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• Amy Winehouse demo recorded at 17 to attract labels is released online

  26-02-2018 23:39
  Singer’s demos mostly destroyed after her death in 2011, but Gil Cang had copy of My Own WayAn Amy Winehouse demo recorded when the singer was just 17 has been released by a London producer. Winehouse’s unfinished demos were destroyed by her label after her death in 2011 to prevent the creation of posthumous albums, but Gil Cang, a composer and musician from Camden, has uploaded a recording of the singer as a teenager to YouTube.Continue reading...
  
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• It Looks Like Kanye West Got Caught Weeing In The Street As Kim Kardashian Tries To Laugh It Off

  26-02-2018 19:00
  But all is not what it seems.
  
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• Dua Lipa Makes A Push For No.1 Album Following BRIT Awards

  26-02-2018 19:00
  Can she budge The Greatest Showman soundtrack off its perch?
  
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• 22 Mother's Day Gifts That Don't Suck

  26-02-2018 18:38
  Mother's Day is JUST AROUND THE CORNER SO DON'T FORGET OKAY?
  
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• 10cc: how we made I'm Not in Love

  26-02-2018 18:32
  ‘The drummer said it was crap and we were just about to scrap the whole thing. Then I heard the studio’s secretary singing it – and the window-cleaner whistling it’
  I met this gorgeous girl called Gloria at Halifax town hall. I was 18. She was 16. Three years later, we got married. A few years after that, Gloria told me: “You don’t say ‘I love you’ much any more.” I told her that, if I said it all the time, it would sound glib. But I started
  
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• 'The world is infested with evil!' When Kathy Acker met the Spice Girls

  26-02-2018 18:06
  A new BBC podcast asks: ‘Which mad genius sent Acker to interview the biggest girl group in the world?’ None other than the Guardian in May 1997. Unpopped host Hayley Campbell introduces Acker’s pop opusIn 1997, the feminist punk poet and experimental writer Kathy Acker interviewed the Spice Girls for the Guardian (not, as has passed into legend, US Vogue). The Spice Girls were at the height of their fame, flicking peace signs at us from every teenage girl’s bedroom wall
  
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• Augie March: Bootikins review – an exceptional rumination on time passing

  26-02-2018 18:00
  In two decades the band have never made an average record, much less a bad one, and this is up there with their very bestI have never understood Australia’s “cultural cringe”. I’m from the other side of the world and, when I first heard the phrase, the Go-Betweens, INXS and Midnight Oil had all just released career-defining albums (16 Lovers Lane, Kick, and Diesel and Dust respectively). The Year My Voice Broke was in cinemas and Home and Away was on TV. And we were still
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Says She'll Eat Her Placenta And Reveals Reason Behind Her Immense Pain In Pregnancy

  26-02-2018 15:46
  The pregnant reality star opened up to Kim Kardashian on Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
  
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• Rolling Stones reveal UK tour dates: 'We’re just getting started'

  26-02-2018 14:27
  Shows in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Edinburgh will be band’s first UK gigs in five yearsThe Rolling Stones will play their first UK concerts in five years this spring. Starting at the London Stadium in Stratford on 22 May, the dates make up the second leg of the No Filter tour that the four-piece began in Europe in autumn 2017.The Stones initially intended to combine their UK dates with the European run, but were unable to due to a “lack of available venues because of sporting f
  
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• Models Have Been Ditched In Favour Of Drones At D&G’s Milan Fashion Week Show

  26-02-2018 13:49
  Should Bella Hadid, Kaia Gerber and co. be reconsidering their career choice?
  
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• Playboi Carti review – cocksure catwalk energy from rising Atlanta rapper

  26-02-2018 13:30
  The Garage, Glasgow
  The 21-year-old rapper – flanked by an oddball entourage of bodyguards and mannequins – is already showing impressive levels of self-beliefRising Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti is a winning mixture of wide-eyed and worldly. His addictive vocal tic of studding verses with a bemused “what?” can make it sound like the man born Jordan Carter cannot believe his days of working the till at H&M are behind him. But everything else about the sinewy 21-year-ol
  
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• Gucci Donated $500k To Students Fighting For Gun Control

  26-02-2018 13:22
  The Italian brand is backing the March for Our Lives rally.
  
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• Teen Mom UK’s Chloe Patton Explains How Her Love Life With Boyfriend Jordan Edwards Has Changed Since Having Son Marley – EXCLUSIVE

  26-02-2018 13:00
  Don't miss the brand new series of Teen Mom UK, starting Wednesday 14th March at 8pm on MTV!
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Admits The Extent To Which She’s Glued To Her Phone

  26-02-2018 12:50
  In fairness, Instagram and Snapchat are literally part of her job.
  
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• Zahida Allen Admits Cruel Instagram Comments Trigger Her Anxiety

  26-02-2018 12:07
  The Ex On The Beach star has apologised for going off the grid on social-media.
  
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• Proms among music festivals pledging 50/50 gender split in lineups

  26-02-2018 11:51
  Liverpool Sound City, Aldeburgh and Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide festival also promise gender equality among acts by 2022Forty-five international music festivals, including the Proms, Liverpool Sound City, the Aldeburgh opera festival and Kendal Calling, have pledged a 50/50 gender split in their lineups.As part of the Keychange initiative, founded by the PRS Foundation, the festivals will implement the change – across their live music acts, conference talks and commissions – by
  
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• Kylie Jenner And Travis Scott Step Out Together For The First Time Since Stormi's Birth

  26-02-2018 11:40
  The couple made full use of Kylie's push present on their outing.
  
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• Sam Smith And Boyfriend Brandon Flynn Pack On The PDA With A Kiss

  26-02-2018 11:36
  Raise your hand if you've never felt more single.
  
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• Paul Weller review – the Modfather battles the nostalgia industry

  26-02-2018 11:18
  Leeds ArenaThe Jam and Style Council frontman works hard to warm an arena crowd wary of anything but the classics, but triumphs on his own termsIf Paul Weller played the arena game, he’d have massive luminous Mod targets and nostalgic pictures of his Style Council era behind him and share dewy-eyed reminiscences of his Jam days with Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler. However, the man who split that band at the height of their popularity has always done things his way. His only concessions to p
  
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• Rachel McAdams Says Regina George From 'Mean Girls' Still Haunts Her

  26-02-2018 10:51
  Regina George didn't just haunt her high school peers.
  
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• Kylie Jenner Shares The First Snapchat Video Of Baby Stormi Webster

  26-02-2018 10:45
  We've already seen her fingers, now we've got... her toes.
  
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• Skier David Duncan, Wife And Coach Arrested For Drunkenly Stealing A Hummer At The Winter Olympics

  26-02-2018 10:28
  Not just any Hummer: a PINK Hummer.
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Working On Documentary Series About The #MeToo Movement

  26-02-2018 10:04
  Apparently she's teaming up with former E! host Catt Sadler.
  
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