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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, André Holland, Alison Brie and Tom Sturridge are leading Alex Vlack’s feature directorial debut, the drama The Revisionist.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Save the Children,” an early ’70s concert film featuring many of that era’s biggest names in Black music, was in need of some saving itself. Although the documentary featured iconic stars like the Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Bill Withers, the movie disappeared completely off the radar after being briefly released to theaters in 1973 by Paramount Pictures, never getting an authorized home-video release, let alone revival screenings.

Jamie Borthwick's second Strictly Come Dancing partnership has been 'exposed'. The EastEnders actor is currently competing in the BBC One dance contest alongside professional dancer Michelle Tsiakkas.

The Union, starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry is streaming on Netflix now, but what songs are on the film’s soundtrack?The film follows Wahlberg’s Mike McKenna, a construction worker from New Jersey whose life takes a turn when his high school sweetheart – Berry’s Roxanne Hall – re-enters his life after 20 years.It is directed by Julian Farino, who has previously helmed the television films The Child In Time and Marvellous and has worked on major shows including The Newsroom, The Office (US), Sex and the City and Entourage.The Union was written by Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project) and David Guggenheim (Safe House, Stolen), and it also stars J.K.

NME’s latest stars of The Cover, Infinity Song, have shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The sibling band are on this week’s (July 8) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of Infinity Song here, written by Hollie Geraghty and featuring photography by Tamiym.Accompanying the story is an exclusive playlist Infinity Song have compiled, ‘20 Songs To Live By’, featuring Joni Mitchell, Solange, Bill Withers, Tracy Chapman, Fleetwood Mac and more.

Black American culture as one of the most influential businessmen in entertainment. The Greensboro, North Carolina, native became a pillar in entertainment after moving to Los Angeles in the late 1960s.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Clarence Avant, whose unofficial title of the “Black Godfather” spanned the worlds of music, sports, entertainment and politics, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from his family. No cause of death was provided; he was 92. “It is with a heavy heart that the Avant/Sarandos family announce the passing of Clarence Alexander Avant,” the statement from his children, Nicole and Alexander and son-in-law Ted Sarandos.

Todd Gilchrist editor Nestled into a cozy corner of a shopping center high in the Hollywood hills, Herb Alpert’s jazz club Vibrato Grill was the site of a coronation Sunday for not one but three musical luminaries. The Jazz Foundation of America honored 10-time Grammy-winning composer and pianist Dave Grusin, saxophonist Charles Lloyd and trailblazing music executive Clarence Avant at a benefit to raise proceeds for jazz, blues and R&B musicians facing financial hardship due to unemployment, illness or old age. Though host Quincy Jones was unable to attend due to unspecified health issues of his own, he and the JFA assembled a program of speakers and performers for an evening of celebration and song that the phrase “star-studded” barely does adequate justice.

Ed Sheeran has spent another day in court in an ongoing plagiarism trial related to his 2015 single ‘Thinking Out Loud’, and played Van Morrison in the court room to further contest accusations that the song ripped off Marvin Gaye‘s ‘Let’s Get It On’.Back in 2016, the pop star was sued by Ed Townsend, one of the song’s co-writers, who alleged that Sheeran and co-writer Amy Wadge copied the rhythm of the 1973 song, as well as an ascending four-chord sequence. It also references “striking similarities” between the two tracks that violate the copyright.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Ed Sheeran had strong words for a musicologist on Monday as the court hearing over alleged similarities between his hit “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On” entered its second week. “I think what he is doing is criminal,” Sheeran said of the prior testimony from Alexander Stewart, a musicologist hired as an expert witness by Gaye’s estate, according to the New York Times. “I don’t know why he’s allowed to be an expert.” Sheeran, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Publishing are being sued by three heirs of songwriter Ed Townsend, who is the credited co-writer with Gaye on the 1973 song.

Yellowjackets is back for a second season, with this compelling mystery-thriller further deepening its complex and traumatic narrative.The second instalment of the Showtime series, which is broadcast in the UK on Paramount+, kicked off last week (March 24), with episodes set to air weekly until May 14.A synopsis for season two of Yellowjackets reads: “The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer, but now as winter begins to bite, we’ll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis.“Meanwhile, 25 years later, each survivor must determine if the darkness is coming for them or from them.”The original score for the first season of Yellowjackets, as well as the theme song ‘No Return’, was handled by singer-songwriters Craig Wedren (of the band Shudder To Think) and Anna Waronker (That Dog), while composer Theodore Shapiro wrote the music for the pilot episode.You can listen to ‘Blood Hive’, the original score for season one of Yellowjackets, below.For a show that is so steeped in ’90s nostalgia, the soundtrack of Yellowjackets has understandably become a hit among its growing fanbase given its inclusion of an array of classic tracks.From Hole‘s ‘Miss World’ to The Prodigy‘s ‘Firestarter’, the Yellowjackets soundtrack has also featured the likes of Alanis Morissette, Salt-N-Pepa, Bill Withers, Jane’s Addiction, The Offspring and PJ Harvey.An official Spotify playlist containing all of the songs featured in Yellowjackets was first released following the conclusion of the first season of the show in January 2022, and that playlist is now being updated as each new episode airs.

Piers Morgan Uncensored: "I rung [the bell] three times. It's very hard not to cry, sorry. I'm crying just looking at it again because you wait, you just can't wait to ring the bell and I'm still in God's hands, whether or not you're going to be 100 per-cent or not but you hope for the best because you have.

returned for the fifth week of season 9 on Wednesday, and the show celebrated all things wonderful and childlike with " Night!«Helmed by host Nick Cannon and overseen by stalwart panelists Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger, Wednesday's episode saw two new contestants — Fairy and The Jackalope -- duke it out against returning singer The Squirrel for their shot at moving on in the competition.So who went home and who moved on? Each week, ET will be breaking down the biggest moments and most surprising unmaskings in each new episode of the hit reality singing competition series.Here's how Wednesday's » Night" shook out, when all the songs were sung and votes were cast!Returning champ The Squirrel kicked the fun, -themed episode off with a fun, skillful performance of «Just the Two of Us» by Grover Washington Jr. featuring Bill Withers.

The Masked Singer is back for season nine!

Helen Skelton enjoyed a countryside stroll just one day after her ex-husband Richie Myler shared a photo of his heavily pregnant girlfriend Stephanie Thirkill on his newly-reinstated Instagram. The Strictly Come Dancing finalist, 39, shared some video footage of the countryside's scenic landscape as she pushed her youngest daughter Elsie in a pram. Helen shrugged off her ex's baby news, as she paired the footage of her stroll with the song Lovely Day, sung by the late Bill Withers.

The official trailer for Spinning Gold has dropped and it explores the rise of Neil Bogart as the founder of Casablanca Records. Watch the preview in the video posted above.

A parolee who murdered 81-year-old philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the wife of a legendary music executive, during a burglary at her Beverly Hills home was sentenced Tuesday to 190 years in a California prison.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLooking back 50 years at anything that isn’t related to geology, evolution or astronomy feels like a glimpse at a long-bygone age. That’s especially so for the 14th annual Grammy Awards, which took place on March 14, 1972 at the Felt Forum in New York’s Madison Square Garden and were broadcast on ABC.The show was hosted by virtuoso easy-listening singer Andy Williams; presenters included Ed Sullivan, the Fifth Dimension, the Carpenters and “Brady Bunch” star Florence Henderson.

Martine McCutcheon looked stunning in a backless swimsuit as she enjoyed a glass of prosecco in her back garden.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are bringing joy with the release of their uplifting inaugural playlist. 

Naya Rivera's ex husband was seen visiting her grave on what would have been her 34th birthday on Tuesday.