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Nov 15, 2024 | 
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Fortieth-anniversary edition is spliced together by Trevor Horn from previous versions of the song, including snippets of George Michael, Ed Sheeran and more
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
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Roy Haynes, a drummer who was one of the last remaining musicians of jazz’s swing and bebop eras, has died aged 99. His daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore said he had died following a short illness. Haynes’s energetic style, which also encompassed fusion and avant-garde jazz, earned him the respect of many contemporaries across a career that began in the mid-1940s. He played with artists including Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and dozens more.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Martin Belam |Hamish Mackay |Fran Lawther |Léonie Chao-Fong |Chris Stein |Maya Yang | +13 more
Pentagon officials discuss what to do if Trump were to attempt to deploy the military domestically, CNN reports
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
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Art Garfunkel has described a recent tearful reunion with Paul Simon, in which the pair moved past old enmities. Speaking to the Times, Garfunkel said: I actually had lunch with Paul a couple of weeks back. First time we’d been together in many years. I looked at Paul and said, “What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?” Paul mentioned an old interview where I said some stuff. I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Ben Beaumont-Thomas
The Cure have scored their first UK No 1 album in 32 years, with Songs of a Lost World. The band’s frontman Robert Smith said: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album. To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years – thank you!”The Cure previously topped the chart in 1992 with Wish, the only other one of their 14 studio albums to reach the top spot.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Herb AlpertThe 89-year-old musician and bandleader was born in the same generation as Quincy Jones, as jazz gave way to pop in the middle of the century. He also co-founded A&M Records, soon home to artists including Burt Bacharach, Joan Baez – and Jones himselfIn 1963 he produced It’s My Party by Lesley Gore, which seemed the opposite of Quincy – he was basically a jazz musician and came up through those roots.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
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Madonna has expressed outrage at the re-election of Donald Trump, describing him as “a convicted felon, rapist, bigot”.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Old-school European glamour emanates from this excellent album by Austrian-Iranian pop singer Sofie Royer – the stuff of chilled rosé on an Antibes balcony or discos in the Rimini summertime, away from the crassness of influencers and classlessness of fame.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Girls Aloud are to release their first single since 2012, a new version of their cover of the Pretenders’ I’ll Stand By You with only the vocals of their late bandmate Sarah Harding. The song, entitled I’ll Stand By You – Sarah’s Version, will raise money for BBC Children in Need. It is being released on 15 November and had its first play on Radio 2 today. The group’s original version of the song was released in 2004 to benefit the same charity, and reached No 1 in the UK.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
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Beyoncé has starred in her first music video since 2021, cosplaying as Pamela Anderson and calling on Americans to vote. The video, entitled Beywatch, is soundtracked by Bodyguard, a track from her country-leaning album Cowboy Carter which was released in March. It carries – rather belatedly – the caption Happy Beylloween, but is also timed for release as Americans go to the polls.
