2 h. ago Nineties anthem from iconic rock band is crowned the best British song of all time

Live Forever by Oasis has topped a new poll of the best British song of all time.

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15 h. ago Oasis track tops Radio X poll of best British song of all time

Liam and Noel Gallagher are loved by millions and have an impressive 16 tracks in the top 100 Best British Songs poll from Global radio station, Radio X

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3 d. ago Jack Black’s A Minecraft Movie song becomes shortest track to enter UK charts

The song Steve’s Lava Chicken has a running time of just 34 seconds.

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2 w. ago David Schwimmer reveals he couldn’t listen to Friends theme tune for years

Actor says he had to hear I’ll Be There for You so many times, he could no longer bear itThe Friends actor David Schwimmer spent years unable to listen to the theme tune of his smash-hit comedy, he revealed yesterday. According to the star, he was forced to hear it so many times at the height of his fame that the mere sound of it made him feel miserable.“I’ll be really honest, there was a time for quite a while that just hearing the theme song would really uggh,” he said during an appearance on Matt Lucas and David Walliams’ Making a Scene podcast. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics

A revelation at Pontins fuelled the producer to avant garde acclaim. But with ‘sublime’ sounds came struggles with substances. Her intense new album peels back the plaster‘Kissed by a witch, I got hexed!” Aya howls through a storm of screaming electronics and bass groans on I Am the Pipe I Hit Myself With. The song revisits a time before Aya Sinclair was one of the UK avant garde’s most exciting talents – when she was still a Huddersfield teenager, newly into Christian rock. The music gave her “this tingly, bubbly sensation”, she says. “And someone said: ‘This is the holy spirit.’” The experience led her to join a Pentecostal congregation for a couple of years, but after confiding in a church friend about some “feelings” – Sinclair would later come out as a trans woman – she was “kicked out for being queer, essentially. I was given an ultimatum, to either closet myself or leave.” As she whispers in this track, over the quickening click of a Geiger counter, “they had me out on a witc...

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3 w. ago Zayn Malik pays emotional tribute to One Direction on 10th anniversary of his exit from band

An emotional Zayn Malik performed the One Direction song Night Changes for the first time in 10 years and on the anniversary of the day he left the band.

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3 w. ago Sir Elton John 'cried for 45 minutes' thinking about 'how long he has left'

The Rocket Man singer revealed he was recording a new song when he began to weep after contemplating how much time he has left on Earth

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4 w. ago Queen's Brian May shares favourite songs of all time – but iconic song is missing

Queen guitarist Brian May has shared some of his favourite songs that the band released during their approximately 20 years together – but fans are surprised by his choices

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4 w. ago Hollyoaks legend 'honoured' as original song appears in Channel 4 soap

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Clapham, who has played Freddie Roscoe in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks since 2013, has spoken out as his original song Time to Ride played out in the show in a huge 'first' for the actor

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4 w. ago Hollyoaks' Charlie Clapham breaks silence as his original song appears in Channel 4 soap

EXCLUSIVE: Hollyoaks actor Charlie Clapham has opened up about his song Time to Ride being used in the soap for the first time as his character Freddie Roscoe made a shocking return

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4 w. ago ‘I was too shy to tell Bieber how much I loved him’: Lisa from Blackpink’s honest playlist

The K-pop superstar on the pop hit that kickstarted her music career, and why she can no longer listen to one of her band’s biggest songsThe first song I fell in love with I’m an only child. My older cousin would come round to play at my house, and she was a big fan of Britney Spears. She put on Baby One More Time and I was like: “What is this song? I love it.” I watched the music video and fell in love with her.The first record I bought I was a big fan of K-pop band BigBang before I moved from Thailand to Korea. I bought Taeyang’s first solo album Solar from Myeongdong, Korea’s famous shopping and fashion district where all the tourists go. Continue reading...

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