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• Readers recommend: share songs about the Commonwealth

  12-04-2018 21:00
  Nominate in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 16 AprilThere’s plenty to choose from as we seek your nominations this week, with 53 nations involved in the Commonwealth. Keep an eye on the comments for more on how to interpret the theme.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 16 April to post your nomination and make your justification. RR contributor Chaz Cozens (who posts as HopelessCase in the comments) will select
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Gives Birth To A Baby Girl

  12-04-2018 18:41
  It's safe to say her week has been a bit of a rollercoaster.
  
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• Is 24/11 truther Olly Murs right about a coverup at Selfridges?

  12-04-2018 18:41
  I determine to find out in the interests of truth. And, more importantly, because, if he’s right, Piers Morgan is wrong. Plus: why Margaret Atwood blames Star Wars for 9/11In ordinary circumstances, a 33-year-old man using social media to warn seven million people of a terror attack underway in central London would be regarded in generally positive terms.Unfortunately, the events of 24 November 2017 were not ordinary: the warning took the form of a tweet bellowing: “Fuck everyone get
  
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• 2018 Wireless Festival Adds Big Shaq, RAYE, Majid Jordan & More

  12-04-2018 18:16
  Find out who’ll be joining the line-up which already boasts Stormzy, J. Cole, DJ Khaled and more this July…
  
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• Nicki Minaj Shines on Both 'Barbie Tingz' and 'Chun-Li'

  12-04-2018 16:59
  You need to hear these...
  
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• Liam Payne Reveals He And Cheryl Aren’t Having A Second Baby Any Time Soon

  12-04-2018 16:46
  So many rumours to keep up with, so little time.
  
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• Kylie Jenner's Best Beauty Looks Of All Time Ever

  12-04-2018 16:41
  Queen of kosmetics
  
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• 10 Things Boys Think Girls Do That Actually Never Happen

  12-04-2018 16:36
  Dummies.
  
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• Get to Know: Confidence Man

  12-04-2018 16:11
  We caught up with the exciting new act to find out a little bit more about him and his music...
  
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• 8 Celeb Lip Hacks For All Your Beauty Needs

  12-04-2018 15:50
  Anything Jonathan Van Ness says, we'll do. Legit.
  
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• Harry Styles Wowed Crowds At London’s O2 Arena

  12-04-2018 15:46
  The One Direction superstar took to the stage at London's O2 Arena for the first of two dates in the capital.
  
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• 11 Types Of Sex You Will Probably Have At University

  12-04-2018 15:34
  Ex-sex, booty call sex and more inevitabilities.
  
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• ‘I played Berlin at 7am on Sudafed and coffee’ – the middle-aged DJs still keeping pace

  12-04-2018 15:00
  Thirty years on from the second summer of love, a cohort of fiftysomething DJs are refusing to hang up their headphones, fuelled by nothing stronger than caffeineIn 1988, Luke Cowdrey was undergoing his acid-house epiphany in Manchester. “For me, it changed the world,” says the Sheffield-born DJ, better known as Luke Unabomber. “It wasn’t just music, drugs and hedonism. It was the people you met and the sense that life was, suddenly, so much better.” He smiles: &ldq
  
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• Instagram Launch Focus Feature To Take Super Sharp Portrait Images

  12-04-2018 13:57
  This will do wonders for our selfies.
  
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• Manic Street Preachers: ‘Jobs give us meaning – Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t understand that’

  12-04-2018 13:30
  Their new album is entitled Resistance Is Futile, but the Manic Street Preachers aren’t accepting things lying down. Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield share their thoughts on nostalgia, Francis Bacon and why they considered splitting upNicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield are seated in the latter’s hotel room in Marylebone, central London, ostensibly promoting the Manic Street Preachers’ forthcoming 14th album, Resistance Is Futile, but instead talking about the possibility of
  
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• Piotr Anderszewski review – Diabelli Variations are a totally enthralling musical journey

  12-04-2018 13:12
  Barbican, LondonThere was absolutely nothing routine about Anderszewski’s dizzying reading of Beethoven; the first half’s Bach was equally extraordinaryEver since Piotr Anderszewski took himself out of the running for the 1990 Leeds Piano Competition, walking out during his semi-final recital when he was one of the favourites to take the first prize, his name has been inextricably linked with the Diabelli Variations. By no means regular competition repertoire, the Beethoven had been
  
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• Casey Johnson's Romantic Monologue For Marnie Simpson Gets Torn To Shreds By His Brother Chet Johnson

  12-04-2018 13:05
  Casey recreated the most romantic scene from Love Actually for his Geordie Shore lass, but one person definitely wasn't impressed.
  
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• Why The Term ‘Mixed Weight Relationship’ Is Coming In For Criticism Online

  12-04-2018 13:01
  The phrase has its problems.
  
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• 17 Items From Zoella's Spring Wardrobe You Can Actually Buy IRL

  12-04-2018 13:01
  We want to be like Joey from Friends wearing ALL the clothes...
  
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• Tinashe: Joyride review – delayed gratification

  12-04-2018 13:00
  (RCA)Tinashe’s long-gestated second album is a mixed bag, best when her coolly focused sexuality is put to the foreThere’s a lot of industry chatter about the diminishing power of the album format, as playlists on streaming services start to become what many people reach for. Expect howls of outrage from musicians who want to present a body of work, and from marketing departments and awards shows who want a neat way to package that work up. But someone who might bid a fairly muted go
  
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• Tinashe: Joyride review – caught between sex and sterility

  12-04-2018 13:00
  (RCA)Tinashe’s long-gestated second album is a mixed bag, best when her coolly focused sexuality is put to the foreThere’s a lot of industry chatter about the diminishing power of the album format, as playlists on streaming services start to become what many people reach for. Expect howls of outrage from musicians who want to present a body of work, and from marketing departments and awards shows who want a neat way to package that work up. But someone who might bid a fairly muted go
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about road trips

  12-04-2018 13:00
  A reader takes a trip through your suggestions, with Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney and the McGarrigle sisters making the list
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.This week, as well as recommending songs about road trips, many of you shared memories of your own journeys. That’s why the playlist opens with Kate and
  
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• ZAYN Returns With Amazing Single and Video ‘Let Me’

  12-04-2018 12:11
  We are in awe...
  
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• Zara Larsson Teases Brand New Poo Bear Collaboration

  12-04-2018 12:00
  This sounds incredible...
  
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• Arts Council funding to opera is unfair – pop needs support too | Michael Dugher

  12-04-2018 11:55
  Just 8% of Arts Council England’s main music fund goes to pop, 2% to jazz, compared with 62% to opera. We must even out the imbalance if we want a diverse and healthy national music sceneAt the beginning of this year, Arts Council England boss Darren Henley launched what he hoped would be a “public conversation” about the future funding strategy for his organisation that allocates millions of pounds of public money to the arts. In the spirit of that conversation, UK Music &ndas
  
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• Ferne McCann Was 'Forced' To Make Her Daughter Travel For Eight Hours To See Her Imprisoned Father Arthur Collins

  12-04-2018 11:51
  The former TOWIE star reportedly made the trip after Arthur exercised his legal right to see Sunday.
  
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• Selena Gomez Looks Set To Release a Single Next Month

  12-04-2018 11:31
  We are ready...
  
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• Lamar Odom 'Would Absolutely Take Khloe Kardashian Back' After Cheating Ordeal

  12-04-2018 11:22
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is nine months pregnant with Tristan Thompson's child.
  
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• Coachella 2018: Beyoncé, the Weeknd and Eminem head to the desert

  12-04-2018 11:00
  More than 200,000 people will attend one of the year’s biggest music festivals, with an all-star lineup and a $300,000 stage set from Cardi BMore than 200,000 people will descend on Indio, California, this and next weekend for the 19th annual Coachella Valley music and arts festival, one of the year’s biggest draws for live music fans. Traditionally seen as the kick-off for the summer music festival season, the festival boasts an illustrious group of headliners: Eminem, last seen tor
  
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• Bella Thorne Earns $65,000 For A Single Instagram Post Which Paid For Her Lavish House

  12-04-2018 10:53
  The former Disney star is bringing in the big bucks.
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Is Reportedly Experiencing 'Early Contractions' Following Tristan Thompson Cheating Scandal

  12-04-2018 10:36
  Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and the whole family are said to be rallying around the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star at this time.
  
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• Khloe Kardashian 'To Rebuild Her Relationship’ With Tristan Thompson Despite Cheating Claims

  12-04-2018 10:32
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is determined to salvage their romance.
  
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• Quiz: how well do you know your Australian pub rock anthems?

  12-04-2018 09:24
  Can you belt out the words to Midnight Oil and Divinyls songs with more authority than the prime minister? Take our quiz to find outMalcolm Turnbull has been under fire for not knowing the words to John Farnham’s hit You’re the Voice when it was played over the loudspeaker at the Commonwealth Games swimming finals. It wasn’t his first Aussie anthem faux pas; last year he struggled to name an AC/DC song during a live radio interview.So how well do you know your rock anthems? Tak
  
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• Puma 'glamorising drug dealing' with event featuring fake crack house

  12-04-2018 08:42
  A promotional party hosted by the sports brand has been condemned for making references to ‘trapping’ during a heightened period of crime in LondonAn event for sportswear brand Puma has been accused of for glamorising adolescent drug dealing in the capital.Invitees to the brand’s House of Hustle event, held in Soho on 5 April, were sent Puma shoe boxes containing fake £50 notes, “burner” phones (a cheap, disposable handset often used in drug transactions) and
  
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• Patrick Wolf on the car accident and his comeback: ‘It completely whacked me out for six’

  12-04-2018 05:51
  The London singer discusses his five-year absence and how he ‘took the bullet’ for queer musicians who came after him
  “Flamboyant.” “Ridiculous.” “Over the top.” When UK musician Patrick Wolf arrived on the scene in the mid-2000s, these were the words that greeted him. The classically trained wunderkind had joined Leigh Bowery’s art collective Minty when he was just 13; he released his first album in 2003 at age 19 – but it featured wor
  
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• Midnight Oil hint at a return to the studio: 'Never say never'

  12-04-2018 05:34
  After a hugely successful reunion tour, Peter Garrett says ‘I think we owe it to ourselves to see if we can make new music’
  Midnight Oil are set to return to the studio to work on new music following the band’s successful reunion tour.
  The lead guitarist, Jim Moginie, said he’s open to making music once more with bandmates Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst, Martin Rotsey and Bones Hillman.Continue reading...
  
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