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Rock 'n' roll legend Little Richard is the subject of a new PBS American Masters documentary.He's shown above rehearsing at London's Wembley Stadium in 1972.Tim Graham/Evening Standard/Getty Images In 1956, Elvis Presley exploded onto the music scene, changing music history.One of the songs on Presley's introductory album was his rendition of "Tutti Frutti," a song released the previous year by singer, musician and composer Richard Penniman, famously known as Little Richard.

Monty Python star Sir Michael Palin will be among the famous faces to appear in a new exhibition to celebrate 75 years of NHS charities.The series is led by renowned artist Rankin and NHS Charities Together, the national charity caring for the NHS.Titled Love and Charity: A History of Giving in the NHS, it will celebrate the vital role charities have played throughout the health service's history.

Oprah Winfrey said Tina Turner was our forever goddess of rock n' roll and hailed her courage as a domestic abuse survivor following her death.The US TV talk show host said Turner was a role model not only for me but for the world, as she paid tribute to the singer.Turner, one of rock's most famous voices with hits including Proud Mary and The Best died at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland on Wednesday after a long illness.

Tina Turner has been remembered as someone who enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow following her death at the age of 83.The singer, one of rock's most famous voices who had hits including Proud Mary and The Best, died at her home in Switzerland on Wednesday after a long illness.

Singer Tina Turner, one of rock's most famous voices who had hits including Proud Mary and The Best, has died at the age of 83 after a long illness, her publicist Bernard Doherty told the PA news agency.In a career spanning more than 60 years, the American-Swiss singer, who was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, won eight competitive Grammy Awards and has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the St Louis Walk of Fame.

Glastonbury Festival has renamed its John Peel Stage after nearly 20 years.Co-organiser Emily Eavis told the Guardian it would now be called the Woodsies Stage as part of a push to name stages after the fields they are located in, such as West Holts and Silver Hayes.She also confirmed the move was not related to a recent petition, that attracted less than 2,000 signatures, that called for the change due to Peel having married a 15-year-old girl when he was 25.

Born Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, Turner grew up in rural Nutbush, Tenn., but also spent time in Knoxville, as her parents moved there for work.Growing up, she had a distant relationship with both her father, who abandoned the family when she was 13, and mother.But performing came naturally, and became her solace.

Samantha Irby is a people person.That is to say, she's a person who is fascinated by people their obsessions, their hypocrisies, even the things they weirdly reveal about themselves in their anonymous, online product reviews.Yes, Irby loves to observe her fellow humans.But being human herself, she also trains her most critical and most cynical eye inward.

To those readers who prize "relatability," Catherine Lacey's latest novel may as well come wrapped in a barbed wire book jacket.There is almost nothing about Biography of X, as this novel is called, that welcomes a reader in least of all, its enigmatic central character, a fierce female artist who died in 1996 and who called herself "X," as well as a slew of other names.

By Adriana Roberts It was a night to remember at the Castro Theatre as a community came together to mourn but mostly to celebrate the life of iconic drag legend, Heklina, who sadly passed away last month while preparing for her Mommie Queerest show with Peaches Christ in London.Though to be fair, the only reason she would have hated it is because she wasn't the one organizing, booking, and promoting it or making money off of it.

Linda Lewis, a critically acclaimed soul singer and songwriter whose pyrotechnic voice propelled four Top 10 singles as a solo artist in her native Britain and led to work as a backup vocalist on acclaimed albums by stars like David Bowie, Cat Stevens and Rod Stewart, died on May 3 at her home in Waltham Abbey, outside London.

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Who Am I? We all have two faces, indeed.But few polarise these two sides like Lou Reed: rugged like a rock immune to erosion or lovable until fainting.Sitting uncomfortably, during a brief interview with Spanish public television - a few hours before his 2003 Bilbao concert - he is giving his most petrified expression to the camera.

There were several uplifting moments in 2022, ranging from a Hollywood star seen mooching around the biscuit aisle of a British supermarket to an origami masterpiece made with one sheet of paper.Here is a look at some of the PA news agency's top picks from across the year.Finnish origami artist creates masterpiece using one sheet of paper Juho Konkkola, from Jyvaskyla, completed a two-year project in January after 109 hours of folding to create a piece depicting two sword-wielding knights engaged in battle.

Every home keeps the stories of its past inhabitants, but in the case of a 2,200-square-foot apartment in a stately 1923 building in Los Angeles's Koreatown, the current occupants  he a cinematographer and she a TV writer  are also its resident historians.In 2007, as undergraduates, they hit it off at a party there shortly after the cinematographer had moved into the place with other students from the University of Southern California.

The worst thing about this hyperspeed artificial intelligence race is that, even if you are used to expecting the unexpected, the bloody thing keeps surprising you by opening new cans of worms every other day.And this weekly roundup has truck-size cans overflowing with worms the size of elephant trunks among the release of Stability.ai's

Cassandra Jackson was in her 30s when she first encountered the expression replacement child, and it took her breath away.Coined by psychologists in the '60s to describe a son or daughter conceived to fill the void after another child's death, the term is the closest I will come, Jackson writes in her anguished, affecting memoir, THE WRECK: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother (Viking, 307 pp., $28), to a name for what I am.

There is no doubt that the coronation ceremony in London's Westminster Abbey will be a solemn affair, with music befitting the occasion.As he wanted a contemporary touch, King Charles III commissioned 12 new pieces of music, among others from musical legend Andrew Lloyd Webber and film composer Patrick Doyle.

People around the world love listening to Beethoven, driving BMWs and consuming Black Forest cake.These German products are definitely in demand.But what about movies?Berlin, June 24th, 2020.Update: December 5th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - People who say they dislike German films probably have not watched the most impressive ones.

The 1990s were a golden era for bands touring Japan.The yen was strong against the dollar, and everyone from Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins to Bikini Kill and bands on small labels like Huggy Bear played to enthusiastic crowds, but the Pixies broke up before they ever got a chance to play a single show in Japan.

Linda Lewis, the British singer-songwriter whose career spanned more than four decades, has died at the age of 72.Her family confirmed her death on Wednesday night, with her sister Dee Lewis Clay sharing the news on social media.It is with the greatest sadness and regret we share the news that our beloved beautiful sister Linda Lewis passed away today peacefully at her home, she wrote.

Singer-songwriter Linda Lewis, whose career spanned more than four decades, has died at the age of 72, her family has confirmed.Known for a five-octave vocal range and ability to perform a wide array of genres, she enjoyed solo success in the 1970s and provided backing vocals for such artists as David Bowie and Rod Stewart.

Brian Eno and Fred Again.. have cooked up a collaborative album called Secret Life that's arriving this Friday, May 5th via Four Tet 's Text Records.Four Tet announced Secret Life on social media, calling it "the most beautiful album of 2023."The project will be available on CD and vinyl.

Michel Haddi is exhibiting photographs he took of Kate Moss and Cameron Diaz in London.Haddi has photographed a host of celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Clint Eastwood, David Bowie, Tupac Shakur and Sir Sean Connery, and will showcase his images of other stars such as Uma Thurman and Linda Evangelista at international photography fair Photo London this month.

The team behind longstanding Brickell pizzeria Stanzione 87 and its sister outpost inside the Citadel food hall, Ash! Pizza, has debuted its latest pizza concept: ThoroughBread Pizza.Located across the street from the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus in Downtown Miami, it offers pizzas for those on the go in a counter-service environment.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails From Major Tom to Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, the many faces and inspirations of David Bowie are getting a permanent home in London.Britain's Victoria & Albert Museum announced Thursday that it has acquired Bowie's archive of more than 80,000 items as a gift from the late musician's estate.

Happy New Year, everyone!We made it to a new year, and that's cause for celebration.Say cheers to 2023 at Phillips After 5, or start off your new year's resolutions at an exercise and wellness class.If you are still game for more holiday fun, stroll through DC Holiday Lights before the festivities end this week.

The actor Gary Oldman knows a few things about playing spies.He picked up the first of his three Oscar nominations for his portrayal of George Smiley, the agent at the heart of the 2011 movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which was adapted from John le Carre's thriller by the same name.(He won in 2018, for The Darkest Hour.)

Origins is a recurring series giving artists a space to break down everything that went into their latest release.Today, producer Bob Rock digs into his posthumous Gord Downie collaboration "Greyboy Says."Prominent producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Motley Crüe, The Offspring) and Gord Downie, the late frontman of The Tragically Hip, have released "Greyboy Says," the latest preview of their upcoming album, Lustre Parfait.

Nobody who has watched can get the theme song out of their head.The Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe-penned track almost certainly has something to do with the massive success of the show.That opening yeahhahh is such a perfect hook, a combination of Beatles and Creedence Clearwater Revival influences.In 2021, Mumford said the goal was to create something that "feel[s] somewhere halfway between London and Kansas, where Ted's from."

Suzy McKee Charnas, an award-winning feminist science fiction writer who in a four-novel series created a post-holocaust, male-dominated society called the Holdfast that is liberated by an army of women, died on Jan. 2 at her home in Albuquerque.She was 83.David Szanton, a cousin, said the cause was a heart attack.

When conversations arise about the greatest hard rock debut albums, the usual selections immediately come to mind for many - offerings by Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, and Guns N' Roses, to name a few.But one debut that seems to get overlooked quite often is the 1974 self-titled album from KISS.At the time, glam rock was beginning to be phased out - David Bowie would soon stop shaving his eyebrows and drop the makeup for his streamlined "Thin White Duke" persona; Alice Cooper was about to go solo and embrace ballads; and the New York Dolls were on the cusp of imploding.

30,000 people, more than 80 artists, four stages of music, 50+ food traders and two unforgettable days make Reggae Land the most complete and authentic reggae experience in the UK.This year's bumper weekender takes place on August 5th and 6th 2023 at all new supersized venue The National Bowl in Milton Keynes.

https://reggaeland.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/reggaelanduk/Reggae Land 2023 is going to be bigger and better than ever before as it moves to the legendary "The Milton Keynes National Bowl".Taking place on 5th and 6th August there will be a heavyweight lineup of artists from across the reggae and dub spectrum with both red-hot new stars, enduring pioneers and plenty of legends all playing in a family-friendly and authentic Caribbean wonderland.

As cars loudly race up Laurel Canyon Boulevard on their way from Hollywood to the Valley, the Canyon Country Store sits quietly in the middle of the street.Walking into the quaint, unassuming grocery store is like stepping into a time capsule, one filled with a legendary musical past.The store is like a shrine to the neighborhood's famous residents.

Over a 55-year career, David Bowie redefined the essence of cool by embracing an outsider status.Now, Ziggy Stardust and all of the musician's other personas will have a permanent home.The Victoria and Albert Museum in London will house more than 80,000 items from Bowie's career at a new David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing Arts, the museum announced on Thursday.

You were one of the first non-guitar headline acts at Glastonbury [in 1990].Was the crowd ready for you?JulestheRun Kelvin Mercer, AKA Posdnuos: I didn't really know that, but we were pulled into a world that was already at superstar status.We were learning on the job.The first tour we ever did was with LL Cool J, NWA, Slick Rick and Public Enemy.

The LP, which famously featured the singer posing with a lightning flash on his face for the cover art, was Bowie's sixth album and included hits such as The Jean Genie and Drive-In Saturday.Aladdin Sane: 50 Years will feature a two-month long exhibition, opening on April 6, exploring the artwork including the original portrait of Bowie by renowned photographer Brian Duffy as well as a concert featuring acts from Anna Calvi to Scissor Sisters Jake Shears playing the 1973 record in full.

The Theatres Trust has removed three venues from their Theatres at Risk Register for 2023, after the Century Theatre, Walthamstow Granada and Swansea's Palace Theatre were considered no longer at risk of closure, redevelopment or severe decay.The charity and UK's advisory public body for theatres has issued their annual report, which has identified 38 theatres from across the UK as at risk.

T he Theatres Trust has removed three venues from their Theatres at Risk Register for 2023, including Walthamstow Granada.The charity and UK's advisory public body for theatres has issued their annual report, which has identified 38 theatres from across the UK as at risk.The Theatres Trust have said that east London's Walthamstow Granada soon to reopen as Soho Theatre Walthamstow along with the Century Theatre in Coalville, Leicestershire, and the Palace Theatre in Swansea are are no longer considered at risk due to advocacy, planning and viability advice from the Trust and the support of their respective local authorities, theatre operators and community groups.

Tony Visconti's heart dropped when he started listening to the tapes.He had agreed to produce a live album by a band he loved Thin Lizzy even though David Bowie was also impatiently waiting for him to produce an album.Visconti figured the Thin Lizzy gig wouldn't take long and he could move on to the Bowie album.

The Museum of London Docklands is planning an exhibition later this year on London's Jewish fashion designers and is looking for people to contribute items for display.From East End tailors to the couture salons of the West End, the exhibition aims to tell the story of Jewish designers, makers and retailers responsible for some of the most recognisable looks of the 20th century.

Anti-LGBTQ+ trolls have been losing their minds after Pink Floyd revealed a new rainbow logo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their iconic album, "Dark Side of the Moon."The rainbow, however, had nothing to do with LGBTQ+ people and instead was a nod to the album's original cover art, designed before the rainbow flag even became a symbol for queer equality.

F ashion-conscious Londoners are being asked to go through their wardrobes for a new exhibition celebrating the Jewish designers who dressed everyone from Bowie to Bond.A swinging Sixties Carnaby Street boutique will be recreated for the show alongside a more humble workshop from the height of the rag trade in east London.

Ray Monk's Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.Brenda Hillman's In a Few Minutes Before Later.

Author and playwright Hanif Kureishi has said he is in hospital in Rome following a fall on Boxing Day, and is unable to move his arms or legs.The 68-year-old British playwright, novelist and filmmaker best known for his works The Buddha Of Suburbia, Intimacy and Mother shared a message on Twitter in which he said he was being treated at Gemelli University Hospital in the Italian capital.

In 1973 the album charts got weird.Sure, there were classic albums by iconic artists such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Elton John that topped the charts that year.Two different ones in Elton's case.But there was also a No. 1 album of bluegrass banjo-picking from the movie soundtrack of a film that made fans wince whenever they thought of actor Ned Beatty.

Taylor Swift's legions of fans have helped propel the amount spent on vinyl records above CDs for the first time since the 1980s when stars including Rick Astley, T'Pau and Pet Shop Boys topped the charts.The singer's loyal fanbase of Swifties, who have made the 33-year-old's latest album Midnights the biggest-selling vinyl record of the century in the UK, helped push annual revenues made by the sale of vinyl album sales above the once-mighty CD for the first time since 1987.

In 2002, Belgian duo Stephen and David Dewaele released a mix album called As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2 under the name 2ManyDJs.It sold half a million copies, and its playful, hectic variety spoke to people who were equally excited by Daft Punk and the Velvet Underground, garage rock and electroclash.

Making actors look older or younger has been a eternal challenge for movie studios.It used to be achieved through fairly cumbersome and not always convincing prosthetics and makeup effects.That was then largely replaced by time-consuming digital VFX techniques, but it looks like Disney's come up with a game changer.

We tend to think of 1971's Hunky Dory as the moment David Bowie finally snapped into focus after years of dead ends and false starts.It opens with a song often seen as his mission statement, Changes, with its promise of constant forward motion and undertaking to make pop weird again.It unveiled the brand of glam rock that would send his career stratospheric, on Queen Bitch, and his most celebrated backing band, soon to be renamed the Spiders From Mars.

Joe Tarsia, the recording engineer and studio operator who was among the architects of the lush, fervent blend of soul, disco and funk known as the Sound of Philadelphia, died on Nov. 1 in Lancaster, Pa.He was 88.His death, at a retirement community, was confirmed by a friend, the video producer Steve Garrin, who did not cite a cause.

Few restaurants have as distinguished or as marred a pedigree as One Fifth in Greenwich Village on the ground level of one of New York's most famous residential buildings.In the last century when the interior looked like a cruise ship, this combination steakhouse-piano bar was frequented by David Bowie, Robert Mapplethorpe, and early Saturday Night Live cast members.

The PoliNations programme aims to explore how migration and cross-pollination have shaped the UK's gardens and culture PA Undergraduates at the University of St Andrews take part in the traditional Pier Walk along the harbour walls of St Andrews before the start of the new academic year PA The Massed Pipes and Drums parade during the Braemar Highland Gathering at the Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park PA Number 12 Company Irish Guards at Wellington Barracks, central London, before commencing their first Guard Mount at Buckingham Palace PA A salmon leaps up the weir at Hexham in Northumberland, despite the drought warnings and low water levels, the River Tyne is still flowing well allowing the salmon and sea trout to head up river to spawn.

The lyrics were sold as part of a David Bowie and glam rock sale on Tuesday.David Bowie's handwritten lyrics to pop classic Starman have gone under the hammer for more than 200,000 at auction.Starman lyrics (Omega Auctions/PA) The handwritten lyrics, which were originally estimated to fetch up to 40,000, sold for five times more at 203,500 including buyer's premium.David Bowie on Top Of The Pops in the 1970s (John Henshall/BBC/PA) The lyrics were previously on display as part of the V&A Museum's David Bowie Is collection, and they have been owned by the same person since the 1980s.