Classic Hits & Oldies
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Courtesy Live Nation Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire will be spending more time on the road together. The two acts have announced a 2024 leg of their Sing A Song All Night Long tour. Consisting of 13 shows, it kicks off Thursday, May 23, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and wraps Sunday, June 16, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The […]
Kevin Mazur/WireImage The planned Michael Jackson biopic finally has a release date. Deadline reports that Michael, directed by Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua and starring the singer’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the title role, will hit theaters April 18, 2025. Production on the film is set to begin January 22. It’s being produced by Graham King, who was responsible for the 2000 Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, as well as the […]
Blank Archives/Getty Images We’re getting our first look at the upcoming documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, which chronicles the making of the all-star charity single “We Are The World.” Netflix has just released a trailer for the film, featuring archival footage of artists like Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and more in the studio. There are also clips of new interviews from […]
NPG Records/Warner Records The hit Prince film Purple Rain may one day be on Broadway. Producer Orin Wolf just announced that the blockbuster film is being developed for the stage, using Prince’s original music. Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on board to write the book, and Tony Award nominee Lileana Blain-Cruz is set to direct. “It’s been almost 40 years since Prince’s legendary […]
Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival A new documentary about the making of the ’80s classic “We Are The World” will have its world premiere screening at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Greatest Night in Pop reveals the untold story of how 46 musicians, including Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Ross and Billy Joel, came together in 1985 to […]
It appears as though Lenny Kravitz has given the thumbs up to his daughter Zoë Kravitz’s engagement to Channing Tatum. “Hey man, that’s life,” Lenny told Entertainment Tonight when asked about the happy news. “When your family is happy, when your child is happy, that’s it — I’ve done well. Blessed.” Zoë, 35, who has starred in such films as The Batman and The […]
Michael Schwartz/WireImage Dionne Warwick is setting the record straight regarding a report that claimed she’d be attending a fundraiser for presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After the Daily Mail reported that Warwick was attending the event, which would feature a performance by Andrea Bocelli, she shut the claim down with a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I don’t know anything about this event,” she […]
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival A new documentary about Gloria Gaynor is hitting theaters next year. Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival last June, will hit select theaters on February 13. “For the last 40 years I’ve been telling you I will survive,” she says in the new trailer for the flick, referring to her […]
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Music fans can now listen to the first recording made by Michael Jackson. Billboard reports the song, “Big Boy (One-derful Version),” will be available to purchase as part of a limited release by Recordpool, which owns the song, and anotherblock, the blockchain-based music and royalty marketplace. The song was recorded July 13, 1967, during The Jackson 5’s […]
Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal Doja Cat‘s “Paint the Town Red” became her second number one a few months ago, no doubt in part due to the catchy sample of Dionne Warwick‘s 1964 classic “Walk On By” that goes through the entire track. But while appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Friday, Dionne admitted her first reaction […]
