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• Step Into A Pixar Film IRL With Disney World's Incredible New Toy Story Land

  15-07-2018 22:36
  To amusement park infinity and beyond!
  
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• From Kim Kardashian To Katy Perry: 9 Celebrity Divorces That Will Put You Off Marriage For Life

  15-07-2018 17:08
  Whatever happened to a clean break?
  
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• Songs in the key of strife: the musician putting anxiety centrestage

  15-07-2018 16:00
  Keaton Henson, who suffers from depression, has teamed up with a ‘rollercoaster thrill engineer’ to create a unique musical experiment. And they’ve hooked the audience up to the lighting to monitor their responseOne of the truly wretched things about mental illness is that it is very hard to describe what it’s like. Words aren’t enough – even good ones.
  But what about music? If the strings in Psycho can make us quail and the warm orchestral resolutions in Cine
  
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• From Rihanna To Kylie Jenner: 8 Celebrity Beauty Brands That Have Broken The Mould

  15-07-2018 15:52
  Why do something that's already been done?
  
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• Eminem review – the rap god struggles to generate energy

  15-07-2018 14:21
  Twickenham stadium, London
  Throbbing with deviant vitality, the music is as electric as ever but Marshall Mathers’ onstage persona is a long way from his chainsaw-wielding daysIt’s no secret that Eminem has had a crisis of confidence in recent years. He detailed his insecurities on last year’s album Revival, using opener Walk on Water to bemoan critical snobbery and his own failure to recapture the magic of his early work. On stage this evening – the first of two nights a
  
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• Josh Ritchie Proves He Has The Best Chat With This 10/10 Response To Charlotte Crosby

  15-07-2018 13:40
  Every other guy on the planet needs to take notes.
  
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• Taylor Swift Had The Best Reaction After Two Fans Got Engaged At Her Meet And Greet

  15-07-2018 13:08
  This is not what anyone was expecting
  
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• Gaz Beadle And Emma McVey’s Six-Month-Old Son Has Been Rushed To Hospital

  15-07-2018 12:17
  The baby was taken to Leeds General Infirmary to be treated for a mystery illness
  
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• Holly Hagan Wants Fans To VOTE On Whether She Should Undergo This Surgical Procedure

  15-07-2018 11:37
  The Geordie Shore lass is clearly hoping the public will help make her mind up
  
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• Thurston Moore on Madonna: ‘She had credibility, she was really ahead of the game’

  15-07-2018 09:00
  Ahead of Madonna’s 60th birthday in August, the former Sonic Youth frontman remembers her emergence from New York’s underground scene• Sarah Churchwell: ‘Madonna remains the hero of her own story’We were neighbours. We knew each other, by sight. She would say hi to me and I would say hi to her. She was dating a friend of mine for a millisecond, so we were introduced that way and then, through the years, when we’d cross paths on the street, we’d
  
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• Tainted love: how Drake started pop’s erotic comedown

  15-07-2018 09:00
  In music, the joy of sex has been supplanted by nihilism and melancholy. Has the digital age made pop lose its loving feeling?Towards the end of his double album Scorpion, Drake confirms the sting in his tale; something that has defined him as the pop star of his age. Midway through the song Final Fantasy, in which he has imagined the luckless ways in which a hookup might turn out for him, he opines: “I hope that the apocalypse is the only thing that doesn’t come.” This is not
  
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• Sophie on Madonna: ‘Her work is so vast – there’s a reference for any situation’

  15-07-2018 09:00
  The electronic music producer, DJ and musician on Madonna’s continuing musical influence• Thurston Moore on Madonna: ‘She had credibility, she was really ahead of the game’In my mind, Madonna created the blueprint for modern pop stars. Her creativity has gone further, wider and longer than anyone else I can think of; I feel like her songs have been consistently memorable and meaningful. I have loved all of Madonna’s different phases at different points, but I think t
  
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• Sarah Churchwell on Madonna: ‘She remains the hero of her own story’

  15-07-2018 09:00
  As Madonna Ciccone approaches her 60th birthday, the author hails Madonna’s feminist legacy• Matt Cain on Madonna: ‘She opened up gay culture to the mainstream’For me, it was Lucky Star, in 1983. That video is burned into my brain. Not because I loved the song – there were many songs around that time I loved far more: Hungry Like the Wolf, Every Breath You Take, Come on Eileen; I never liked Lucky Star as much and still don’t.At that point, no one had any idea
  
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• Nancy Whang on Madonna: ‘She set an example for a lot of women’

  15-07-2018 09:00
  The musician, best known for her work with LCD Soundsystem, on the power of Madonna’s persona
  • Sophie on Madonna: ‘Her work is so vast – there’s a reference for any situation’
  There aren’t that many artists like her. That she has the staying power she has is remarkable in itself. She’s influenced a lot of other artists, especially other fellow female artists and she’s remained culturally relevant. Her whole ability to reinvent herself is pret
  
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• Matt Cain on Madonna: ‘She opened up gay culture to the mainstream’

  15-07-2018 09:00
  The author and former editor-in-chief of Attitude magazine on how Madonna changed his life• Madonna at 60 by Barbara Ellen: ‘Popular culture still reeks of her influence’Madonna was a radical, brilliant pop icon who changed so many people’s lives. Mine included. I grew up in Bolton in the 1980s, at a time when no one wanted to say anything positive about gay people. If we were represented in the media, it was as disease-carrying sexual predators who couldn’t be trust
  
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• Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose review – brighter, brassier, more free-flowing

  15-07-2018 09:00
  (Domino)Lamp Lit Prose arrives 17 months after Dirty Projectors’ eighth, eponymous album, which dwelt, via the medium of knotty R&B, on the breakup of former Projector Amber Coffman and lynchpin David Longstreth. You deduce he’s over it.Brighter, brassier and more free-flowing than most previous outings, Lamp Lit Prose can seem cussedly happy at times: there’s “Something sweet/ Something new” on Blue Bird, a song so blithe you could see Longstreth plying it on k
  
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• Dancer Carlton Wilborn on Madonna: ‘Rehearsal truly was like boot camp’

  15-07-2018 09:00
  Madonna’s former backup dancer on performing in the Blond Ambition and Girlie Show tours, as well as the video for Vogue• Sophie on Madonna: ‘Her work is so vast – there’s a reference for any situation’
  I was 26 and living in Los Angeles when Madonna had a huge open-call audition for the Blond Ambition tour – there were maybe a thousand men there. By the time I got home I had a message: “Come meet me at the club tonight.” It was basically
  
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• Barbara Ellen on Madonna: ‘Popular culture still reeks of her influence’

  15-07-2018 09:00
  As the singer’s 60th birthday approaches, the Observer columnist celebrates pop’s greatest survivor• Thurston Moore on Madonna: ‘She was really ahead of the game’Madonna Louise Ciccone is about to turn 60, a “big birthday” by anybody’s reckoning. I remember her at the time of her breakthrough 1983 single, Holiday, a mischievous mess of bangles and swinging crucifixes, boasting that she was so hot that you could fry an egg on her belly button. From t
  
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