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Tom Jones has spoken out against the decision to ban ‘Delilah’ from being sung during Welsh rugby matches.The 1968 hit, written by Barry Mason, was a classic track often sung by a choir at rugby matches in Wales. However, in February it was announced by the Welsh Rugby Union that it would no longer be performed by choirs at the Principality Stadium due to its connotations to domestic violence.The decision was linked to the lyrics of the track, which describe a man murdering his girlfriend after she is caught with another man.During a concert at Cardiff Castle this Saturday (July 22), Jones spoke out against the censorship of the song and performed a cover of it for his audience.According to outlets BBC News and The Telegraph, the 83-year-old Welsh singer told the crowd: “You can’t stop us singing ‘Delilah’.
Can you imagine? Who was the man who didn’t want us to sing ‘Delilah’?”“They may stop the choir from singing it, but they haven’t stopped the crowd,” he continued, adding, “Keep on singing it – and I’ll keep on singing it too.”This isn’t the first time that Jones has spoken out regarding the controversy around the song. Back in 2014, he defended the track when there were calls to have it banned, and claimed that seeing it sung live made him “very proud to be Welsh”.“I love to hear it sung at rugby games.
It makes me very proud to be Welsh,” he said at the time (via The Independent). “I think if they’re looking into the lyric about a man killing a woman, it’s not a political statement.
Here are your Sunday evening Manchester United headlines.
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'Martyn's Law' counter-terrorism legislation 'must press ahead', campaigner Figen Murray said today as she criticised the findings of a now-published Home Affairs Committee report. The committee of MPs said the draft anti-terror Bill 'could place small businesses and voluntary organisations at risk of closure but fail to make a difference to public safety'.
Megan Fox is hitting back at those criticizing her recent Instagram posts. On Tuesday night, Fox posted pictures of herself in a sheer dress with nude-colored pasties covering her top half. "Before you start angrily typing- those are not my nipples, calm down," the 37-year-old actress began her caption.
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Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones has criticised the use of artificial intelligence in songwriting.As more artists are speaking out about the increased prevalence of AI in the music industry, the singer said that art is about “a real person’s expression”.Jones was speaking to Times Radio at Latitude Festival on Sunday (July 23), after he’d performed with his new band Far From Saints when he shared his doubts about AI.The musician said it wasn’t until he attended the Ivor Novello Awards in May this year that he released AI technology was being used more to “finish off people’s songwriting” (via BBC).“I’m not against forward-thinking technology and how things are progressing, but I think art should come from people, I mean the basics of it anyway,” he said.“I think art has always been somebody’s expression, a real person’s expression from a heart, from a head.”He added: “If you’re going to start an idea, then a computer finishes it, I mean, it’s OK, but it’s just about algorithms and things like that.”The singer also said he’s “not really into 10 songwriters on a song”, adding: “It’s like if you’re making a painting, you’ve got 10 painters chucking paint on a canvas. I mean, whose painting is it anymore?”Jones is not the first artist to cast doubt over emerging AI technology in the music industry.
Adam Rickitt, who starred as Nick Tilsley in Coronation Street and Kyle Kelly in Hollyoaks, let soap fans shocked when he quit the limelight for a regular job back in 2020 - and now just three years later he is now set to make his return to soapland.The soap-star turned hospitality entrepreneur, is set to join the BBC daytime soap Doctors later this year, after having previously made a guest appearance on the show back in 2016. Since leaving Hollyoaks in 2020, Adam has been running the micro-bar Dexter & Jones in Chesire, alongside his wife Katy, who also works as a reporter on Good Morning Britain.
Welsh veteran singer Sir Tom Jones has spoken out, questioning the decision to ban his classic song Delilah from being sung at national rugby matches.
The Miss Italy competition has banned transgender women from competing in the beauty pageant.
Frictional Games, famous for the Penumbra and Amnesia series, shared its intentions to tone down the horror elements in its future games.In an interview, creative director Thomas Grip explained that the emotional investment is the most important aspect of a game from Frictional Games, rather than the fear factor (via 80lv). “While all of our games have been horror in some way, what we really try to do is to get a kind of ‘playable immersion’,” he said.Referring to Amnesia: Rebirth‘s themes of motherhood and SOMA‘s philosophical questions on how we define a human being, Grip praised the team’s “holistic” efforts to balance both these complex subjects as well as an entertaining and terrifying experience.“We delivered these themes within a horror context, but those stories could be told in another genre,” continued the creative director.
Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag M&S hit back on Friday after it was slammed by trolls for 'not using diverse bodies'.The supermarket had taken to Instagram to post a video of a model in a black bodysuit, modelling some of their lingerie. She wore the outfit with a skirt and a bag, later changing into a separate underwear set and smiling as she posed in the look.The post attracted some negative comments from people who did not feel it represented 'real women'.
Ferne McCann doesn't have time for the hatred surrounding her newborn baby's name. A breakout star of The Only Way is Essex, Ferne, 32, gave birth to little Finty this month, yet some corners of social media felt compelled to criticise this choice of name, as one wrote: "Poor kid been called that?" "She cannot be serious with that name" and "That name ain't cute. sound old," read another pair of opinions.
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A teenager who murdered his girlfriend in their flat was moved to HMP Forest Bank after coming under threat from fellow inmates.
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Michelle Keegan hasn't let the trolls stop her from showing off her glamourous appearances online as she took to social media to show off another new look. The actress recently hit back after she was slammed by a fan who said they wanted to see her Very clothing collection on a "real" woman.
Kevin Spacey has hit back at the man who accused him of grabbing his crotch “like a cobra” by saying he has “made up his entire story from beginning to end,” while branding the case for the prosecution “weak.”
Shaughna Phillips, of Love Island fame, has silenced the trolls who questioned her for taking baby daughter Lucia for her standardised injections this week. On Instagram on Thursday, the 29 year old uploaded a short clip of Lucia in her carseat awaiting a second batch of vaccinations - writing over it: "2nd lot of injections pending. Worst part of this mum game by FAR." However, it seems as though this didn't sit right with some of the platform's users, who decided to message the reality TV star directly about their qualms.