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Paul Mescal to star in Beatles film, Ridley Scott appears to confirm
Gladiator II director Ridley Scott appeared to confirm a longstanding film-industry rumour that Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney in the four-film Beatles biopic announced
‘It knocked Eminem’s Stan off No 1’: how we made Can We Fix It? by Bob the Builder
Neil Morrissey, voice of Bob I’d done voices for BBC One’s stop-motion animation The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge in 1996 and, three years later,
The 50 best albums of 2024: 50-31
50-31 50 Karl D’Silva – Love Is a Flame in the Dark You expected Charli xcx to drop one of the British pop albums of
A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter review – an exceptionally good gift
The last time I was this entertained by a Christmas special was in lockdown, when Mariah Carey waved, regally, from a sleigh, for what I
Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of raping girl, 13, in US lawsuit
An amended lawsuit filed in federal court on Sunday alleges that rap moguls Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped a 13-year-old girl during a party
‘God Save the King makes me sick’: Bobby Gillespie’s honest playlist
The first single I bought Blockbuster by the Sweet in 1973 from Soundtrack Records on Cathcart Road in Glasgow age 11 or 12, after seeing
Kapr Code review – operatic retelling of composer Jan Kapr’s turbulent life
Retelling the complicated life of prolific Czech composer Jan Kapr, Lucie Králová’s category-defying documentary harmonises the artist’s never-before-seen archive with a new libretto from Jiří
‘Will I cry? Yes!’ Taylor Swift’s era-defining Eras tour comes to a close
By now, nearly 21 months after Taylor Swift launched what would become the highest-grossing tour of all time, you could be forgiven for thinking both
The Human League review – immaculate electro pop as radiant now as it was 40 years ago
The sound of immaculate synthesisers begins to whir and echo through the air, as electronic innovators the Human League take to the stage, before a