56 h. ago Tony Christie's wife in awe as the singer defies dementia to keep performing

Music legend Tony Christie continues to perform despite his dementia diagnosis, with his wife Sue praising his determination as he tours and records new music.

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66 h. ago Legendary singer Johnny Mathis announces final ever performance after health woes

Musician Johnny Mathis has announced he will be stepping away from performing and revealed his final ever show in just two months time after an emotional health update

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3 d. ago Huge UK pop star surprises train riders with impromptu gig in unrecognisable disguise

One of the UK's most successful music artists surprised subway commuters in New York by performing an impromptu gig while disguised in a black hoodie, wig, and sunglasses

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4 d. ago Johnny Mathis, 89, retires from performing due to ‘age and memory issues’

The US crooner, whose career stretches back to 1956, will play four more scheduled concerts but cancels remainder of 2025 runJohnny Mathis, the US pop singer whose career stretches back to 1956, has announced his retirement from performing live.A statement posted to Facebook reads: “As many of you may already be aware, Johnny Mathis is approaching his 90th birthday this year. So, it’s with sincere regret that due to Mr Mathis’s age and memory issues which have accelerated, we are announcing his retirement from touring and live concerts.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Rapper Strandz stars in Music Box performance of ‘No Peace, No Time’

South-London rapper Strandz is on the rise thanks to his future-facing vision, with co-signs from elder statesmen including Stormzy and Digga D.

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5 d. ago The Wombats perform banger after banger but offer more than nostalgia on arena tour

DAILY STAR LIVE: The Wombats have spent the past week touring the country's biggest venues, reeling off their biggest hits (there's lots of them) which went down a treat no matter how new

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8 d. ago Simon Cowell takes another BGT golden buzzer for neurodivergent group

Electric Umbrella, a music and performance group from Watford with a variety of different ages, earned a fast track to the live semi-finals.

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1 week ago The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba review – playing for their lives

The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditionsWhen 13-year-old Pearl Pufeles disembarked from the cattle car at Auschwitz in March 1944, she was surprised to hear the strains of Dvořák and Smetana wafting towards her. “Gosh,” thought the Czechoslovakian schoolgirl, “this can’t be that bad if they play music here.” But it was that bad and, indeed, so much worse. Pearl and her twin sister Helen were swiftly selected as laboratory fodder for Dr Josef Mengele’s grotesque medical experiments.It isn’t clear which orchestra Pearl had heard that day. Auschwitz was a 15 sq mile complex with multiple sub-camps and there were at least six “official” orchestras staffed by prisoners who had been funnelled into southern Poland from all over Europe. Some of these orchestras concentrated on the classical repertoire, albeit without the Jewish composers Mendelssohn and Mahler. Others specialised in Sunday ...

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1 week ago Queen Máxima of the Netherlands puts on an elegant display as she attends musical performance in Kenya during state visit

The Dutch royal, 53, looked effortlessly chic in a stunning silk number on Wednesday as she set foot in the Marriot Hotel in Naivasha, Kenya.

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1 week ago Indie band Oracle Sisters perform spectacular Music Box session of ‘Marseille’ and ‘Riverside’

Paris-based indie-rock band Oracle Sisters stopped by the Music Box studio for a sublime performance of two original songs, “Marseille” and “Riverside”, both from their 2024 album Divinations.

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1 week ago 'Lucky' St. Patrick’s Day reveller falls through pub ceiling during gig

During the early hours of St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Toronto, a musician had their performance dramatically interrupted when a punter dressed all in green fell through the pub ceiling

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1 week ago ‘Something must have gone wrong with us’: David Cronenberg and Howard Shore on four decades of body horror

One is the master of gruesome horror, the other is the composer who scored his most famous films. They sit down to discuss their 46-year collaboration, and the unlikely source of their darkest, most disturbing inspirationWhat would having sex in a car crash sound like, as music? What about a gynaecological exam performed by identical twins, or a man’s transmogrification into a grotesque human-insectoid hybrid? These are just some of the challenges faced, over more than 40 years and upwards of a dozen films, by the composer Howard Shore as part of his long collaboration with the director David Cronenberg. Shore, 78, may have won three Oscars for the magisterial sweep of his Lord of the Rings score, but it is his work on the 81-year-old Cronenberg’s notorious body-horror movies, from The Fly to Dead Ringers and Crash, that is most indelible. Those last two films will be screening this month as part of a wider tribute to Shore’s work at the London Soundtrack fe...

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2 w. ago Washington worried with Trump back in town: ‘The atmosphere is toxic here’

The Kennedy Center and BLM mural have been targeted, the newspaper is in freefall – and the Maga movement is gaining a footholdIt was an audience more accustomed to stifling a cough or resisting the temptation to unwrap a sweet. But when they spotted vice-president JD Vance taking his seat at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Thursday night, classical music-goers erupted in unrestrained boos, jeers and shouts of “You ruined this place!”The noisy protest exemplified a culture clash taking place in the nation’s capital. It came in the same week that work began to remove a giant “Black Lives Matter” mural near the White House, a top political columnist quit the Washington Post newspaper and a spending bill passed by the House of Representatives sought to impose drastic budget cuts of $1.1bn on the District of Columbia (DC). Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Broadway's Eva Noblezada, Jonathan Groff, Jeremy Jordan, Ben Platt and Kelli O’Hara star on album

Lea Salonga stepped onto a Manhattan stage last spring and sang something unusual for her — “Edelweiss” from the musical “The Sound of Music,” a song usually performed by the paternal Captain von Trapp

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2 w. ago Talented young musicians perform at concert in Motherwell raising money for Alzheimer's charity

Olivia Bowden and Marco Festorazzi entertained at the United Services club

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2 w. ago Indiana artist Stephen Wilson Jr sings ‘Deathcab for Country’ songs in Music Box session

Indiana-born, Nashville-based artist Stephen Wilson Jr dropped by the Music Box studio to perform “Kid” and “Billy”, both from his extraordinary 2023 album søn of dad.

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2 w. ago Huge noughties music icon makes rare performance outside McDonald's in viral video

An iconic noughties music legend has shocked fans by performing outside a London McDonalds', going viral in a video on TikTok for his rendition of one of his hits

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2 w. ago Britpop legends to perform at beer and music festival in Manchester suburb

It is returning for a second year

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2 w. ago ‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh

The wild child ‘gabber pop’ rapper was booted off last year’s song contest. But his song Europapa eclipsed the winner’s – and he’s about to tour the world in his gigantic shoulder padsJoost Klein is arguably the first artist to triumph at the Eurovision song contest without actually performing in the final. In May last year, the 27-year-old Dutch wild child “gabber pop” rapper was disqualified from the world’s largest live music event just hours before he was due to perform Europapa to 170 million TV viewers around the globe.This song – a chaotic but catchy ode to the father he lost as a teenager, and to the free movement of people ethos his father instilled in him – was touted as a favourite. But instead of gearing up for his big moment, Klein spent seven hours that day sitting in his changing room in a reflex-blue, Ursula-von-der-Leyen-meets-Vivienne-Westwood suit with gigantic shoulder pads, fearing he was about to be arrested – on live TV – over a “backstage incident” after the ...

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3 w. ago Rizzle Kicks look back: ‘Because of how fast it went, we became delusional about how easy it was to get successful’

Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sulé on their early success, breakup, and why good friendships are like the tideJordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sulé started making music at the Brit school for performing arts in south London. In 2011, they released their debut album, Stereo Typical, which featured Top 10 hits including Down With the Trumpets and Mama Do the Hump. Rizzle Kicks went on hiatus in 2016, due to addiction and mental health problems. They are now back with Competition Is for Losers, their first album in a decade. Continue reading...

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