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Amy Winehouse's stepdad Richard dies age 71 Editor Katie Watkin's -1/5/22 Amy Winehouse's stepdad has sadly passed at the age of 71. Richard Collins - who supported the Amy  through much of her career and helped her mum Janis set up the Amy Winehouse Foundation back in 2011.  The Amy Winehouse Foundation wrote on Twitter: "We are very sad to bring you news that our trustee Richard Collins, has passed away this week. Devoted and caring husband to Janis, and Dad to Michael and Jess, we will always remember his great humour and sense of fun. Sending love to all the family." The news comes just days after Janis - who divorced Amy's father Mitch Winehouse in 1993 after 17 years of marriage and struck up a relationship with her childhood friend Richard in 2008 before marrying him in 2011 just months after Amy's death - took to Twitter to announce that her husband was in hospital and she had nearly "lost him twice." At the time, she wrote: "‘Hi all...

 Fontaines D.C. celebrate their first-ever UK Number 1 album with Skinty Fia: Editor Katie Watkins 29/4/22 Fontaines D.C. soar straight to the summit on this week’s Official Albums Chart, claiming their first-ever UK number 1 album with Skinty Fia.    The Dublin-born band, comprising Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, Grian Chatten and Tom Coll, outsold the competition by 2-1 helping them obtain the top spot. Physical sales account for 87% of Skinty Fia’s total sales and seeing the group top this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart too.   Prior to this, Fontaines D.C. had previously scored two Top 10 albums, with 2019’s Dogrel (9) and 2020 LP A Hero’s Death (2).   Celebrating their Official Number 1 album, Fontaines D.C. said  “We're touched by everyone's response to Skinty Fia, thank you to everyone who bought, streamed and downloaded  the album.”

Justin Bieber gets caught in a snowy shootout in new Honest music video Editor Katie Watkin's 29/4/22 Candian Pop superstar Justin Bieber takes to the slopes and gets caught in a snowy shootout in the video for his latest single Honest.   The Canadian singer, now 28 and rapper Don Toliver, 27, can be seen snowmobiling off-piste in the mountains with their partners when individuals dressed in all black attack the group.   Justin Bieber fell to the ground as he is shot in the leg, but appears to not be fatally injured as he lies on the ground and smokes. Elsewhere in the video for his new hip hop single, Bieber relaxes in a ski lodge dressed in white loungewear and spilling his coffee as he dances around the room.   He dons an all-white suit and a bright orange balaclava as he sing  as he sings the chorus.  The end of the video sees the group sitting by a blazing campfire after the dramatic altercation in the mountains. The clips also shows the...

   Michael Bublé Begins Vegas Run with Rat Pack Vibe, Raunchy Joke. Editor Katie Watkin's 28/4/22 Michael Bublé  hit's vegas in style and a new dawn of a new day in Las Vegas.   On Wednesday night, Michael Bublé began the first of  his six  intimate shows at the Resorts World Theatre where  Bublé  brought an old school Vegas vibe to a modern-day crowd.   The Grammy Award-winning music icon,  kicked off his show in dramatic fashion, surrounded by a four-tier, 55-person band and orchestra.  In a throwback to Rat Pack-era Vegas, two-top tables bookended the stage, giving several of his  5,000 fans in attendance an up-close-and-personal view of the act.  Bublé said   "I have to tell you honestly, I don't know if you need me, but I needed you. I missed you."  I missed doing this," Bublé, 46, said in reference to the pandemic and lockdown. "We had over two years of us hiding in our apartments, doing Z...

   Matt Goss Beautiful Unknown London Show Fails To Sell Out Editor Katie Watkin's 24/4/22 Matt Goss once again failed to generate any interest from fans for his one show London Palladium performance. Matt announced on social media, that he would be performing at the London Palladium on the 23rd of April. Ticket sales have been so low the singer had to reduce ticket prices in the attempt to fill the 2000 space capacity theater, with online giant Ticketmaster emailing fans and providing notifications about new seat allocation nearer to the stage.  This practice is normally done when a venue struggles to sell tickets. With Matt so desperate to try and fill the Palladium, he begged fans to buy up to 6 tickets each and gift them to family members and strangers.  His management team also took to social media begging fans to buy, with one fan Dee Murphy posting buy tickets it's less than a pedicure. Tickets last week continued to struggle with some fans once again purchasi...

  Sting  - 6 Night Sold Out Shows At London Palladium – still great doesn’t he just know it Editor Steve Hart 24/4/22 Pop Icon Sting - still shows he can pull in the crowd. After he sold out 6 shows at the London Palladium.  Ex police singer opens his set with Russians, a 1985 single about the cold war which he reworked and reissued to raise funds for a Ukraine relief charity Sting told the crowd “I’ve hardly played it in years, because I thought it wasn’t relevant any more,” he sighs. “But, in light of recent events …” Accompanied only by a Ukrainian cellist, Yaroslava Trofymchuk, the black-pleather-clad 70-year-old singer sings the song’s chorus and earnest central message:  “Russians love their children too.” He cautions us: “Don’t forget, a lot of brave Russians are protesting against this war.” It could be mawkish, but Sting carries it off through his evident sincerity and, primarily, its haunting melody, pulled in part from Prokofiev. Sting has always been a di...

  How Matt Goss Detroyed BROS With His Selfishness And Ego. Editor Katie Watkin's 21/4/22 If you are of a nervous disposition or are/were a Brosette, perhaps it would be best not to read any further, I wouldn’t want anyone fainting! Bros were one of global phenomenon’s of popular music that came, conquered and then went.  Their time with us was brief (1987-1991) but immensely successful. Could they of survived and still be knocking out hits 30+ years on, the answer is yes if Matt Goss would of allowed more input by his brother Luke and if he would dropped the self centred egotastic behaviour. In the space of four years , Bros achieved eleven UK top 40 hit singles with 8 of those being top ten and sold over 17 million albums to date and had the biggest  debut album in history of CBS Records. The band acheived global fame with many thousands of fans. The Bros story starts in 1986 with twins Matt and Luke Goss (born September 1968) and Craig Logan (born April 1969) who all a...

   Calvin Harris will finally release Funky Wav Bounces Vol. 2 this summer  Editor Jon Mathews 22/4/22 The first edition of Calvin's sun-soaked opus included features by Frank Ocean, Ariana Grande and Katy Perry.  Calvin Harris is set to release Funky Wav Bounces Vol. 2 this summer, after years of teasing fans. The  It will be the follow-up to 2017's Funky Wav Bounces Vol.  1, which served as Calvin's fifth official studio album, and included  collaborations from the likes of Frank Ocean, Ariana Grande and Katy Perry The collection's of his biggest single which include Feels, featuring Katy, Big Sean and Pharrell.  It topped the Official Singles Chart this summer, and became Calvin's eighth UK Number 1, Pharrell's fourth, Katy's fifth (and most recent chart-topper) and Big Sean's first.   Taking to social media  Calvin posted an enigmatic image of a billboard with the album's name, announcing that the full project will be released this s...

   Blondie's Chris Stein pulls out of upcoming tour due to health condition Editor Steve Hart 21/4/22 70s rock band Blondie is set to go on tour across the UK in April and May this year, however, the band's longtime guitarist and co-founder Chris Stein has sadly announced that he won't be able to join them on tour due to a heart condition.   Chris took to social media to share the disappointing news and explained that he was suffering from a condition called Atrial Fibrillation which left him too fatigued to tour.   He also wrote: 'Yes, (murmur of the heart) this is indeed frustrating cause my brain is working great but my body's not up to the task of touring now.   The musician later posted on Instagram to say: 'I'm sorry I'm not gonna make the next round of Blondie shows. I hate to disappoint supporters and the band but there it is, I've got this stupid heart murmur thing which is tiring as   as hell. Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols will be...

   Duran Duran Announce Warm- Up Shows This May Editor Steve Hart 19/04/22  Pop icon's Duran Duran have announced UK and Ireland show for summer 2022. The band have also just confirmed they will be doing two warm up show's in May. The band took to social media and tweeted, " this just in - Duran Duran performing two special shows at 02AcadLeicester on 21st & 22nd May. Fan Community Pre- sale tomorrow 9am local market time.  General sale on Friday 22nd May local market time Via  https://dura.io/3ehh79g #duranlive. These two inimate shows are in the leadup to a series of headline shows across the UK and Ireland and will include  Dublin, St Ann Park on Sunday 12th June York Castle on Friday 17th June St Anne's Lytham Festival on Friday 1st July Inverness O2 Caledonian Stadium on Saturday 2nd July London Hyde Park on Sunday 10th July Duran Duran also had to rescheduled there sold out evening with event which was being held Pryzm in Kingston further updates ...

    INXS Kick Another Goal With ‘The Very Best’ Editor Katie Watkin's -19/04/22 Australian alternative rock band’s INXS kick another chart milestone with  The Very Best. . According to the latest ARIA Albums Chart, the best-of  enters it's 375 week in the Top 50, and a whopping 500 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 100. The 20-song set lifts 60-49, on the national survey for the week of April 4, 2022,.  INXS 500-week feat “is an absolutely phenomenal achievement, even if you happen to be one of the greatest and most iconic bands Australia has ever seen,” comments Annabelle Herd, CEO of ARIA, in a statement. “500 weeks is an incredible honor and just shows the appreciation of such an incredible album,” adds Andrew Daw, executive VP, international marketing at UMe, Universal Music Group’s global catalog company. The presence of the band’s late manager Chris Murphy “is always felt on all the bands projects, and we are proud to passionately c...

   The best-selling vinyl singles of 2022 in the UK so far. Editor Steve Hart 15/4/2022 As vinyl singles have continued to raise in popularity and with more vinyl singles being purchased than ever before, we look at the  best-selling vinyl singles of 2022 so far. Frank Turner’s A Wave Across The Bay (1) is named the best-selling vinyl single of the year  so far in  UK.  The latest  Official Charts Company data reveals that Frank tops the chart with a handful of chart sales between him  and his nearest competitor, Ghost’s Hunter’s Moon (2), with Yard Act Dark Days (3) Following its special re-release for its 30th anniversary on a 7” limited edition vinyl,  Shakespear’s Sister classic ballad Stay charts at Number (4 ) n the year-to-date Vinyl Singles Chart - it originally  spent eight weeks at Number 1 on the UK Official Singles Chart back in 1992. Arab Strap - Aphelion (5), Mysterines - Under Your Skin (6), Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Ea...

  The Official biggest vinyl albums and singles of 2022 so far Editor  Steve Hart 13/4/22 As vinyl albums and single continue to raise we look at the biggest sellers of 2022 so f ar. Yard Act claim the biggest vinyl album of 2022 so far with debut album The Overload.   It tops the Official Charts Company’s end-of-quarter Official Vinyl Chart with ease, selling over 11,000 copies  since its initial release in February Not far behind in second place are 80s icons Tears For Fears with  The Tipping Point , their first new album of original material in over 17 years, which also reached Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart. Black Country New Road  achieved their highest-ever UK chart placement with Ants From up  There earlier this year, and the experimental rock group bring home the third biggest vinyl  album on today’s newly unveiled list. Other chart-topping new releases also making the chart include  The Wombats ’ Fix   Not ...

  Elvis Presley's back catalogue acquired by Universal Music Publishing Editor Katie Watkin's 13/4/22 Elvis Presley’s music back catalogue  has been acquired by bosses at Universal. The agreement comes as part of a deal agreed between executives at Authentic Brands Group, the owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises, and Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG).  Universal and Authentic now have exclusive rights to represent Elvis’s music globally, except in the U.K. “Elvis Presley has had an unprecedented and long lasting global impact on music and pop culture,” Marc Cimino, chief operating officer, said in a statement. Elvis Presley music has stood the test of time and is more popular now that he was back in the day. With millions devoting fans every years visiting Graceland. UMG and ABG have been working together since late 2020 to, and I quote, “acquire and actively manage artist brands” in order to “expand the legacies and cultural impact of artists worldwide across a wide ...