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  Alan Rickman chose Uptown Funk for funeral song

  Alan Rickman planned every detail of his funeral before he died.

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  The one man who links Bob Marley, Noel Coward and Ian Fleming

  In 1964, Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, was granted a first-hand insight into the distorting power of fame. Escorting the 16-year-old Millie Small to her hardscrabble Kingston home at the end of an international tour to promote her six-million-selling hit single My Boy Lollipop, Blackwell watched in horror as the singer’s own mother received her daughter “as if she were now a stranger”. “Hello, Miss Millie,” she said, curtsying. The 26-year-old Blackwell “vowed then and there th

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  The Silent Treatment: Sarah-Louise Young on the trauma and stigma of losing her voice

  In her Edinburgh fringe show, the musical theatre performer exposes the pressures faced by singers and reflects on her own vocal healing

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  Comedy star asks 'Can I sing for you?'

  WELSH comic and TV personality Rob Brydon is bringing his nationwide tour to Blackburn.

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  ‘We want to get treated like normies’: Gang of Youths on fame, faith and family secrets

  ‘We want to get treated like normies’: Gang of Youths on fame, faith and family secrets. The Australian rockers moved overseas while coming to terms with their huge success – then frontman Dave Le’aupepe discovered something about his father that would inspire their next album

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  Gardenia 10 Years Later review – a drag cabaret’s frail, moving swansong

  Gardenia 10 Years Later review – a drag cabaret’s frail, moving swansong. Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe performers of the Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B revive a decade-old stage show with added poignancy

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  Bill Murray's musical film New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilisation to hit cinemas in 2022

  Bill Murray's musical film 'New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilisation' will be released in UK cinemas on February 2nd 2022, in honour of his 1993 comedy flick 'Groundhog Day'.

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  3’s a crowd: backlash over sponsor’s name change for Dublin’s Olympia theatre

  3’s a crowd: backlash over sponsor’s name change for Dublin’s Olympia theatreCritics condemn move to rename historic venue 3Olympia as ‘cultural vandalism’ Lewis Capaldi performing at the Olympia theatre in Dublin in November 2019. Photograph: Kieran Frost/Redferns

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  The secret history of Ronnie Scott’s: 60 years of bopping and blowing off steam

  Ronnie Scott would regularly tell the same joke about his famous jazz club in the heart of Soho: “It’s just like home – filthy and full of strangers”. Scott, an outstanding tenor saxophone player, died in 1996, but his club, which started in a small basement at 39 Gerrard Street, lives on, now refurbished, in Frith Street. Last year it celebrated its 60th anniversary with a gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall featuring Van Morrison, Kurt Elling, Imelda May, Georgie Fame and Madeline Bell. In 2

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  Tom Grennan, O2 Academy, review: authentic magic from the soulful singer-songwriter

  Rock stars don’t get smaller than Tom Grennan. This is not to cast aspersions on the chap’s height. Nor on his creative stature – the 25-year-old’s debut album, Lighting Matches, was one of the ten best-selling records of 2018. Instead, it’s an unavoidable consequence of experiencing live music these days: while Grennan was rasping away on stage in Brixton, I was watching him seventy miles away, on my three-inch phone screen, propped against the pepper pot. The whizzy technology that facilitates

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