Morris Day Slams Prince’s Estate, Says He’s Forbidden From Performing as the Time; Estate Says Claim Is ‘Not Entirely Accurate’

Harry Styles dropped «As It Was» on Friday and already fans catapulted the track to great heights.The 28-year-old GRAMMY winner's new single off his third album,, became Spotify's most-streamed song in the U.S. in a single day in Spotify history with 8.3 million streams. That record previously belonged to Olivia Rodrigo's «drivers license,» which had 8 million streams back in January.But that's not all.

Made In Chelsea is about to get more explosive than ever. The latest series kicks off Monday night (April 4) and it is set to be packed with drama.Verity Bowditch and Maeva D’Ascanio are among the stars back for more.

Sheridan Smith had to wipe away tears as a Frankie - a Billie Eilish lookalike - took to the stage to perform on the final of the talent scout ITV hit programme Starstruck.The 40-year-old TV and Westend star wrestled with her emotions as she watched the final from the judges table alongside her co-star's Adam Lambert, Beverley Knight and Jason Manford.It isn't unusual for Sheridan to moved by many of the singers who have performed on the show and comedian Jason had certainly picked up on it as he landed an hilarious swipe.Turning to his co-star as the young Billie Eilish act left the stage, he said: "That was the closest I'd come to doing a Sheridan."Fortunately, Sheridan saw the funny side of things declaring that she was "always crying".Later on in the programme, Sheridan found herself emotional for a second time as she became choked after mum-of-one Keeley transformed into Barbara Striesand.She blew the judges away with her powerful vocal range, leaving Sheridan sobbing as she mentioned Keeley's daughter Willow - who was watching in the audience. In spite of a number of incredible acts on the programme in was Rachel who channelled pop icon Cher who took to winners crown and the £50,000 prize fund.While many fans were delighted that Rachel had swooped up the win, other online users complained about the result.One tweet read: "Tina or Barbara should've won for me great show @JasonManford #Starstruck."Another agreed: "Barbara was robbed! #Starstruck."A third grumbled: "#starstruck on @ITV what a waste of time...

Ukrainian woman has shot down two Russian jets and an attack helicopter with a shoulder launched rocket.The 22-year-old woman, who until a few weeks ago was studying at university, destroyed the aircraft with an Igla infrared surface to air missile.It is understood she was only taught how to use the device two weeks ago but is now regarded as an expert.Her identity is being kept a secret amid fears Russian agents will try to assassinate her.The Igla is Russian-made and has existed in various forms since the 1980s. The missile can fly at twice the speed of sound and to a height of 11,000ft.

Kerry Katona has left fans swooning after she paid a sweet tribute to her adorable daughter Dylan-Jorge ahead of her 8th birthday next week.Taking to Instagram to gush over her daughter, Kerry posted a sweet snap and penned: "This little bunny is gonna 8 on Monday!!!!!! Where has the time gone!!!"Dylan-Jorge is Kerry's youngest child, and is set to turn eight on Monday (April 4).Licking her lips as she pulled apart a croissant, Dylan-Jorge can be seen donning bunny ears and a stylish jacket as she posed for the snap."She is so beautiful like her mummy and sisters," one fan penned in the comments section.Another added: "Stunning photo. The image of her mum."A third person commented: "I just love her little face! So sweet."Kerry welcomed Dylan-Jorge in 2014 when she was with her late ex George Kay.George, who was a former rugby league player, was just 39 when he passed away from a drug overdose, five years after DJ was born.Kerry has recently opened up about her young daughter meeting her now-step-dad, Kerry's partner Ryan.

Marcus Rashford was spotted going nuts at Anthony Elanga after his Manchester United team-mate denied him the chance to score a late winner against Leicester City on Saturday.With just seconds left on the clock, Rashford darted into the box and was about the pull the trigger before Elanga foolishly tried to nick the ball off him and take the shot himself. The two clattered into one another with Elanga accidentally hacking the back of his team-mate's legs before also being flagged for offside.Incensed, Rashford threw his arms in the air and smacked the turf before shooting some serious daggers at the young Swede, who stayed stiff as a board like a man who'd just knocked a vase off a coffee table.Rashford had words with the youngster, questioning why he had denied him the chance to finish off his mazy run with a shot in the final moments of the contest."Not sure anything sums this season up more than Elanga tackling Rashford in the box when he was through on goal, what a club," one United tweeted in response."That should have been a red card for Elanga after taking out Rashford in a clear goalscoring position," tweeted another, while a third said: "Tell me you're trying to keep your team-mate out of the team without telling me you're trying to keep him out."Even Gary Neville said on commentary for Sky Sports: "Rashford wants to know why Elanga took it off him.

Lucy Verasamy dazzled her adoring legion of Instagram fans with snaps from her latest wintery getaway. The 41-year-old Good Morning Britain star took to the stunning French Alps for a lavish ski trip away.Lapping up the sunshine while on the snowy slopes, the ITV weather expert sizzled as she held up her phone to capture a beautiful selfie.In one picture, Lucy is shown with her eyes closed while smiling but later got her angles right with the second post as the bombshell is shown staring straight into the lens like a modelling professional.Showing off the scenery and her incredible physique in tight-fitted ski gear, the meteorologist looked scorching in further upload.The TV star could be seen wearing matching items which included figure-hugging black trousers and snug looking jacket that boasted a chic fur trim around the hood.Going for glam, she popped on a mirrored pair of goggles as she prepared to take on the mountains.Along with a trio of pictures, Lucy captioned: "Springtime skiing from 2 weeks ago - ft.

Casualty fans are gushing over Dylan and Paula's sweet bond as Last Leg comedian Rosie Jones returns to the much-loved medical drama.Comedian and actress Rosie Jones plays Paula Kettering in the popular BBC medical soap opera, and on Saturday (April 2) she returned to her role.Rosie joined the cast of Casualty last year in February 2021, and has since been a huge hit with viewers.On Saturday when she returned to her role, fans of the programme were quick to swoon over Paula's sweet relationship with consultant Dylan Keogh.Taking to Twitter to discuss this week's episode, fans of Casualty were quick to gush over the pair's sweet bond that was clearly depicted throughout."The dynamic between Dylan and Paula is SO good! #casualty," penned one viewer. Another added: "Dylan is so nice to Paula #Casualty.""I love this side of him #Casualty," said someone else who also posted a short clip of the consultant.A fourth added: "We love Dylan #Casualty."In tonight's episode of Casualty Dylan found Paula lashing out to a pharmacist before consoling her and then sorting out her prescription for her.

Camila Cabello took to Instagram on Saturday (April 2) to reveal she is often “self-conscious” about wearing bikinis in public because of the “unrealistic” images of women in today’s culture. “I reminded myself when it impacted my self-esteem that I was thinking the culture’s thoughts and not my own,” she wrote. “A culture who has gotten so used to an image of what a ‘healthy’ woman’s body looks like that is completely not real for a lot of women.”

Love Island's Sharon Gaffka has shared her breast cancer scare, following her mother's battle with the disease.The 26 year old, who recently said there's a rift between the Love Islanders, opened on finding a "really painful" lump near her underarm so she went to the GP after the discovery. Sharon told The Sun: "I remember feeling discomfort in my right breast between my breast and my underarm.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn what is rapidly becoming a mass music exodus out of Russia, Kobalt became the third major company to announce on Thursday that it is suspending business activity in Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Of the three global major labels, Sony and Warner announced their pullout within an hour of each other on Thursday morning, and Universal made the move on Tuesday.Kobalt’s move is doubly significant because although it is a global company, Kobalt was founded in London by Swedish-born Willard Ahdritz and in many ways is a European company.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“Clive Davis: Most Iconic Performances,” a four-art series featuring concert clips chosen by and interviews conducted by the legendary music executive, will premiere exclusively on Paramount Plus in the U.S. and internationally beginning Wednesday, March 23.In this special miniseries, culled from his virtual 2021 pre-Grammy Gala events, sees Davis taking viewers through some of his favorite musical performances from the last few decades.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs more and more companies have cut ties with Russia in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, many have wondered why more music companies have not done the same.Early Tuesday, the U.K.’s performing rights organization, PRS for Music, said it has formally and immediately suspended its rights representation relationship with RAO, the Russian collecting society for musical works, “pending confirmation of its separation from the Russian Government and those individuals and companies on the sanctions lists.“We are also working with CISAC to consider the ongoing membership of Russian societies in the global network. It is not our desire to punish the Russian composer, songwriter and publisher communities who support peace, and we will work with the global community to identify opportunities to amplify the voices of protest.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs the Prince estate slowly digs itself out of the legal and procedural morass that ensued after the legendary musician died in 2016 without leaving a will, a standoff between the estate and Morris Day, Prince’s near-lifelong friend and collaborator and frontman of the first Prince-spawned artist, broke into the open last week.At issue is Morris’ use of the name the Time, which an attorney for the estate claims it owns the rights to, citing a 1982 contract between Day and Prince. Day, who says his rights to use the name were never questioned by Prince himself over the many intervening years, blasted the estate on social media last week, and a rep shared the attorney’s letter, which proposes that Day license the name — presumably for a fee.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s almost become a model in recent years: If a song’s a hit, the copyright-infringement lawsuits follow, and Dua Lipa was clobbered with two of them in four days last week. Her global hit “Levitating,” which has spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, has drawn two lawsuits from songwriters claiming the song infringes on their compositions, according to multiple media reports.The first was filed March 1 by a Florida reggae group called Artikal Sound System, claiming that Lipa’s song lifts from their relatively obscure 2017 track, “Live Your Life.” That complaint includes little specific detail beyond claiming that the two tracks are so similar that it was “highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently.” In the second, more-detailed legal complaint, filed on March 4 in New York, songwriters L.

Prince‘s estate has responded after the singer Morris Day claimed that he has been prohibited from using the band name The Time by the estate.Day, who regularly collaborated with Prince and still fronts The Time, issued a statement yesterday (March 3) which accused the late musician’s estate of blocking him from using the name Morris Day & the Time “in any capacity”.“I’ve given 40 years of my life building up a name and legacy that Prince and I came up with,” Day wrote in a statement on Instagram. “A name that while he was alive, he had no problem with me using.

Prince is no longer with us, suddenly, the people who control his multi million dollar estate want to rewrite history by taking my name away from me, thus impacting how i feed my family. So as of now, per the Prince Estate, [I] can no longer use Morris Day & The Time in any capacity,” according to the post.A representative for the estate disputed Day’s post. “Given Prince’s longstanding history with Morris Day and what the Estate thought were amicable discussions, The Prince Estate was surprised and disappointed to see his recent post.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter what we’ve all been through in the past two years, every concert feels like a miracle, but a Dua Lipa show more than most. On the surface it might be easy to underestimate the heavy emotions associated with her “Future Nostalgia” album, which was famously released on March 27, 2020, just as the horrors of the pandemic were becoming clear: It’s a dance-party album that arrived at seemingly one of the worst possible times in human history for a dance party album, when there were no parties and the only dancing was done on our own.Yet instead of striking a sour note or seeming like a cruel taunt, it was many people’s escape, their comfort food, their crying blanket — a reminder not only of what we couldn’t have, but what we hoped to get back as everyone wondered, without exaggeration, when or if we’d ever be at a concert or on a crowded dancefloor again.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe “chopped and screwed” sound has become such a staple of hip-hop that most fans probably don’t even wonder where the slowed-down, stop-start sonic approach came from — and thus, the late DJ Screw, a.k.a. Houston native Robert Earl Davis Jr., is one of the truly unsung heroes of the genre.During the 1990s, he developed the revolutionary mixing technique from his Houston home, adding new rhythms to instrumental tracks, slowing them down and bringing in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMissy Elliott, Wizkid, Ozuna, Kali Uchis, Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals, Jhené Aiko and many more will perform at a new festival in New York called LetsGetFr.ee, taking place at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on August 20-21, with a special opening night gala on the 19 th.The festival, which also features Jorja Smith, Yendry, El Alfa, Ferg, Lido Pimienta, Flatbush Zombies, Tems, ​​Bomba Estéreo, Major Lazer Sound System and many more, is presented by Afropunk festival founder Matthew Morgan and longtime partner Jocelyn Cooper in partnership with global creative agency Anomaly.The full lineup appears below.According to the announcement, the festival is “the largest diversity-focused, purpose-driven music experience in the U.S. Its mission is to close the equity gap for Black, Brown, Asian, and other underrepresented people in the entertainment industry, with the aim of achieving a diversified workforce across all levels in the industry by 2030.” The festival pledges that it will only work with brands and companies who commit to long-term systemic change.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAvril Lavigne, Maren Morris, Alicia Keys and other artists will appear in “iHeartRadio SeeHer Hear Her: Celebrating Women Who Make Music and Culture,” a celebration on the radio network taking place on International Women’s Day on March 8.The event will highlight successful and influential artists in music during a live one-hour special that will stream on iHeartRadio’s YouTube and Facebook pages on March 8 at 8 p.m. ET (available on demand through March 14).iHeartMedia is the largest radio network in the U.S.