Duran Duran, L-R: Roger Taylor, Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Andy Taylor. The band’s original guitarist has revealed he has stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. Photograph: David Bebber/REUTERS During his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the original guitarist of a British new wave group discloses his illness in […]
‘Intrusive thoughts’ … Taylor Swift. Photograph: NBC/Todd Owyoung/Getty Images The singer was first shown in the promotional video for the tune Anti-Hero reading the judgement “fat” off her bathroom scales Days after its original release, the music video for Taylor Swift’s song Anti-Hero, the first single from her upcoming album Midnights, was changed to […]
After donning a “white lives matter” T-shirt, the rapper uses antisemitic stereotypes in an interview Kanye West at Paris fashion week this month. Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Unaired portions of an interview between Kanye West and Tucker Carlson on Fox News show the American rapper making a number of remarks based on racial conspiracies, […]
Chris Martin of Coldplay performs on stage in Bogota, Colombia, on 16 September, during the band’s Music of the Spheres world tour. Photograph: Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda/EPA Eight Brazil gigs on the global tour will be moved to next year, according to the band, who claims the 45-year-old singer is “under strict doctor’s orders” to rest […]
Artis Leon Ivey Jr., better known as Coolio, in New York in 2015. Image by Kris Connor/Getty Images Among those paying tribute is Michelle Pfeiffer, whose 1995 film Gangsta’s Paradise contained the popular song of the same name The Grammy-winning artist Coolio, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 59, has […]
Ian Anderson, the multimillion-selling prog rockers Jethro Tull’s frontman, told me in 1993 that 2000 would be a good moment to put up his flute. He says now, “I think I was confusing myself with British Airways pilots who are out when they turn 65.” “If you’re a fully vaccinated professional tennis player, you might […]
