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“Vertigo,” “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” and “City of Blinding Lights,” the group’s 11th studio LP would go multiplatinum and win them eight of their 22 Grammys — including a second Album of the Year prize after 1987’s seminal “The Joshua Tree.”Reinforcing their relevance as Bono’s boys gave way from alt-rock to aughts rock, it turned middle age into an “Atomic” age for U2.Boom.And who better to help U2 recapture their unforgettable fire than Lillywhite — who had produced the band’s first three albums: 1980’s “Boy,” 1981’s “October” and 1983’s “War,” while also contributing to “The Joshua Tree.”“They were feeling a bit depressed,” recalled Lillywhite, 69. “When they see me, they perk up because it reminds them of when they were young, I suppose.”Indeed, the British producer — who has also worked with everyone from the Rolling Stones to Dave Matthews Band and The Killers — has known U2 since Day One.“When I first worked with them, I was 24 and the eldest member of the band was 19,” he explained.

second-degree murder in 2009.The “If I Could Turn Back Time” singer, 78, made the startling revelation in her newly released self-titled book, “Cher: The Memoir.” According to the Grammy winner, after she completed her 1974 album “Dark Lady,” Spector approached her about joining forces for new music. The pair were set up through Cher’s then-boyfriend David Geffen.She claimed that Spector asked her and Harry Nilsson to record a “guide vocal” on the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas’ song “A Love Like Yours.” He said he’d pass the music to John Lennon for review, as she and Nilsson sang back-up on the Beatles frontman’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll” album.But Cher said the music producer-turned-convicted murderer — who died in 2021 — misled them. Spector allegedly released the single illegally in Europe, infuriating Cher because it violated both her and Nilsson’s record contracts.

Variety and Deadline.He was 72.“We were blessed to have had Andy,” the band’s rep said in a statement via People. “He truly is the reason all this SpongeBob joy exists in music around the world.

III at the “Gladiator II” premiere in London last week.“Never met the king [before that night],” Mescal told Variety in a video posted on X Monday. “It’s definitely not something that I thought was in the bingo cards.

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.

Cher was married to Sonny Bono, he gave a whole new meaning to “I Got You Babe.”The legendary diva — whose “Cher: The Memoir” will be released Tuesday — claims that, during the time she and her then-husband had a singing and TV partnership, she was duped out of her fair share of the earnings by Sonny.“He took all my money,” Cher, 78, told the New York Times. “I just thought, ‘We’re husband and wife.

when “Midnights” picked up the top prize in February, the 34-year-old superstar racked up six nods for her latest LP, “The Tortured Poets Department,” when the 2025 Grammy Award nominations were announced last week.And in doing so, Swift made more history: She became the first woman to be nominated for Album of the Year seven times, breaking a tie she previously held with Barbra Streisand.The singer credited her legion of Swifties at her Eras Tour stop in Toronto on Thursday night.“You guys got this album nominated for six Grammys,” she said. “It’s so unbelievable, so thank you.”Swift showed more love to her fans how they have embraced “The Tortured Poets Department,” which also scored Record and Song of the Year nominations for “Fortnight,” Swift’s collaboration with Post Malone.“You guys have been so wonderful about getting into this album and really understanding where I was coming from with it and you made it, by far, the biggest debut week I’ve ever had of an album,” she said.“And you kept that album at No.

Elvis Presley once got candid on his heartbreak hotel.In the new documentary “Return of the King: The Fall & Rise of Elvis Presley,” which hits Netflix Wednesday, fans will get a glimpse at the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s 1968 comeback, “Elvis.”The special — which aired on NBC — is credited with reviving Presley’s career after many critics believed it was over.“Hollywood’s image of me was wrong and I knew it, and I couldn’t do anything about it,” the singer said in a clip from the documentary, per People. “I didn’t know what to do.

Associated Press reported Sunday. Jones’ children — Jolie, 71; Rachel, 61; Martina, 58; Quincy III, 55; Kidada, 50; Rashida, 48; and Kenya, 31 — were present to pay their respects and say goodbye to their father, according to the family’s statement.The “intimate ceremony included Mr.

“Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” — the 1979 Philly soul classic that has provided the soundtrack to many a cookout — he might as well have been establishing a theme song for the enduring legacy and listenership of the New York radio institution.Because there has been no stopping WBLS since Crocker turned the station into the No. 1 R&B destination on the dial — and an influential tastemaker nationwide — in the ’70s.“At the time that I started, Frankie was program director, so I got an opportunity to just really kind of see how he operated,” Cynthia Smith, the current WBLS program director, told The Post.“And he was all about gut and hits, and he played songs that people wouldn’t really think that maybe ’BLS would play or break.

Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish continued their pop-diva domination.Beyoncé — the all-time Grammy winner with 32 gramophones — leads with 11 nominations, while Swift and Eilish picked up 6 and 7 nods, respectively.The three perennial contenders are all up for Album of the Year: Beyoncé for “Cowboy Carter,” Swift for “The Tortured Poets Department” and Eilish for “Hit Me Hard and Soft.”And the much-lauded ladies will also face off for Record and Song of the Year, with Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ’Em,” Swift’s “Fortnight” and Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather.”Last February, Swift became the first artist to win Album of the Year four times for “Midnights,” while Eilish won her second Song of the Year trophy for her “Barbie” ballad “What Was I Made For?” And they both lost to Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” for Record of the Year.Meanwhile, two of 2024’s rising divas — Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan — received 6 nominations each and will battle it out for Best New Artist. Among those announcing the nominees in the livestream event on Grammy.com were 2024 Best New Artist winner Victoria Monét, Kylie Minogue, Ben Platt, Brandy Clark and Paramore’s Hayley Williams.

death at 91.“My dad was nocturnal his whole adult life. He kept ‘jazz hours’ starting in high school and never looked back. When I was little, I would wake up in the middle of the night to search for him,” the actress penned via Instagram on Thursday.

tragic death at 31. The release of Payne’s body was initially delayed until the completion of the toxicology tests.The late singer’s body was taken home by Geoff Payne, who has been in the South American city alongside Payne’s longtime bodyguard since the incident.

NEW YORK (AP) — Minneapolis musician Tyka Nelson, Prince’s only full sibling, died Monday at North Memorial Health in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, her son President Nelson confirmed to The Associated Press. She was 64.A cause of death was not immediately available, and President Nelson said he doesn’t expect to know “for a couple of days.”Born to jazz musician John L.

Quincy Jones “Beat It” — as in his own odds of survival — long before he produced that “Thriller” classic for Michael Jackson.Fifty years before his death at 91 on Sunday, the legendary producer was given a 1% chance of living after he suffered a brain aneurysm in 1974.“It was scary,” Jones told GQ in 2018. “Like somebody blew my brains out.

their past drama. However, the stars proved they put their alleged beef behind them. They even held hands during the final moments of the episode.

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and hundreds of other recording artists, has died at 91.Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, surrounded by his family.“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the family said in a statement. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.”Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executives to thrive in Hollywood and amassing an extraordinary musical catalog that includes some of the richest moments of American rhythm and song.

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 sang “When You Were Mine,” her synthful Prince cover from her 1983 debut “She’s So Unusual.”It was a reminder that, at 71, she had outlived other ’80s music icons such as Prince, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and George Michael.And for the first time since her 1986 “True Colors” tour, the New York native was playing her hometown arena again. Who would’ve thought it would take her 38 years to get back there?But while Lauper never again reached the heights of her ’80s superstardom — her last Top 10 hit was 1989’s “I Drove All Night” — she has survived and evolved: She went from winning a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1985 to winning a Tony for Best Original Score for “Kinky Boots” in 2013.And now she is riding the wave of nostalgia for her pop career that has included a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination, her documentary “Let the Canary Sing” and a “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” sample by Nicki Minaj (on “Pink Friday Girls”).Seizing her moment to play arenas again on this farewell tour — although that doesn’t mean she is retiring from music or live performance — Lauper is unwinding the second hand back to her glory days.And when she took the stage at a sold-out Garden to “She Bop” — her giddy ode to masturbation that riled up the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) as one of its “Filthy Fifteen” in 1985 — she was that punky rebel celebrating the joys of self-pleasure with her hiccuping vocal ticks that are singularly Cyndi.Maybe she couldn’t pull that off in another few years, but she still can now.

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.