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• After New Year's Eve debacle, Mariah Carey wishes for 'more headlines'

  01-01-2017 19:34
  (Editor's note: This story contains an obscenity in paragraph 2) By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning singer Mariah Carey shrugged off a botched New Year's Eve show in New York's Times Square, telling fans and critics on Sunday that life does not always go as planned. "Shit happens," Carey, the world's million-selling female singer, wrote on Twitter. "Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here's to making more headlines in 2017." Carey, named the Grammy's Best New Art
  
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• Mariah Carey shrugs off New Year's Eve performance trouble in message to fans

  01-01-2017 17:45
  
  ‘Shit happens,’ says singer after making the wrong kind of headlines thanks to technical difficulties at her headline show in New York City's Times SquareAfter experiencing difficulties with her New Year performance in Times Square in New York City that included stopping singing midway through a song, Mariah Carey used Twitter to say: “Shit happens.” Related: Mariah Carey wants $50m from her ex – and it only makes me love her moreContinue reading...
  
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• Sound of speed: athletes and amateurs on the art of the running playlist

  01-01-2017 17:00
  
  What music does an Olympian play to get into the medal-winning zone? Should joggers pump up the tempo – or opt for laidback 70s soul? And why do trainers avoid sad songs about break-ups? Find out in our guide to the perfect musical workoutMore uplifting culture for 2017Music critic Alexis Petridis on how to find the right jogging tunes Continue reading...
  
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• Allan Williams obituary

  01-01-2017 14:50
  
  Liverpool entrepreneur known as ‘the man who gave the Beatles away’In 1960, the Liverpool entrepreneur Allan Williams arranged for a fledgling group, the Beatles, to undertake a residency at a club in the red light district of Hamburg. It transformed the way they played and set them on a course that was to change popular music. Williams, who has died aged 86, later fell out with the band, leaving the field clear for the record store manager Brian Epstein to become their manager.Willi
  
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• Ed Sheeran announces release of new material

  01-01-2017 14:46
  
  Thinking Out Loud singer declares his break from music over with a video announcement posted on TwitterEd Sheeran has announced the end of his break from music, with new material due to be released on Friday.The singer-songwriter, 25, posted a video on Twitter in which he waves to fans while smiling and holding up a piece of white A4 paper with the words “New music coming Friday!!” scrawled on it. He then puts the sheet of paper in his mouth and drops it. Continue reading...
  
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• Ed Sheeran has big news: New music lands on Friday

  01-01-2017 14:16
  His impending return has made a lot of people feel better about 2017.
  
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• Ed Sheeran Is Releasing Brand New Music On Friday

  01-01-2017 14:13
  
  The Sing singer has shocked, stunned and excited fans by announcing the imminent release of brand new music
  
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• Ed Sheehan Is Releasing Brand New Music On Friday

  01-01-2017 14:13
  
  The Sing singer has shocked, stunned and excited fans by announcing the imminent release of brand new music
  
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• Mariah Carey Brushes Off Disastrous New Years Eve Performance Shambles

  01-01-2017 14:09
  
  The We Belong Together singer suffered technical problems during her NYE performance in NYC
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Reveals That She Has Never Been Kissed On New Year

  01-01-2017 14:04
  
  The Oscar winning star has lost out on traditional smooches year after year
  
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• Scarlett Moffatt Recalls Her Body Confidence Low Points And How She Turned Her Life Around

  01-01-2017 14:00
  
  The 2016 winner of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here says she is the happiest she has ever been now
  
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• Kylie Jenner Ends 2016 (And The Year Of Realising) With A Bathroom Selfie

  01-01-2017 13:56
  
  The 19-year-old Keeping up with the Kardashians star has had quite the year!
  
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• Looks Like Adele Didn't Get Married After All

  01-01-2017 13:51
  
  Speculation has been rife that Adele and Simon Konecki tied the knot in LA over Christmas but apparently their big day is yet to come
  
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• Cheryl Wishes Everyone A Happy 2017 Following Hoax Twitter Pregnancy Confirmation

  01-01-2017 13:48
  
  The singer was all over social media as the world celebrated entering 2017
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Shares Her Saucy New Years Kiss With The World

  01-01-2017 13:44
  
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star puckered up with boyfriend Tristan Thompson
  
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• Rising stars of 2017: singer Kloe

  01-01-2017 10:00
  
  She didn’t make the BBC Sound of 2017 list, but Glasgow’s sassy dark-pop practitioner is already a star in her own head
  • Click here to see the Observer’s rising stars of 2017 in fullSequestered away in a north London cafe among a maze of recording studios, 20-year-old Chloe Latimer, AKA Glasgow-born, dark-pop practitioner Kloe, is struggling to focus. A very serious-looking man with a laptop a couple of tables down keeps eye-rolling in her direction and it’s throwin
  
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• Rebel Kind: Just for Fools review – endearingly shambolic songcraft

  01-01-2017 10:00
  
  (Urinal Cake)The DIY underground tends to motor along self-sufficiently, reconfiguring the buzzsaw jangle of umpteen indie bands past. Every so often, though, a record triangulates the strands of punky indie, female-fronted pop and 60s songcraft so well you can’t help but lay down in front of it. From Michigan come Rebel Kind, a firm grasp on songcraft hidden under a shambolic veneer. Singing guitarist Autumn Wetli’s third album is a full band effort, full of harmonies, gnarly guitar
  
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• Brian Eno: Reflection review – soothing, but sobering

  01-01-2017 10:00
  
  (Warp)
  The ambient overlord returns with a magnificently peaceful album – which is also released in an edition that endlessly rewrites itself“All is quiet on New Year’s Day,” U2 once sang. That was in 1983, before they became clients of Brian Eno – and, arguably, the last time anyone had any peace on the first day of the year. New Year’s Eve raves routinely spill over into the next evening. The ceaseless chirrup of social media precludes silence.Into this clam
  
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• Yung Lean: Frost God review – no hidden depths

  01-01-2017 09:00
  
  (YEAR0001)Since their emergence in 2014, Swedish rapper/producer Yung Lean and his Sad Boys collective have used the pose of vague, bored depression as their brand aesthetic. In 2015, real tragedy struck: drug addiction, the death of Yung Lean’s manager in a car accident, a spell in a psychiatric hospital. There are no increased depths to his music, though: new mixtape Frost God retreads chilly synths and affectless monotone in torpid, ever-decreasing circles without even the sparks of ene
  
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• Slim Gaillard: Searching for You review – McVouty rarities collected

  01-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Sunset Blvd)Something suitably cheerful and timelessly weird to see the new year in. All true jazz lovers know about Slim, the laid-back jester of the swing and bebop eras. He could play many instruments, including piano (with his knuckles) and guitar, and sang incomprehensible songs in a private language, called Vout-O-Reenee. His playing was ramshackle, but somehow never wrong, and his charm invincible. This collection of very rare singles from his later years, while not up to his records wit
  
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• Louise Bichan: Out of My Own Light review – wistful and heartfelt

  01-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Swanbister)Folk often pays homage to the ancestors, but in the case of this young Orkney fiddler the tribute is directed to her late grandmother, Margaret Tait. Bichan discovered that her grandmother, prior to her marriage, had undertaken a trip to Canada, where, like many Orcadians, she had relatives. Far from home, she would decide which of two suitors to marry. Bichan retraced her grandmother’s journey and captures its emotional arc on an elegant album of chamber folk, with her fiddle
  
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• Little Simz: Stillness in Wonderland review – variety, agility and candour

  01-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Age 101)Following a lauded debut release and praise from Kendrick Lamar and Jay Z, 22-year-old rapper Little Simz is joined on her second album by grime MCs Chip and Ghetts, the Internet’s vocalist Syd and fellow Space Age Collective members. London-born Simz speaks candidly about love, growing up and intuition as she journeys down the rabbit hole of self-discovery. The album’s mix of soul, R&B, grime and trippy, jazz-tinged interludes is at times a little muddled, but Simz&rsqu
  
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• Kid Cudi: Passion, Pain and Demon Slayin’ review – feels like a group hug

  01-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Universal/Island)Since his breakout single, Day ’n’ Nite, reached No 2 in the UK eight years ago, Scott Mescudi’s career under the rapping name Kid Cudi has been characterised by sharp stylistic swerves into rock and open struggles with depression and drugs. His frailties have added to his personal standing if not chart success, and after a stint in rehab this autumn, Mescudi’s sixth album has a roll call of collaborators that feels like a group hug. Pharrell Williams an
  
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• Mozart 225 review – all of Amadeus in one big box

  01-01-2017 07:59
  
  Various artists(Decca/DG)In the 226th year since the death of Mozart in 1791, his appeal to a wide audience is greater than ever: this astounding box set containing 200 CDs of every conceivable thing he wrote (and many bits he didn’t finish) has, if you count sales of all the CDs separately, raced to the top of the charts.It has its origins in a 45-volume CD set Philips compiled to mark the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death in 1991. That was a rather one-sided depiction of his geni
  
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