Classic Hits & Oldies
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Blank Archives/Getty Images We’re getting our first look at the upcoming documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, which chronicles the making of the all-star charity single “We Are The World.” Netflix has just released a trailer for the film, featuring archival footage of artists like Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and more in the studio. There are also clips of new interviews from […]
NPG Records/Warner Records The hit Prince film Purple Rain may one day be on Broadway. Producer Orin Wolf just announced that the blockbuster film is being developed for the stage, using Prince’s original music. Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on board to write the book, and Tony Award nominee Lileana Blain-Cruz is set to direct. “It’s been almost 40 years since Prince’s legendary […]
Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival A new documentary about the making of the ’80s classic “We Are The World” will have its world premiere screening at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Greatest Night in Pop reveals the untold story of how 46 musicians, including Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Ross and Billy Joel, came together in 1985 to […]
Disney/Randy Holmes It appears as though Lenny Kravitz has given the thumbs up to his daughter Zoë Kravitz’s engagement to Channing Tatum. “Hey man, that’s life,” Lenny told Entertainment Tonight when asked about the happy news. “When your family is happy, when your child is happy, that’s it — I’ve done well. Blessed.” Zoë, 35, who has starred in such films […]
Michael Schwartz/WireImage Dionne Warwick is setting the record straight regarding a report that claimed she’d be attending a fundraiser for presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After the Daily Mail reported that Warwick was attending the event, which would feature a performance by Andrea Bocelli, she shut the claim down with a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I don’t know anything about this event,” she […]
Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation After an online troll posted an edited clip of Madonna performing onstage and made fun of her age, a fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has come to her defense. During Madonna’s Celebration Tour, she performs several songs while standing in a moving “frame” that transports her high up into the air and across […]
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation Barbra Streisand has seemingly won every award you could win — she’s even an EGOT winner — but in February she’ll receive an honor that has so far eluded her. At the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, the legendary entertainer will receive the organization’s highest honor: […]
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival A new documentary about Gloria Gaynor is hitting theaters next year. Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival last June, will hit select theaters on February 13. “For the last 40 years I’ve been telling you I will survive,” she says in the new trailer for the flick, referring to her […]
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Music fans can now listen to the first recording made by Michael Jackson. Billboard reports the song, “Big Boy (One-derful Version),” will be available to purchase as part of a limited release by Recordpool, which owns the song, and anotherblock, the blockchain-based music and royalty marketplace. The song was recorded July 13, 1967, during The Jackson 5’s […]
Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal Doja Cat‘s “Paint the Town Red” became her second number one a few months ago, no doubt in part due to the catchy sample of Dionne Warwick‘s 1964 classic “Walk On By” that goes through the entire track. But while appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Friday, Dionne admitted her first reaction […]
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