Music

It’s been a long time coming and no doubt will be surrounded with controversy given the child sex abuse allegations against him throughout his life, but the Michael Jackson movie biopic trailer is finally here. The Lionsgate movie is simply called Michael and stars the King of Pop’s nephew Jaafar …

Music education in schools will be given a massive boost today with the English Baccalaureate system to be scrapped by Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson’s long-awaited Curriculum Review. The “game-changing” axe represents a significant victory for the Daily Express’s Strike A Chord Crusade, which has been demanding that the arts-excluding measure …

Young Bleed, whose real name was Glenn Clifton Jr, has passed away after being rushed to the hospital days earlier following a collapse. The rapper died after suffering from complications due to a brain aneurysm, it has been revealed. His son, Ty’Gee Ramon Clifton, confirmed the tragedy on social media …

Download Festival 2025 may have only been just a few months ago, but we’re already looking ahead to the 2026 offering. Last year’s headliners Sleep Token revelled in one of the biggest and busiest Download Festivals of all time. 2026’s line-up aims to do the same with some major fan …

The Natural History Museum in London holds a special place in the heart of everyone who has visited. From its stunning building, awe-inspiring Jurassic garden outside and world-beating dinosaur exhibits, to it’s magical gem rooms and collection of more species than most of us realised had ever existed, it’s a …

Donna Jean Godchaux, the powerhouse vocalist who helped define the Grateful Dead’s sound throughout the 1970s, has passed away at the age of 78. The Alabama-born singer passed away on Sunday, November 2, at a hospice facility in Nashville after what her family described as a “lengthy struggle with cancer,” …

Freddie Mercury’s Queen magnum opus, Bohemian Rhapsody, marks its 50th anniversary this weekend. And to celebrate, the band has created an official 5-part YouTube miniseries on how the iconic song came to be. Both active members Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor feature in brand-new interviews, which can be viewed …

Andrea Bocelli was pleasantly surprised to discover that his son, Matteo Bocelli, could sing, and just a few years ago, they sang their first duet together, “Fall On Me.” The single, sung partly in English and partly in Italian, is the father and son’s tribute to each other and features …

After the last show of Iggy Pop’s 1979 US tour, his pal David Bowie offered to give the band a lift to New York’s Mudd Club in his Lincoln Continental executive stretch limousine. “We piled into his limo, and it was such a tight squeeze I had to sit on …

EXCLUSIVE Disabled young people are being excluding from pursuing a career in Britain’s world leading music industry because of “disproportionate barriers” they face accessing education and opportunities. A damning new report finds that their participation across the arts is “lower, shorter-term, and more likely to be home-based”, and that they …