• Adele Attempting To Twerk On Stage During A London Concert Is Basically The Greatest Thing Ever

  22-03-2016 13:35
  
  AMAZING.
  
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• Everything You Need To Know About The New iPhone SE

  22-03-2016 13:14
  
  Features, cost and more importantly, when you can get your hands on it.
  
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• Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing Reckons Vicky Pattison Will Cheat On Spencer Matthews First

  22-03-2016 13:12
  
  We're still rooting for #Spicky to live happily ever after tbh...
  
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• Can Glastonbury swing the EU referendum? Festival urges visitors to set up postal votes

  22-03-2016 13:00
  
  Glastonbury festival organiser Emily Eavis explains how to make sure your voice is heard on Europe, even if you’re in Shangri La at voting timeIt’s now exactly three months until we welcome 200,000 people back to Worthy Farm for this year’s Glastonbury festival. This is the point in the year where the office at the farm is alive at all hours with fantastic plans and a constant flow of meetings. We are very lucky to have such a special team to make it happen, coming through ever
  
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• Watch Adele as she delights fans by twerking on stage at her London concert

  22-03-2016 12:25
  
  The musician appeared surprised and she told the crowd: “I think I just twerked!”
  
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• Kylie Jenner Proves She Hasn't Had Further Lip Fillers In Snapchat Vid

  22-03-2016 11:56
  
  Oh so THIS is why she looks a little different.
  
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• 9 Times Tyler Oakley Gave The Best Advice

  22-03-2016 11:50
  When he’s right, he’s right.
  
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• Jeremy McConnell Denies Claims That He Wanted A Threesome With Geordie Shore's Scotty T & Danielle Lippe

  22-03-2016 11:46
  
  Okay then...
  
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• Kesha Compares Dr Luke Case To 'Slavery'

  22-03-2016 11:28
  
  Pop star Kesha is reportedly appealing a judge's decision that she must stay in a contract with a producer she has accused of sexually assaulting her, with her lawyer comparing it to "slavery". The singer was told by New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich last month that she is not allowed to leave her contract with Sony Music and Dr Luke . Dr Luke, real name Lukasz Gottwald, denies the accusations.
  
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• Jesy Nelson Shares Picture Of Bandaged Arm After Suffering Little Mix Tour Injury

  22-03-2016 11:27
  
  Ouch.
  
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• Kendall Jenner Denies Claims She Punched A Photographer In Paris

  22-03-2016 10:55
  
  So that's good.
  
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• David Bowie saw Lorde as 'the future of music'

  22-03-2016 10:33
  
  Bowie’s pianist Mike Garson shares his old boss’s assessment of the young singer, who performed an acclaimed tribute to the late star at the BritsDavid Bowie believed the young New Zealand singer Lorde was “the future of music”, his longtime pianist Mike Garson has said. “David really liked Lorde, and he felt like she was the future of music, and they had a few wonderful moments together,” Garson told fans during a Periscope Q&A. Continue reading...
  
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• Not pretty, not vacant: Sex Pistols' London home given listed status

  22-03-2016 10:25
  
  House where band lived in 70s is decorated with graffiti drawn by John Lydon, and has been awarded second highest form of listingPunks may have been the sworn enemies of government and all its institutions but that is not stopping the heritage body Historic England bestowing on them a rare privilege.It has announced Grade II* listing status for two 17th-century townhouses in Denmark Street, London, one of which was a base for the Sex Pistols in the mid-1970s. Continue reading...
  
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• Kesha appeals against court ruling that ties her to Dr Luke

  22-03-2016 10:15
  
  Singer’s lawyers say judge in last month’s hearing was wrong to bind her to company run by the man she accuses of rape, likening it to ‘slavery’Kesha has launched an appeal against the court ruling last month that decreed she had to stay in her recording contract with Dr Luke, whom she has accused of raping her.The singer’s lawyer Mark Geragos asserts that Justice Shirley Kornreich was in error when she ruled that Kesha should continue to record for the Kemosabe imp
  
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• Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis: the super-producers that shaped modern pop

  22-03-2016 10:00
  
  The architects of Janet Jackson’s 80s R&B sound, Jam & Lewis were the Pharrells of their day. Three decades later, their influence can still be heard in the charts“I heard a Sam Smith record, I think, which could have come straight out of Alexander O’Neal’s Hearsay album, which we made in 1987,” says James Harris III, the more talkative half of Minneapolis production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. “Before that, it was Britney Spears. You stay around lo
  
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• How we made Motown

  22-03-2016 09:00
  
  Berry Gordy: ‘I didn’t like Stevie Wonder’s singing – but I loved his harmonica-playing’I was in a group called the Matadors and Jackie Wilson was my idol. When Jackie’s managers gave us an audition, I noticed this young man sitting in the corner listening. The managers rejected us, but he said: “Hey, man, I like a couple of your songs.” Then he told me he was Berry Gordy and I couldn’t believe it – he was the man who wrote Jackie Wilso
  
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• 'People thought we were on drugs – and we were!' … Tony Conrad, the great avant-garde adventurer

  22-03-2016 08:00
  
  He inspired the Velvet Underground, thought Andy Warhol was a copycat, and met his wife while playing the mummy in erotic underground movie Normal Love. Tony Conrad talks sex, drugs and celluloid fry-ups in a power plant in BerlinSeated in the control room of a decommissioned power station in the heart of Berlin, Tony Conrad is giving me a warning about drugs. “You’re skating close to the edge with nutmeg,” says the 75-year-old waving a finger, “because one-third of the l
  
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