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  From Shape of You to Blurred Lines: 8 of the biggest music plagiarism cases

  With more music published than ever, songwriters live in fear of the dreaded plagiarism lawsuit. Following Ed Sheeran’s win at High Court over his hit single ‘Shape of You’, Lizzy Cooney takes a look at eight other memorable cases

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  Mel Giedroyc to dance to Ice Ice Baby during Strictly Come Dancing festive special

  Mel Giedroyc will dance to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ during the 'Strictly Come Dancing' Christmas special later this month, as the six couples' routines and songs are announced.

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  Evening Standard

  West Ham and England star Declan Rice sings ‘Rice, Rice baby’ in front of thousands in latest Twitter craze

  West Ham United and England midfielder Declan Rice joined a Twitter craze that has swept the social media platform. A young man from Manchester with the username @jacobbmc2 created a Twitter space entitled #singyourdialect which saw huge names such as Barack Obama, John Cena and even the Somali Embassy in Turkey join as people were encouraged to sing a song of their choice in their local accent. With the space attracting thousands of social media users, Rice joined to deliver a rendition of th

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  The Independent

  Vanilla Ice claims Madonna proposed to him during their Nineties romance

  Pop-rapper dated the Grammy-winner from 1991 to 1992

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  The Guardian

  The week in audio: Death at Deepcut; The Disappearance of Shergar; Adults, Almost – review

  The week in audio: Death at Deepcut; The Disappearance of Shergar; Adults, Almost – review. A fresh look at the notorious deaths at the army camp uncovered new details; the sad story of Shergar; and the hopes of lockdown teens

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  The Independent

  Taylor Dayne defends Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve performance: ‘I try to stay non-political’

  ‘I sing from my heart purely and from Source. I wish for all to be who they need to be ... and find their way’

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  The Independent

  Mar-a-Lago hosts ‘super-spreader’ NYE party amid surging Covid cases with appearances from Don Jr and Rudy Giuliani

  Trump figures and family members party without masks as Florida reports record-breaking 17,000 single-day infections

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  The Telegraph

  Cliff Richard v Vanilla Ice: what happened in the strangest battle for Christmas No 1

  In December 1989, Cliff Richard’s publishing company, Patch Music, held its annual Christmas party – a lunchtime shindig to which singer-songwriter Chris Eaton came armed with a cassette tape. On the tape was a demo of Saviour’s Day. Just one year later, the song would battle for the Christmas No 1 spot in one of the most surreal festive showdowns of all: Cliff Richard v Vanilla Ice. Eaton had already been writing songs for Cliff for several years. He penned, among many others, the 1982 Christma

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  Digital Spy

  Now You See Me star Dave Franco will play Vanilla Ice in new biopic

  "I can't help but think about the rabbit holes I'm going to go down."

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  The Independent

  Dave Franco to star as Vanilla Ice in biopic about rapper

  Dave Franco will play Vanilla Ice in a new biopic about the rapper’s life.The 21 Jump Street star told Inside that the film is in the works under the working title To the Extreme, saying: “We have been in development for a while but we are inching closer and closer to pre-production.”

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