28 h. ago BBC Strictly gave me 'confidence boost' says Jo Wood after split from music icon

Former Strictly Come Dancing star Jo Wood appeared on Thursday's episode of Loose Women as she spoke about her split from Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood

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28 h. ago Jo Wood says Strictly Come Dancing saved her after split from Rolling Stone legend Ronnie

Former Strictly Come Dancing star Jo Wood appeared on ITV's Loose Women where she opened up about her split from her music icon husband after 30 years

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4 d. ago Lorde 'goes public with new man at Glastonbury' after playing surprise set

The music icon was reportedly seen packing on the PDA with her 33-year-old man as the blossoming couple attended the iconic festival.

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4 d. ago Huge pop star 'goes public for the first time with new man at Glastonbury' after playing surprise set

The music icon was reportedly seen packing on the PDA with her 33-year-old man as the blossoming couple attended the iconic festival.

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4 d. ago Rod Stewart's lovely moment with wife Penny Lancaster as he performs at Glastonbury

The music icon delivered a powerhouse performance in the legends slot at Glastonbury Festival on Sunday

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4 d. ago How much Rod Stewart was paid for legends slot in Glastonbury 2025

Rod Stewart took to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Sunday afternoon, with the music icon revealing how much he was getting paid ahead of his performance

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8 d. ago UK’s biggest singer set for epic comeback with new music and surprise Glastonbury set

A Scottish music icon is said to be making his long-awaited comeback to music at Glastonbury after he took a step back in June 2023

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9 d. ago BBC snub music icon as Glastonbury headliner won't be shown on TV

Neil Young is set to headline Glastonbury on Saturday night, but BBC One will be showing Charlie XCX's set from the other stage on TV.

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2 w. ago From Street Fighter to Final Fantasy: Yoko Shimomura, the composer who put the classical in gaming’s classics

With a four-decade career beginning at Capcom in the 8-bit era, Shimomura is one of the most acclaimed names in gaming. She recalls her early struggles – and explains why her beloved classical music fits best with RPGsAlfred Hitchcock, David Attenborough, Harold Pinter, Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Hideo Kojima – these are just a few of the recipients of the Bafta fellowship, the highest honour the academy can bestow. Japanese composer Yoko Shimomura is the latest to receive the accolade; one of only 17 women and four Japanese people to have done so. She is also the first video-game composer to be recognised by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the first composer recognised at all since John Barry in 2005.It is with good reason that the academy has honoured her. Shimomura is an icon. You’ll know her music from Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Mana, Streets of Rage and more than 70 other games she has contributed original comp...

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2 w. ago Mötley Crüe recruit Dolly Parton for new version of Home Sweet Home

The rock legends have joined forces with none other than country music icon Dolly on a 40th anniversary version of the power ballad originally released on the 1985 album Theatre of Pain, and again in 1991 for the Decade of Decadence 81-91 compilation album.

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2 w. ago Cypress Hill: ‘We made plenty of tracks when we weren’t high’

Hip-hop superstars Sen Dog and B-Real talk to Stevie Chick about surviving their early gang-banging days, making an orchestral album with the LSO, the concept of retirement and why they think there weren’t ‘any bigger stoners than the two of us’

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2 w. ago Music icon hailed as 'next Prince' changed his name after ditching fame

Terence Trent D'Arby was a huge name in the late 1980s with his debut album earning him critical acclaim and a host of awards but his career would take a very different path

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2 w. ago Six great reads: the trouble with ‘great men’, Fire Island’s hedonistic party palaces and close encounters with Sly Stone

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...

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3 w. ago LCD Soundsystem honour Brian Wilson and Sly Stone at residency’s opening night

The New York group played at London’s Brixton Academy.

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3 w. ago Two musical revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, leave life's stage nearly simultaneously

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries

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3 w. ago 'I was in bed with P Diddy when Cassie assault video surfaced

Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-girlfriend took the stand this week in the rap mogul's sex trafficking trial, testifying about her relationship with the embattled music icon

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3 w. ago ‘We invented karaoke!’ – how Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley swapped his punk

Hits like ‘Ever Fallen in Love’ made the Mancunian punk’s sensitive bard – until he recast himself as a queer-pop electro pioneer and found himself banned by the BBC. Stevie Chick revisits a musical trailblazer

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3 w. ago ‘Send me some money!’ My unforgettable encounters with the legendary Sly Stone

He went from the towering highs of the 60s and 70s, where he changed the face of music, to the shambolic lows of a decades-long addiction. But interviewing the music genius over the years showed me a man who was awed, revered and strangely shySly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82A trailblazer and icon of hope and painSly Stone – a life in picturesIn 2013, there didn’t seem much point in requesting an interview with Sly Stone. It was 31 years since he had released an album of new material, Ain’t But the One Way, which he had abandoned midway through, vanishing completely from the studio and leaving the producer Stewart Levine to patch together what he could. It was longer still since he had produced any music that was even vaguely close to the standard he had set himself in the late 60s and early 70s – a six-year period bookended by the release of the groundbreaking single Dance to the Music in 1967 and his last truly classic album, Fresh, in 1973 – when he could...

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3 w. ago Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watchSly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!Sly Stone – a life in picturesEven though he recorded three of funk’s most foundational albums – four if you include 1970’s Greatest Hits, as flawless a good time as pop ever delivered – Sly Stone’s subsequent fall from grace was perceived as a grave betrayal of his talent. That Stone’s unravelling was so conspicuous – his drug abuse apparent in every wasted chat show appearance, his infallible hit-machine waning after his Family Stone became estranged – only exacerbated the sting of this loss. But Stone’s imperial era lasted almost a decade and delivered a discography that remains the acme of funk. He changed the course of pop and reconfigured the structure and essence of dance music, multiple times. He was an icon of hope, of pain,...

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3 w. ago Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain | Stevie Chick

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watchSly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!Sly Stone – a life in picturesEven though he recorded three of funk’s most foundational albums – four if you include 1970’s Greatest Hits, as flawless a good time as pop ever delivered – Sly Stone’s subsequent fall from grace was perceived as a grave betrayal of his talent. That Stone’s unravelling was so conspicuous – his drug abuse apparent in every wasted chat show appearance, his infallible hit-machine waning after his Family Stone became estranged – only exacerbated the sting of this loss. But Stone’s imperial era lasted almost a decade and delivered a discography that remains the acme of funk. He changed the course of pop and reconfigured the structure and essence of dance music, multiple times. He was an icon of hope, of pain,...

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