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Apple Music has its own version of Spotify Wrapped, dubbed Music Replay (Image: APPLE) Sign up for FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Spotify has finally launched its annual Wrapped feature for subscribers . The nifty feature lets music lovers discover some key statistics about their music library – all presented in colourful charts that can be shared across social media. The statistics include a breakdown of your most played artists, the number of minutes you've spent listening to music on Spotify, as well as the answer to whether the Hamilton original Broadway recording is your third or second most listened to album of the last decade. But what about those who don't use Spotify? …

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September 23, 2021 - 07:52 BST Catherine Zeta-Jones stuns fans as she shares a striking throwback photo from her 1992 music video for For All Time Catherine Zeta-Jones took a trip down memory lane this week as she shared a still from the music video for her 1992 single, For All Time . The Hollywood star, who released three songs in total in the ‘90s - including True Love Ways with David Essex and In The Arms of Love - stunned fans with a throwback image, which shows her posing in the desert, dressed in black. MORE: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas' £3.6m house is another world Loading the player... WATCH: Catherine Zeta-Jones 'in a twist' in new bikini video Catherine's long dark hair has been pulled into an intricate half-up style and she gives a sultry gaze with black winged eyeliner and glossy lips. READ: Michael Douglas makes rare comments about ex-wife Diandra Luker MORE: Catherine …

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Jeremy Corbyn has suggested more people would back socialism if ‘rather boring’ political meeting included music and poetry. The former Labour leader told a fringe event at the party’s conference in Brighton that such events did not need to be ‘held on cold winter nights in miserable halls’. Replying to a question at The World Transformed – which is running alongside the official conference – he said there were many different ways in which people could come to ‘political conclusions’. Asked by the audience about how to tackle a fear of the word socialism, Mr Corbyn responded: ‘Well, socialism is about everyday life and how you live your life.’ The former Labour leader – who stood down in April 2020 – said the ‘the vast majority of people do hold socialist values to some extent or the other’, highlighting support for the NHS as one example. His comments come after the Islington MP accused the party’s new leadership of ‘turning its back’ on the opportunity for …

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Published 3 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Snow Patrol are among leading figures in the music industry to pay tribute to music agent Steve Strange. The co-founder of X-Ray Touring, from Carrickfergus, in County Antrim, died following illness, aged 53. X-Ray Touring has the likes of Eminem, Erasure, Linkin Park, Kodaline, Queens of the Stone Age and Stereophonics on its books. "Steve was a titan of the global music industry," Limelight Belfast said. The music venue described Mr Strange as "an unsung hero, and a fantastic and loyal friend to this venue and to Northern Ireland's music community for more than 40 years". Mr Strange started his music industry career at Limelight Belfast in the 1980s, according to the venue, before becoming an agent in London a few years later. Writing on Instagram, Grammy Award winning artist Ed …

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Emerging rap talent Deema is an artist you need firmly on your radar. Aged just 20, the Lewisham-based star in the making shot to attention as part of the revered grime crew The Square before dropping his boundary-pushing debut EP Chew Your Food last year. His new EP Rainbow further pushes the heady promise of the lyrical talent, who was named one of Daily Star’s 50 Rising Stars to Watch in 2021. As its title suggests, Rainbow sees Deema and his team of collaborators – including Grammy-nominee Venna – take a sonically vibrant and colourful route away from Chew Your Food’s darker tones. “With Rainbow, the intention was it would be four different colours or four different songs”, Deema revealed to Daily Star. “But after that, we just wanted it to sound summery, happy and smiley.” Deliriously catchy EP opener I Wish I Had To entwines Venna’s hypnotic beat with Deema’s powerful lyrics, flowing into the upbeat Can I? before he shows his more vulnerable side in closer Mama, Don’t …

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Stevie Wonder announces break from music for kidney transplant Sign up for FREE health tips to live a long and happy life SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Stevie Wonder's life is so ripe for a biopic it beggars belief that one hasn't already hit the silver screen. The musical legend, who became blind shortly after birth, was a child prodigy who signed to a record label at the age of 11. In the decades that followed, Stevie would go on to write and perform his way into musical history. Related articles Simon Cowell health latest: BGT judge explains coronavirus scare Alesha Dixon health: Coronavirus - does the BGT judge have it? READ MORE Nicole Scherzinger health: X Factor star’s …

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From playing with Prince to meeting the Queen, Beverley Knight wouldn’t change a thing (Image: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images) Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top Royal stories again. SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info With that voice and talent, Beverley, 46, should be a total diva. Instead, there is no one more delightful in the business. After years flying the flag for British pop and soul, she took that glorious voice to the stage, winning acclaim with lead roles in The Bodyguard and Cats. Right now, she has a new UK tour celebrating the songbook of Stevie Wonder and an album marking 25 years in the business, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall with a full orchestra. “It was heaven,” Beverley says with a sigh. “I get …

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Stevie Wonder announces break from music for kidney transplant Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top Royal stories again. SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Stevie Wonder’s incredible piano-playing abilities, have placed him among great artists like Ray Charles and Sir Elton John. As a result, it would seem like a fair bet to assume he changed his name to make clear his place as a child prodigy. However, it turns out he had more than one name change in his lifetime, and even now does not perform under his given name. Related articles James Bond actor: Six legendary actors who turned down 007 Steps members: Who will be featuring in Steps for its reunion? What is Stevie Wonder’s real name? …

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"It feels incredible to be back," said actress Adrienne Warren. "It feels like a blessing, and I'm happy to be able to do what I love." What Warren loves is performing in a theater filled with people, and portraying one of rock 'n' roll's biggest stars, in the Broadway show "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," re-opening, after 19 months, on October 8. And Broadway loves Adrienne Warren. She's nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical, and the show itself is nominated for 12 Tonys (including Best Musical). Correspondent Maurice DuBois asked Warren, "Did you forget stuff?" "Yes. Yeah, I've forgotten a lot!" Returning to Broadway also meant getting back into fighting shape. "You got nice skills, by the way," said DuBois, "the one-two and the three, the hook especially, right?" Warren has been becoming Tina Turner for more than six years now, and patience has been the name of the game: "I've done this show for so long and I think, I put so much pressure on myself. …

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Thirty years. That's how long Spencer Elden said he put up with being associated with the naked swimming baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind album . A lot has changed in 30 years. For one, child abuse has been recognized around the world as a problem that needs to be taken seriously. No one today would ever think of putting a naked baby on show like that. But the same sensitivity wasn't there 30 years ago. And so, Elden's father allowed his then 4-month-old baby to be photographed in water, resulting in one of the most famous album covers in music history. No one thought anything of it The members of Nirvana — then a relatively unknown band — had themselves tried to pose underwater, but the photo with the baby swimming after a dollar bill convinced them all: the band, the label, the photographer. Barely anyone was bothered by the fact that the baby's penis was visible in the photo. Still, the record label suggested covering up the baby's genitals. But front man …

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