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Elle toasted a starry lineup of leading ladies at its annual Women in Hollywood event Tuesday, recognizing Danielle Deadwyler, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Mikey Madison, Demi Moore, Julianne Moore, Saoirse Ronan, Zoe Saldaña and Tilda Swinton for their creative and cultural contributions.

The night also brought out a number of A-list presenters, with Cameron Diaz presenting to the Emilia Pérez trio of Gomez, Saldaña and Gascón; John David Washington to Deadwyler; and Willem Dafoe to Madison. Rita Wilson, Rosie O’Donnell and Melanie Griffith also teamed up to present to Moore, marking a reunion of their 1995 film Now and Then.

Taking the stage inside the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Moore recalled how “Now and Then was more than just a film to me, it was an adventure; it was a sweet story about friendship, resilience and navigating the ups and downs of life together. And here we are,...

Cameron Diaz made a rare public appearance Tuesday in Los Angeles to help honor “Emilia Pérez” stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón at Elle magazine’s Women in Hollywood event.

“It’s really quite incredible to be in this room right now because it reminds me so much of what I love about making movies – the intimacy and the connection,” Diaz said. She praised “Emilia Pérez” as “a powerful exploration of identity, resilience and the courage it takes to break free from the constraints of societal norms, of patriarchal constraints.

“It is also a deeply human story about love and a journey to find one’s authentic self,” Diaz continued. “What these three actresses have accomplished with this film…it is truly remarkable. Together, they have created something unforgettable.”

On the carpet, Gomez told me that the attention she and the film have been getting “has been beautiful and overwhelming,...

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You don't often see the great movies coming. Sure, some classics swagger their way into theaters (like "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" did in 2023), but take a look at the vast majority of the movies on your favorites queue and you'll see titles that arrived with very little fanfare. Warner Bros. didn't expect "L.A. Confidential" to take off like it did, and Columbia Pictures was absolutely stunned when "The Shawshank Redemption" rebounded after a disappointing theatrical release to become one of the most beloved motion pictures in the history of the medium.

Then there's Universal and "Field of Dreams." Kevin Costner was a movie star in 1989 on the strength of "The Untouchables," "No Way Out" and "Bull Durham," but two of those three hits were adult-skewing entertainments that traded heavily on his sex appeal. "Field of Dreams" was ... really, what in...

Paul McCartney wrapped his headlining set at the Corona Capital festival in Mexico City over the weekend with a rendition of his always apt show-closer — the Beatles’ “The End” — featuring guest appearances from Jack White and St. Vincent.

A fan-shot video captured the thrilling performance, which began with an extended intro jam featuring five (yes, five) guitarists: White, St. Vincent, McCartney’s bandmates Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, and McCartney himself, who swapped his bass for a six-string for the big finale. McCartney cajoled solos out of everyone, pointing at...

A decade ago, Ed Sheeran joined the British and Irish supergroup Band Aid to cover the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” The 2014 iteration of the song — which originally premiered in 1989 and was updated in 2004 — also featured One Direction and Sam Smith, among others. Last week, these same names appeared when Band Aid announced the lineup for the 2024 version. But now, Sheeran claims he was never contacted to extend permission to use his vocals on the recording — and even if he had been, he would have said no.

K-pop may have dominated Billboard’s global charts for much of the year – Rosé and Bruno Mars’ ‘Apt.‘ is literally on top of the Billboard Global Songs Chart right now – but they didn’t even manage to make a dent on this year’s Grammy nominations list.

The Grammy Awards nominations list shocked many when it was released on Nov. 8. For the second consecutive year, no K-pop act was recognized in any of the categories.

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Even though BTS received nominations at the prestigious awards show for three years in a row, from 2021 to 2023, it didn’t exactly pave the way for other K-pop acts to shine.

The Grammy Awards, which will be hosted on Feb. 2 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, released a list of nominees across 94 categories, covering genres from pop to classical.

Beyoncé led the pack with 11 nominations,...

Jerry Garcia’s estate has brought his voice back from the dead by partnering with AI company ElevenLabs to read audiobooks, e-books, articles, poetry, fan stories, PDFs, and more in 32 languages.

In addition to recreating Garcia’s voice for the Iconic Listening Experience on the ElevenReader app, the Jerry Garcia Foundation has also considered using the model for upcoming projects like narrated documentaries or audio art exhibits, according to Billboard.

“My father was a pioneering artist, who embraced innovative audio and visual technologies,” said Keelin Garcia, the Grateful Dead artist’s daughter and co-founder of the Jerry Garcia Foundation. “In the 1990s, my dad introduced me to the computer, digital art, and video games. When we traveled on concert tour, we played on Game Boy. At home, we’d have fun playing on the Macintosh in the studio where my father created his first digital art, and housed his Midi guitar.

Updated with details and full list: The nominees for the 67th Grammy Awards were revealed Friday morning, and the list is packed with big names. Beyoncé tops the field with 11 noms including Album, Song and Record of the Year, bringing her career total to 99.

Also vying in all three of those marquee categories are Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and defending Album of the Year champ Taylor Swift.

Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone and Charli Xcx are next with seven nominations apiece, followed by Swift, Carpenter and Chappell Roan with a half-dozen each. See the full list of nominees below.

Among the biggest surprises today was an Album of the Year nom for Outkast alum André 3000 and the Record of the Year mention for “Now and Then” by a little combo out of Liverpool called The Beatles. Also, Wicked star Ariana Grande was shut out of the top categories.

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Beyoncé absolutely dominated the list of 67th Annual Grammy Awards nominees, earning 11 nominations including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Country Album. Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone each scored seven nominations, with Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter picking up six.

“Today we celebrate the amazing creative achievements of our music community,” stated Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “It was an incredible year in music and these nominations reflect the work of a voting body that is more representative of the music community than ever before. The Grammy became music’s most coveted award precisely because the recognition comes from one’s peers, and I’m so grateful for the Academy’s 13,000 voting members who take the time to evaluate all the amazing music, cast their votes and honor their peers.

In 1965, The Beatles earned their first Grammy nomination for Record of the Year with their hit “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” Now, 60 years later, the Fab Four have once again secured a nomination in the same category, this time for their historic comeback-and-farewell single from last year, “Now and Then.”

That’s right — alongside releases by the likes of Beyoncé, Charli Xcx, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, and more, The Beatles and their “last song” have been nominated for Record of the Year at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, which will take place on February 2nd, 2025. It was also nominated for Best Rock Performance.

With these nods, the band now has a career total of 25 competitive Grammy nominations. If they take home the award for Record of the Year, it’ll not only bump up their total number of competitive Grammy wins to eight, but it will (amazingly) mark the very...

The nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards have been announced!

The Recording Academy announced the nominees in a YouTube livestream on Friday (November 8).

It was once again a big year for women with Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Charli Xcx, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan receiving top nominations.

Keep reading to find out more…Beyoncé received the most nominations with a total of 11.

The 2025 Grammys will take place on February 2, 2025 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Check out the full list of 2025 Grammys nominations below!

Record of the Year

“Now and Then,” The Beatles

“Texas Hold ‘Em,” Beyoncé

“Espresso,” Sabrina Carpenter

“360,” Charli xcx

“Birds Of A Feather,” Billie Eilish

“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar

“Good Luck, Babe!,” Chappell Roan

“Fortnight,” Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone

Album of the Year

New Blue Sun, André 3000

Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé

Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter

Brat, Charli xcx

Djesse Vol. 4, Jacob Collier

Hit Me Hard And Soft,...

Beyoncé continues her reign as the queen of the Grammys: She leads the 2025 awards with 11 nominations, even sweeping all four country categories with her historic Cowboy Carter album.

Beyoncé is up for album of the year and best country album, while her No. 1 country hit “Texas Hold ‘Em” is nominated for song of the year, record of the year and best country song. Her other nominations include best country solo performance for “16 Carriages,” best country/duo performance “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus and best Americana performance for “Ya Ya.”

With 99 career nominations, she now breaks her tie with hubby Jay-Z, who now has 89 nods including one for album of the year as a co-writer of several Cowboy Carter songs. Beyoncé is the most decorated artist in Grammy history, with 32 wins, and could finally win her first album of the year trophy next year.

She’s got competition, though. Taylor Swift,...

Beyoncé just earned herself another sash. As numbers go, she is easily the queen of the rodeo that is the 2025 Grammy nominations, racking up 11 nominations for her “Cowboy Carter” album and its attendant singles. That’s a personal high for her, besting the 10 nods she got back in 2009.

But Beyoncé has to share the headlines coming out of Friday morning’s announcement. Because she is just one of five powerhouse women who are nominated in all three of the Grammys’ top general categories this year — record, song and album of the year. Joining her in being nominated for all three of those major prizes are Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter.

The red-hot Roan and Carpenter also have the distinction of each being nominated for best new artist, meaning they are up in all four general categories open to recording artists across genres. If either Carpenter or...

Nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards have been revealed, with Beyoncé, Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Charli Xcx, Chappelle Roan, Taylor Swift, and Sabrina Carpenter leading the way.

Beyoncé leads all artists with 11 total nomination, including Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter, and Song and Record of the Year for “Texas ‘Hold Em.” Additionally, Beyoncé received nominations in all four country music categories, after being shut out of the CMAs. With her 11 nominations at the 2025 Grammys, Beyoncé now has 99 career nominations, breaking her tie with her husband Jay-Z for the most in Grammy history. She is already the most decorated artist in Grammy history with 32 wins, though she has yet to win Album of the Year

On the back of her latest release, Hit Me Hard and Soft,Eilish received seven nominations, and becomes the first artist to have her first three albums nominated for album of the year.

The 2025 Grammy nominations are here with Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar among the artists slated to compete for the biggest prizes next year.

Beyoncé, thanks to Cowboy Carter, led all nominees this year with 11, scoring looks not only in the three major categories — Song, Record, and Album of the Year — but four different genre categories: Country, Pop, Rap, and Americana. Her 11 nominations also made Beyoncé the most nominated artist in Grammy history with 99 (she previously shared the record, 88, with her husband, Jay-Z).

Lamar, meanwhile, was one of four artists to rack up seven nominations,...

The 67th Annual Grammy nominations were announced on Friday morning, November 8, by prominent artists including Grammy winners Mark Ronson, Kylie Minogue, Victoria Monet, Brandy Clark, and Kirk Franklin. So who made the cut? Scroll down for the list of contenders, updated as they’re announced. The trophies will be handed out on February 2, 2025.

The Grammy Awards are decided by the thousands of industry professionals who make up the Recording Academy. This year’s event honors the best achievements released from September 16, 2023 through August 30, 2024 across a wide range of genres, including pop, rap, country, spoken word, musical theater, and jazz, to name just a few.

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Last year the big winner was Taylor Swift, who made history with her fourth Album of the Year title for “Midnights.” Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus claimed Record of the Year for “Flowers,” and Billie Eilish and...

The competition for Record of the Year at the 2025 Grammys is quite packed, especially with a slew of pop smashes in the running. While they may not completely dominate, it does look like we might have a lineup full of top-10 hits. Let’s dive in.

A few songs are close to locked. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” shook the world in 2024, so it’s hard to see the Grammys passing on this one. It topped the Billboard Hot 100, and there’s typically a rap selection nominated in the general field. Plus, Lamar previously got in with the far less commercially successful song “The Heart Part 5,” so this one will likely have even more support.

Another lock here is Billie Eilish for “Birds Of A Feather,” which so far has peaked at number-two and has turned into one of her signature hits. Eilish is a Grammy darling with 11 general field noms and six wins,...

The rock field at the Grammys has given us some of the show’s most memorable winners, whether they’re critically acclaimed industry faves like Boygenius, Brandi Carlile and Fiona Apple, or big commercial powerhouses like Imagine Dragons and Foo Fighters. This year’s lineup is quite competitive, with multiple previous winners and nominees vying for noms alongside breakthrough critics picks. With last year’s victories for Paramore and Boygenius, it looked like the voters were starting to skew younger and fall more in line with critics. Will that stay the same this year?

There are three alternative contenders that you can count on popping up in the Best Rock Performance and/or Best Rock Song categories. First is Brittany Howard, who has won Best Rock Song twice, and could be gunning for a third win with her hit “What Now,” which topped triple A radio. Howard is a field favorite,...

Paul McCartney launched his 2024 South American tour on Tuesday night (October 1st) at the Estadio Centenario in Uruguay. In addition to a host of Beatles and Wings classics, the iconic songwriter performed “Now and Then,” the final Beatles song that was released last year, for the first time. See videos of the show, as well as the full setlist, below.

McCartney (who is 82 years old) ripped through a whopping 37 songs, including hits like “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Blackbird,” “Jet,” Get Back,” “Let It Be,” “Live and Let Die,” and “Hey Jude” before closing out with an encore that boasted the latter half of the famous Abbey Road medley.

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He also debuted “Now and Then,” the 2023 Beatles song that was created using a restored John Lennon demo from 1979. Notably, he didn’t pull out any cuts from his most recent album, McCartney III. In fact, he...

Paul McCartney played his first concert of 2024 on Tuesday night at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. He kept largely to the script from last year until the midway point when he performed “Now and Then” for the first time.

John Lennon captured the wistful piano ballad “Now and Then” on a tape recorder at his New York apartment building in 1977. Yoko Ono gave the tape to the surviving Beatles in 1994, along with “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love,” for inclusion on the Beatles Anthology box sets. They attempted to...

With the release of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,’ the Dceu was officially wrapped up. New DC Studios co-CEOs Peter Safran and James Gunn were left with the monumental task of creating an entirely new cinematic universe, now known as the “Dcu.”

Over a year ago, a lineup of upcoming projects was announced. The first of these, ‘Creature Commandos,’ is set to debut in December this year, followed by ‘Superman,’ which is scheduled for release in 2025.

The major roles for ‘Peacemaker,’ ‘Creature Commandos,’ and ‘Superman’ have been cast, but we’re still awaiting news on who will play Batman and Wonder Woman in this new universe. Meanwhile, one actress has taken the initiative to pitch herself for the role of Poison Ivy in the Dcu.

That actress is Rumer Glenn Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. Like her parents, Rumer began acting at a young age. She recently posted a message on Instagram,...

We know that with the release of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ Dceu was officially dead and buried. The new co-CEOs of DC Studios Peter Safran and James Gunn now had a gargantuan task of rebuilding an entirely new cinematic universe, dubbed “Dcu.”

More than a year ago a slate of projects was announced, the first project that we can look forward to is ‘Creature Commandos’ bound to be released in December of this year, and ‘Superman’ which will be released in 2025.

All major roles as far as ‘Peacemaker,’ ‘Creature Commandos,’ and ‘Superman’ have been filled. We’re still waiting on the news on who will portray Batman and Wonder Woman in this universe, one actress decided to take matters into her own hands and pitch herself to play Dcu’s Poison Ivy.

The actress in question is Bruce Willis’ daughter – Rumer Glenn Willis. Rumer is the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore,...

Today is a sad day in the animation and voice-acting community as word spreads about the untimely passing of Rachael Lillis, the iconic voice of Pokémon characters Misty and Jessie, and more. Lillis died of complications from breast cancer. She was 46.

Veronica Taylor, who voices Ash Ketchum for the long-running Pokémon franchise, shared a message with fans online about Rachael’s passing, saying, “It is with a very heavy heart that I share the news of the passing of Rachael Lillis on Saturday evening, 10 August 2024,” Taylor wrote. “Rachael was an extraordinary talent, a bright light that shone through her voice whether speaking or singing. She will be forever remembered for the many animated roles she played, with her iconic performances as ‘Pokemon’s’ Misty and Jessie being the most beloved. Rachael was so thankful for all the generous love and support that was given to her as she battled cancer.

Radio Margaritaville (Ch. 24) celebrates Jimmy Buffett with a countdown of songs he wrote or co-wrote!

You voted, and now it’s time to enjoy “The Jimmy Buffett Top 100” countdown, available to stream on the SiriusXM app now and premiering on-air August 30 at 8am Et.

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Here are the possible song choices for “The Jimmy Buffett Top 100” countdown:

(I Feel Like Going) Surfing in a Hurricane

15 Cuban Minutes

A Lot to Drink About

A Mile High in Denver

A Pirate Looks at Forty

Ace

African Friend

Ain’t He a Genuis

Altered Boy

Autour Du Rocher

Baby’s Gone Shoppin’

Ballad of Skip Wiley

Bank of Bad Habits

Barometer Soup

Barefoot Children

Beach House on the Moon

Beautiful Swimmers

Bend A Little

Beyond the End

Big Top

Blue Heaven Rendezvous

Bob Robert’s Society...

A documentary chronicling the making of Paul McCartney and Wings’ album One Hand Clapping is coming to cinemas, here are the details.

It’s a good time to be a Beatles fan. Its final song Now And Then was released to critical acclaim last year, rare documentary Let It Be landed on Disney+ in May and Sam Mendes’ is currently producing four separate biopics, which could land in cinemas on the same day.

Paul McCartney has now announced too that One Hand Clapping, a documentary about the making of Wings’ album of the same name, will be screened in cinemas worldwide in September. The footage was recorded in 1974, capturing McCartney and the band, who included Linda McCartney on piano, Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch on guitars and Geoff Britton on drums, playing live in the studio for an album that was not released until June this year.

The synopsis reads...

Thirty years ago, Common looked back ruefully at his favorite genre in “I Used to Love H.E.R.,” his classic riff on hip-hop as a wayward ex-girlfriend. “She was really the realest before she got into showbiz,” he lamented. The couple patched things up after that, and Common grew from a prematurely scolding young man to a genial elder statesman, upholding what he sees as rap’s traditional values with a smile and a serious commitment to his craft. It’s been a happy marriage, for the most part.

Now, in...

Exclusive: Jordana Brewster and Devon Sawa are boarding Spyglass’ original horror rom-com, Heart Eyes, which is currently in production in New Zealand.

They join previously announced Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding.

The Josh Ruben-directed, Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon, and Michael Kennedy-written feature follows a pair of co-workers in Seattle who are pulling overtime on Valentine’s Day. When the Heart Eyes Killer strikes, they’re mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. The duo are forced to spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.

Republic Pictures picked up distribution rights to Heart Eyes excluding the U.S. and Canada.

Landon and Divide/Conquer’s Greg Gilreath and Adam Hendricks are producing. Spyglass’ Gary Barber and Chris Stone are EPs with Murphy and Mel Turner.

Gigi Zumbado

The cast also includes Gigi Zumbado. Zumbado’s previous credits include Kenya Barris’ multi-cam comedy Unrelated and recurring roles on ABC’s Promised Land and Fox’s 9-1-1. Zumbado stars opposite Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff in the indie feature The Price We Pay.

Brewster has starred in the $6 billion plus grossing Fast & Furious franchise as Mia Torretto. Her feature credits include Simulant alongside Sam Worthington and Simu Liu, the horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, the cult classic D.E.B.S., the sci-fi horror The Faculty, the drama The Invisible Circus, The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, Hooking Up, Random Acts of Violence, North of Hell, American Heist, Annapolis and Who Invited Charlie?. She can next be seen in the feature film Cellar Door. Brewster is repped by CAA, Principal Entertainment LA, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.

Sawa starred on the Syfy series Chucky alongside Jennifer Tilly and as Jean Smart’s hunky love interest in Hacks for Max. Sawa also starred opposite Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista in Escape Plan: The Extractors, opposite John Travolta in The Fanatic, and opposite Guy Pearce in Disturbing the Peace. Sawa was on the hit CW show Nikita alongside Maggie Q. The Vancouver, Canada native broke out as a child actor in such movies as Casper, Now and Then, and Little Giants. He went on to star in the New Line horror franchise Final Destination as well as cult pics Idle Hands and Slc Punk. He reprised his Slc Punk role in the sequel Punk’s Dead. Sawa is repped by Gersh, Artists First, and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan.

Last year’s Grammy Award lineup for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance was somewhat weak, with most of the nominees being deep album cuts rather than big singles. Even the ones that were singles were not particularly major hits, at least not to the level that past winners in the category have been. Is this becoming the new normal? This year’s lineup is also looking pretty scarce so far, although there are some contenders whose wins would be significant due to certain other factors.

The frontrunner right now seems to be Taylor Swift and Post Malone’s “Fortnight,” which has made huge waves. The single served as the lead for Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” and became an instant hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and breaking the record for the most streamed song in a single day on Spotify. That kind of success...

Rock music is far from dead. Last year’s Grammy nominations proved that, with some of the leading acts in music being present in the rock categories. Alongside legends like The Rolling Stones and Metallica, the field was graced by the presence of Gen-z’s favorite artists, such as Boygenius, Arctic Monkeys and Olivia Rodrigo. So to find great rock music these days, you just have to pay attention. We are certainly paying attention this year, with a slew of buzzy releases already in the conversation to take home the gold come Grammy time.

One of the biggest stories in rock this season is the return of The Beatles with the single “Now and Then.” It’s unclear if the song will be competing in pop or in rock, but either way it’s for sure getting them a nomination. A music video made to their hit song “I’m...

It happens to many of us above a certain age. You wake up one day, and realize that your life involves neither your childhood besties, nor the carefree bliss you once took for granted. With that in mind, Castille Landon’s wearisome comedy “Summer Camp” ponders, what if there was a way to awaken our inner child and reestablish our priorities later in life through some fun and play? It’s surely a worthy enough premise for a good time, but one “Summer Camp” squanders through dull jokes, an uninspiring story without any real stakes and an overall phony feeling that the film can’t shake.

Indeed, “Summer Camp” often seems only as authentic as a high-end glamping site, when it unsuccessfully tries to convince the audience that it’s the real deal about the virtues of letting your hair down once in a while — a teaching that the film hammers on,...

Lovin’ is what Sublime fans got this week, as their first song in nearly 30 years was released on Friday. More extraordinarily, the track, titled “Feel Like That”, features the late Bradley Nowell on vocals via outtakes from a 1996 jam session.

“Feel Like That” is actually a collaboration between Sublime and reggae band Stick Figure, with vocals from three different people, including Nowell’s son Jakob, who was less than one year old when his father died from a heroin overdose in May 1996. After a lengthy hiatus solely because of the loss of their frontman, Sublime took on Jakob as lead singer this year with the intent to build a future for the band.

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Sublime bassist Eric Wilson expressed gratitude for having a collection of outtakes that can be heard – in some form or another – by fans. “We are blessed that we still have all these old...

The Beatles may be no more, but their royalties are still coming in strong. For 60 years Paul McCartney has managed to stay in the list of the UK’s top earning musicians through his Beatle royalties, but some unexpected twist has actually gotten him out of the millionaires club and into the more fancier billionaire list.

If you’re wondering why Paul McCartney is so wealthy decades after Beatlemania, we have answers.

Beyoncé Helped Paul McCartney Earn More From the Beatles Royalties In This Way

Man, Paul McCartney is loaded. According to the annual report published by The Sunday Times, aptly called The Sunday Times Rich List, McCartney’s net worth is $1.27bn, making him the first British to become a billionaire through music.

Compared to the past year, McCartney’s earnings increased by over $50 million thanks to Beyonce’s cover of his 1968 song ‘Blackbird.’ In addition to this, the...

Let It Be, a documentary about The Beatles not commercially released since it was broadcast over 50 years ago, will be available to watch on Disney+ in May.

Any time is a good time to be a fan of The Beatles, but the last year had been particularly fruitful when it comes to new Beatles material, most notably the long awaited release of Now And Then, which is now officially the final ever Beatles song, which was subsequently used by Matthew Vaughn in Argylle. Oh, and Sam Mendes is set to direct four Beatles biopics too.

Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and released in May 1970 amid the hysteria of The Beatles’ breakup, Let It Be has been unavailable for broadcast or public screenings for more than 50 years. The documentary will stand as a companion piece to Peter Jackson’s Get Out series.

As per the official description, Let It Be will “bring...

George Harrison was rarely a provocateur, however, he called his final album Brainwashed. Accusing anyone of being brainwashed is pretty bold! One of George’s British Invasion peers explained the origin of that memorable title. Notably, it had a connection to George’s spiritual views.

Donovan said George Harrison’s album ‘Brainwashed’ was a reaction to materialism

Two kindred spirits in the 1960s counterculture were George Harrison and Donovan. Both artists were folk-rockers who explored spirituality through their songs. George’s songs were often expressions of his Hindu faith, whereas Donovan sang about common New Age topics like Atlantis and witchcraft. Both of them were also environmentalists.

During a 2018 interview with Goldmine, the “Mellow Yellow” singer discussed his feelings about the planet and George’s — and what they both learned from the books they read. “That the older generation was destroying the ecosystem with no consideration whatsoever for the inner world of plants,...

“Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they?” says Linda Martell, a country music pioneer, in the intro to Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii.” “In theory, they have a simple definition that’s easy to understand, but in practice, well, some may feel confined.” Those two sentences perfectly sum up how Beyoncé has subverted expectations in recent years by spreading her wings beyond pop, hip-hop, and R&b to infuse rock, house, and now country music into her own unique style that ultimately really is just “Beyoncé.”

On her latest album,...

The Beatles‘ “I Am the Walrus” might seem like a psychedelic novelty today, but John Lennon adored it. He said it would appeal to fans of the Electric Light Orchestra. Interestingly, Elo has some deep connections to the Fab Four — particularly George Harrison during his solo era.

John Lennon explained why The Beatles’ ‘I Am the Walrus’ was a personal favorite

The book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon features the text of a radio interview from 1974. “And now we’re gonna play a track from Magical Mystery Tour, which is one of my favorite albums because it was so weird, and it’s ‘I Am the Walrus,'” he said. While Magical Mystery Tour is a classic, it’s generally not as acclaimed as other Beatles records such as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolver, or The White Album. It’s interesting that John valued Magical Mystery Tour so highly.

Lila Moss, daughter of supermodel Kate Moss, strutted down the runway at Fashion Week at the Stella McCartney Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 show at Paris Fashion Week in Paris this week.

Moss stunned in a blue mop-like dress that covered her neck with white heels.

Stella’s dad, Paul McCartney, was also in attendence as well as Ringo Starr, M.I.A., Anna Wintour and Tina Kunakey.

Paul McCartney and Starr are the only surviving members of the iconic pop group, The Beatles. In 2023, they released a new song featuring the late John Lennon’s vocals titled “Now and Then.”

McCartney shared his thoughts on the new single featuring the “Imagine” singer.

“There it was, John’s voice, crystal clear. It’s quite emotional. And we all play on it. It’s a genuine Beatles recording,” he said.

Lennon was shot and killed in 1980 by a stalker, Mark David Chapman.

One of the songs Paul McCartney wrote as a teenager became a hit for another band. What a prodigy he was! John Lennon said the tune in question played an important role in The Beatles’ career.

A Paul McCartney song appeared on a special Beatles tape

The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono features an interview from 1980. In it, John was asked about the track “Like Dreamers Do.” While the tune was credited to the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership, it was first released by a British band called The Applejacks.

“That’s Paul,” John said. “That was another one that he’d written as a teenager and sort of resurrected and polished up for later on. That’s on the audition tape that we sent Decca, which is around as a bootleg. I sing ‘To Know Her Is to Love Her...

In 1995, The Beatles released “Free as a Bird,” their first new song in years. John Lennon originally wrote it in 1977, and his surviving bandmates worked on it years later. While the song was a success on the charts, longtime Beatles producer George Martin wasn’t sure how he felt about it. He gave it his stamp of approval but felt it sounded a bit odd.

George Martin wasn’t sure about the finished product of a late Beatles song

At the start of 1994, Paul McCartney called Yoko Ono to wish her a happy New Year. Through this conversation and further ones, they began discussing the possibility of working on some of Lennon’s home demos and releasing them as Beatles songs.

“I liked ‘Free As A Bird’ immediately,” McCartney said in the book A Hard Day’s Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song by Steve Turner. “I liked the melody.

British photographer Terry O’Neill is to be the subject of a feature-length documentary, titled Iconic: The Life And Work Of Terry O’Neill, helmed by UK filmmaker Oliver Murray.

The film is being made with the close co-operation of Terry O’Neill’s surviving family. O’Neill will narrate his own story via previously unheard recordings.

The east London-born photographer was famous for snapping the likes of Judy Garland, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, the British royal family and Elton John.

It is produced by Hank Starrs (Elstree 1976) and Murray through Orofena Films. Laurence Gornall’s Unannounced Film Company is selling the title at the EFM.

The Hofner bass that Paul McCartney used to play countless live shows in the ‘60s and record The Beatles‘ first two albums was stolen out of the back of a van in 1972. Now, over half a century later, the legendary four-string has been located and returned to McCartney.

The bass was located by The Lost Bass Project, a grassroots campaign focused on recovering the instrument. A statement posted to McCartney’s website read: “Following the launch of last year’s Lost Bass project, Paul’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen in 1972, has been returned. The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved.”

First purchased by McCartney in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961, the bass was used at The Beatles’ residencies in the city, as well as their performances at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England. It can also be heard on many classic Beatles recordings,...

Composer Lorne Balfe has spent his career working on blockbusters including “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” but even so, Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller “Argylle,” which features an all-star cast including Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell and Henry Cavill, was one for the books. For a start, the soundtrack incorporates the Beatles’ last-ever record, “Now and Then,” the existence of which Balfe had to keep top secret for over a year until it was finally released last November.

The movie also involved Balfe making an album of cat sounds, provided by Vaughn’s moggy (and Howard’s co-star) Chip. “There were recordings of him while they were filming so we were able to chop it up and make it a percussion library,” says Balfe, a self-confessed dog person. “I’m going to post it on Twitter as a freebie so composers can use it and Chip...

Plot: The shy author (Bryce Dallas Howard) of a series of best-selling spy novels discovers that her books, somehow, are all true. Pursued by a top-secret division of evil spies, she must now rely on an unlikely protector (Sam Rockwell) to get to the bottom of the whole affair.

Review: As a big fan of spy cinema, particularly the vintage kind from the early days of James Bond, I’ve always liked what Matthew Vaughn was doing with his yarns. While many say he should direct an actual 007 film, it’s clear to me – as a fan of the genre – that Vaughn’s heart belongs to a bygone era in espionage movies. If the Kingsman movies were his gonzo, R-rated riff on the Roger Moore James Bond movies he grew up watching, Argylle is his tribute to the campy James Bond knockoffs that hit theaters in the late sixties.

Paul McCartney surprised a journalist by saying he didn’t have The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” memorized. Other classic Beatles songs weren’t any easier for him to learn. Paul also revealed what he thought of “Hey Jude” and some other classic Beatles songs in retrospect.

Paul McCartney has to relearn The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ and ‘Yesterday’

During a 2018 interview with 60 Minutes, Paul explained his tour routine. “When I’m doing shows I listen to a lotta music, Beatles music, Wings music, to see what ones we’re gonna do,” he said. “And to learn them.”

A reporter was surprised to learn that Paul didn’t know the lyrics of “Hey Jude,” “Yesterday,” and “Band on the Run” by heart. “There’s too many,” he said. “Too many words. Too many notes. They’re very hard. I mean, you know, it’s not like they’re all three chords.”

Paul...

Thora Birch has been performing in Hollywood since she was just a tiny tyke, famously playing Dani Dennison in the cult Halloween classic "Hocus Pocus," where she becomes the target of the malevolent Sanderson sisters. But although one of her most memorable roles came in 1993, when she was just 11 years old, that was far from the end of her career as an actress. Birch has continued to work in the industry, lending her talents to television series, films, music videos, and even podcasts over the years. 

Birch's career has been defined by a few standout performances in films that captured the imaginations of audiences everywhere, but one of the most inspiring aspects of her time in Hollywood is that whenever she has been in danger of being completely subsumed by these larger-than-life roles, she shifts gears, navigating a career as a performer on her own terms. If you haven't given...

The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on Thursday unveiled its latest The Inclusion List, a data-driven ranking system that looks to identify the most inclusive TV series across broadcast, cable and streaming in front and behind the camera.

The list, a collaboration of the Inclusion Initiative and the Adobe Foundation, used data on personnel from the 2021-2022 broadcast season and streaming series from 2021-2023. More than 560 series were scored, looking at 4,500 series regular roles and more than 11,000 crew members across more than 110,000 behind-the-scenes positions were evaluated.

Leading the Top 100 lists were the recently ended Queen Sugar from OWN, HBO’s The Baby and the CW’s All American: Homecoming on the broadcast and cable side, and Raising Dion (Netflix), Gentefied (Netflix), The Garcias (Max), The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray (AppleTV+), Reasonable Doubt (Hulu), Now and Then (Apple TV+), Rap Sh!t (Max), With Love (Amazon Prime), First Kill (Netflix), and Swarm...

Just in time for Monday’s Emmy awards, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and Dr. Stacy L. Smith, along with the the Adobe Foundation, have unveiled The Inclusion List for episodic programming, which recognizes the most inclusive series in broadcast, cable and streaming.

Following a similar effort for films, the list analyzes on-screen and behind-the-camera personnel from more than 500 programs to determine the 100 most inclusive broadcast and cable series from the 2021-22 broadcast season, as well as streaming series from 2021 to 2023. The project also recognizes 20 producers responsible for the most inclusive content.

“The goal of the Inclusion List is to recognize the stories and storytellers who are taking inclusion seriously and whose content reflects their values,” said Dr. Smith, founder of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. “With today’s release of the Inclusion List for broadcast/cable and streaming series, we are excited to acknowledge the creative voices championing inclusion across the spectrum of episodic content.

Yoko Ono said her relationship with John Lennon was “a long roller-coaster.” Yoko said she and the “Imagine” singer giggled often while they were making two of his albums. One of those albums became a tremendous success. The other only produced one hit.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono had a great time making ‘Double Fantasy’ and ‘Milk and ‘Honey’

David Sheff interviewed John and Yoko in 1980. His interview appeared in the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In a 2020 introduction to the book, he discussed meeting up with Yoko long after John’s death.

“Years later, I reminisced with her about that time,” Sheff wrote. “She still got teary-eyed over John, though she had a full and productive life again. When we talked about that summer, she got a big smile. “‘The making of Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey was a great time for us,...

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The holidays are here, and that means plenty of occasions to sport an “ugly Christmas sweater” or festive fit. One of the best options we’ve spotted this year: this Beatles knit, which features a winterized depiction of the Fab Four crossing Abbey Road.

An officially-licensed collaboration between the Beatles, and the apparel and accessories brand, Not Just Clothing, the Beatles Christmas sweater features a grey knit with subtle snowflakes throughout,...

So, this is Christmas, and Peter Jackson recently helmed the music video for the new Beatles song Now and Then, which controversially used AI to finish John Lennon’s vocals on the previously unfinished song. Jackson would also previously release the mini-series documentary on The Beatles titled Get Back for Disney+. Now the Lord of the Rings director is collaborating with John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son, Sean for a new animated short that is inspired by the beloved Christmas tune by Lennon, Happy Xmas (War is Over).

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Sean Ono Lennon was looking for a way to make a music video for one of his parents’ songs. Ono Lennon met with Pixar animator Dave Mullins, and the two sparked the idea for an animated short about “a chess game played across enemy lines with the help of a heroic carrier pigeon.” Mullins wrote and...