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Jaigantic Studios with Adam Ripp attached to write and direct the feature film, Variety reported.The movie will dive into the “Uptown Girl” singer’s early life, his discovery by The Hassles’ band manager Irwin Mazur and his working relationship with Clive Davis.“Billy Joel is not involved with this film project. No rights in music, name/likeness or life story will be granted,” a rep for the 72-year-old confirmed to The Post.According to Variety, producers noted that music necessities for the flick are “yet to be determined.”Jaigantic Studios was able to work around Joel by acquiring the life rights to Mazur.

Selena Gomez and James Caverly are back to solving murders once again.The 29-year-old actress and singer and her costar were spotted filming several scenes together for the second season of Only Murders in the Building in Manhattan on Wednesday.The Spring Breakers actress donned a heavy green coat with a furry hood, a gray sweater and pleated skirt while appearing in a scene filmed inside of a car. On the case:Selena Gomez, 29, and her costar James Caverly were spotted filming scenes for Only Murders In The Building season two on Wednesday in Uptown ManhattanUnderneath the skirt, she wore tight black leggings, and she finished off the outfit with a pair of shiny black boots.Gomez's brunette hair was parted in the middle and fell down to her shoulders, just barely touching the tops.

CHVRCHES have announced details of a huge new North American tour for 2022 – check out the new list of dates below.The Scottish trio are fresh off a three-song performance at this week’s (March 2) BandLab NME Awards 2022 in London, where they performed with The Cure‘s Robert Smith.After a UK tour that begins next week (March 10), the band will head to the US and Mexico from the end of April, playing a host of shows that take them up until the end of June. The new headline dates begin in late May.See the band’s full list of tour dates below.MARCH 202210 – Dundee, Fat Sam’s12 – Glasgow, SWG3 Poetry Club14 – Edinburgh, O2 Academy15 – Newcastle, City Hall16 – London, Brixton Academy18 – Birmingham, O2 Academy19 – Manchester, AcademyAPRIL 202229 – Atlanta, Shaky Knees FestivalMAY 202213 – Mexico City, Tecate Emblema18 – Monterrey, Showcenter21 – Guadalajara, Corona Capital27 – Napa, BottleRock Festival30 – Tampa, Jannus31 – Miami, Revolution LiveJUNE 20221 – Orlando, House of Blues2 – Raleigh, The Ritz4 – Charlotte, The Fillmore5 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club9 – Buffalo, Artpark10 – Grand Rapids, 20 Monroe Live11 – Indianapolis, WonderRoad Music Festival13 – Madison, The Sylvee15 – Omaha, The Admiral16 – Kansas City, Uptown Theater18 – Manchester, Bonnaroo FestivalDuring their set at the BandLab NME Awards 2022, the band performed their track ‘Asking For A Friend’ from 2021 album ‘Screen Violence’ and then teamed up with Smith for a world exclusive live premiere of ‘How Not To Drown’.

The US version of the Eurovision Song Contest has secured some big-name contestants, with Michael Bolton, Macy Gray, Jewel and Sisqó all confirmed to be competing in the inaugural competition, which launches this month.

Pink Siifu's prolific 2021 included the Fly Anakin collaboration $mokebreak as well as expanded editions of FlySiifu's (also with Fly Anakin) and NEGRO, his earth-shaking hardcore masterpiece released in 2020. He also dropped a great solo album called GUMBO’!, and on March 4 he'll add ten new songs to the tracklist for GUMBO’! DELUXE’!.

Elle and Dakota Fanning are truly sister goals in Elle's latest sweet post of the two stars, which features unbelievable throwback photographs of the two.MORE: Elle Fanning leaves fans shocked by her appearance for new true crime roleIn honor of Dakota's 28th birthday, her younger sister shared a heartwarming tribute to the actress on Instagram with impossibly cute photos of the two growing up.The The Great star paired the images with a lengthy caption dedicated to her sister, and showered her with love and compliments.WATCH: Elle announces much-anticipated news regarding future of hit Hulu show The GreatMORE: Meet The Great star Elle Fanning's famous boyfriend Max MinghellaThe heartfelt tribute started off quite poetically. She wrote: "I have watched many make your acquaintance.

Last Friday, Pink Siifu shared a video for "Voicemails Uptown," a song from his expansive and communal 2021 album GUMBO'! "Voicemails Uptown" brings together a wide range of collaborators for a funky ride through Siifu's cosmic psyche. The song features producer Monte Booker, Turich Benjy, TDE's Lance Skiiiwalker, JayBee Lamahj, V.C.R., and Nelson Bandela.

Bruce Dickinson – longtime frontman of Iron Maiden and qualified commercial pilot – has detailed his experience with Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots at a spoken-word show over the weekend.Dickinson was onstage at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City on Saturday night (February 19), as part of his ongoing tour, entitled An Evening with Bruce Dickinson. In a segment of the show where he answered questions from fans, a former soldier enquired as to Dickinson’s most memorable flight with British soldiers.The singer, as reported by Blabbermouth, answered the question by recalling a 2008 flight from Afghanistan, where he was bringing RAF pilots home to the UK.“We were the flying the Royal Air Force Regiment, which is RAF boots-on-the-ground soldiers, and they’d been to Afghanistan,” said Dickinson.“They had taken some casualties and they had lost some people, but they were all really cheerful – the best passengers you could ever have in the military.

Uptown (to Harlem), which appeared on a hit album by the Chambers Brothers in 1967. When she met Davis, introduced by Devon Wilson, Jimi Hendrix’s girlfriend, Mabry had just ended a relationship with the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Davis had recently divorced his first wife, the dancer Frances Taylor.

Funk singer Betty Davis has died, aged 77. The singer’s friend, Danielle Maggio, confirmed the news to Rolling Stone on Wednesday (9 February). Davis, who was the ex-wife of jazz singer Miles Davis, died of natural causes.

Trailblazing funk musician Betty Davis has died at the age of 77. The star, who was once married to jazz legend Miles Davis, died in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to a statement on her official website. Davis died in Homestead, Pennsylvania, where she'd lived since childhood, the statement reads.

Betty Davis, a soul and funk singer of the 1960s whose growling, raspy vocal style and unapologetically explicit lyrics would influence future performers from Prince and Erykah Badu to Outkast, died today of natural causes at her home in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was 77.

Rolling Stone.Amie Downs, communications director for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where Davis resided, revealed that her cause of death was from natural causes.Famous for her raspy purr, Davis was known for singing hits such as “Get Ready for Betty,” “It’s My Life,” “If I’m in Luck I Might Get Picked Up” and many more. Davis also wrote the Chambers Brothers song “Uptown (to Harlem).”She recorded most of her music between 1964 and 1975.

Bright Road (1953), Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), and 1974’s comedy Uptown Saturday Night, which the actor and singer directed. That film, in particular, is notable for its cast, which includes Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Calvin Lockhart, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bill Cosby.Also on the bill, Robert Altman’s 1996 jazz-noir Kansas City, in which Belafonte plays a gangster named “Seldom Seen.” The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, and Steve Buscemi.The channel is also highlighting the innovative independent works of Melvin Van Peebles, a one-man creative force who often starred in, wrote, directed, and composed his films.Of the four entries, the most notable are Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), in which a Black man outruns white police authorities (the score, by Van Peebles, was performed by Earth, Wind & Fire) and Watermelon Man (1970), a renowned social comedy starring Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons, in which a white bigot wakes up to find his skin has turned Black.Also on tap: The Harder They Come (1972), featuring reggae artist Jimmy Cliff as a singer who faces down corruption in Jamaica’s music industry.

Hollywood and the nation are mourning a Hollywood pioneer today. Click on the photo above to launch a photo gallery on the career of Oscar winner Sidney Poitier, who has died at 94.

Kanye West – who recently changed his name to Ye – and Drake settled their differences publically last month after years of bitter feuding. The unity of the two artists was sealed with the announcement of the Free Larry Hoover Benefit concert, a charity event for the incarcerated co-founder of Chicago's Gangster's Disciples.

Nicky Hilton, 38, was all dressed up on Thursday.The sister of Paris Hilton wore a gorgeous Alice + Olivia tweed outfit with pearls to top it off while on the Upper East Side of New York City.The socialite, 38, shared pictures to Instagram while at L'Avenue at Saks, where she was hosting a brunch with Bauble Stockings and Alice + Olivia, launching their holiday Baubles. A lady who lunches: Nicky Hilton, 38, wore a gorgeous Alice + Olivia tweed outfit, with pearls to top it off in Uptown New YorkThe co-designer of Bauble Stockings looked elegant in a tweed outfit.

Kanye West and Drake will both be taking to the stage of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this week.

On Thursday night, December 9, Kanye West and Drake’s Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert will take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Amazon has now confirmed it will stream the event across Amazon Music, Prime Video, and its Amazon Music Twitch channel from 11 p.m.

Amazon Music and Prime Video will exclusively live stream Kanye’s first headlining show in five years, with special guest Drake. The ‘Free Larry Hoover’ benefit, which takes place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, will stream globally on Prime Video Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. PT, as well as on the Amazon Music app, and the Amazon Music Twitch channel.

Kim Gordon has shared a new track called ‘Grass Jeans’ in aid of Fund Texas Choice, an organisation that provides women in Texas with travel to abortion clinics.The song marks the first solo material from the former Sonic Youth member since her debut album, 2019’s ‘No Home Record’.“Take me downtown/ Take me downtown/ Uptown/ Take me downtown where they go,” Gordon sings at the start of the dark, distorted single as fuzzy electric guitars chime in and out.“I often get asked, ‘Can music change things for people in a political landscape?’” she explained in a statement.