David Bowie tops Elvis, Prince, John Lennon and more as most listened to dead rock star

GWAR have announced a new album, graphic novel and UK tour dates, all coming up this summer.New album, ‘The New Dark Ages’, is set for release on 3 Jun and will be accompanied by companion graphic novel, ‘GWAR In The Duoverse Of Absurdity’.“This is the greatest rock record of all time”, says frontman The Berserker Blóthar. “These are the songs for a new age, a New Dark Age, when men live by the dimming light of a technology destined to betray them.

Florence And The Machine are back with new single ‘King’, which ruminates on being a female artist striving for longevity in music but also wanting a family.“As an artist, I never actually thought about my gender that much”, says Florence Welch. “I just got on with it.

Companies representing the estates of Jimi Hendrix Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell have requested that legal action filed with the courts in New York by the Hendrix estate and Sony Music be dismissed on jurisdiction grounds. That legal action seeks court confirmation that agreements reached between the Hendrix estate and Mitchell and Redding back in the early 1970s are still in force.The UK-based companies representing the Redding and Mitchell estates have filed their own litigation in the English courts, specifically against Sony Music UK.

Queen Elizabeth has postponed two scheduled virtual audiences on Thursday but will continue with light duties, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said as the 95-year-old British monarch recovers from COVID-19.

Ben Stiller has revealed he and his estranged wife Christine Taylor are back together nearly five years after their split.The actor said the pair had rekindled things during the coronavirus lockdown after they decided to move back in together so the 56 year old could see their two children. Ben and actress Christine, 50, share daughter Ella, 19, and son Quinlin, 16.The couple met in 1999 while filming a pilot TV show for Fox and married the following year. He says of moving in together during the pandemic: “Then, over the course of time, it evolved.

ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly has urged Katie Price not to get any further cosmetic procedures done after she recently had a brow lift.The 43 year old former glamour model shocked fans earlier this month after being pictured with a massive bandage around her head and two black eyes following surgery in Belgium. She then debuted her brand new look last week as she celebrated her fiancé Carl Woods' 33rd birthday at the swanky Sheesh restaurant in Chigwell, Essex.

According to Panish, his firm has conducted an independent investigation that he said uncovered "numerous violations of industry standards" by Baldwin and the other defendants named in the complaint that was filed in New Mexico on Tuesday.A video created by the attorneys showed an animated recreation of the shooting.Law enforcement officials in New Mexico have described "some complacency" in how weapons were handled on the set of Rust.They have yet to file any charges and have been working to determine where the live rounds found on set might have come from.At least three other lawsuits have been filed over the shooting, but this is the first directly tied to one of the two people shot.Express.co.uk previously contacted Alec Baldwin's representatives for comment.Baldwin, who was practicing for a scene when the gun fired, has said that he didn’t know the gun was loaded and did not pull the trigger.“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them,” the actor told ABC News in December.

A palpable sense of excitement has settled upon the English capital’s TV community as the London Screenings prepares to welcome hundreds of buyers next week.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has said it will be a “great honour” to become Queen Consort when her husband Prince Charles takes the throne. Camilla, 74, who has been married to 73 year old Charles since 2005, added that she hopes the role will enable her to highlight the work she does for a number of causes she supports. Speaking to Emma Barnett at Clarence House for Woman’s Hour and BBC Breakfast, she said: “Of course it’s a great honour [becoming Queen Consort], it couldn’t be anything else.

DEALSSony Music has confirmed that it has received regulator approval in Brazil to acquire the country’s biggest independent record company Som Livre. The deal was initially announced last year but has now been approved by regulator CADE. The Brazilian firm also has publishing and live divisions.

Britney Spears has threatened to sue her former management company after claiming that two employees were trying to kill her.Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group has denied Spears’ accusations, saying that her claims are “entirely false, as well as highly offensive, damaging and unacceptable”.According to a social media post seen by Rolling Stone, Spears wrote yesterday (February 23): “They sucked up to me and ‘made me feel special’ … RIGHT …. Ha those same bitches killed me a week later !!!!”“My dad worshipped those two women and would have done anything they asked of him !!!! I think they were trying to kill me … I still to this very day believe that’s EXACTLY what they were trying to do … but not a damn thing was wrong with me and I didn’t die !!!!”The post in question, which appears to have since been deleted, relates to the period in 2008 when Spears was a week away from being placed under an involuntary conservatorship.

Download Festival has announced the latest additions to its 2022 line-up, with Skindred and Yonaka among the new names.The festival will return from June 10-12 at Leicestershire’s Donington Park. KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro are due to headline.Today (February 24) festival organisers confirmed that Skindred, Yonaka, Alestorm, Banks Arcade, Bimini, Dana Dentata, Dirty Honey, Heriot, Kid Brunswick, Orbit Culture, Red Fang, The Velveteers and Will Haven have joined the line-up.It follows a previous announcement last September that A Day To Remember , Mastodon, Creeper, Shinedown, Black Veil Brides, Code Orange, Ice Nine Kills and more had been added to the line-up.

EarthGang have released ‘Amen’ featuring R&B singer Musiq Soulchild, a new single off their upcoming album ‘Ghetto Gods’.‘Amen”s confident beat lifts swaggering lyrics like “I’m bout to put a ring on, what you mad at me for / I ain’t tryna pressure you but who better than me boy” as its music video flickers between shots of Earthgang’s Olu and WowGr8 riding around in a car and in front of a gospel choir, among other scenes.Watch the music video for EarthGang’s ‘Amen’ below.EarthGang first announced the release of ‘Ghetto Gods’ in November last year with a trailer featuring a snippet of an album track and voiceover narration by 2 Chainz. However, the album failed to materialise on its designated release date of January 28, prompting the duo to release a statement on their Instagram two days later.“Living every moment for other people can quickly become a prison,” the duo wrote.

Viewers of ITV's Lorraine found themselves 'switching off' just minutes into the latest show.

Gayle has announced the release of her debut EP, following the smash-hit success of her Number 1 debut single abcdefu. 

Sarah Greene has found love with racing car driver Robb Gravett, a good friend of her husband who died in 2014. Robb was pals with Sarah’s late husband Mike Smith, who passed away from complications of heart failure after undergoing major heart surgery.The pair ran the Trakstar team that won the 1990 British Touring Car Championship. Eight years on from Mike’s passing, Sarah, 64, has revealed that she’s now romantically involved with Robb, adding that her late husband of 25 years played a part in their meeting.

Good news for anyone sitting around with a weird circular MP3 player in their hand waiting for Kanye’s new album to pop up on it: he’s released… some of it. Four tracks from West’s ‘Donda 2’ album emerged yesterday for owners of his Stem Player device.‘Security’, ‘Pablo’, ‘Open Road’ and ‘We Did It Kid’ – all of which were previewed at West’s live launch event in Miami earlier this week – are now available to download on the $200 Stem Player devices to listen to and remix to your heart’s content.West announced the arrival of the four tracks in a since-deleted tweet last night.

Celebrating her one year anniversary with actor David Harbour, Lily Allen shared a selection of throwback snaps of her Las Vegas wedding on Instagram.The 36 year old star posted a series of photos from the pair's Sin City nuptials, where she and her 46 year old Stranger Things partner were married by an Elvis Presley impersonator at the Graceland Wedding Chapel.The couple were joined by Lily’s children from her first marriage to Sam Cooper, nine year old Ethel and eight year old Marnie. Lily sported an A-line minidress from Dior that she had bought just hours prior to the wedding and look radiant at the venue.

Lily Allen celebrated her one year wedding anniversary with David Harbour on Wednesday, marking the day with a slew of throwback snaps. The Smile songstress, 36, took to Instagram to share a video showing her Stranger Things star partner, 46, performing a dance and eating cake at a celebratory meal alongside a series of images from their Las Vegas wedding.

Elvis is still the King. Kruse GWS Auctions, the entertainment memorabilia auction house specializing in celebrities, sold a key piece of his career at a Saturday auction for more than a million dollars.

showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterSeptember 5 would have marked the 75th birthday of singer Freddie Mercury – but to this day the location of the star’s ashes remains a mystery.The Queen frontman, born in Zanzibar as Farrokh Bulsara, died in 1991, aged just 45, due to complications from Aids.As per his request, former partner Mary Austen scattered his ashes in a private location and has kept the secret to this day saying: “Nobody will ever know where he is buried because that was his wish.”Theories about where Freddie is now range from him being buried under a cherry tree in the garden of his London home or at Kensal Green Cemetery.But the Bohemian Rhapsody legend is not the only famous figure whose