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Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee has revealed he nearly died because of a recent sepsis infection.The 61-year-old heavy metal rocker, who has been with the band Scorpions since 2016, shared details of his life-and-death battle on Thursday in a Facebook post.“Just a quick statement about what has been happening to me these past three weeks,” the Swedish-born star began his statement.“First I like to thank everyone for these heartwarming Christmas and New Years greetings, that I have not been able to respond to. I always try to do that every year.”“This holiday season, I have been hospitalized with a very serious blood infection (Sepsis),” Dee confessed.

shared a TikTok where he gave his scathing reaction to her new song “OK.”In the clip, Steven James listens to the track in the car with facial reactions that indicate he’s not a fan.“This can’t be the same person who eliminated me on American Idol 5 years ago,” James wrote over the video, which has over 2.4 million plays. James appeared on Season 17 of the ABC singing competition series in 2019.

performance on Christmas Day.After the Grammy winner wowed the crowd in Houston during the Texans vs. Boston Ravens game, some took to social media to call her the “most overrated music performer on Earth.”However, Knowles quickly came to her daughter’s defense, reposting a user’s Instagram post on Friday that read: “No matter how undeniably talented you are, people will always, ALWAYS, always have some negative ish to say.” “My sentiments exactly!” Knowles wrote on the social media platform.

not a family affair!Jay-Z didn’t show up to support his wife on her home turf in the wake of his legal battle on Christmas Day. The Roc Nation founder, 55,wasn’t in attendance during Beyoncé’s halftime show at NRG Stadium in Houston on Wednesday, Dec.

Michael Bolton is celebrating Christmas with his loved ones.The singer, 71, took to Facebook on Wednesday to share a picture with his family members. The photo comes a year after Bolton discovered he had a brain tumor and required surgery “just before the holidays” last year.“Sending warm wishes for a holiday season filled with peace, love, and joy,” the artist captioned the post.

Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” series and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles, died Tuesday. He was 82.Perry, a recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, friend Daphna Kastner said.“He maximized his time here,” said Kastner, who called him a “father friend” and said he was godfather to her son.

“A Complete Unknown,” which opens in theaters on Christmas Day, Timothée Chalamet undergoes a complete transformation as Bob Dylan. And when he performs early Bard classics such as “It Ain’t Me Babe,” it is very much the 28-year-old actor doing his own singing and playing on guitar and harmonica — after five years of studying to master the music of the folk-rock legend.“When I first got together with Tim, I heard some of the stuff they had prerecorded, and I said, ‘Who’s singing this stuff?’” Rob Paparozzi, Chalamet’s harmonica coach on “A Complete Unknown,” told The Post.

Spotify’s list of most-streamed holiday tracks of all time and singer-songwriter José Feliciano — who recorded the hit in just 10 minutes in 1970 — told The Post he never imagined it would still be so popular. “I never would have dreamed that in a million years,” he said.Feliciano, now 79, credits the catchy tune’s lasting appeal to its simplicity and message of unity.“I think because it’s a simple little song meant to bring people together and bring them joy.

White House press briefing, bachelor party, and even a couple’s engagement photoshoot, was at it again on Wednesday when he crashed a piano player’s concert.Murray, 74, was an audience member at Bemelmans Bar, inside the famed Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, listening to the tunes of singing jazz pianist Robert Mosci when he felt the need to join in.“I didn’t know he was coming. The way it unfolded was quickly and funny,” the accosted pianist, Robert Mosci, told The Post.“He came over to me and he said, ‘Hey, do you know the song ‘Brandy?'”Mosci confessed he never played it before, but Murray remained undeterred. “He said, ‘Well, the guy who wrote it is here.

George Michael give up his heart on “Last Christmas,” he knew the beloved yule tune was something special.The magic moment happened when the holiday spirit hit his late bandmate in his childhood bedroom in London.“We were killing time around his mom and dad’s house. It was a Sunday afternoon, and the soccer was on TV,” Ridgeley, 61, told The Post. “And George disappeared upstairs [where] he had a little Fostex four-track recording studio, which used a cassette tape to record four tracks onto.

gushed all over then-husband Ben Affleck on “This Is Me … Now,” the disastrous sequel to 2002’s “This Is Me … Then,” which was also all about her “Gigli” co-star. There was even this sequel to “Dear Ben” that nobody but the former Mrs. Affleck wanted.

no longer able to play the drums in a new documentary on his life, “Phil Collins: Drummer First,” released Wednesday. “It’s still kind of sinking in a bit,” Collins admitted in the on-camera interview filmed in October 2022. “I’ve spent all my life playing drums.

“All That She Wants,” the reggae-pop smash that would launch the quartet from Gothenburg, Sweden, to international stardom in 1992.“That was one of the songs we tried to get a record deal from,” Ulf Ekberg, founding member of Ace of Base, told The Post. “But we were rejected by every single record company in Sweden.”But there was something in the special sauce of Denniz Pop that made the quartet Ekberg formed with siblings Jonas, Jenny and Linn Berggren feel like he could be their secret weapon.“We heard his skills, how he worked with drums and so forth,” he said, “and we were good at melodies, but not good at rhythms.“That he got the tape stuck in his car … it was kind of this perfect serendipity situation to go to Stockholm and record with him.

Minnesota Star Tribune on Wednesday.“Bob passed at home today at 12:48 p.m. surrounded by family,” the statement read.

Billie Eilish.The singer, 23, gave an update on her love life during her eighth annual interview with Vanity Fair, in which she looked back on 2024 by seeing how she answered the same exact questions in previous years. Eilish gave a thumbs up or thumbs down to indicate whether or not she achieved the goals that year and made sure to give a thumbs up when watching her 22-year-old self say she wanted to “be having good sex.”Eilish set the record straight later on in the video.“I’ve done nothing but make friends all year and gotten so close with people that I wasn’t with before and became friends with people I used to be friends with again,” the superstar revealed. “It’s just been a year filled with friendship which, honestly, even though I was saying a lot of things that I want to do, that was the real…that was the thing that I wanted to do.”“I really did it, and it was awesome,” gushed Eilish.

canceled her December 11 concert in Pittsburgh only a few hours before she was due to take the stage at the PPG Paints Arena.“Pittsburgh, I am sorry to say, I’ve come down with the flu. It breaks my heart that I unfortunately have to cancel tonight’s show. I love you all so much,” she told fans via X.Carey ended up canceling two more shows days later that were originally scheduled for Friday, Dec.

“Million Years Ago.”In an injunction filed Friday in Rio de Janeiro’s sixth commercial court, Brazilian judge Victor Torres ordered that the track off Adele’s “25” album must be banned nationwide from streaming services and other global platforms, according to the Agence France Presse.The order reportedly threatens the Brazilian subsidiaries of Adele’s labels, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music, with a fine of $8,000 “per act of non-compliance.”Judge Torres claimed that Adele’s song — which she co-wrote with music producer Greg Kurstin — lifts from Martinho Da Vila’s samba classic “Mulheres.” Toninho Geraes, who wrote the Brazilian song, originally sued Adele, 36, for plagiarism in 2021.In the injunction, Adele’s labels were ordered to stop “immediately and globally, from using, reproducing, editing, distributing or commercializing” her ballad. “International producers and artists who have Brazilian music ‘on their radar’ for possible parasitic use will think twice, given this decision,” Geraes’ attorney, Fredimio Trotta, told the AFP.Sony and Universal can reportedly appeal the order.Adele’s “Million Years Ago” was previously accused of plagiarism in 2015 by fans of the late Kurdish singer Ahmet Kaya.

Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, has her biggest hit to date with “That’s So True,” and was the most recent musical performer on “Saturday Night Live.”Abrams — the daughter of “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” director J.J. Abrams — opened up about her success in an interview with Nylon magazine published on Tuesday.“They’re like, ‘What in the world?’” she joked when asked about her parent’s reaction to her fame. “But it’s really sweet.” While her father is a well-known sci-fi director, she shared that her mom is “the toughest person I know.”“The way that she treats people is how I want to treat people, and for me to see her be that way towards this community that cares so much about the music…” the singer shared as her voice trailed off.

Clay Aiken was the runner-up during that second season, but the talk show host didn’t remember it that way. “We spent a lot of time,” Clarkson, 42, recalled on Monday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” while talking to Aiken.

Larry Mullen Jr. of U2 fame has a diagnosis that makes playing music difficult.Mullen, drummer and founding member of the Irish rock band, revealed in a new interview with Times Radio that he suffers from dyscalculia, a learning disorder.“I’ve always known that there’s something not particularly right with the way that I deal with numbers,” he explained.

Meghan Trainor claims “nobody warned me” before she went a little too far with Botox, which left her unable to smile.The 30-year-old pop singer made a cheerful comeback during a recent interview, noting that she was now able to smile “a little bit.”“The movement is coming back,” she shared on Today. “I got what’s called a ‘lip flip.’ It was my first ever.”“And everyone’s like, ‘You’re going to love it, your little lips,’ and I didn’t love it because I couldn’t smile.”Trainor explained she received the injection in the middle of her lips, pointing to the location on her face. “It was the most painful thing, and I was like, ‘This is going to look great,’” she added, mimicking a half smile.