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Zandra Rhodes donates five archive designs to Fashion and Textile Museum

Dame Zandra Rhodes has donated five of her archive designs to London's Fashion and Textile Museum.

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Michael overtakes Oppenheimer to become highest-grossing biopic of all time

Film also became top-grossing music biopic after surpassing 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody earlier this month

The Independent UK

"Super-focussed, densely layered and stacked with killer tunes." Unashamedly grandiose space-rockers Muse hit new disco-metal heights on Spielberg-sized sci-fi epic The Wow! Signal

The Wow! Signal is Muse at their sharpest, eclectic and energised, but low on the bloat and bombast that sometimes marred previous albums

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"As soon as you got into the lift there were naked women painted green." Inside the wild 1986 party where Queen teamed up with Samantha Fox and Gary Glitter to entertain 500 celebrity friends

In July '86, billed as Dicky Hart and The Pacemakers, Queen played one of the most star-studded gigs of their career in a London club

Louder

“I have absolutely no regrets. But with Eric Carr’s illness, I wish I’d handled that differently. The idea that someone close to me had cancer and was going to die, I couldn’t take it in”: Paul Stanley recalls the darkest day in the history of Kiss

“In some crazy way I thought that Eric might get better and come back to the band”

MusicRadar

Former Hertfordshire home of Queen's first manager for sale for £3.5m

Norman Sheffield lived at the house in the 1970s during his short and turbulent time as Queen’s manager

Evening Standard

"The time is right for a revolution in rock'n'roll. It's yours for the taking. I believe it’s coming." Def Leppard and Extreme are currently on tour together, so we put their guitarists in a room

Def Leppard and Extreme are currently playing a bunch of dates on what promises to be a cracking double-header

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Alice Cooper gifts signed album to man who handed in his lost credit card

Alice Cooper had been playing golf in the town of Payson, Arizona, and accidentally misplaced his card while paying for fuel.

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“This track is very much John Deacon world. I don’t think I was on it at all to start off with! He was much more into funk than we were. So it’s his rhythm guitar playing – not mine”: Brian May on the No 1 hit that made Queen the biggest band in the world

“Freddie absolutely adored it – he sang it until he bled!”

MusicRadar

Guru's Weekly Buzz: June 12-18

Guru By Bangkok Post's weekly pick of the most exciting products, activities, food and travel to indulge in.

Bangkok Post

"You don't get to the top without playing the game, and Des Rocs is playing it to gold medal-winning standards." Ambition and big-time dreams shine through on Des Roc's To Hell And Back

To Hell And Back is the third album from New Yorker Des Rocs, and the garage has been repurposed as a glitter-encrusted drag cave

Louder

“He didn’t write that many but if you think about it the ones he did were big, big hits”: How John Deacon’s genius for pop songwriting was kickstarted with the follow-up to Bohemian Rhapsody

Following up Bohemian Rhapsody is no easy task, but the retro sensibilities of You’re My Best Friend secured Queen another major hit. We take a look at the song's timeless charm

MusicRadar

Scary Movie’s Box Office Win Continues Hot Horror Summer, But That’s Not The Only Genre Highlight

Backrooms breaks another record, while Obsession crosses a major milestone.

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Alice Cooper warns AI will create 'fake rock stars'

Alice Cooper says AI is on the verge of manufacturing entire rock stars from thin air, but insists the technology can never replace real emotion.

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“The chorus wrote itself, the chords took me about 10-15 minutes and then Paul came up with the verses while he was waiting for a lift to a gig the next day!”: How one of the greatest rock anthems of all time was created in the wake of a nightmare show

“It was this gigantic sound,” says super-fan Joe Bonamassa

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Alice Cooper warns AI will create 'fake rock stars’ with 'no heart, no soul’

Alice Cooper says AI is on the verge of manufacturing entire rock stars from thin air - but insists the technology can never replace real emotion.

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“Dee’s blessing was important to me. I have such a reverence for him, he wrote all of these great songs”: Sebastian Bach was “like a kid on Christmas morning” when he was asked replace Dee Snider in Twisted Sister

Sebastian Bach and Twisted Sister‘s Jay Jay French speak exclusively to Classic Rock about filling Dee Snider’s boots

Louder

"He stopped and said 'This is where the opera section comes in!' Then we went out to eat dinner." How Freddie Mercury's "fevered brain" conjured up Queen's greatest song

Queen's record company didn't want to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single, but history has proved them wrong several times

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Evening Standard

West Ham have been relegated from the Premier League - what comes next?

Hammers succumbed to relegation after a miserable campaign

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Rami Malek almost turned down The Man I Love role due to Bohemian Rhapsody similarities

Rami Malek nearly passed up on the chance to star in The Man I Love due to the comparisons between the character of Jimmy George and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, who he played in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

France 24

Rami Malek compares new Cannes role to Freddie Mercury performance

Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek has returned to the Cannes spotlight with "The Man I Love". The latest film from indie director Ira Sachs is premiering on the Croisette alongside co-stars Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Tom Sturridge. The film sees Malek play a downtown New York performance artist during the…

The Independent UK

Rami Malek explores art, love and death in Ira Sachs' Cannes entry 'The Man I Love'

In Ira Sachs’ 1980s-set drama “The Man I Love,” Rami Malek finds the most well-tailored role since his Oscar-winning turn in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

The Independent UK

Billy Joel does not want anything to do with the upcoming movie about him

‘Billy & Me’ will follow the inception of Joel’s career through the eyes of his former manager, Irwin Mazur

Cinemablend

Michael Reclaimed The Box Office Throne, But What Happened To Billie Eilish?

Where did your current favorite movie land?

The Independent UK

Royal Mint launches rainbow prism coins celebrating legendary rock band Pink Floyd

The band has joined David Bowie and Freddie Mercury in the Royal Mint’s ‘music legends’ series

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