1 week ago Mohamed Salah hits late Afcon winner for Egypt to break brave Zimbabwe at the last

There were no apologies from Mohamed Salah to his teammates in red last night, with Egypt’s players grateful to Liverpool’s troubled superstar for conjuring an injury-time winner against the aptly named Warriors of Zimbabwe.After failing to capitalise on a dominant start, the seven-times Afcon winners required a stunning second-half equaliser from Manchester City’s Omar Marmoush and Salah’s late winner to spare their blushes against unfancied Zimbabwe, who have never progressed beyond the group stages. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ronan Keating reuniting Boyzone bandmates and I'm A Celebrity star for New Year's Eve BBC special

The Irish band were one of the pop industry's biggest acts of the 1990s

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2 w. ago ‘Fans stole my underwear – and even my car aerial’: how Roxette made It Must Have Been Love

‘We had 2,000 people outside our hotel room in Buenos Aires singing our songs all night. David Coulthard later told me that all the Formula One drivers were staying there and were annoyed because they couldn’t sleep’In my early 20s, I was in the biggest band in Sweden. But after Gyllene Tider [Golden Times] collapsed, I was depressed for two years. At first, Roxette only got together when Marie Fredriksson, our singer, wasn’t busy with solo stuff. To keep her in the band, I needed to make it successful, so I was very motivated. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Iconic 90s star confirms band will reunite for huge tour next year and gets fans in a frenzy

A member of one of the biggest pop bands of the 90s has 'confirmed' that their band will be getting back together for a huge tour next year

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2 w. ago Iconic 90s star confirms band will reunite for huge tour next year

A member of one of the biggest pop bands of the 90s has ‘confirmed’ that their band will be getting back together for a huge tour next year

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3 w. ago Wolf Alice at the Glasgow Hydro: Here are 19 great pictures of the gig

The band were playing their biggest Scottish headline gig to date.

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4 w. ago ‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show

As the band celebrate their 60th anniversary, a California exhibition draws attention to the unique psychedelic artwork that has long told their storyArtist Bill Walker is one of those guys who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Having met Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead bassist and avant-garde classical composer, as a student at Nevada Southern University (now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Walker was invited in 1967 to make an album cover for the band’s second album, Anthem of the Sun. This experience led to an epic LSD and ayahuasca trip in the Valley of Fire outside Las Vegas over New Year’s Eve and when Walker returned to San Francisco, he painted Anthem of the Sun, complete with figures he came across in the desert.The Anthem of the Sun painting visually demonstrates the intense innovation that happened in the psychedelic revolution, when music was electrified and LSD became central to the burst of culture that defined the 1960s. The Grateful Dead enc...

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