Folk singer Shirley Collins performed live for the first time in 35 years, staging a surprise set to open a concert by Current 93. The 78-year-old appeared unbilled for the show at London’s Union Chapel this weekend.
“I don’t think I would have done this for anyone else but David Tibet,”...
Fox has cancelled the American version of The X Factor after three seasons, Reuters reports. The show’s creator, Simon Cowell, will be returning to the U.K. version of the reality singing contest.
“I’ve had a fantastic time over the last 12 years, both on ‘The X Factor’...
A former bodyguard has told how a crazed fan tried to kill INXS singer Michael Hutchence with a letter bomb.
Hutchence shrugged off the attack, saying “our aim is to entertain people” and insisting the 1993 tour must go on.
The “clumsy package” was sent to the Australian pop...
The jazz singer that Gary Carr plays in “Downton Abbey” is not based on a single individual, the actor said during an Internet chat with fans this week.
“My character was built upon studies of many different jazz singers of the time,” said Carr, 27, who plays band leader Jack Ross,...
Stoke-on-Trent pop superstar Robbie Williams is likely to be offered the Freedom of the City as part of civic celebrations in recognition of his career and charity work.
The announcement was made by Stoke-on-Trent City Council leader Mohammed Pervez at today’s official unveiling of a new...
A Judge in Los Angeles on Monday turned down prosecutors’ motion to jail R&B singer Chris Brown because of his arrest on an assault charge in Washington, D.C., last year.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin said Brown should stay at a treatment facility for substance abuse...
William “Bunny Rugs” Clarke, the husky-voiced lead singer of internationally popular reggae band Third World, died of leukaemia at his home in Florida, longtime friends and colleagues said on Monday. He was 65.
Former bandmate Colin Leslie said the singer died on Sunday in Orlando a week...
This is the horrifying moment a singer suffered a huge electric shock live on stage in front of hundreds of screaming fans.
Dominican artist Nolberto was midway through his band Alkala’s performance of Yo por tu amor (Me for your love) at a carnival in Ranchillos, Argentina, when he placed...
The son of singing legend Vince Hill has been found dead just 36 hours after surviving a car crash.
Athol Hill’s Renault Scenic apparently skidded on ice and crashed into a parked car and brick wall near Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, on Sunday night.
The father-of-two, 42 – who has battled...
