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Taylor Swift is conquering the world, one song at a time! But in this case, it's a prestigious award. On Tuesday, the singer-songwriter will become the first female to win the Global Icon award at the 2021 Brits Awards.

Taylor Swift is set to be honored at this year’s BRIT Awards.

Taylor Swift will receive the Global Icon Award at the BRITs tomorrow, it has been announced. The prize is being given “in recognition of her immense impact on music across the world and incredible repertoire and achievements to date”.

BBC Radio 4 has announced a load of programming to mark the 80th birthday of Bob Dylan, including documentaries and a new radio play.“Earlier this year we brought listeners some brilliant programming on the life and legacy of David Bowie – an artist close to so many of our audience’s hearts”, says Radio 4 Controller Mohit Bakaya.

Taylor Swift is set to make music history tomorrow night as she becomes the first woman to receive the Global Icon award at the BRITs.

Taylor Swift is set to be honoured with the BRITs Global Icon award at this week’s BRIT Awards 2021.This year’s awards ceremony will take place at The O2 in London tomorrow (May 11) and will welcome 2500 audience members as part of the UK’s government’s ongoing test programme for the safe restart of live events.Swift will become the first female winner of the BRITs Global Icon award, the highest accolade given by the BRITs that has previously honoured the likes of David Bowie, Elton John and Robbie Williams.The artist is being recognised for her “immense impact on music across the world and incredible repertoire and achievements to date”, while the BRITs added in a statement: “Taylor’s career is unparalleled and her music and influence has

Iman is reflecting on the racism that she encountered after moving to the U.S. to begin her career as a model.

Iman, 65, rarely talks about her beloved husband, David Bowie, who she lost to cancer in 2016, but she happily reminisced during an appearance on Naomi Campbell‘s YouTube show No Filter with Naomi. During the hour-long video interview Iman revealed that her love affair with the ‘Ziggy Sardust’ singer started with a blind date!

EXCLUSIVE: Former Lodge 49 star Sonya Cassidy is set as a series regular opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris in The Man Who Fell to Earth drama series on Showtime.

David Bowie‘s The Man Who Fell To Earth.The classic sci-fi movie, based on Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel of the same name, marked one of Bowie’s most memorable roles, as Thomas Jerome Newton – an alien posing as a human in an attempt to save his home planet.Delaney, who will play the character Hatch Ford according to Variety, will star alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, who will play the alien portrayed by Bowie in the original movie and Naomie Harris.Previously announced cast members include Clarke Peters [The Wire] and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Jimmi Simpson.Filming on Showtime’s forthcoming drama series will start in London this spring and is set to premiere next year.The TV adaptation was first announced in 2019 with showrunners Alex

Some unexpected free time in 2020 led Grammy winner Dave Grohl to put some thoughts and memories into words.

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Romanek will make a long-awaited return to feature filmmaking to direct the horror film Mother Land for Lionsgate and 21 Laps. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy & Dan Cohen are producing, and the script is by Kevin Coughlin & Ryan Grassby.

EXCLUSIVE: Clarke Peters, who recently starred in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, is joining Showtime drama The Man Who Fell To Earth.

King Crimson founder Robert Fripp and his wife, singer Toyah Willcox, have shared a cover of ZZ Top‘s ‘Gimme All Your Lovin’ – watch it below.The pair launched their Sunday Lunch video series last year, sharing renditions of songs by Nirvana, David Bowie, Metallica, Billy Idol, Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper and more through Willcox’s YouTube channel.Last week (March 21), the pair revealed a version of Motörhead’s ‘Ace Of Spades’ with Willcox dressed in a maid’s outfit and dealing cards into the gust of a fan.This week’s kitchen cover sees the couple take on ZZ Top’s ‘Gimme All Your Lovin”, with Willcox performing dressed in a burlesque-type outfit complete with a couple of pairs of scissors.

David Bowie is expected to reach between £10,000-£15,000.The two-piece suit was worn by the music icon on a single night out at historic New Romantic hang-out The Blitz Club, and was claimed by legendary promoter Steve Strange after it became left in London club’s cloak room.Bowie left the Issey Miyake-designed suit behind after noticing several cigarette burns on it, and changed into a fresh outfit.The suit eventually made its way into the hands of musician Jayce Lewis, who is now seeking a decent return when the suit goes up for auction later this month.Specialist Stephen Ferguson at Auction Antiques said: “Unusual items with a famous history are always the best and as a lifelong Bowie fan, this piece ticks all the boxes, as it will with

Alice Cooper has revealed his theatrical rock shows were a major inspiration for David Bowie, who once told the rocker it was what his own band “should be doing”.Cooper, whose new album ‘Detroit Stories’ was released last month, said in a new interview that his shock-rock beginnings spurred Bowie to pursue making music that was both theatrical and commercial.Responding to a fan question sent into Metal Hammer as to whether he ever crossed path with the late icon, Cooper said: “David used to come to the show when he was a mime artist, he was Davy Jones back then.

The Man Who Fell To Earth is getting another new home.

David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger during his pre-fame days.Appearing on Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt’s Rockonteurs podcast, the Bon Jovi frontman spoke about the time he spent working at The Power Station recording studio in New York when he was just 18 years old.“They paid me $50 a week to be the gofer and if it was a weekend or a late, late night, I could go in and record,” he remembered.Bon Jovi went on to reveal that he spotted Bowie and the Queen frontman at the studios one night as they recorded their 1981 collaboration ‘Under Pressure’.

Bhaskar Menon, the founding chairman and CEO at EMI Music Worldwide who is widely credited for breaking Pink Floyd in the U.S. and presiding over one of Capitol Records' most successful eras, died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills.

Mick Rock might never have snapped iconic photos of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Mötley Crüe and a host of other musicians. At the time, he was attending Cambridge University in ­England, majoring in literature and harboring no photographic ambitions.But Rock told The Post that on that night, “I was at the home of a friend who had all the toys, including a great record player and camera.

Suede‘s Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah have teamed up with the Paraorchestra for a one off concert of covers including David Bowie, Echo & The Bunnymen and Mercury Rev.The nine-track gig, dubbed ‘Death Songbook’, which will be streamed by BBC Cymru as part of GŴYL 2021 this weekend, also features Portishead‘s Adrian Utley on guitar and Seb Rochford from Sons of Kemet on drums.The acoustic/electric set was recorded in a COVID-safe environment in January on the largest of Wales Millennium Centre’s stages and featured tracks by Suede along with Bowie’s cover of Jacques Brel’s ‘My Death’ and Echo And The Bunnymen’s ‘The Killing Moon’.You can view a performance of Mercury Rev’s ‘Holes’ and the full setlist below.GŴYL 2021 is a free to watch