2 h. ago Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra cancel performance at BST Hyde Park

Lynne and his rock band were due to headline on Sunday.

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2 h. ago Freddie Mercury's brutal Princess Diana snub at Live Aid that raised eyebrows

When the iconic rock band Queen performed at Live Aid in 1985, Freddie Mercury refused to sit with Charles and Diana in the royal box at Wembley Stadium for one reason

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8 h. ago Stereophonics' epic Cardiff gig proves that Wales' rock royalty still has it

Cardiff baked as Welsh icons Stereophonics swaggered back into the Principality Stadium

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22 h. ago Twin Atlantic condemn politicians’ calls for Glastonbury to cancel Kneecap

Bass guitarist Ross McNae wore a Palestine FC football shirt for Trnsmt festival on Glasgow Green on Friday.

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23 h. ago Oasis dominate UK album charts following start of world tour

Ahead of their first of five shows in Manchester’s Heaton Park, the rock band have re-entered the charts with three top five albums.

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24 h. ago Justin Bieber: Swag review – inane lyrics undermine a gorgeously produced R&B passion project

(Def Jam) The surprise seventh album from the former tween idol is musically expansive, abetted by a host of star producers. If only he’d thought about the words a bitIn the mid-2010s, pop music changed. Instead of hounding the listening public with focus-grouped, machine-tooled crowd-pleasers, the biggest stars began releasing expansive, experimental albums that played to their own tastes and interests. These were records that were artistically self-indulgent, mostly in a good way: Rihanna’s sleazy, sultry Anti, Beyoncé’s densely referential Lemonade, Lady Gaga’s soft-rock-heavy Joanne, Miley Cyrus’s psychedelic Wayne Coyne collaboration Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (I may be the only person who holds that example in such high regard.)With his fourth album Purpose, Justin Bieber was adjacent to this shift. Leaning into the ascendant tropical house genre, collaborating with Skrillex and pursuing a sound you sensed a 21-year-old might actually like, it spelled the end of Bieber’s ...

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27 h. ago Will Poulter wears wonky trousers and odd socks as Benedict Cumberbatch sports a moustache alongside Rami Malek as Hollywood's leading actors attend starry day 12 at Wimbledon

Hollywood's leading actors made sure to put on a stylish display as they joined Anna Wintour in leading the stars for the men's singles semi-finals at day 12 of Wimbledon.

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27 h. ago Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 review – a gnarly skating time capsule

PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2; Iron Galaxy Studios/ActivisionThis remake is a nostalgia fest of grabs, spins, flips and skids – and a stiff, even occasionally humiliating test of skillIt’s almost insulting how easily this skating-game remake pushes my millennial nostalgia buttons. The second that Ace of Spades comes on over a montage of skaters on the title screen, I am forcefully yanked back to the early 00s, when I spent untold hours playing one Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game or another in the gross bedrooms of my teen-boy friends. More than 20 years later, I can almost smell the acrid lingering odour of Lynx body spray.In 2020, the first couple of Tony Hawk’s games were polished up and re-released as the first wave of Y2K nostalgia hit. The two games were packaged up as one, with consistent controls and a new look that preserved the grungy feel of the originals, and the same is true for 3+4: levels, skaters and parks from both 2001’s THPS3 and 2002’s THPS4 rock...

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28 h. ago Will Poulter wears wonky trousers and odd socks as Benedict Cumberbatch sports a moustache alongside Rami Malek as Hollywood's leading actors attend a star

Hollywood's leading actors made sure to put on a stylish display as they joined Anna Wintour in leading the stars for the men's singles semi-finals at day 12 of Wimbledon.

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28 h. ago Lostprophets guitarist breaks 'years of silence' after vile Ian Watkins scandal

Former Lostprophets guitarist Lee Gaze has spoken out following "years of silence" after his band mate and rock band frontman, Ian Watkins, was convicted for child sex offences

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28 h. ago Love Island's 'most explosive Movie Night ever' as shock revelations rock villa

Tonight promises to see more explosive scenes

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35 h. ago Oasis fans handed warning ahead of Noel and Liam’s return to Manchester

Noel and Liam Gallagher’s rock band are playing five sold-out shows in their hometown this week

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40 h. ago Arkansas prison employees fired after 'Devil in the Ozarks' escape

Two Arkansas prison employees have been fired after an inmate known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" escaped in May

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43 h. ago Firefighters rescue dozens from burning high rise in Santiago

Firefighters in Chile’s capital have rescued over 100 people from a high-rise fire

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43 h. ago Coronation Street fans 'seal' huge arrival to rock Lisa Swain after family confirmation

More details were revealed about her family life as she attended her first therapy session in the ITV soap

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47 h. ago Sweet moment Ozzy Osbourne is given heartfelt gift by Yungblud ahead of final Black Sabbath show

Watch the touching moment that Ozzy Osbourne is given a heartfelt gift by singer Yungblud ahead of the rock icon’s final Black Sabbath performance.

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49 h. ago Fabled 60s folk rock band that took charts by storm outed as an AI

The Velvet Sundown boasts 1.1 million monthly Spotify listeners and took the number one spot on the app’s daily viral chart – but there's a bit of a catch with them

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50 h. ago Oasis and Black Sabbath are filling stadiums. But where’s the next wave of working

Ageing music legends are thriving, but we are making it too hard for young talent to break throughBritain, this summer at least, is going ballistic for the biggest bands from back in the day. The jubilance for the coming-back-together of Oasis and Black Sabbath is understandable. These acts are legends born from Britain’s working class.The reunion of Noel and Liam Gallagher has caused most excitement. Ever since the Britpop brothers announced themselves with their 1994 debut Definitely Maybe, their anthemic sounds have become part of the UK music canon. Wonderwall is an unofficial national anthem of sorts, one belted out after rounds of beers. With the Manchester indie rockers’ first shows in 16 years, more than 1 million fans will feel justified in splashing out about £766 on average (tickets, travel, hotels) in a total projected to crest £1bn.Dan Cave is a freelance journalist and writer Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Darts fartgate erupts as smirking star asked 'did you do what I thought you did'

Darts has erupted into another fartgate scandal as a smirking Rob Cross accused Josh Rock of tooting at the oche - "did you do what I thought you did"

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52 h. ago Oasis fans given warning ahead of Manchester Heaton Park shows

Noel and Liam Gallagher’s rock band are playing five sold-out shows in their hometown this week

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