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Pitbull fans, it's time to grab those bald caps and suit jackets once more, because the icon that is Armando Christian Pérez is making a comeback to the UK in 2026. The star, who just played a string of sold out arena shows around the country, has confirmed a new tour: The I'm Back! Tour. Here, he'll be playing a load of new concerts around the UK, including one in London for BST Hyde Park on Friday, July 10, 2026, and another at the new Roundhay Festival on Friday, July 3, 2026.The star will also be hitting Cardiff, Glasgow, Lancashire and more on this exciting, enormous tour. And tickets are already out right now. Below, we have listed everywhere fans can get their fix - from official sellers and VIP retailers. Here's the breakdown.Pitbull fans have a string of options available to th...

Nobody does theatre like Gaga. Performing the first of two sold out nights at Manchester’s Co-op Live arena, the singer treated fans to a SHOW from start to finish. It was the first outing in Manchester in 11 years for the 39-year-old megastar… and boy was it worth the wait. Opening with Bloody Mary and Abracadabra, the tone was set for the night, one of gothic glam and full drama. There were costumes aplenty throughout, from corpse brides to skeletons to plague doctors. There were dancers, there was vogueing, there were pyrotechnics, there was a skull the size of a one bedroom flat in London. There was even a boat. The whole thing was incredibly carefully curated chaos - and I loved every single second. Gaga threw everything at us in the name of entertainment - and entertain us she did...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s epic Queen hit Bohemian Rhapsody.Scorned by music critics upon its release, the six-minute classic has had 14 weeks at No 1 in the UK charts and is Britain’s third best-selling single of all time.Now, a rare white label 7” vinyl test pressing of Bohemian Rhapsody has gone up for sale at the White Label Auction in Aid of The BRIT Trust, “the world’s only known auction of white label test pressings.”Over 170 lots were put on sale to collectors around the world in aid of the BRIT Trust music charity, raising a total of £44,260.Signed copies of Coldplay and Ed Sheeran albums sold for a few grand, but it was the rare Bohemian Rhapsody vinyl that sparked the fiercest bidding war. Donated by David Munns OBE, who worked on the original 1...

For over half a century, Queen have held a special place in British rock’s heart.And while over half of that time has been without Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, the band continue to have mass appeal across the UK.Today a new PPL chart celebrating National Album Day (October 18) has found that Queen are the UK’s most played rock act of the 21st century. You read that correctly. Not 20th, but 21st!An announcement read: “Queen have amassed over 400 million seconds of radio and TV airplay, the equivalent of 12.5 years of continuous play this century... PPL, which licenses recorded music for use on UK radio and television, and in public spaces such as bars, restaurants and gyms, compiled the chart using extensive airplay reporting data from radio and TV broadcasters across the country.”Qu...

Just months after headlining a sold-out London Stadium with Iron Maiden, Steve Harris is playing a nearby pub with his other band, British Lion. Why? Maiden have had bigger dressing rooms! “I love playing smaller venues, I like to see the whites of their eyes,” Steve, 69, tells me with a grin. The pub, The Cart & Horses in Stratford, is also where football-crazy Maiden kicked off fifty years ago. The East End heavy metal band are renowned for their lavish stage shows, complete with pyrotechnics and their monstrous mascot Eddie, who was reborn as an axe-wielding killer on their latest world tour. But, as Steve reminds me, their first Eddie was a humble face mask, surrounded by light bulbs, which erupted during their anthemic self-titled set-closer, Iron Maiden. “We used a fish tank a...

Former One Direction members Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik are reuniting for a multi-million-pound Netflix road trip series, according to reports. Filming has already started on the documentary, which will follow the pair as they travel across the United States.The series, expected to air next year, will mark ten years since One Direction split in 2016. It comes in the wake of Liam Payne’s death in 2024, which insiders say brought the band closer together. Payne died aged 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. His funeral, held in November last year, saw Louis, Zayn, Harry Styles and Niall Horan reunite for the first time since 2016.The upcoming Netflix project will feature Louis and Zayn reflecting on their lives and memories from their time in the group. The pair have no...

Oasis. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Their second album was even better than the first, loaded with unforgettable arena anthems. For my money, it was the greatest rock album of the 90s. The Gallaghers never came close to topping it, but that’s what happens, I suppose, when you’re “chained to a mirror and a razor blade”. What’s important is that three decades on, Morning Glory has lost none of its lusty energy. This 30th anniversary re-release comes with five unplugged acoustic extras, which we'll get to. There’s still no Step Out – the robust banger of a track was withdrawn because the chorus sailed a little too close to Stevie Wonder’s Uptight. A shame, it was arguably Noel’s greatest theft in a long career of, ahem, musical borrowing. Does that matter? All the greats borrowed. Mor...

The Midnight are on the eve of the release of their sixth album, Syndicate. And, like any good band, they have gone through a series of metamorphoses to reach this new era. Just in recent years, producer Tim McEwan and frontman Tyler Lyle endured multiple Covid-19 releases, tours with bare minimum resources and have jumped between various record labels in the process. And, despite all this, bringing Syndicate to life was one of their most difficult tasks yet, Lyle and McEwan exclusively told Express.co.uk. And it's plain to hear in the final product.There's a profound melancholy within each track of Syndicate. The two-parter Afterglow has Lyle crooning: "What was to be could have never been" as McEwan's sullen mix drones on beneath it all in a style which continues throughout the Goliat...

From 1972-6, Elvis Presley dated Miss Tennessee model Linda Thompson, who was his live-in girlfriend at Graceland.Now 75, she has many fond memories of dating Elvis, but also remembers his decline and caring for him through the darker times, before his sudden death in 1977 aged just 42.Linda regularly posts tribute posts to her old flame on her Instagram and most recently shared old footage with the King singing Early Morning Rain without heavy backing vocals on it.She accompanied this latest one with some touching words, including a heartbreaking confession.Linda wrote: “Before there was auto tune, AI and so many other magic tricks to make an artist sound more on pitch - and better than they actually are… There was Elvis. I was moved when I saw this footage today and wanted to share it...

Sean P Diddy Combs has been denied an acquittal and a new trial after he was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The 55-year-old rapper's legal team had pleaded with Judge Arun Sumramanian for a new trial or acquittal, arguing that their client was wrongly charged under the Mann Act for consensual sexual activity between adults. However, their request was turned down, according to court documents obtained by The Mirror US.Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but was cleared of the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. As Diddy braces himself for his sentencing, scheduled for Friday, his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, has voiced her concerns about the potential consequences if...