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Yesterday marked what would have been Elvis Presley’s 91st birthday.The King had many girlfriends across his short 42 years, and his most major lover after divorcing Priscilla Presley was Linda Thompson, who was skipped over entirely in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic.The Miss Tennessee model lived with the star at Graceland from 1972 until 1976 and continues to pay tribute to him on her official Instagram to this day.In a special birthday post featuring a ton of couple photos, the 75-year-old shared a sweet message of remembrance for her old flame.Linda wrote: “‘I’ll Remember You’ always… Happy Heavenly Birthday to the true legend Elvis Presley. He was once my idol, my crush… then my first love. The one you never forget. Four and a half years of living with him helped to shape my life fore...

Elvis Presley lived only 42 years, but his incredible legacy endures half a century later.Every year on January 8, fans from around the world gather on the front lawn of the star’s Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, to mark his birthday in a special proclamation ceremony.As usual, there’s a giant tiered cake and a few speeches, with the King’s best friend, Jerry Schilling, sharing memories from their meeting in 1955.Meanwhile, Managing Partner of Elvis Presley Enterprises Joel Weinshanker ended up choking up at the memory of the King’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley, who died suddenly after attending the annual event three years ago.Tearing up, Joel said: “Obviously, Lisa was here on one of the last days of her life a few years ago. Still a very emotional day for me. And we actual...

David Bowie on stage at Glastonbury in 2000 in a performance that helped reshape his legacy (Image: Press Association)January 10 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of David Bowie, one of the best-loved British musicians there has ever been. In truth, it doesn’t seem like a decade that he has been gone, because even though he is no longer around, the steady stream of reissues, live albums and biographies that have emerged since 2016 means his presence is always felt.Younger artists from Lady Gaga and the Last Dinner Party to Charli xcx and the Arctic Monkeys are open about how indebted to Bowie they are, and he has inspired everyone from politicians – most notably David Cameron, a fully paid-up fan who called the other David “a master of re-invention, who kept getting it right” – t...

2026 is finally here, which means Take That's upcoming Circus tour is just a matter of months away. And while the clock ticks down, so, too, do the prices of the stars' tickets. The band confirmed their upcoming tour last year to great excitement. Plenty of fans bought up their tickets at the drop of a hat, and while there were hundreds of thousands to go around, many missed their chance.Thankfully, there is still hope for fans who want to get involved. A number of resale websites still have tickets leftover right now, and some of them have dropped to their cheapest prices yet. This includes tickets for around £64 each. Below, we've broken down everything fans need to know.Take That tickets are available right now through a number of online retailers. This list mostly encompasses resale...

When asked about a memorable cup of tea he had shared on the A Mug of Life YouTube channel, Rod said: “I think when John Lennon made me a cup of tea.” He added: “I recorded with him, I did the Imagine album with him.“My drummer in the band that I had was clever enough to get himself a job with Brian Epstein. That kind of gave me a latch key to The Beatles. “Word had got around that I was quite a hot guitar player. I somehow went along to a session and John Lennon was there and I was sitting around listening, thinking, ‘God I wish I could play with him’, and there was a guitar on a stand quite close to me, an acoustic, and I thought, ‘I don’t think he’ll mind’, so I picked it up and started playing.“The voice behind me went, ‘Yeah man, you can really play’. I thought, ‘Oh, hello John’.”R...

The death of iconic French actress Brigitte Bardot means just three people mentioned in Billy Joel’s iconic We Didn’t Start The Fire global smash hit remain alive. The international sex symbol turned animal rights activist death at the age of 91 was announced on Sunday following a "sudden illness".Bardot died at her St-Tropez home, La Madrague, according to the animal protection charity she set up in 1986. Her cause of death was not made public, but Bardot was briefly kept in hospital in October for what her office called a "minor" procedure. It means just three individuals specifically named in Joel’s original 1989 version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" are still alive.They are Chubby Checker, born 1941, who is mentioned for popularising the dance craze "The Twist" in 1960, Bob Dylan, a...

Yesterday evening, Kylie Minogue scored the 2025 UK Christmas No 1 single, beating the return of legacy tracks like Wham’s Last Christmas and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas is You.And now Brits have crowned the 15 worst Christmas No 1s of all time, with 1993’s Mr Blobby by… well, Mr Blobby coming out on top with 28 per cent of the vote.The poll of 2000 Brits, conducted by all-in-one banking app thinkmoney, also saw Bob the Builder’s Can We Fix It come in second with 25 per cent of the vote, followed by all five of LadBaby’s charity parodies.Check out the full results below, which also include two Cliff Richard classics and Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name Of.The latter was famously a 2009 campaign to knock off the X Factor winner, who had won for the past four yea...

Alanis Morissette is one of the world's most legendary angst-ridden rockers out of North America, and she's gracing stages in the UK again next year. The star, who is best known for her 1995 record Jagged Little Pill, previously played a collection of sold out arena shows throughout 2024, including a night at London's O2 Arena. Now, in 2026, she has six gigs lined up - some of her biggest UK concerts yet - including a headline slot at Crystal Palace Park. And she's got some massive stars joining her, as well.Alanis Morissette is being supported by Skunk Anansie and Wet Leg throughout some of the shows. Some of these gigs include stops at Exeter, Oxford, Glasgow and more. Tickets for these shows were released on Friday, December 12, 2025. And while some fans may have missed out on buying...

Raul Malo, the operatic vocalist and member of Grammy award-winning country band the Mavericks, died on Monday, aged 60. A representative for the band confirmed he died following a battle with cancer. The band said in a statement: “It’s with the deepest grief we share the passing of our friend, bandmate and brother Raul Malo. “Anyone with the pleasure of being in Raul’s orbit knew that he was a force of human nature, with an infectious energy."They added: "Over a career of more than three decades entertaining millions around the globe, his towering creative contributions and unrivalled, generational talent created the kind of multicultural American music reaching far beyond America itself.”The star's wife Betty added: “No one embodied life and love, joy and passion, family, friends, mus...

Manchester’s Hot Milk have barely paused for breath since releasing their second album, Corporation P.O.P, in June. In fact, it’s been a whirlwind couple of years for the relatively new band, and 2025 has only ramped things up. Between promo shows and festival runs in the UK and abroad, Hannah ‘Han’ Mee and Jim Shaw have been building toward their biggest headline shows yet. London marked the second night of their tour, with a homecoming in Manchester still to come, but it was clear that ticking off the iconic Roundhouse already felt like a milestone.It was only fitting that the set opened with ‘Hell Is on Its Way', an apt tribute to the night ahead, which would lean into their unfiltered, tongue-in-cheek chaos that’s become a signature of their shows. And the antics were only just gett...