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The Latest Breaking News from Chrissie Hynde

The Pretenders to headline The Independent’s stage at The Great Escape festival

The legendary band fronted by Chrissie Hynde will play a special show at the festival in Brighton

The Independent UK

Vivienne Westwood’s son calls for her ‘dear friend’ Julian Assange to be freed

Joseph Corré speaks out as family and friends pay tribute to designer at memorial service in London

The Guardian - UK

The Pretenders review – Chrissie Hynde is still the talk of the town

The septuagenarian rock star’s songwriting is as sharp as ever, with new songs stealing the limelight from classic hits

The Guardian - UK

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Vivienne Westwood looks defiant with a raised fist in final photo from before her death

Iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was photographed in one of her own designs in the final photo taken weeks before her death

Daily Mirror

Vivienne Westwood director named as fashion designer Jeff Banks after icon's death

Jeff Banks, 79, was appointed the role of director of Vivienne Westwood's fashion empire after she passed away on December 29. The fashion designer was a 'dear friend' of Vivienne and thanked her for her 'everlasting service'

Daily Mirror

Jeff Banks made director of Vivienne Westwood’s fashion company before her death

The late designer’s husband, Andreas Kronthaler, was also made a director and secretary of her property business.

The Independent UK

Bella Hadid calls Vivienne Westwood ‘my inspiration and idol in all things’ as fashion world mourns legendary designer

Dame Vivienne died on Thursday peacefully and surrounded by her family in Clapham, south London

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Tributes flow as death of Dame Vivienne Westwood makes ‘world less interesting’

Dame Vivienne died on Thursday peacefully and surrounded by her family in Clapham, south London.

The Independent UK

Vivienne Westwood, ‘queen of punk’ fashion, dies at 81

‘She was always trying to reinvent fashion,’ said Andrew Bolton, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Al Jazeera

Taylor Hawkins tribute concert: Who's performing and how to watch show live

The show is taking place on Saturday with a packed out line-up of rock and roll stars paying tribute to the Foo Fighters drummer

Manchester Evening News

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 4-10

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Sept. 4-10 include rapper Wiz Khalifa, actor Gaten Matarazzo from “Stranger Things” and singer Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders

The Independent UK

Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins London tribute concert to include Brian May, Liam Gallagher, Chrissie Hynde

The Foo Fighters are compiling an A-list roster for a London tribute concert to late drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Tribune News Service

Members of Queen, the Police, Rush to honor Taylor Hawkins

The London-based tribute concert for Foo Fighters’ late drummer Taylor Hawkins will include Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde, Oasis’ Liam Gallagher and comedian Dave Chappelle

The Independent UK

Sex Pistols story spills out in a fast-paced, aggressive bio on Hulu

No punk expertise required to make sense of the flashy six-part series about Johnny Rotten and his bandmates.

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How ‘Pistol’ highlights the height of the punk movement in 1970s London

A tiny shop in 1970s London, in neon pink letters, shouted to passersby: SEX.

Los Angeles Times

Review: You think you know the Sex Pistols. This new TV show tries to deliver a corrective

It's been 44 years since the Sex Pistols broke up and only a couple more since they played their first gig, having produced only one actual album in their lifetime. And yet they seem very much with us; the best of their music continues to sound massively huge, outside of…

Evening Standard

Pistol on Disney+: A guide to the real-life punks who brought anarchy to the UK

The new Danny Boyle TV show is out today

The Guardian - UK

Pistol review – Danny Boyle’s wonky Sex Pistols show is like Punk: the Panto!

Johnny Rotten is the Artful Dodger crossed with an animated rodent in Boyle’s frustrating series that feels so cartoonish it falls totally flat

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Evening Standard

Pistol on Disney+ review: Danny Boyle’s series on the Sex Pistols can’t help but turn very dark

The grim realities of this story mean that the series is tonally uneven, but it’s never boring

Daily Mirror

Chris Tarrant says Tiswas would be cancelled now as kids were 'pelted in cages'

Former Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? presenter Chris Tarrant believes the popular Saturday morning children's TV show would never air now as kids were 'slipping everywhere' and there were smoke bombs

The Guardian - UK

Let me educate you: an art tutor’s verdict on art by Robbie Williams and other stars

Robbie Williams’ paintings will be shown by Sotheby’s next month. We asked an A-level examiner to grade the work

The Guardian - UK

What links condor, hands, monkey, spider and whale? The Saturday quiz

From a conspiracy theory to Chrissie Hynde, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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