48 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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3 d. ago Cruz Beckham 'prepares to launch his music career' as star 'heads to the studio most days'

The youngest of the Beckham sons, 20, who kickstarted his career when he was just 11 years old, has been working on new material and has his sights set on an official release later this year.

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4 d. ago ITV The Voice coach quits show to be replaced by huge music icon

The Voice UK will be returning to our screens this summer, but there will be a shake up to the judging panel as a huge American music icon will be replacing a certain star on the show

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6 d. ago DJ Pete Tong makes rare comments about his kids as he admits his family have kept him 'grounded' throughout successful career

The DJ and Radio 1 star, 64, has become one of the biggest names in dance music over the years, and jets across the world to perform for adoring fans.

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7 d. ago Pete Tong on life as a legendary DJ: How the music star went from playing £100 sets in Kent villages to taking over the Royal Albert Hall

The veteran DJ, who over the years has become one of the biggest names in dance music started out by playing village halls in Kent and earning just £100 a set.

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7 d. ago BGT legend issues insider advice to Simon Cowell that could save future series

EXCLUSIVE: One Britain's Got Talent icon has spoken to Daily Star and given some tips to music mogul Simon Cowell, including how he can make the show better for future contestants

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1 week ago The bitter truth behind Taylor Swift's absence from the AMAs

Taylor's devoted fans were anxiously awaiting the pop star's appearance at the 2025 American Music Awards, only to be wildly disappointed when she never took the stage. 

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1 week ago Roger Taylor and Brian May ‘so proud’ as they pick up Queen’s Polar Music Prize

Previous winners of the Polar Music Prize have included Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John.

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1 week ago "I text them and said ‘why'?'": Oasis star ‘gutted’ to be axed from reunion tour

He text Liam and Noel Gallagher asking why he wasn't in the tour

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1 week ago Best dressed Ciara risks wardrobe malfunction while Jennifer Lopez wears EIGHT gowns at American Music Awards

Ciara wowed in an eye-catching ensemble while Jennifer Lopez donned eight different gowns at the star-studded 51st American Music Awards in Las Vegas on Monday.

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1 week ago Chart topping star left fuming over Ed Sheeran's unexpected Radio 1 Big Weekend performance

Music fans were thrilled when Ed Sheeran made an unscheduled appearance at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend festival over the weekend - but a fellow music star had good reason to be less impressed

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2 w. ago Free music festival taking place in Cardiff as ticket details released

The music festival promises to be an 'unmissable celebration' of the city's grassroots music - and is even being supported by global star Ed Sheeran

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2 w. ago The Carpenters legend dies as daughter pens heartbreaking tribute to hitmaker

Music star Roger Nichols, who co-wrote some of The Carpenters' biggest hits, has died at the age of 84, with his family and longtime collaborator Paul Williams paying tribute

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2 w. ago Heidi Montag on The Hills, viral pop stardom and plastic surgery: ‘I broke the fourth wall of what everyone was secretly doing in Hollywood’

The reality star thought her music career was behind her – until she lost her home in the LA fires, and her 2010 album was rediscovered. Ahead of her set at the Mighty Hoopla festival, she speaks to Hannah Ewens about fame, life with husband Spencer Pratt and attracting an LGBT+ fanbase

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3 w. ago Bruce Springsteen pictured eating out in Huddersfield with legendary UK actor

Music legend Bruce Springsteen and TV star Stephen Graham had lunch at the restaurant

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3 w. ago French rapper Werenoi dies age 31 just hours before show as tributes pour in

French rapper Werenoi was due to perform on stage on Saturday night, but he has tragically died aged just 31 - music fans have paid tribute to the star after the news broke

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3 w. ago Country star Morgan Wallen sets record within hours of new album release — but listeners say it’s ‘Taylor Swift for dudes’

Music star’s latest album has become Spotify’s most-streamed country album in 2025 (so far)

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3 w. ago Sony unveils 'next level' noise cancelling headphones created by Taylor Swift's sound engineer

Sony claims the WH-1000XM6 headphones, endorsed by music star Post Malone, are "the most advanced noise cancelling yet"

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3 w. ago Add to playlist: underground pop star Neggy Gemmy and the week’s best new tracks

Aggressive, hedonistic and seductive – often in the span of the same song – the independent LA-based singer-songwriter spans shoegaze, vaporwave and capital-P popFrom Los Angeles via VirginiaRecommended if you like PinkPantheress, Kylie Minogue, Daniel Lopatin’s Chuck Person aliasUp next Album She Comes from Nowhere, released 20 JuneNeggy Gemmy has quietly spent the past decade building one of the strongest catalogues in underground pop. Born Lindsey French – and previously known as Negative Gemini – Neggy Gemmy’s music spans coldwave, shoegaze, trance, vaporwave and capital-P pop; her records can be icily aggressive or hedonistic and seductive, often in the span of the same song. Although her work is always distinctive, she’s also canny with iconoclastic references. On 2016’s Body Work, she sampled Britney Spears’ Everytime one song before her own masterpiece of emotional desolation, the breakbeat ballad You Never Knew; the highlight from her underrated 2023 club odyssey CBD Reiki ...

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3 w. ago Charles Strouse dead: Broadway composer of Annie and Applause dies at 96

Charles Strouse won three Tony Awards during his illustrious career, which spanned more than five decades and saw the star compose music for Annie and Bye Bye Birdie

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