10 h. ago David Bowie and The Simpsons named among top icons and shows that predicted the future

DAVID Bowie and Kate Bush have been named among the top cultural icons who most accurately predicted how we live today, according to research. A poll of 2,000 adults found George Orwell, Roald Dahl, and even Ross from Friends – who in 1999 predicted AI would be smarter than us by 2030 – made the...

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10 h. ago The Simpsons, Bowie and Ross from Friends are icons who most clearly predicted the future

Ross from Friends predicted in 1999 that AI would be smarter than us by 2030 while Ridley Scott's seminal 1982 film Blade Runner is still hailed today as a masterclass in foresight

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2 d. ago Model transforms into pop rockstar David Bowie for Halloween

Getting into the spirit of spooky season, this actress looked almost unrecognisable as she painted Bowie's signature lightning bolt across her face for an album posted to Instagram on Friday.

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3 d. ago Channel 4 documentary to chart David Bowie’s ‘final creative chapter’

Bowie died at the age of 69 in January 2016 following an 18-month battle with cancer.

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4 d. ago Can I learn to be cool – even though I am garrulous, swotty and wear no

An international study found cool people are extroverted, open, hedonistic, adventurous, autonomous and powerful. At best, I have three of these traits. Could I change that?Who would you say is effortlessly, undeniably cool? Charli xcx, certainly. David Bowie, of course. Yoko Ono and Fran Lebowitz – or do they just wear a lot of black? I’m not cool and never have been. As a teenager, I was a swot at a school that prized sports. As an adult, I’m always wearing a backpack. I’m garrulous, risk-averse, lazy with my personal presentation and not convinced that any drug beats eight hours’ sleep. “Cool” feels to me like the stock market or Michelin restaurants: none of my business.I’m not alone. In a recent YouGov survey, a third of respondents said they weren’t cool at school, with only 10% reporting that, yep, they actually were. Half claimed they were “somewhere in between”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Ally McCoist declares Hearts will win the league as 'demise' of Celtic and Rangers follows shared sin

The Ibrox icon has gone early with a bold Premiership prediction after the Jambos saw off Celtic

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1 week ago Who will be the next Strictly hosts? The fan favourites and iconic pairings predicted to front the BBC ballroom show after Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman announce their departure

There's no doubt whoever replaces Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly is going to have big shoes to fill. 

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1 week ago Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk equipment to go on sale, expected to fetch up to $650,000

Auction in US includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France videoHe was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments Florian Schneider used to create some of the band’s best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US

Sale includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France videoHe was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments that Florian Schneider used to create some of the band’s best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Cameron Crowe: ‘I think Bowie remembered it all. He just didn’t want to remember it with me’

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’ has written a memoir about his extraordinary life on the road as a 15-year-old journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. He speaks to Adam White about early success, his surprising love of ‘We Bought a Zoo’, and his bittersweet reunion with David Bowie

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2 w. ago The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade

From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales from the director of Almost FamousCameron Crowe spent his youth being in the right place at the right time. In 1964, aged seven, he was taken by his mother to see “a kid named Bob Dylan” play a local college gym. By the age of 14, living in San Diego, he was writing record reviews for a local underground magazine whose main aim was to bring down Richard Nixon. Shortly after that, he started interviewing the bands of the day as they came through California – first Humble Pie for Creem, and then the Eagles, the Allman Brothers Band and Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone.Crowe previously fictionalised his story in the 2000 film Almost Famous, which he wrote and directed. His lyrical and compulsively readable memoir The Uncool is bookended by the opening of a musical version, which coincides with the death of Crowe’s mother Alice whose aphorisms, including “Put some goodness in the world be...

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2 w. ago Cameron Crowe on music, movies and the tragedy that shaped him: ‘I thought writing about it would cause too much pain’

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’ has written a memoir about his extraordinary life on the road as a 15-year-old journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. He speaks to Adam White about early success, his surprising love of ‘We Bought a Zoo’, and his bittersweet reunion with David Bowie

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2 w. ago Makeup artist Mary Greenwell was ‘flattered’ to work with Margaret Thatcher

She also told the BBC’s Desert Island Discs about her work with David Bowie and Diana, Princess of Wales.

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2 w. ago The Inbetweeners' Joe Thomas has huge prediction for iconic sitcom's return

Joe, who played Simon in The Inbetweeners, says he's keen to do the reboot of the iconic E4 sitcom as he'd "love" to spend more time with his friends (ooh friends!) from the show

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2 w. ago ‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife‘It’s difficult not to see it as a kind of finale,” says Tim Curry of his memoir, Vagabond. That he’s written it at all is a surprise. Curry has always liked the comfort of privacy – my efforts to persuade him to do an interview with the Guardian began more than five years ago. At 79, he still prefers looking forward, too, which is how he has covered so much ground in his career.Boundless energy has been the actor’s hallmark. He once exerted so much while filming the murder mystery comedy Clue – in which he plays the frantic, sharp-tongued butler Wadsworth – that a nurse who took his blood pressure on set told him he was at risk of having a heart attack.I’ve always tried to make my villains amusing. It gives them a bit more edge Continue rea...

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3 w. ago Strictly icon predicts 2025 'winner' as 'good looking' celeb with a 'great body'

EXCLUSIVE: Strictly legend James Jordan predicts Lewis Cope will win 2025, praising his looks, talent, and strong partnership with Katya Jones as a recipe for success

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3 w. ago Hamleys reveals top 15 toys for Christmas 2025 including return of nostalgic ones that kids will love

HAMLEYS has revealed its top 15 toys for Christmas this year, including the return of some nostalgic classics. With 11 weeks to go until the big day, the iconic toy chain's experts have rounded up their predictions of what will be on many kids' letters to Santa. The list includes toys aimed at a range...

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3 w. ago The Traitors icon Linda predicts Jonathan Ross 'downfall' after 'obvious' move

The Traitors star Linda Rands has spoken out after the iconic first episode of the new series.

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4 w. ago Finn Wolfhard’s honest playlist: ‘I don’t know if I want to hear Sweet Child O’ Mine any more’

The musician and actor gives Bowie some welly at karaoke and is a lapsed G’n’R superfan. But which UK stadium indie-popsters created the first album he ever bought?The first song I fell in love withI was in my living room one fall afternoon, sick from school, aged six, and my mom was like: ‘You’ve never heard the Beatles before?’ She put on Help! the movie, then for the rest of the day, I played Help! over and over again on her iPod.The song I do at karaoke Anything David Bowie is really fun, like Fame or Queen Bitch. No one is ever going to sound like Bowie, but I just love the energy and mood. Recently I did Save Me by Aimee Mann, which I think made everyone really bored, but I had the greatest time. Continue reading...

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last month Iconic David Bowie pic set to become most expensive album artwork ever

This could be the most expensive album artwork ever sold when it goes under the hammer later this month but how did David Bowie come up with the idea for the Aladdin Sane album cover photo?

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