5 d. ago The One Show host Roman Kemp takes swipe at dad Martin over 'worst' career mistake

The One Show's Roman Kemp didn't hold back on his thoughts as he discussed his dad Martin Kemp's major career mistake from his time in Spandau Ballet

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5 d. ago The One Show's Roman Kemp brands dad Martin an ‘idiot’ after owning up to big 'mistake'

Martin Kemp has starred in movies and TV shows, as well as making dozens of hit records with his band Spandau Ballet – but his son Roman had some harsh words for his dad and fellow bandmates

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7 d. ago The Proclaimers: Iconic Scottish music hit I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) to be brought to Winter Olympics

The ice dance pair have created a Scottish-themed programme

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1 week ago Chappell Roan fans just learn what 'Pink Pony Club' is actually about

Chappell Roan has been making waves in the music industry over the past year or so but her big hit, "Pink Pony Club", is actually about something very specific. People are only now making the link

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1 week ago Spandau Ballet to release lost music in hit of 80s nostalgia

The song was recorded in the pop band’s early days when they were named ‘Gentry’

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1 week ago Lost Spandau Ballet song Eyes from band’s early days to be released

The track, which featured in the band’s Blitz Club sets, will feature on a new box set of the group’s early work.

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1 week ago ‘No Russian words from my lips, no Russian music from my hand’: the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra hit the UK

With apps giving them air-raid warnings, the Kyiv-based musicians now see themselves as soldiers and their instruments as weapons. So what will they play when they arrive in Britain this month?‘People often ask me about my work with Ukrainian musicians,” says the Canadian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson. “They will say things like, ‘How are things out there? We don’t hear much about the war, I guess it’s all calmed down a bit.’ When I hear that I want to scream, ‘No, it really hasn’t calmed down!’.”Wilson established the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in the weeks after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. With her husband, Peter Gelb, general manager of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, she contacted leaders of the world’s top international orchestras and located dozens of elite Ukrainian musicians – some working in western Europe, some who had fled Russia, others performing in Kyiv, Lviv or Odesa – to establish a 75-piece “battalion of culture” who would assemble for ...

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2 w. ago The 'lost' Vera Lynn tracks you've never heard: WWII Forces' Sweetheart's audition recordings to be released 90 years on

The late singer's first records were found when Dame Vera's daughter donated her mother's record collection to the British Library after she moved out of her home in East Sussex.

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2 w. ago Lost Soul Aside release date and when you can explore the game's dark and monster

Lost Soul Aside is coming to PS5 and PC as a dark fantasy action-adventure RPG, and it's set to be a great time. Here's when you can expect the game to arrive

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3 w. ago Thousands of music fans say one iconic hit is the 'best song in history'

Music fans have been taking to social media to share the best song in history - and it turns out that thousands of people around the world totally agree with one song

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3 w. ago Bella Thorne’s honest playlist: ‘I wrote an essay about why I admire Lil Wayne for school’

The actor has a soft spot for Olivia Rodrigo and can’t listen to any of her exes’ music, but which wintry Christmas hit did she sing at a summer karaoke?The first song I fell in love with When I was a kid, my mom gave me her iPod, and I fell in love with all her music from the 70s and 80s. I’d sing Call Me by Blondie at the top of my lungs, jumping on the bed. What a great song.The first single I downloaded I was in [Disney sitcom] Shake It Up when I started falling in love with hip-hop. I went on a binge and discovered BedRock by Young Money. I was so obsessed that I ended up writing an essay about why I admire Lil Wayne for school. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Roman Kemp makes sad admission over his ‘Billy No Mates’ ex Spandau Ballet star dad Martin

BBC One Show star Roman Kemp revealed on a podcast with Tom Grennan that his dad thinks of his wife, son and daughter as his best friends

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3 w. ago Tim Minchin reveals the work he’s most proud of: ‘I love it’

Exclusive: Composer and lyricist was thrust into the spotlight after writing the music for the hit show ‘Matilda’, but cited another project as one of his best works

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