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Liam Payne wrote online years prior to his tragic death at 31.“If I died would you come to ma funeral…?” he penned on Xm formerly Twitter, in 2010.The tweet resurfaced a day after a private funeral was held for the late pop star on Wednesday. Payne’s former One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, and Harry Styles were all in attendance at the UK ceremony.Also at the Amersham, England, memorial service was Simon Cowell, 65, who formed One Direction on “The X Factor.”The music mogul was photographed embracing Payne’s parents, Geoff and Karen Payne, as the grieving father wrapped his arm tightly around Cowell.Cowell was also pictured looking somber while walking hand in hand with his fiancée, Lauren Silverman.Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, was also photographed alongside Elizabeth Hurley’s son Damian and Payne’s ex Cheryl Cole, who is the mother of his son Bear.

Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac.Indeed, the two Fleetwood Mac songbirds forged an instant bond when Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the group alongside McVie, her then-husband John McVie and Mick Fleetwood in 1974.But first, Nicks had to pass a chemistry test with McVie at a New Year’s dinner at the Mexican restaurant El Carmen in Los Angeles that Fleetwood arranged.According to Lesley-Ann Jones’ new biography “Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie, the Black Magic Woman” instantly clicked with her future bandmate over tacos and tequila.“It was critical that I got on with [Stevie],” McVie says in “Songbird.” “Because I’d never played with another girl. But I liked her instantly.

Best of the Bee Gees Facebook page on Monday.“It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of our dear friend Colin ‘Smiley’ Petersen,” the page wrote. “He enriched our lives and bound our group with love, care and respect,” the message continued. “Not sure how we can go on without his glowing smile and deep friendship.

shared on X, the 7-time Grammy winner was seen walking backwards onstage when he accidentally stumbled through an opened trap door.The fall was followed by a loud gasp from the crowd.Moments later, a crew member who was standing inside the gap helped the “Fix You” singer, who was dressed in a blue T-shirt and black cargo pants, to get back up onstage.“That’s, uh, not planned, thank you for catching me,” Martin told the staffer into his mic. “Thank you, guys, holy s–t.”Luckily, the father of two avoided any injuries from the fall.Instead, he poked fun at himself, saying the ordeal will “probably be a YouTube moment.”Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres” tour is set to continue in the southern hemisphere as the band gears up to travel to Sydney before making a stop in New Zealand.The band has been touring since March 2022 and is scheduled to run until September 2025.In September, Martin revealed that the band will only be releasing two more “proper” albums, meaning that their 12th will be their last.Martin made the revelation during an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, 51.Coldplay, which is made up of Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion, Phil Harvey and Martin, released their tenth album, “Moon Music,” on Oct.

rock music has been dead.But just as the Day of the Dead is upon us, the Cure has brought the genre back to life.The goth gods — who had been left for dead after not releasing a new studio LP since 2008’s “4:13 Dream” — have come back after 16 long years with the best rock album of 2024: “Songs of a Lost World,” which fittingly dropped the day after Halloween. It’s Friday, and I’m in love with the Cure all over again.“Songs of a Lost World” is easily the Cure’s best album since 1992’s “Wish” — which included their hit “Friday I’m in Love” — but maybe even since their 1989 masterpiece “Disintegration.”That’s saying a whole helluva lot for a band that didn’t owe us anything else — and could’ve easily coasted along on the well-deserved Rock & Roll Hall of Fame props they earned in 2019.

Cyndi Lauper was done — or so she thought — with her classic 1983 debut album “She’s So Unusual,” but something was missing to producer Rick Chertoff.“Rick came in one day and said, ‘We could use one more song,’” Rob Hyman, who played keyboards on the LP, told The Post. “And I felt like, ‘One more song?? You gotta be kidding!’ We were really spent.”But after months of working tirelessly on the album that would turn the singer into a pop superstar, Hyman and Lauper came up with “Time After Time,” the bittersweet ballad that would become her first No.

the death of David Crosby.“There’s no heart there,” Nash told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Wednesday. “David was the center of it all, as crazy as he was. And my God, he was crazy.

is some surrender for Bruce Springsteen.The singer 75, and his wife, Patti Scialfa, recently shared how their dynamic changes from performing onstage with the E Street Band to being at home with just one another. “I think the most difficult part of being married to Bruce Springsteen, and also being in a band with him, is that you could go home and he could still think he’s in charge, right?” Howard Stern asked Scialfa, 71, on the Wednesday episode of The Howard Stern Show.“How does one manage that? Was there an actual discussion where you had to map out, especially for your children, how Bruce should behave at home,” he continued.

Daily Mail.Paul Andrews, known by his stage name (Di’Anno), passed away at his home in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Di’Anno was the lead vocalist for the band from 1978 to 1981 and completed two albums with together, titled “Iron Maiden” in 1980 and “Killers” in 1981 before being replaced by current vocalist Bruce Dickinson.

Liam Payne’s tragic death at 31.On Thursday, Tomlinson, 32, was photographed at a luxury Airbnb during a family holiday. The singer sported a white t-shirt and sunglasses.

Liam Payne’s tragic death at 31. On Thursday, the singer, 31, shared a heartbreaking photo of himself and Payne appearing to cuddle while sleeping on a tour bus.

Riverfront Revival concert on Saturday, Oct. 10, with the fall and aftermath caught on video by fans.

“Moon Music,” but Coldplay took the stage at a strangely sunny hour for a rare club show at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg on Monday. I mean, it was still late afternoon, not even evening yet, when the alt-rock giants shrunk themselves down to everyday life size at the 650-capacity venue that was infinitely more intimate than their last local concerts at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.“Getting the band Coldplay to perform before 9 p.m is one of the most difficult things in the world,” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin told the crowd at the private SiriusXM concert that is now available to stream on the service.“And the reason we’re playing so early this afternoon is because tomorrow we’re doing the ‘Today’ show that starts at, like, 3:15 a.m.,” he continued, joking that “this is really just a sound check for that in some way.”All kidding aside about their start way before normal rock star hours, though, Coldplay is as responsible as it gets for a band whose primary audience has hit middle age right along with them.

The Cure has been found again. Robert Smith and his band of not-so-merry men are back in their inimitable mope mode with “Alone,” their first new song in 16 years, which was released on Thursday.And even after such a long wait, the single takes its sweet — or make that, sullen — time to unfold over nearly seven minutes.In fact, as the group’s absorbing atmospherics — shades of their 1989 classic LP “Disintegration” — set the melancholy mood, it takes three minutes and 22 seconds before Smith even sings a single word.But finally, he comes in with his tortured croon: “This is the end of every song that we sing/The fire burned out to ash and the stars grown dim with tears/Cold and afraid, the ghosts of all that we’ve been/We toast with bitter dregs, to our emptiness.”Inspired by Ernest Dowson’s poem “Dregs,” “Alone” is an ode “to all the love falling out of our lives,” tailor-made for your doldrums after your next breakup.I mean, did you think that Smith — even though he’s been married to the same woman, Mary Poole, since 1988 — would all of a sudden get happy at 65?It’s comforting to know that some things — and some alt-rock icons — don’t change.Accurately described in the song as a “broken-voiced lament,” “Alone” is the first single and opening track of “Songs of a Lost World” — the Cure’s first studio album since 2008’s “4:13 Dream” — which will be released on Nov.

wrote in an Instagram statement Thursday.The group was supposed to headline day two of the festival on Sunday. On Thursday, the band was listed as one of the performers alongside Jack White, Greta Van Fleet, Bleachers, Norah Jones and Teddy Swims, among others.

her rescheduled concerts in 2025. “I’m doing absolutely fine now but it’s been, to put it mildly, a lot. Chemo is no joke,” Wilson said in an audio message shared on X (formerly Twitter) nearly three months after revealing her cancer diagnosis to the world.“It takes a lot out of a person,” she added about chemo.

Facebook Monday.“It’s with a heavy heart that we have to tell Outlaws fans about the passing of our former guitarist Freddie Salem,” the statement began. “Freddie passed from complications due to cancer and will be remembered for his outgoing personality and passion for music.

said Martin before doffing his wig and glasses to reveal himself to the cheering crowd at the bar, whose tagline is “Getting Vegas drunk since 1962.”Martin, 47, was in Sin City for an acoustic performance on Saturday night at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena, delivering a solo set of Coldplay classics like “Viva La Vida” and “A Sky Full of Stars” and the band’s Chainsmokers collab “Something Just Like This.”He joked that the other members of Coldplay couldn’t be at the festival — which also featured such A-list acts as The Weeknd, Dua Lipa and Doja Cat — because they were busy getting “bikini waxes.”After stripping it down for his iHeartRadio Music Festival gig, Martin dressed up for his night on the town in Vegas.He also surprised a couple from Phoenix — Mary Zatezalo and Austin Sanders — during their wedding photo shoot at the Tunnel of Love, handing out red balloons.The “Yellow” crooner then made his way to Dino’s, where he gave his surprise performance, coordinated with the bar by Live Nation, the producers of the iHeartRadio Music Festival.“They wanted a live moment, and it to be kept a secret so they could get a real reaction from everybody there,” Dino’s karaoke captain Matt Woodward — who emceed under the name K.J. Boston — told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

onstage brawl with Jane’s Addiction bandmate Dave Navarro.Perry’s wife, Etty Lau Farrell, posted a statement on Instagram Saturday and said the couple is “beyond grateful and so very humbled” by the “beautiful words of love and support” they’ve received since the incident.“As you know, Perry is the gentlest of souls,” she wrote. “We are equally astonished at Perry’s physical outburst as you are – but you must know that Perry must had been pushed to his absolute limit..

“to take some time away as a group” after bandmates Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro got into a fight onstage.The single, called “True Love,” came out on Tuesday. The band promoted the song on social media, after giving no forewarning that they had new music dropping.“True Love now streaming everywhere,” they wrote on Instagram.According to Rolling Stone, the band debuted “True Love” last year at the end of a show in Bakersfield, Calif.