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• Charles Bradley obituary

  24-09-2017 18:48
  American soul singer and songwriter who found fame late in lifeFame came late to the soul singer Charles Bradley, who has died of cancer aged 68. He did not record his first single until 2002, and made his debut album only in 2011. Nonetheless he seized his opportunity, and in the last years of his life was able to build a devoted audience while basking in belated critical acclaim.“If I’d gotten that break when I was 25, the world wouldn’t have known what to do with me,”
  
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• John Jack obituary

  24-09-2017 17:28
  Tireless producer, promoter and enabler of British jazzJazz is often a noisy music, but some of the most quietly diffident people make it happen. John Jack, who has died aged 84, was one of British jazz’s most influential backroom visionaries. A fascinating source of oral jazz history, as well as a producer, promoter and enabler, John was appositely dubbed “the Zelig of British music” by his friend Mike Gavin for the nous that seemed unerringly to put him in the right place at
  
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• What Did Munroe Bergdorf Mean When She Called 'All' White People Racist?

  24-09-2017 16:31
  We sat down with the model fired by L'Oreal after her reaction to Charlottesville was taken out of context.
  
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• Oedipe review – Jurowski makes case for Enescu's 'lost masterpiece'

  24-09-2017 16:15
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  The anti-Freudian Oedipus opera may not flawless, but this performance with the LPO was a superb and beautiful achievementThe London Philharmonic opened its new season with a concert performance of Oedipe, George Enescu’s only opera, first heard in Paris in 1936. It was greeted with near incomprehension in its composer’s lifetime, and it is only in the past two decades that its qualities and stature have been acknowledged. When the Royal Opera staged it la
  
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• Justin Bieber Is Helping End Racism

  24-09-2017 14:53
  The Biebs is using his voice to preach equality to his 91 million Instagram followers
  
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• Little Mix Perform As A Three After Perrie Edwards Is 'Rushed To Hospital' Ahead Of iHeartRadio Gig

  24-09-2017 14:39
  The Shout Out To My ex was too sick to perform in Las Vegas on Saturday
  
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• Is Love Island's Olivia Attwood Going To Do I'm A Celeb After 'Split' From Chris?

  24-09-2017 14:24
  The reality star might very well be heading for the Australian jungle
  
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• Liam Payne Addresses Ten Year Age Gap As He Gushes About Love With Cheryl

  24-09-2017 14:10
  The pop star was just a child when he first met the mother of his child
  
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• Little Mix Star Leigh-Anne Pinnock Forced To Deny She Is Getting Married

  24-09-2017 13:03
  The chart topping star is still Miss Pinnock... for now
  
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• Kris Jenner Is Keeping Pretty Coy About Those Kylie Jenner Pregnancy Reports

  24-09-2017 12:47
  The momager isn't giving much away
  
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• Scarlett Moffatt Just Had Her Time-Travel Theory Endorsed By Professor Stephen Hawking

  24-09-2017 12:34
  Should we start calling her Professor Scarlett Moffatt?
  
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• Stevie Wonder takes to his knees at the Global Citizen festival – video

  24-09-2017 12:30
  Stevie Wonder joins the #takeaknee protest before performing at the 2017 Global Citizen festival at Central Park in New York. He was helped by his son, Kwame Morris. The singer was showing his solidarity with the sports stars who were criticised by Donald Trump for kneeling on the field during the national anthemWatch the entire clip hereStevie Wonder joins #takeaknee protest against Trump's attack on NFL players Continue reading...
  
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• Vicky Pattison Thought She Had Been Kidnapped And Feared For Her Life On New TV Series

  24-09-2017 12:10
  Vicky thought she was going to be run over
  
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• LCD Soundsystem review – dream band back from the dead

  24-09-2017 10:00
  Glasgow Barrowlands
  Six years after their ‘farewell’ show, James Murphy’s dance-punk magpies have returned, bigger and bolder than everBefore a snare is hit, before LCD Soundsystem supremo James Murphy starts gesticulating at the monitor sound desk, there is a charge in the air. It telegraphs the delight that, to paraphrase one of LCD Soundsystem’s album titles, this is actually happening.A gig that should not have been, this second night in Glasgow promotes a fourth LCD
  
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• The Killers: Wonderful Wonderful review – glossy and striking

  24-09-2017 09:00
  (Virgin EMI)Reintroducing a little electronic hauteur to the airpunch anthemics of 2012’s Battle Born, the Killers’ fifth album opens impressively with the reptilian title track, reminiscent of Achtung Baby-era U2, and the glossy, ironic funk of The Man. Misgivings hover, though, around frontman Brandon Flowers overcoming writer’s block by drawing on his initially reluctant wife’s abusive childhood and PTSD (and enlisting their three young sons to sing “Can’t
  
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• Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock: Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love review – forlorn, dreamy folk

  24-09-2017 09:00
  (One Little Indian)A member of Yorkshire’s Waterson/Carthy folk dynasty, Marry sings in a style reminiscent of her late mother, Lal, and her aunt Norma; strong but plaintive, with a tendency to wistfulness that comes through on this set of originals around the theme of loss. David A Jaycock’s intricate acoustic guitar provides a sweet foil, creating a dreamy atmosphere on New Love Song and a title track about a maiden’s death. Producer Adrian Utley (of Portishead) is content to
  
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• Hiss Golden Messenger: Hallelujah Anyhow review – rapturous country-soul

  24-09-2017 09:00
  (Merge)The second album in 12 months by MC Taylor’s Hiss Golden Messenger is shot through with both darkness and light. From the heady opener Jenny of the Roses (“I’ve never been afraid of the darkness”) to the closing When the Wall Comes Down, there are several allusions to the dark, while Taylor’s mystical brand of country-soul has a rapturous quality rarely found in rock. It’s there in Jaw, one of the gentler tracks, all fidgety rhythms and Taylor’s h
  
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• Fergie: Double Dutchess review – gloriously confident

  24-09-2017 09:00
  (BMG)The Californian singer’s second album finds her teeming with ambition: opener Hungry is all sassy delivery and theatrical production that prove Fergie an unstoppable force of hip-hop-infused pop. It’s a strong start, though what follows is surreal – be it alluding to Pharoahe Monch (encouraging ladies to “rub your boobies”) or the jarring juxtaposition of hyperactive single MILF$ leading into a power ballad. But with sumptuous, old-school beats, plus guest spot
  
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• Tricky: Ununiform review – stark and slinky

  24-09-2017 08:15
  (False Idols/!K7)Strange things are afoot on Tricky’s 13th LP: its quality, for one. The trip-hop maverick’s former foil, Martina Topley-Bird, guests for the first time in 14 years; a sombre treat. Elsewhere, Russian rappers jostle against a perplexing cover version of Hole’s Doll Parts. The former are excellent, with the lairy Scriptonite juxtaposed against Tricky’s malevolent drawl on Same As It Ever Was (a Talking Heads reference, surely). The latter? If only Tricky ha
  
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• Stevie Wonder joins #takeaknee protest against Trump's attack on NFL players

  24-09-2017 04:05
  Singers shows solidarity with sports stars after the president said players who have knelt on the field to protest police brutality were ‘sons of bitches’Stevie Wonder has shown his solidarity with sports stars who were criticised by US president Donald Trump for kneeling on the field during the national anthem.Trump prompted outrage among NFL and NBA players when he said on Friday that players who have knelt, sat or raised fists to protest police brutality against black people, were
  
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