32 h. ago There were two paths for America and Lilith Fair was one of them. Sadly it chose the other | Emma Brockes

The all-female tour was a counterpoint to the era’s misogyny. We could do with some of that promise todayThere’s an argument to be made that the first person in the US to spot the oncoming freight train of the Maga movement – fully 17 years before the first election of Trump – wasn’t a political forecaster or a bearded contrarian but the rock star Sheryl Crow. In 1999, Crow appeared at a press conference backstage at Lilith Fair, the all-women music festival, during which she was asked about a disastrous appearance she had recently made at Woodstock ‘99. This was the Woodstock reboot in upstate New York marred by violence, sexual assault and an angry male crowd that heckled the few female artists present with, “show us your tits.” Crowe, smiling bleakly, said, “I’m hoping it doesn’t represent our future as a nation or the youth of America.”Well, as they say: ha. Crow’s comments feature in Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, a new documentary by Ally Pankiw on Disney+ and a mind-blowing...

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52 h. ago Robbie Williams reveals diagnosis as he opens up on 'intrusive thoughts'

The pop singer opened up about taking an online test to see if he had any symptoms of autism

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52 h. ago Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James on scandals, reunions and her beef with Elvis Costello

She became an 80s pop icon – and a media hate figure. Now, reforming her group after more than 30 years, James recalls her painful path through through the music business, surviving ‘Harvey Weinstein-type’ situations, and working with punk’s finestBy 1989, Wendy James and her pop-rock band Transvision Vamp had reached the UK No 1 spot with their second album, two of their singles had been in the top five, and James, with her peroxide blond hair and fondness for lingerie and leather, had crossed the pop-rock divide as a cover star for both Smash Hits and NME. “I thought I was going to be bigger than Madonna,” she says, “and I was pretty sure I was going to win an Oscar.”Instead, everything unravelled within two years: the band split up after their third album was poorly received, and James vanished from the public eye for a decade. She later built a solo career, and hasn’t wanted to revisit the past. “Everyone fucking reforms,” she says, sat in a cafe in Toulouse close to where she h...

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3 d. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – solid biopic both embraces and avoids cliche

New York film festival: Jeremy Allen White is a convincingly tortured rock star in this smartly narrow and specific look at a particular chapter of music historyThe genre of the musical biopic is one that, as Timothée Chalamet acknowledged while accepting a Sag award for playing Bob Dylan earlier this year, “could be perhaps tired”. The beats of the genre – the initial obstacles, the double-edged sword of success, the actors’ pursuit of industry awards for spirited impersonation – are by now so familiar that you’re almost expected to enter with more than a bit of skepticism, even when the artist at hand is one as widely beloved as Bruce Springsteen.Like A Complete Unknown, in which Chalamet portrayed Dylan from 1961 until his pivot to electric in 1965, Deliver Me from Nowhere, Springsteen’s authorized biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, tries to thread a difficult needle between offering the standard treats and subverting expectations, between narrativizing genius and resisting hagi...

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3 d. ago Myleene Klass ‘feared for family safety when obsessed stalker sent Catwoman outfit & called her “naughty vixen” in note’

MYLEENE Klass was worried for her and her family's safety when an obsessive stalker sent her items with "sexual overtones" including a Catwoman outfit, a court heard. The pop singer-turned DJ, 47, was also allegedly sent a note by Peter Windsor, 61, on another occasion calling her a "naughty vixen" and asked her to correct...

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4 d. ago Designer brand loved by footballers opens first ever menswear store in Manchester

The new Louis Vuitton boutique has also been designed by a rock star

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7 d. ago Lip reader reveals Donald Trump's furious eight words to Melania in tense exchange

Donald Trump and Melania Trump were filmed having a heated exchange on the South Lawn on Wednesday night, with a lip reader now revealing what was said between the pair

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7 d. ago Donald Trump's explosive eight words to Melania Trump during tense conversation

Donald Trump and Melania Trump were filmed having a heated exchange on the South Lawn on Wednesday night, with a lip reader now revealing what was said between the pair

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7 d. ago Cat On The Road To Findout by Yusuf/Cat Stevens review – fame, faith and charity

The enigmatic singer-songwriter on pop stardom, becoming a Muslim and returning to the stage decades laterWhen Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusuf Islam and announced his conversion to the Muslim faith and retirement from music in the late 70s, Bob Dylan apparently remarked that he had “finally stopped trying to be the prophet and begun to follow The Prophet”. It’s a quote that Islam reproduces in his autobiography, viewing it as a benediction, but it also tells you something about the music that made him globally famous.In the early 70s, the charts were awash with sensitive folky singer-songwriters. Their constituency, as Islam perceptively notes, was “the college generation, away from home, lonely and trying to find their place in the university of high academic expectations”. But none were as obsessed with spirituality as Cat Stevens, with his album titles that namechecked Buddha or referenced Zen poems, his conceptual song cycles based on numerology, his lyrical...

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7 d. ago Pop singer Lulu admits for the first time that she had sex with legendary rock star David Bowie

The singer, 76, and the legendary Starman hitmaker had a romance in the 1970s after meeting at a hotel in Sheffield.

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7 d. ago Pop singer Lulu admits she had sex with legendary rock star and reveals pair had ‘deep connection’

POP star Lulu has confirmed for the first time that she did have sex with David Bowie. The Scots singer, 76, previously told of their “amazing” bond while collaborating in the 1970s. But now she has revealed she did sleep with the Ziggy Stardust icon, who she called the “coolest dude on the block”. She...

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7 d. ago Strictly's Katya Jones shares 'babies' update as Lewis Cope gets new 'role' away from training room

The pair are currently preparing for their first performance after they were revealed as one of the BBC dance contest's couples

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8 d. ago Legendary rock star Roland Orzabal, 64, welcomes first baby with wife as unique name revealed

An eighties rock star has become a dad again after his wife, who is over 20 years younger than him, gave birth to their first child together

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9 d. ago Lulu left 'so ashamed' after hiding alcoholism battle from her own son

Pop legend Lulu recently opened up about her struggles with alcoholism, admitting she was a functioning alcoholic and managed to mask it so much, her own son didn't know

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1 week ago Conor Maynard mocks Charlotte Chilton paternity scandal following engagement

The pop singer uses a spoof ‘press conference’ to address year-long speculation over fathering Chilton’s baby

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1 week ago Matt Goss, 56, reveals he's engaged to jewellery designer girlfriend Chantal Brown as he shares hopes he'll reconcile with estranged brother Luke

Single since his days as a heart-throb to millions of teenage girls in the 1980s, Matt Goss is finally getting married. The Bros pop singer has proposed to his girlfriend, the jewellery designer Chantal Brown.

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1 week ago Jon Bon Jovi speaks out about becoming a grandfather after son Jake and Millie Bobby Brown adopt baby

The rock star says being a grandfather is ‘crazy but great’

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1 week ago ‘I channelled my anger into a diss track’: what fuels the in

The band’s melodic new indie-punk album seems a change of pace. But it can’t mask the frontman’s brutal honesty. He talks about childhood trauma – and partying with Post MaloneWhen Ian Shelton was growing up in Enumclaw, a small town near Seattle, coming home from school was a constant step into the unknown. “I was living in fear of the next fucked-up experience,” he says. Sitting in a store room above the London venue his band Militarie Gun will later fill with shoutalong aggro-pop energy, the singer is jetlagged but animated as he puts himself back there, his sandy hair peeking from beneath the hood of his sweatshirt. “Twice, my bus pulled up as an ambulance pulled away from our house,” he continues. “There was never a point when you were safe from things getting worse.”Shelton says his childhood was defined by addiction. His mother was a relapsed alcoholic, meaning rehab, AA meetings and spells in jail. Often, it fell to him to look out for his younger siblings. “There was a huge...

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1 week ago Priscilla Presley dishes on daughter Lisa Marie's sex life with 'manipulative' Michael Jackson

She recalled how she once asked her daughter about rumors surrounding her romance with the pop singer nearly 30 years ago prior to their eventual split.

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2 w. ago ‘I tried to escape with drugs, pills and alcohol’: Björn Borg on his misery and mayhem after quitting tennis

The sporting superstar walked away from success and adulation at 26 – much to everyone’s bemusement. He opens up about his secret life and the depression, cocaine, overdoses and aggressive cancer that almost killed him‘I’m a person who doesn’t say very much,” Björn Borg says with a wry smile. Which may be the understatement of the century. Borg, the greatest tennis player of his day, has spent 42 years saying nothing since he announced his retirement at the age of 26.When he broke that news in 1983, it was one of the biggest shocks in the history of sport. Not simply because he was at his peak, but also because he was the rock star tennis player – beautiful, mysterious and followed by a flock of teenybopper fans. When Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz triumphed in the US Open earlier this month, aged 22, he became the second youngest player to have won six major tournaments. Borg beat him by four months. Continue reading...

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