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Johnny Marr has given his verdict on Blossoms and Rick Astley joining forces to cover The Smiths.Blossoms and Astley teamed up earlier this week at the former’s gig in London to cover ‘Panic’ and ‘This Charming Man’ by The Smiths songs, with the artists subsequently announcing two Smiths covers shows in Manchester and London next month.Footage from Monday night’s gig (September 13) of Blossoms and Astley covering The Smiths’ ‘This Charming Man’ has gone viral this week, with Marr delivering his

Global music star Ed Sheeran has announced a major new world tour for 2022 which will include UK stadium dates in Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Newcastle and London.

Blossoms have shared a new clip of them playing The Smiths’ ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ with Rick Astley – you can watch the video below.Blossoms and Astley teamed up earlier this week at the former’s gig in London to cover a pair of Smiths songs, with the artists subsequently announcing two Smiths covers shows in Manchester and London next month.Ahead of those two gigs, Blossoms have shared new rehearsal footage of them performing the Smiths classic ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ with

DEALSRound Hill has acquired publishing rights and recording royalties linked to 30 songs from producer / songwriter / guitarist Tim Palmer, which includes his work with Pearl Jam and Ozzy Osbourne.————————————————–RELEASESSt Vincent‘s new mockumentary ‘The Nowhere Inn’ is out this Friday, and ahead of it she’s released a song of the same name.

Blossoms and Rick Astley have announced they’ll be teaming up for a pair of shows that will celebrate the songs of The Smiths.It comes after Blossoms surprised fans during the first of three nights at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum last night (September 13) by inviting Astley on stage to run through a selection of Smiths covers.Taking place at Manchester’s Albert Hall on October 8 and London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on October 9, the shows will see Blossoms become Astley’s backing band for a full

Blossoms surprised fans in London tonight (September 13) by inviting Rick Astley on stage to run through a selection of Smiths covers.The Stockport band are currently on a UK headline tour, performing the first of three nights at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum after stepping in to replace Machine Gun Kelly for a recent main stage performance at Reading & Leeds 2021.As well as airing new single ‘Care For‘ in their career-spanning set that leaned heavily on 2020’s acclaimed ‘Foolish Loving

Foo Fighters have trolled the Westboro Baptist Church with their disco-side project, after they picketed the band’s show in Kansas last night (August 5).The hate group, which has targeted Foo Fighters shows on numerous occasions in the past, turned up at the band’s concert at the Azura Ampitheater with a series of placards and chants.But they were soon drowned out by the Foos, who adopted their comedic disco-alter egos, The Dee Gees, to tackle the hateful activists.Driving in on the back of a

Rick Astley. The “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video has passed 1 billion views on YouTube. The video reached the milestone on Wednesday, almost 12 years after its upload date and more than 30 years after Astley’s earworming declaration of devotion became a worldwide No.

Rick Astley‘s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has secured one billion views on YouTube after cementing its place in internet folklore.Astley’s debut song, which spawned the iconic Rickrolling trend, is one of a handful of hits to reach the impressive milestone on the site – joining the likes of A-Ha’s ‘Take On Me’, Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.“I am kind of a big deal,” said Astley of the achievement.To mark the milestone, he has also announced plans to release a

surprised fans after he performed his own acoustic rendition of Biffy Clyro's hit Many of Horror. And fans demanded an instant collaboration with the Scots rockers after he wowed them with his performance.

Rick Astley is showing some love for the Philadelphia Phillies. The 55-year-old pop star made a virtual appearance at the baseball team’s Thursday game against the Milwaukee Brewers and sang a tune for the crowd – "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." A video of Astley was played on the jumbotron and also shared on the team’s official Twitter account.

1987 was the big breakthrough year for British singer-songwriter Rick Astley, scoring the UK's best-selling song of the year with his debut single Never Gonna Give You Up. 

Rick Astley is back with new music.

It’s the ultimate Rick-roll.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, but Treyarch has an ingenious new tactic to deter leakers: rickrolls.One dataminer, who goes by the name of Nova on Twitter, spotted several mysterious bit.ly links while looking through the .exe file of Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

singer was listening in. The Never Gonna Give You Up hitmaker made a virtual appearance on this morning's show as he chatted about his new single to hosts Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin.

Glengormley mum who runs a gym for parents that supports children with special needs is starring alongside Rick Astley in a new charity single.

Iconic library to reopen for first time since March as part of phased return The celebration of all things 80s has become a favourite event in the region since it started in 2011.Billy Ocean, T’Pau, Bananarama, Tony Hadley, Rick Astley, Heaven 17 and Kim Wilde were among the performers, while The Human League brought the weekend to a close.Around 20,000 people attended the event, with the colourful outfits going down well both at the festival site and in the city.A year later, Big Country and

No one is safe from a Rick-Roll, not even Rick Astley.

Matt Lucas has been delighting fans with the latest starry performance of his Baked Potato song.

Shawn Desman and Tebey are bringing the ’80s back.

Pop music legend Pete Waterman has recorded a heartfelt plea for people to support the East Lancashire Railway.

Pop legend Rick Astley has announced a huge free concert for all NHS frontline staff, primary care workers and all blue light staff.

The gig will take place in Manchester in October

'The Van Tour' will also feature a preview of Dave Grohl's new documentary 'What Drives Us'

Rickrolling has officially moved into the world of video games

Music legends including Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, Edwyn Collins and Rick Astley are among the fantastic line-up for this year’s Summer Nights at the Bandstand in Glasgow .