Category: 5. Entertainment

Michael Jackson’s voodoo classic Thriller was high on Billboard’s Hot 100 in the week of 15 November, handing the 16-years-gone King of Pop a record for having a Top 10 hit across six different decades. Simultaneously, Jackson also broke…

‘My first impression? Deeply uncool’

Bruce Robinson – best known as the writer and director of Withnail and I – met artist Sophie Windham at an Italian restaurant in London in 1982. He proposed three days later. They have been married for…

Tom Cruise, after wrapping up his hit action franchise Mission: Impossible, led fans…

Sharon Osbourne is pushing back against an attempt to release early Black Sabbath recordings, publicly challenging former band manager Jim Simpson after he issued a press release claiming legal ownership of the tapes.

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The evolution of “Black Betty” from prison chant to a quasi-heavy metal standard perhaps reflects its roots among…

Around that time, Doseone, the cLOUDDEAD member who guested on Appleseed’s final track, “Odessa,” had become an A&R for Mush, a small Cincinnati studio-turned-label that had put out a number of cLOUDDEAD 10-inches. In 1999, Dose approached…

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Antony Price is the greatest fashion designer you’ve never heard of. But you’ll know his work, which is synonymous…

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In the new Netflix documentary Being Eddie, released on November 12, 2025, Eddie Murphy reflects on his early rise on Saturday Night Live, the long-running tension that kept him away from the program for…

They call her the godmother of punk for a reason, and not just because she began her career reciting poetry in churches. Patti Smith, 78, still follows her own profane rituals to the letter and possesses a private, personal symbology — objects…