Liam Gallagher, Ed Sheeran and Elton John slam Brexit deal shunning visa-free travel for musicians

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Elton John has met with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden over the ongoing visa-free travel row in Europe.The singer said he had “very positive” talks with Mr Dowden about EU travel for UK musicians, but said visa-free touring is not currently “on the cards”.“It’s much more difficult for young artists to get this together because of all the red tape,” John told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz.

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a tariff for licensing artists’ music when performed for livestreamed concerts.The news follows an open letter sent by members of the Music Managers Forum (MMF) and Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) in December, which called the levy “unviable” and one that would “strangle” innovation in music.

Elton John has praised Russell T Davies’ Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin for providing “an incredibly moving account” of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.The drama, which stars Years & Years singer Olly Alexander, follows the lives of four friends living together as the HIV/AIDS crisis begins to emerge in the UK.Praising the series on Instagram, Elton wrote: “It’s A Sin is an incredibly moving account of the arrival of AIDS in the U.K.

Nathan Evans, from Airdrie, has scored a No1 hit single, topping The Official Big Top 40 chart with his ancient Scottish sea shanty.Last night, , the UK’s biggest chart show revealed the song Wellerman had reached the top of the commercial radio chart with a remix by 220 KID x Billen Ted going in at No3 to give him two hits in the Top 3.Evans knocked Olivia Rodrigo’s Drivers License off the top spot and is beating Ed Sheeran’s Afterglow, which is at No4 in the chart.His Wellerman sea shanty

Sir Elton John's husband David Furnish has shared some rare family photos on Instagram showing their boys playing in the snow. The couple are parents to two sons, Zachary, ten, and eight-year-old Elijah, and like most children in the UK on Sunday, they headed out to make the most of the wintery weather.MORE: Elton John's one Christmas rule with husband David FurnishThe first photo shows Zachary lying on his back in the snow as he makes a snow angel.

Liam Gallagher has been snubbed by Oasis as the band are set to release a brand new album without him. Noel Gallagher, 53, revealed he is eager to record new music of 14 unreleased songs by the former band which split 12 years ago.But he plans to release the new album without the signature vocals of his brother Liam, 48, as their public long-running feud continues.

Music stars, including Elton John, Sting, Bob Geldof and Ed Sheeran, said on Wednesday that the U.K. government "shamefully failed" creatives with its post-Brexit trade deal and urged it to reach an agreement with the European Union to ensure visa- and bureaucracy-free tours.

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey’s decision to sign a letter supporting visa-free travel for musicians has caused a stir online, after the singer previously spoke out in support of Brexit and claimed that it wouldn’t have any impact on music.Daltrey joined the likes of Liam Gallagher, Ed Sheeran, and Elton John as over 100 artists signed an open letter slamming the UK Government for having “shamefully failed” the music industry in Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.The letter called on the government to

Leading UK musicians include Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Liam Gallagher have signed a letter stating that the UK government’s Brexit deal has failed the country’s performing artists.

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Sign up for our What's On newsletter - for all the latest whether you're staying in or heading out and aboutLiam Gallagher is among a string of celebrities who have criticised the Government’s Brexit deal for not including visa-free travel for musicians.Sir Elton John, Roger Waters and Ed Sheeran are also amongst those who have also signed a letter saying performers have been “shamefully failed” by the post-Brexit travel rules.The letter, published in The Times, states that there is a “gaping

Naman Ramachandran Life after Brexit is no party in the park, as cultural practitioners in the U.K. and European Union (EU) are discovering.The ongoing controversy around U.K.

TRNSMT boss Geoff Ellis has vowed to bring the festival back this summer despite continued uncertainty around live events due to COVID-19.The Glasgow three-day event was cancelled in 2020 and is currently set to return in July with the Courteeners, Liam Gallagher and Lewis Capaldi topping the bill.Ellis has now cited the successful rollout of vaccines in the UK and rapid mass testing as the key to ensure TRNSMT’s return, while warning that “it’s crunch time for summer 2021” (via Daily Record).It

Passenger and Ed Sheeran have a decade-plus-long friendship that has culminated in the release of the “Sword from the Stone” Gingerbread Mix.

Victoria Beckham is looking back on the moment she realized it was time to part ways with the Spice Girls. The 46-year-old star wrote a letter to her future self for British Vogue and in it, she reflected on a pivotal moment in her career involving Elton John.