1 week ago Capital Summertime Ball 2025 lineup: Huge 90s pop icon to play her first UK show in SIX YEARS as she leads the star performers confirmed

The event will return to Wembley Stadium on June 16, with 80,000 music lovers set to attend, and some of the lineup has been announced ahead of the London festival.

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1 week ago Mariah Carey among performers announced for Capital’s Summertime Ball

US singer Benson Boone, rapper and social media star KSI and Messy singer Lola Young will also perform at the Wembley Stadium event in June.

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2 w. ago Men of a Certain Age by Kate Mossman review – close encounters with charismatic male rockers

A journalist’s bracingly honest account of interviews with musicians from Brian May to Shaun RyderWhen the journalist Kate Mossman was a child, she developed an obsession with the rock band Queen. Mossman came of age in the 1990s, but the irony and snark of that decade left her cold. Instead, she lived for the “middle-aged musicians from the 80s in jacket and jeans, and for the open-hearted, non-cynical pop times that had come before”. Watching Queen’s posthumous single These Are the Days of Our Lives on Top of the Pops in 1991, she “felt something within myself ignite”. Though she was captivated by the strange longing of a monochrome Freddie Mercury, who had died weeks earlier, it was drummer Roger Taylor who became the focus of her obsession. On the mantelpiece of her childhood home sat a holy relic: a beer glass he had drunk from during a solo gig. Twenty years later, while on her way to interview Taylor and Queen guitarist Brian May for a magazine profile, Mossman confesses...

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2 w. ago Benson Boone suggests 'super valid' reasons to hate him as he hits back at critics

The singer and songwriter, who has been nominated for best new artist at the 2025 Grammy Awards, said he was told people do not know why they 'hate' him but it 'feels right'

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2 w. ago Benson Boone hits out at critics for hating him for no ‘good reason’

The award-winning singer has been acclaimed by Sir Brian May and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

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3 w. ago Benson Boone addresses Coachella crowd’s lukewarm reaction to legendary guest

Rising pop star brought out Queen guitarist Brian May for an epic cover of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

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3 w. ago Benson Boone issues savage response to Coachella fans not knowing Brian May

Queen fans have blasted the Coachella crowd as 'too young' and 'undeserving' after they delivered a lukewarm reaction to Sir Brian May's surprise appearance at the festival

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3 w. ago Wait, is Coachella cool again? The best festival style from Charli XCX, Lady Gaga and Troye Sivan

Has Coachella, once homeland of naff LA influencers, finally turned the tide? Maybe, says Joe Bromley

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3 w. ago Wait, is Coachella cool again? Best looks from festival 2025 — Charli XCX, Lady Gaga, Troye Sivan

Has Coachella, once homeland of naff LA influencers, finally turned the tide? Maybe, says Joe Bromley

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3 w. ago Queen fans brand Coachella crowd 'undeserving' and 'too young' after their lukewarm reception to Brian May's surprise performance of Bohemian Rhapsody with Benson Boone

Queen fans branded the Coachella crowd 'undeserving' and 'too young' after their lukewarm reception to Brian May's surprise performance on Friday.

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3 w. ago Coachella crowd blasted as 'undeserving' after Brian May's surprise performance with Benson Boone

Queen fans have blasted the Coachella crowd as 'too young' and 'undeserving' after they delivered a lukewarm reaction to Sir Brian May's surprise appearance at the festival.

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3 w. ago Coachella crowd criticized for muted reaction to Queen legend Bryan May’s appearance

Brian May joined Benson Boone onstage for the latter’s cover of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

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3 w. ago Benson Boone sends fans into frenzy with shock album announcement sparking tour hopes

American singer Benson Boone thrilled fans at Coachella on Friday - with a shock appearance from Sir Brian May - only to drive them even more wild with an album announcement

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3 w. ago AP PHOTOS: Coachella 2025: Benson Boone, Tyla and GloRilla perform in the desert.

Lady Gaga delivered a five-act career-spanning — and perhaps defining — performance, Benson Boone sang “Bohemian Rhapsody” with Queen's Brian May on guitar and Lisa drew a massive crowd to the Sahara tent as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival opened in the California desert.

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3 w. ago Brian May makes surprise Coachella appearance after fears stroke could 'end his career'

After a health scare, Brian May stunned Coachella crowds with a surprise performance, proving his incredible recovery as he joined Benson Boone on stage

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3 w. ago Benson Boone performs Bohemian Rhapsody with Sir Brian May at Coachella

The chart-topping song was released in 1975 and is one of the best-selling UK singles of all time.

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3 w. ago Brian May performs iconic solo at Coachella just seven months after his stroke

Legendary performer and Queen guitarist Brian May shocked fans by stepping out at Coachella Music Festival just seven months after suffering a stroke and losing the use of one of his arms

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3 w. ago Queen’s Brian May makes unlikely Coachella comeback alongside young pop star

The 77-year-old guitarist, who recovered from a stroke last year, also played on Boone’s own ‘Beautiful Things’

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3 w. ago Benson Boone brings out Queen guitarist Brian May for epic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at Coachella

The guitarist also played on Boone’s own ‘Beautiful Things’

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