Toni Basil: Last News

Toni Basil's peppy pop hit Mickey is known for its energy-packed, cheerleader chant chorus - and even at 80 years old, the singer still looks as sensational as she did in her MTV star days. Back in 1982, Toni released a remake of a single called Kitty from British glam-pop group Racey, changing the name to Mickey and slapping on an incredibly catchy cheerleader-inspired chant of "Hey Mickey!" She even wore her own former high school cheerleading outfit for the iconic video, one of the first to be shown on the then newly-launched music video channel MTV, and it proved an instant pop classic that endures decades on.

Refresh For Updates…The late, great Teri Garr, who brightened everything from sitcoms (Batman, That Girl, Friends), variety shows (Shindig!, The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour), talk shows (she did ’em all, but her classic appearances with David Letterman can’t be beat), some of the funniest movies ever made (Young Frankenstein, Tootsie) and even the occasional drama (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Conversation) is being remembered by costars and colleagues today for the light she was.

Sorry have shared an eerie new single ‘Waxwing’, check it out below.‘Waxwing’ is built around an interpolation from Toni Basil’s 1981 hit ‘Hey Mickey’, reverting the original bubblegum hook: “Hey Mickey/You’re so fine/You’re so fine you blow my mind“, to “Oh Mickey/You’re so fine/Wanna take you back to mine/Oh Mickey/You’re so fine/I’ll stay up late to make you mine.”A slightly heavier departure from their 2022 album ‘Anywhere But Here‘, the track explores themes of desire over an eerie, sci-fi-esque collection of sounds, as vocalist Asha Lorenz sings in a hushed tone: “Mickey is desire? Mickey is the bomb? Mickey makes me money? Mickey makes my songs? Mickey makes a poem? Mickey in the drugs? Mickey is liar? Mickey making love? Mickey is desire?”Alongside the track, the band have shared a lo-fi DIY music video directed and produced by FLASHA. Check it out below.The London indie-rock band are set to join Fontaines D.C.

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Olivia Rodrigo played the first date of her 2024 ‘Guts’ world tour in Palm Springs, California last night (February 23) – see footage, images and the full setlist below.The pop star performed in front of a sold-out crowd at the 11,000-capacity Acrisure Arena venue alongside her live band and backing dancers.To open the gig, Rodrigo screened an atmospheric black-and-white video of herself running down a hallway. The visuals then turned purple, revealing a close-up of the singer’s hand knocking on a door before her band kicked into a raucous rendition of ‘Bad Idea, Right?’.Next up, Rodrigo performed ‘Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl’ and ‘Vampire’ from her 2023 second album ‘Guts’ ahead of outings for ‘Traitor’ and ‘Drivers License’ from her 2021 debut ‘Sour’.The concert was split into four acts, with the third part seeing Rodrigo take flight on a giant moon while surrounded by stars in the night sky.

Charli XCX is set to drop a new song, ‘In The City’, featuring Sam Smith next week.The track, which is expected to appear on the singer’s forthcoming sixth album, is set to drop on Thursday (October 19). It is the first single Charli has released since ‘Speed Drive’, which features on the Barbie soundtrack and contains an interpolation of Toni Basil’s hit ‘Mickey’.Last week, the artist shared a snippet on the track on her social media, which appears to be an upbeat dance-pop track and the lyrics “I never thought I would find it, but I found what I was looking for/I found it in the city, in the dark/In the city, in your heart” can be heard.Charli recently confirmed she had begun working on the follow-up to last year’s ‘Crash’.

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Charli XCX has shared a brand new single ‘Speed Drive’, which is set to feature in the soundtrack for the Barbie movie. Check it out below.The track is the latest to be taken from the film’s upcoming soundtrack, and follows hot on the heels of ‘Barbie World’, a recent hit by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice.Adding to the singer’s growing collection of songs about cars, ‘Speed Drive’ may be brief — coming in at less than two minutes long — but still manages to pack a punch as one of the most energetic songs on the soundtrack.Kicking in immediately with electronic melodies and a highly boosted bass, the pop star bursts into the song with a nod to the Toni Basil hit 1981 single ‘Mickey’ — “Oh, Barbie, you’re so fine / You’re so fine you blow my mind,” she sings.

sister Diana Wolgamott confirmed to local news outlets. Not official cause of death has been confirmed but she said she believes he might have died of a heart attack.The East LA native was a mainstay in the street dance scene throughout the ’80s and ’90s.“People couldn’t believe there was a Mexican who could pop,” Falcon once told Soc!ety Dance Academy magazine.

Bruno ‘Pop N Taco’ Falcon, street dancing pioneer and star of the 1984 hit film Breakin’, died Saturday at the age of 58.

Pamela Chelin The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Court granted a victory to Toni Basil last week, affirming a lower court decision. In the 8-page opinion issued by the Ninth Circuit last Wednesday, the judges ruled that Basil, referred to by her real name, Antonia Basilotta, owns the sole copyright to her 1981 debut album “Word Of Mouth,” which includes her breakthrough hit song “Mickey.”Originally released as a single in the U.K.

The Ninth Circuit appeals court in the US last week ruled that Toni Basil is the sole owner of the recording copyright in her hit song ‘Mickey’ as part of a long-running dispute around the good old termination right in American copyright law.That termination right allows artists and songwriters who assign – or transfer the ownership of – copyrights to record companies and music publishers to terminate the assignment after 35 years, so to reclaim the rights, albeit only within the US.On the songs side of the music industry, the termination of old publishing contracts in the US has become quite routine, with writers reclaiming copyrights they assigned to publishers 35 years ago.But on the recordings side there is the added complication of needing to identify who was the original default owner of any one sound recording copyright. In some cases labels claim they were actually that original default owner, meaning no assignment of rights from artist to label ever took place, meaning there is no assignment to terminate.The rules around the default ownership of sound recording copyrights vary from country to country.

Twitter, writing, “No one ever rocked harder.”Parnell’s cause of death was not revealed. The London-born drummer was surrounded by a family of musicians. His grandfather Russ Carr was a music hall artist and his dad, Jack Parnell, served as the bandleader for “The Muppet Show.”Parnell played in multiple bands, including Horse, Atomic Rooster, Nova and Stars.

Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright travelled to Los Angeles on Sunday and went straight to a sports bar to meet up with friends for a fun night out.MORE: Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan's huge walk-in wardrobes are too dreamy for wordsFormer TOWIE star Mark has been keeping his followers updated throughout the trip and revealed his excitement to cross the pond after almost two years.WATCH: Michelle Keegan stuns in jeans and crop top as she dances with friendsFilming from inside the plane, he said via his Instagram Stories: "It's been a long time since I've done this route. On a BA plane on the way to LA.

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Illinois, his mother raised him as a single parent when he was just 3 years old.His younger sister, Fawn Quinones, is also a dancer like Shabba Doo, and was frequently featured on the musical television program “Soul Train.”Shabba Doo is a member of The Original Lockers, a dance group formed by Toni Basil and Don “Campbellock” Campbell in 1971.The 65-year-old became one of the innovators of the dance style commonly known as locking, a funk dance, which is associated with hip hop.Shabba Doo’s cause of death has yet to be announced.On Dec.