44 m. ago Everything we know about Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour 2025: London tickets still on sale

Beyoncé’s London tour began on Thursday, kicking off the start of her European leg on the Cowboy Carter tour

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46 m. ago Couple created Scotland's first 'champagne' from an old potato field

The couple "jumped up and down" with happiness at the result - with the Bubbly boasting a 'light and fruity taste'.

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48 m. ago Billy Joel shares first message with fans since brain disorder diagnosis

Legendary singer was absent from Wednesday premiere of his documentary, ‘Billy Joel: And So It Goes,’ at Tribeca Film Festival

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84 m. ago Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter show is a bewildering bombardment of entertainment

The set’s kaleidoscopic, often quickfire mash-up of styles (electro C&W, trap, disco, hyper-diva-pop and more) becomes a formless mulch in such a boomy space

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88 m. ago Billy Joel attempted suicide twice and fell into coma after affair with best friend's wife

In his new documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the iconic musician recounts a dark chapter of his early life marked by heartbreak, betrayal, and two suicide attempts

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2 h. ago Awkward moment influencer 'blasting loud music' to make TikTok videos outside a restaurant in Monaco is 'asked to leave' by security

Aubrey Bella, a travel blogger, was enjoying a meal in Monte Carlo, Monaco, when a woman set up a tripod right in front of her view of the legendary casino.

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2 h. ago Primavera Sound 2025: How to watch Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan from home

The festival kicks off on Thursday with Charli XCX and Troye Sivan headlining

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3 h. ago Disney composer Alan Menken: ‘I won my first Oscar, then Howard Ashman told me he was dying’

The mastermind musician behind ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ has more Oscars than anyone alive. As ‘Hercules’ the musical hits the West End, he speaks with Lydia Spencer-Elliott about his late collaborator Howard Ashman, the live-action boom, and difficult directors – ahem, Guy Ritchie

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4 h. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

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4 h. ago I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading | Alexander Hurst

Call me a middle-class ‘bobo’, but inspired street art has nothing in common with sprayed-on assertions of ‘me, me, me’Among the layers of life in Paris that energise me, I might list: peeling back the city’s music scene all the way to figuring out where, and when, the musicians go to jam together; the unassuming flair of even a basic brasserie; the way one can pivot, in the span of a week, from an art gallery opening to a friend’s concert to another friend’s restaurant to discover his Corsican-influenced menu, and end it by lingering on a terrace, “remaking the world” with others who challenge you – calmly – to see something a different way.Among the things about this city that exhaust me are the people who cram their way into the Métro without letting you step out first (seriously, what neurons are misfiring in the heads of these people?), and the sheer prevalence of tags. It’s when you leave Paris for a bit and come back that you realise how many tags there are. How swaths of a c...

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6 h. ago Beyonce enjoys the rain as she kicks off London stint of Cowboy Carter tour

The 43-year-old performed more than 30 songs over two-and-a-half hours at the first of six London shows.

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7 h. ago Bruno Fernandes has already given green light to surprise Man Utd transfer

Manchester United are in the market for a new striker this summer and they have reportedly been offered the chance to sign Paris Saint-Germain forward Goncalo Ramos

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8 h. ago Beyoncé review – a hugely enjoyable concert that adds a ferocious potency to Cowboy Carter

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, LondonThe big hits might be truncated to make way for her latest, country-inflected album – but seen live, these songs sound like a powerful act of protestIt clearly hasn’t escaped Beyoncé’s notice that the meteorological omens auger ill for the first UK show of her Cowboy Carter tour. The weathermen are predicting a thunderstorm, the Tottenham Hotspur ground is noticeably lacking a roof, and she’s no sooner arrived onstage than she’s suggesting that the prospect of rain “ain’t gonna stop the party”.The thunderstorm never comes, but a cynic might suggest the glowering skies, and a sudden downpour – through which the singer will be required to fly on a giant neon-lit horseshoe – act as a kind of metaphor for the fortunes of the Cowboy Carter tour. It’s thus far attracted the usual laudatory reviews – such is the blanket critical acclaim for everything Beyoncé does, you rather get the feeling that were she spotted using a public convenience, there would be a...

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9 h. ago Rita Ora releases new single Heat with music video shot on Miami beach

The 34-year-old released the track ahead of a performance at World Pride Music Festival in Washington DC.

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11 h. ago Musk says SpaceX will retire Dragon spacecraft amid bitter Trump dispute

World’s richest man says craft, which Nasa relies on to take astronauts to ISS, will be withdrawn from commissionTrump-Musk spat – latest updatesMusk calls for Trump to be impeached as extraordinary feud escalatesElon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft after he engaged in an extraordinary public fallout with Donald Trump who had threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk posted on the social media platform X, which he owns. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Primevera Sound 2025: How to watch Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan from home

The festival kicks off on Thursday with Charli XCX and Troye Sivan headlining

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13 h. ago P Diddy judge threatens to remove rapper from court over 'unacceptable' gestures

The fourth week of P Diddy's federal sex trafficking trial in New York took another chaotic turn when the judge threatened to eject the music mogul from the courtroom

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13 h. ago BBC Radio Scotland presenter Bryan Burnett announces cancer diagnosis

The broadcaster said on Thursday that he would be stepping back from his programme Get It On to undergo treatment.

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14 h. ago Judge threatens to remove Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from court over facial gestures

Music mogul warned to desist from looking and nodding at jury during sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trialThe judge in the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs threatened to remove the music mogul from court for looking and nodding at the jury during testimony on Thursday.During a lunch break after the jury left the room on Thursday, Judge Arun Subramanian said that he saw Combs looking at the jury and “nodding vigorously” during the cross-examination of Bryana Bongolan, a former graphic designer for Combs and a longtime friend of Combs’s former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Judge threatens to remove Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from court for nodding at jury

Music mogul warned to desist from looking and nodding at jury during sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trialThe judge in the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs threatened to remove the music mogul from court for looking and nodding at the jury during testimony on Thursday.During a lunch break after the jury left the room on Thursday, Judge Arun Subramanian said that he saw Combs looking at the jury and “nodding vigorously” during the cross-examination of Bryana Bongolan, a former graphic designer for Combs and a longtime friend of Combs’s former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. Continue reading...

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