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• From Kendall Jenner To Rihanna: 10 Celebrity Tweets That Prove 2012 Was A Simpler Time

  18-02-2018 16:41
  Back when life was simple and everyone was obsessed with Twilight.
  
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• I'm With Her: ‘We’re about camaraderie, not Hillary’

  18-02-2018 16:00
  Women are expected to take a back seat in the arch-conservative world of bluegrass music. But Aoife O’Donovan, Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz refused to be sidelined – even after Hillary Clinton ‘borrowed’ their band nameI’m With Her had been playing together for 18 months when Hillary Clinton unwittingly commandeered their band name. “It wasn’t the worst thing in the world,” says Aoife O’Donovan. “If that campaign slogan had been on the
  
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• Including Kim Kardashian And Chrissy Teigen: 8 Iconic Celebrity Friendships That Have Stood The Test Of Time

  18-02-2018 15:24
  Who is the real MVP here?
  
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• Wild Beasts review – heart-racing, poignant farewell from indie originals

  18-02-2018 14:38
  Hammersmith Apollo, London
  This glorious final gig by the fearless Cumbrians almost makes you wish bands would break up more oftenOf all the 2000s indie bands you wish would see the writing on the wall, Wild Beasts are not one of them. Last September, the Cumbrian four-piece announced that, after releasing five albums, it was “time to leave this orbit”. You’d praise their self-awareness (critics agreed their last album, 2016’s Boy King, was their least remarkable) if they
  
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• Fans Can’t Get Over How Ripped Holly Hagan's Abs Look In This Crop Top

  18-02-2018 13:47
  The former Geordie Shore lass just provided us with a serving of gym inspiration.
  
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• Cheryl And Liam Payne Are 'Considering Split' One Year After The Birth Of Son Bear

  18-02-2018 12:52
  The couple have experienced a difficult few months and are holding "crisis talks" about their relationship.
  
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• Morrissey review – aloof, obnoxious and proudly provocative

  18-02-2018 12:34
  Hydro, Glasgow
  For someone who often seems determined to alienate his fanbase, Morrissey has a knack for intuiting exactly what they wantIf all publicity really is good publicity then Morrissey’s Low in High School campaign should be judged a tremendous success. While promoting his 11th solo album he zoomed off-piste during a BBC 6 Music session to float conspiracy theories about the Ukip leadership election and engaged in a tetchy war of words with a German newspaper that published an int
  
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• Vicky Pattison Explains Why She Doesn't Keep In Touch With Her Geordie Shore Castmates

  18-02-2018 12:22
  It's been a long time since the OG gang were in contact.
  
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• Did Charlotte Crosby Reveal Her True Feelings For Josh Ritchie In This Now-Deleted Tweet?

  18-02-2018 11:38
  It looks like the former Geordie Shore lass is officially head over heels.
  
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• Will Young: ‘Our podcast is a queer Woman's Hour’

  18-02-2018 11:00
  Homo Sapiens is a frank and funny podcast hosted by Will Young and film director Chris Sweeney. Mark Smith joins them on tour in the north of EnglandWill Young hasn’t been to a sexual health clinic before so our hosts at Manchester’s LGBT Foundation, a community charity near the city’s gay village, are keen to impress upon him that sandwiches and cakes do not come as standard for its service users. “They’re posh ones from the deli – not the Greggs stuff we usu
  
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• On my radar: Tracey Thorn’s cultural highlights

  18-02-2018 11:00
  The singer and author on 70s clubland, the photography of Andreas Gursky and a musical about a Sheffield drag queenBorn in Hertfordshire in 1962, Tracey Thorn is one half of Everything But the Girl. She formed the band in Hull with her now husband, Ben Watt, and they released their debut album, Eden, in 1984; they have been on a hiatus since 1999. In 2013, she published her memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star, followed in 2015 by Naked at the Albert Hall. Her fif
  
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• Everything Is Recorded: Everything Is Recorded By Richard Russell review – mogul music with a stellar cast

  18-02-2018 10:00
  As head of XL, Richard Russell shaped UK music for three decades. His own debut release finds its voice in many singersImagine, for a moment, being the man who signed Adele. You run a label – XL – home to mavericks as diverse as Dizzee Rascal, Radiohead and Arca, and you produce records by your heroes – Gil Scott-Heron, Bobby Womack – in what one might laughably call your spare time. By many people’s definitions, you’d be about as fulfilled, three-dimensional
  
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• Wild Beasts: Last Night All My Dreams Came True review – an anticlimactic exit

  18-02-2018 09:00
  (Domino Documents)Last September, Leeds-based four-piece Wild Beasts announced their amicable split. Recorded last summer at RAK Studios in London and released the weekend of their farewell gig, this final album is the second on Domino’s live-in-the-studio Documents imprint (the first was Julia Holter’s In the Same Room). For the most part, the versions here are refinements of the originals rather than wholesale overhauls. This Is Our Lot still owes a debt to the Cure’s Lullaby
  
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• The week in classical: Iolanthe; Jerusalem Quartet – review

  18-02-2018 08:30
  Coliseum; Wigmore Hall, London
  Cal McCrystal delivers a masterclass in horsing around with his riotous production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s parliamentary satire. Plus, headlong into HaydnFor Gilbert and Sullivan, over the top is better than under. Too often we cringe as yet another joke is hammered to death and our benign tolerance for G&S shrivels with it. A magician’s skill is required to animate this librettist-composer team’s brilliance. Bring on comedy director Cal McC
  
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• Marlon Williams: Make Way for Love review – a lovely, miserable record

  18-02-2018 08:30
  (Domino)On paper, Marlon Williams is an acclaimed country singer from Lyttelton, New Zealand, releasing his second album. While an old-timey, lovelorn sway still haunts Make Way for Love, “country” has never been the entire story. Williams’s roots-leaning, self-titled debut (2015) had a baroque undercurrent – check him out, feeding Aldous Harding tinned fruit in the video for that album’s Strange Things. Now, Make Way for Love finds Williams unleashing his inner cro
  
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• Home listening: Voyager’s Golden Record; RNCM brass band festival

  18-02-2018 08:00
  Launched into space in 1977, this ‘present from a small distant world’ is a time capsule to treasure• A soundtrack of human existence: that was the ambition of the fabled Voyager Golden Record, released in 1977 (overseen by Carl Sagan), to coincide with Nasa’s Voyager space probe. The original golden vinyl disc is somewhere aboard a spaceship 13bn miles away. It’s now easier to get. For the first time, you can have your own version, as a glamorous three-LP box set (o
  
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• Fischerspoon: Sir review – not worth the nine-year wait

  18-02-2018 08:00
  (Ultra) Fischerspooner were key to the electroclash movement that briefly twinned Europe’s gay capitals and New York almost 20 years ago. The American duo have finally resurfaced with their first album in nine years, produced by REM’s Michael Stipe. In an unfortunate choice of phrase for British readers, W magazine described frontman Casey Spooner’s voyage of discovery after ending a long relationship as “bumming around Europe”. Sadly, the album doesn’t sound
  
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• Gaetano Donizetti opera lost for 200 years set for London premiere

  18-02-2018 01:04
  Eight years of detective work will culminate in July’s first performance of ‘amazing’ tragedy by great Italian composerA lost opera by one of the great Italian composers is to have its world premiere in London almost 180 years after it was written.Gaetano Donizetti was a leading figure in 19th-century Italian music, along with Giuseppe Verdi and Vincenzo Bellini. His most famous work, Lucia di Lammermoor, written in 1835, is seen as one of the great European operas. But L&rsquo
  
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