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Image copyright PA Image caption Steve Mac – who co-wrote Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You – and Ed himself were some of the top earners The money that artists receive when their tracks get played has just hit a record high. In 2018 £746 million was paid out – a rise of 4% on 2017. […]

Image copyright Getty Images Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood says singer Sir Mick Jagger is doing “really well” as he recovers from a heart operation. The 75-year-old frontman tweeted that he was “on the mend” earlier this month, after reportedly undergoing heart valve replacement surgery. The band were forced to postpone some North American dates of

Image copyright Chess Club “Oh, my God, they were my absolute idols.” 22-year-old Manchester-based singer-songwriter Phoebe Green is waxing lyrical about her favourite band from when she was a teenager – the newly reformed Jonas Brothers. “As soon as I found out that they wrote their own music. Well, I mean, supposedly wrote their own

Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Miley Cyrus had been lined up to appear at the festival A three-day festival to mark the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival has been cancelled four months before it was due to take place, the main financial backer says. Rapper Jay-Z, singer Miley Cyrus and the Killers band

Image copyright EPA Image caption John Singleton became the first African-American nominated for a best director Oscar Oscar-nominated director John Singleton – known for films including Boyz N The Hood and his remake of detective movie Shaft – has died at the age of 51. A family statement confirmed the influential filmmaker fell ill in

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Doherty played Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills 90210 Original cast member Shannen Doherty – aka Brenda Walsh – has revealed she WILL join the new cast of the Beverly Hills 90210 reboot. The new series, titled BH90210, will also star Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian

Image copyright PA Image caption The stage shows have been cancelled after props and the set were stolen The production company behind children’s play Dear Zoo has had to cancel all its UK shows after its tour van was stolen. The heavily-branded van containing £50,000 worth of props and staging was stolen in Peterborough on

A suggestive banana artwork was removed from display by Poland’s national gallery sparking a social media protest. The 1973 video “Consumer Art” by artist Natalia LL, shows a woman eating the fruit. It had been on display at the National Museum in Warsaw for several years but was taken down last week after the museum’s

Image copyright Hopkins/Pironti A nude painting of a photographer with her dog and a portrait of a 95-year-old grandmother are on the shortlist for this year’s BP Portrait Award 2019. There are four finalists, selected from more than 2,500 entries from 84 countries. The winner, who will pick up £35,000 in prize money, will be

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ozzy Osbourne is hungry to return Ozzy Osbourne has announced the dates of seven rescheduled UK and Ireland gigs. The former Black Sabbath frontman had to cancel the remainder of his No More Tours 2 tour after aggravating an old injury while falling at his Los Angeles home. Osbourne,