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RAYE has performed an emotive cover of Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’. Check it out below.The rendition of the classic 1965 track was shared by the Mercury Prize nominated singer yesterday (February 9) as part of the latest episode of Triple J’s Like A Version series.In the performance, RAYE delivers a seemingly more stripped-back approach to that of the original.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy hits UK cinemas on Thursday (February 13), but what songs are included in the film? Check out the full list below.The fourth instalment in the Bridget Jones film saga, it is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Helen Fielding. Fielding has co-written the screenplay too, alongside Dan Mazer (Ali G Indahouse, Borat) and Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady), while Michael Morris (To Leslie) directs.Renée Zellweger returns as the titular character, while Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson all reprise their characters from previous films.

Laura Mvula, Corinne Bailey Rae and more led an all-star tribute to Nina Simone at London’s Southbank Centre. Check out footage, photos, the setlist and more below.Held at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday (January 31), Mississippi Goddam: A Celebration Of Nina Simone saw the Nu Civilisation Orchestra honour the life of the legend with special guest singers, led by conductor Peter Edwards.

Mo is back on Netflix for a second season, but what songs are included in the new episodes? Read on for the full list.The show is co-created by its leading star Mo Amer alongside Ramy Youssef and it is loosely based on Amer’s own experiences as a Palestinian refugee navigating life in the United States.The first season premiered on the streaming service in August 2022 and now the second run of eight episodes have landed, as of January 30. Check out the trailer for season two below.Netflix have said the new season “will bring its hero’s journey for asylum to an end, with Amer reprising his role as Mo, alongside Teresa Ruiz (Maria), Farah Bsieso (Yusra), and Omar Elba (Sameer), who are back as series regulars.”“The new episodes find Mo stranded across the border and desperate to get back to Houston before his family’s asylum hearing.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The human voice, as we all know, is as much of a musical instrument as any other instrument. But Jeff Buckley had a voice that was so breathtaking, so ethereally soaring, so reaching for the heavens in its virtuosity that it’s as if he’d been given a different instrument from everyone else in pop and rock. Not that he wasn’t profoundly influenced.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been embroiled in split rumours for months now with sources close to the former royal couple revealing that the Sussexes have 'blazing rows'.

Strictly Come Dancing fans are in for a treat tonight as the 'Grace Jones of jazz', Lady Blackbird, is set to grace the ballroom for a special performance during Sunday's pre-recorded results show. In addition to Lady Blackbird's performance, the professionals are set to perform a Beetlejuice-inspired routine.

Grotesquerie is thrilling audiences, but what songs have popped up on the show? Read on for the full list.The fifth and sixth episodes of the show aired on FX in the United States on Wednesday (October 9), with four more instalments to come before the end of the month. For UK viewers, the show is streaming on Disney+.The show stars Niecy Nash-Betts (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Selma) as Detective Lois Tryon, who has to work alongside Micaela Diamond’s Sister Megan to investigate a series of crimes in their community.Lesley Manville and Courtney B.

NME‘s exclusive interview with Coldplay‘s Chris Martin, the frontman has also shared a playlist of what he’s currently listening to. Check it out below, along with Martin’s guide to songs by the likes of Fontaines D.C., Peggy Gou, The Flaming Lips, Destiny’s Child and more.This Friday (October 4) will see the release of Coldplay’s 10th album ‘Moon Music‘.

Willie Nelson has released an emotional rendition of The Flaming Lips‘ ‘Do You Realize??’, from his upcoming album ‘Last Leaf On The Tree’. Check it out below.‘Last Leaf On The Tree’ will be Nelson’s 153rd release (counting solo studio albums, live records, and collaborative LPs), and sees him cover hits by the likes of Warren Zevon, Nina Simone, Keith Richards, Sunny War, Beck and more.Earlier this year, Nelson shared the lead single and title track – a cover of Tom Waits’ ‘Last Leaf’.

Willie Nelson has announced a new album ‘Last Leaf On The Tree’, which is his 153rd release (counting solo studio albums, live records, and collaborative LPs).Just a few months after the release of his last studio LP ‘The Borders’, the 91-year-old’s forthcoming LP consists of a selection of covers curated by his son Micah as well as some originals, one of which Micah guests on. It will be released on November 1.Nelson will cover hits by the likes of Warren Zevon, Nina Simone, Keith Richards, Sunny War, and more, as well as The Flaming Lips‘ ‘Do You Realize??’ and Beck’s ‘Lost Cause’.The album’s lead single and title track, a cover of Tom Waits’ ‘Last Leaf’, is available to stream. It originally appeared on Waits’ 2011 album ‘Bad As Me’.Check out Nelson’s version of ‘Last Leaf’ and the tracklist below:The tracklist for ‘Last Leaf On The Tree’ is:1. ‘Last Leaf’ (Tom Waits)2. ‘If It Wasn’t Broken’ (Sunny War)3. ‘Lost Cause’ (Beck)4. ‘Come Ye’ (Nine Simone)5. ‘Keep Me In Your Heart’ (Warren Zevon)6. ‘Robbed Blind’ (Keith Richards)7. ‘House Where Nobody Lives’ (Tom Waits)8. ‘Are You Ready For The Country?’ (Neil Young)9. ‘Do You Realize??’ (The Flaming Lips)10. ‘Wheels’ (Micah Nelson)11. ‘Broken Arrow’ (Neil Young)12. ‘Color Of Sound’ (Willie Nelson & Micah Nelson)13. ‘The Ghost’ (Willie Nelson)14. ‘Lookin’ For Trouble’Nelson is in the middle of the ‘Outlaw Music Festival Tour’ with Bob Dylan.

This Morning's Alison Hammond couldn't hold back her emotions on Monday's episode (22 July) as she reminisced about her late mum after watching an old clip. Entertainment reporter Jordan North was discussing the buzz around The Voice possibly launching a celebrity edition when he mentioned Alison's own singing talents.The conversation turned to Alison's past performance alongside Cat Deeley on Stars in Their Eyes, leaving Joel Dommett utterly surprised. "I was only young though!" Alison exclaimed.

Raye surprised an audience at Montreux Jazz Festival when she covered songs from Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Check it out below.During one of the festival’s famous ‘jam sessions’, Raye took to the Memphis stage to perform intimate covers of Holiday’s ‘All of Me’ and Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’.The intimate show, seen by only a few hundred people, followed her performance on the festival’s main Lake Stage as part of a double bill with Janelle Monáe.“I also stole a picture of Nina [Simone] from the Jazz festival,” she joked with the audience before starting the cover.

Lexi Carson SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses plot points from “A Quiet Place: Day One,” now playing in theaters. “A Quiet Place: Day One” is filled with tense silence, brutal kills and a moving ending, which leaves the door open for more apocalyptic horrors. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o stars as Samira, a terminally ill cancer patient who leaves hospice to explore New York City with her service cat Frodo.

Raye has shared an expansive and “deeply personal” new single, ‘Genesis’ – you can listen to it below.The multi-BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter previewed the track live at a special pop-up exhibition in New York City earlier this week, saying she was “so proud” of how it had turned out.Today (June 7) Raye released the studio version of the ambitious, seven-minute song – which marks her first material since her critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize-nominated debut album ‘My 21st Century Blues’ (2023).“There is a Nina Simone quote, ‘It is an artist’s duty to reflect the times’. This quote is everything to me and I believe the best way I can try to do this is through my art and my music,” she said in a statement.“There is so much darkness and pain in this world we live in, and I wanted to create something both as deeply personal and as raw as I could find myself to be about my own mind and the world I see around me.”Raye continued: “The song is a seven-minute piece that I have crafted and scrutinised over the last year and a half, experimenting with different genres and sonic expressions, beneath all the layers and the lyrics, the underlying message is ‘Let There Be Light’.“It is a prayer and a plea and a cry for help, and I really hope this song will be able to bring some hope, the way this music does for me, to those who need it most.”In the gospel-tinged first part, Raye sings about how she’s “been sober for some months“.

Heidi Klum is back in France for the Cannes Film Festival and ready for a tan. The iconic model arrived in the country on May 12 for the opening ceremony and seems to have left before returning on May 20.A post shared by Heidi Klum (@heidiklum)During some downtime, Klum hit the pool.

Adam Thomas has been flooded with messages from fans as he again gushed over his 'beautiful' wife as he shared a fresh video from what has been described as the 'wedding of the century'.

Alex Ritman Jessie Buckley has lent her voice to “Three Hares,” the hand-drawn animated short film from BAFTA-winning filmmaker Paloma Baez (“The House,” “Poles Apart”). The ecologically-focused film — which has now completed production — was directed and adapted by Baeza from an original story by Hanya Yanagihara, the author of “The People in the Trees,” “A Little Life,” “To Paradise,” and editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Nick Cave has recalled making peace with the artists that have “disappointed” him, explaining that he is willing to look beyond their personal decisions if the art they make is “authentic”.The Bad Seeds frontman discussed the topic in a new update on his blog, The Red Hand Files, after a fan got in touch with him to question him about his “religious turn” and asked if he ever feels like he is “letting down [his] queer and female fans”.Responding, Cave went on to share his own experience of being disappointed by artists he once admired and explained how he was able to look beyond their personal choices and enjoy their artwork for what it is.“When I think of the artists that I truly admire, those that I have stuck with over the years, at some point in their lengthy careers they have all disappointed me,” he began.“Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Kanye, Van Morrison, Morrissey, Brian Eno, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith – these are artists that, for me, form a kind of confederacy of excellence, but at one time or another they have each alienated, confounded or displeased me. They have often not travelled in the direction I would have hoped or wished for, instead following their own confounding paths (damn them!) to their own truths.“In the course of this I have sometimes been discomforted by things they have done, disagreed with things they have said, or not liked a particular record they have made.

Courtney Love’s Women.The series will see the music legend share her “ultimate soundtrack to her life” as she reflects on the women in music who have “shaped her journey, her sound and her next chapter”.Across eight episodes that will air from April 8 to April 15, the Hole founder and singer will journey through the eras of her life and the music that made her alongside her friend and music podcaster and writer, Rob Harvilla.Love will recall the musical moments from throughout her formative years as part of the series, including when she discovered disco through the record collection at a childhood care home and recited Sylvia Plath poetry for a Mickey Mouse Club audition.She will also detail her love of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone and recall her time at an all-girl boarding school in New Zealand and in juvenile detention, before she reflects on couch-surfing across America and struggles with drug abuse.Other topics covered in the series will include her acting career, her attempts to creatively matchmake Stevie Nicks and Billy Corgan, hanging out with Debbie Harry at a Limp Bizkit album launch at the Playboy Mansion, Gwen Stefani – after years of public feuding between the pair – her relationship with Nirvana‘s Kurt Cobain, taking pandemic guitar lessons with The Big Moon’s Juliet Jackson and more.Samantha Moy, Head of BBC Radio 6 Music, said in a press statement: “Courtney Love is an icon and a trailblazer – her influence on music and culture over the decades is undeniable.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Music movies are having a moment — if, indeed, they ever stopped having one. Take the pop-music biopic.

NTS Radio earlier this week.The goalkeeper, who joined the Tottenham Academy back in 2015, took to his official Instagram to share the music moment. “I’m live on NTS until 8PM – tune in,” he wrote in an Instagram story on Monday, February 26.Titled ‘Sweet Tooth W/ Alfie’, a description of the mix on the NTS Radio website read: “Professional footballer & artist Alfie Whiteman puts together a show sharing an assorted mix of what he’s been listening to this month to get him through the start of year sadness.”Whiteman’s mix includes tracks from the likes of the Cocteau Twins and Elliot Smith as well as including various genres such as folk, soul, psychedelic rock, and jazz.Speaking to Mixmag about his debut mix, the goalie said: “This was my first time doing a live show.