OHMYGOSSIP — Travis Scott has announced a special performance at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
The 32-year-old hip-hop star will perform songs from his hotly-awaited fourth studio album ‘Utopia’ for the first time live at the historical landmark – which is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – on July 28.
Tickets for the gig, which promises to “immerse fans in the world of ‘Utopia’”, are available exclusively on www.ticketsmarche.com.
Travis has also confirmed that the LP – which is available to pre-order as a vinyl, CD and merchandise boxset – will have five individual artworks.
There’s no release date yet, though it’s anticipated to be imminent.
In May, Travis gave Houston’s professional baseball team, the Astros, a taste of the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s ‘Astroworld’.
Speaking to KRIV’s Sports Director Mark Berman in a Twitter clip taken at Minute Maid Park, he teased: “It’s on the way now, Mark.”
The rapper most recently released the collaborative effort, ‘Ring Ring’, with Chase B and Don Toliver featuring Quavo and Ty Dolla $ign.
Travis previously revealed he’d been working with new collaborators on his upcoming album in a bid to evolve his music.
He told i-D magazine in 2021: “I never tell people this, and I’m probably going to keep it a secret still, but I’m working with some new people and I’m just trying to expand the sound.
“I’ve been making beats again, rapping on my own beats, just putting everything together and trying to grow it really. That’s been one of the most fun things about working on this album. I’m evolving, collaborating with new people, delivering a whole new sound, a whole new range.”
And he also claimed the record focuses on what he sees as the key components of a utopian state – “medicine, nursing, being a better person, talking, language, communication.”
Speaking to Tom Sachs for ‘CR MEN’, he explained: “You think utopia is a society where everything is good: health, buildings, architecture – nah. It’s just about proper lines of communication.
“Because that’s the dystopian s*** we’re in right now. It’s all hate, hate, hate, and all of that is drawn from what? Miscommunication, non-communication, non-understandable communication, ignorance to communication.
“‘I don’t like this person.’ Why? Because somebody told me something to not like this person? Because in history I read to not like this person? Why?”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rapper Wiz Khalifa has sold a portion of his music catalogue to HarbourView Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum.
The deal includes his hits ‘Black and Yellow’ and ‘See You Again’ and will see HarbourView founder Sherrese Clarke Soares and the 35-year-old hip-hop star’s label Taylor Gang partner up.
Wiz – whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz – said: “Sherrese and HarbourView truly understand the value of music and artistry.
“We are excited to partner with them as they continue to build a dynamic media company that is in line with the values and goals we all have here at Taylor Gang.”
Soares added: “Wiz Khalifa has already made a profound impact on culture as a musician, executive, media visionary and creative force.
“We celebrate his talent and creativity and are thrilled to welcome him and Taylor Gang to the HarbourView family today.”
Grammy-winning rapper-and-singer Nelly reportedly sold 50 per cent of his solo music catalogue for a whopping $50 million to the same firm, according to TMZ.
The 48-year-old star – whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. – agreed to the mega-deal with HarbourView.
It includes select hits such as ‘Ride Wit Me’, ‘Dilemma’ featuring Kelly Rowland – which sold more than 7.6 million records worldwide – and ‘Hot in Herre’.
Nelly said in a statement: “As artists, we put our heart and soul into each track and there comes a time when you consider preservation of that artistry. My music is my legacy which I want to last beyond me, continuing to make my existing fans happy while reaching new generations and new audiences. I am excited to partner with HarbourView to create opportunities for discovery of my music decades from now.”
Soares added: “This catalog has made an incredible impact on generations of fans. Works such as, ‘Hot in Herre’ and ‘Shake Ya Tailfeather’ defined an era of music of a unique blend of hip-hop, R’n’B, and country music that is undeniable. We are thrilled to add these influential pieces to our repertoire and work with the team to continue supporting the artistry within our ecosystem.”
Nelly has collaborated with the likes of Janet Jackson, Nicki Minaj, Pharrell Williams, and Usher over a career spanning 23 years.
His debut single, 2000’s ‘Country Grammar (Hot…)’, from the album of the same name, peaked at number seven in both the US and the UK and reached the top 20 in Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands.
The likes of Justin Bieber, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen have sold their songs for mega-sums in recent years.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Noel Gallagher’s New York gig was evacuated before he took to the stage due to a “bomb threat”.
Fans fled the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Saturday night (08.07.23) after Garbage and Metric had performed “out of an abundance of caution”.
A message on the screens at the concert reportedly read: “ATTENTION! At this time, we will need to evacuate the venue. We ask that you calmly proceed to the nearest EXIT. Please follow directions of staff and police officers. For the safety of everyone, please do NOT rush or push. Thank you for your cooperation.”
It was later confirmed by New York State Park Police that they were investigating the incident as a potential “terrorist threat”.
They announced on Facebook: “Out of an abundance of caution, the concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center was suspended ‪at 9:40 pm and concert attendees were evacuated without incident.
“K9s completed a sweep of the venue after the crowd exited, with negative results.”
Former Oasis frontman Noel, who was due to perform with his High Flying Birds, has not reacted.
However, Garbage wrote: “Our love and concern to all the fans at our show in Saratoga Springs tonight. We pray you are all safe and sound. This is f***ing insane.”
“We have no idea what happened tonight. We were just all evacuated and we were concerned for everyone!!! I’m sorry we have no real information. We were just told there was an emergency evacuation!”
Noel, 56, is touring in the US in support of his latest album, ‘Council Skies’, on a co-headlining tour with Garbage, and they are due to play the Summerstage In Central Park festival in the Big Apple tonight (10.07.23).
Last month, they cancelled their concert at Wisconsin’s Breese Stevens Field due to poor air quality caused by the Canadian wildfires.
Concert promoter FPC Live said the decision was “based on the Public Health Madison and Dane County’s Air Quality Advisory.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lana Del Rey said “sorry” about her Glastonbury show while on stage at American Express presents BST Hyde Park.
The 38-year-old songstress apologised for her tardiness at Worthy Farm last month – which led to her set being brought to an abrupt end when her mic got unplugged at the strict midnight curfew – after being 15 minutes late for her headlining show in the UK’s capital, which brought an end to the summer concert series which included icons like Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Take That.
While performing ‘Candy Necklace’ while perching atop a golden grand piano, she told the 60,000-strong crowd in London on Sunday (09.07.23): “I think this is where I got cut off last time. Sorry about that.”
The brunette beauty – who opened the show with ‘A+W’ before going into the iconic ‘Young Beautiful’ and then the dreamy ‘Bartender’ while she got her bejewelled bouffant rearranged – paid tribute to her dedicated fan base and their nearly 13 years of support for making it “possible” to reach the heights of success surrounded by a glamorous backdrop that included mirrors, floaty fabric, dreamy dancers and powerful backing singers.
Lana – whose real name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant – told the adoring audience: “You guys made it possible for us to tour for 13 years.”
Lana also treated fans to new material from her ninth studio album ‘Did ‘You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard’ like the LP’s titular track and the homage to her family ‘The Grants’ but also gave everyone an array of her long-standing career’s greatest hits.
During a hyped-up remix of ‘Summertime Sadness’, the Grammy nom – who had previously stood face-on to the crowd – began jumping up and down to the funky beat.
Lana said:“I mean, when you show up, you show up. That’s crazy.”
The ‘Venice B****’ hitmaker closed the show by serenading her screaming fans with a rendition of her beloved song ‘Video Games’ while perched on a swing adorned with a floral garland.
Before Lana hit the stage, Father John Misty warmed up the crowd – who had already been treated to performances from pianist Riopy, Syml and Gang of Youths – by talking about his love of the ‘Born To Die’ singer.
The 42-year-old folk-rocker – whose real name is Joshua Tillman – asked the crowd: “You guys are probably excited about the headliner tonight?”

Lana Del Rey at American Express Presents BST Hyde Park setlist:
‘A+W’
‘Young and Beautiful’
‘Bartender’
‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’
‘The Grants’
‘Cherry’
‘Pretty When You Cry’
‘Ride Monologue’
‘Ride’
‘Born to Die’
‘Blue Jeans’
‘Norman F****** Rockwell’
‘Arcadia’
‘Ultraviolence’
‘White Mustang’
‘Candy Necklace’
‘Diet Mountain Dew’
‘Summertime Sadness’
‘Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’
‘Video Games’

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OHMYGOSSIP — Blur have pulled out of a headline slot at France’s Festival Beauregard this week due to an injury to Dave Rowntree.
The ‘Charmless Man’ hitmakers were scheduled to perform at the music festival in Château de Beauregard on Thursday (06.07.23), but the drummer suffered a knee injury last weekend, just days ahead of their Wembley Stadium shows on Saturday (08.07.23) and Sunday (09.07.23).
In a translation from French, a post on the Festival Beauregard Twitter account read: “The bad news has just fallen: Blur will not be able to perform their concert in Beauregard. Dave Rowntree, the drummer, was injured this weekend and must rest for future shows”
Royal Blood will take Blur’s place at the French festival.
At the time of writing, the ‘Girls and Boys’ group – also made up of Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, and Alex James – are yet to comment on the injury or the festival date.
Alex recently told how he cried when Blur – whose last headline shows came in 2015 – sold out Wembley Stadium in two minutes.
He told Red magazine: “You never really know until you put a show on sale if anyone is interested. It’s really emotional.
“I’m absolutely delighted that it’s all back on and I love them all dearly like brothers.”
When he’s not with the band, Alex is kept busy on the farm he lives on with wife Claire and their five children, but he admitted the adjustment between the two very different lifestyles can be tricky.
He laughed: “The last time I went away, I dropped the kids at school and flew to Mexico City, where there were thousands of people waiting for us at the airport and hotel.
“When we got to the venue –a stadium – it was huge.
“But afterwards, you get home and you have to wash up and the kids are like, ‘Dad, stop being a w*****.’ “

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OHMYGOSSIP — Adam Lambert once had a female fan throw their sex toy at him onstage.
The ‘Comin In Hot’ singer knows just what Lil Nas X went through when he recently dodged a flying sex toy during his set.
The 24-year-old rapper was performing at the Scandinavian edition of the Lollapalooza festival in Stockholm, Sweden at the weekend when someone hurled a rubber toy at him.
He managed to dodge it with some quick footwork and then walked over to pick it up.
Nas then asked the audience: “Who threw their p**** on stage?”
And now, Adam – who sometimes performs lead vocals for rock legends Queen – has revealed a similar thing happened to him.
The 41-year-old pop star laughed it off and actually lobbed the X-rated item back toward where it came from and might have hit the woman who threw it.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Adam said: “That was strange.
Luckily that wasn’t aimed at my head, it was aimed at my shins and it sort of bounced off of my leg and landed on the floor and flopped once or twice.
“I was like, ‘What is that?’ Then I was like, ‘Oh God’ and then without missing a beat, I kicked it back in the direction it came from, and I think it might have hit the woman who threw it at me.”
He added: “I don’t think it hurt her, I think she laughed which is good, but serves her right. It was funny.”
A smartphone, jewellery, and even someone’s ashes have been thrown onstage at pop concerts this summer.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Will.i.am has dubbed AI the “new renaissance in music”.
The Black Eyed Peas star, 48, is one of the music artists championing songs created by artificial intelligence software, with the songwriter claiming it can pen a tune just as good as he can.
He told ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’: “People have to decide what types of songs they want to write because, although I wrote songs like ‘Boom Boom Pow’ and ‘I Gotta Feeling’, the machine is going to write amazing versions or original ‘Boom Boom Pows’.”
The tech enthusiast says AI can provide “social commentary” just like a human.
He said: “It was a new song and it wrote it the way I would have written it.”
He continued: “It’s a unique world that we’re entering into. It’s a new renaissance.”
However, he added: “The concern is what we do as people and the regulation that we put on folks that are building the models.”
There are a number of musicians who feel AI is not a replacement for the artist because it has no emotions.
However, Grimes has gone one step ahead and created her own AI software, Elf.Tech, and asked fans to create songs using the tech as long as she gets 50 per cent of the royalties.
The 35-year-old star – whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher – insists that if artists allow their voices to be used in AI projects, “beautiful things might come from it”.
She told the ‘UTOPIA Talks’ podcast: “Copyright sucks. I don’t think art belongs to anyone.
“Why shouldn’t everyone be able to use your voice or whatever? Like it just seems cool and exciting and then beautiful things might come from it, when people like big artists do these writing camps, they search the world for the best people to come in and write and they spend all this money doing it, and it’s like you could just not spend that money and just give your voice out to the public. And like, you’d be drawing from a much wider pool, you know, like the outcome the net outcomes of great art would be.”
By contrast, music legend Sting, 71, believes AI is going to be “a battle” for the music industry.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Suede have announced three new London headline shows for their ‘Autofiction’ tour.
The Brit rock legends’ pair of shows at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on December 15 and 16 have been cancelled, with full refunds offered to those who already purchased tickets.
However, to make it up to fans, Brett Anderson and co will now play the intimate Electric Brixton on December 15, 16 and 17.
Tickets will go on general sale from 9am BST on July 14. Pre-sale access will be available at the same time the previous day.
The tour is in support of their acclaimed ninth studio album.
Meanwhile, Suede are re-releasing their landmark self-titled debut LP as ‘Suede30’ to mark its 30th anniversary.
To mark three decades since the release of the Mercury Music Prize-winning LP, which shot to the top of the UK album chart upon its release in 1993, fans will be able to listen to the record clearer than ever before in Dolby Atmos, thanks to the audio being newly mastered by Phil Kinrade from the original tapes and production masters, and signed off by the LP’s original producer Ed Buller.
Recalling making the record in 1992, frontman Brett, 55, said: “It was a genuinely magical time in my life and one for which I’ll always be grateful. It felt incredible being in what I thought was quite probably the most exciting band in the world at the time, making a record which felt like more than just another band making another album.”
The band are releasing a special Blu-Ray audio edition centred on a 5.1 mix and Dolby Atmos treatment created by the musician and producer Steven Wilson; a half-speed master edition pressed on 180g black vinyl; a newly mastered 2CD edition complete with B-sides, the limited edition full album picture disc with newly reimagined bespoke sleeve, and highly collectable 30th anniversary 7″ picture discs of the band’s classic first four singles, ‘The Drowners’ / ‘To The Birds’, ‘Metal Mickey’ / ‘Where The Pigs Don’t Fly’, ‘Animal Nitrate’ / ‘The Big Time’ and ‘So Young’ / ‘High Rising’, each featuring the original and striking cover artwork on the discs.
All formats are released on July 7.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Flea would like to re-record the one Red Hot Chili Peppers album he has regrets about.
The ‘By The Way’ rock group’s bassist is not a fan of the way they made their 1984 self-titled record and he blames it on the lack of “connection” with musicians Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez, who replaced Jack Irons and Hillel Slovak after they quit, though he insists they are “great” at what they do.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, he said: “I always regret the way we made the first one.
“I think the songs are really good. Our band was smoking at the time. But [drummer] Jack [Irons] and [guitarist] Hillel [Slovak] quit, and we hired these two other guys: Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez.”
However, he can’t persuade his bandmates to record the album again.
He added: “Both were great musicians, but the connection just wasn’t as profound as we had with the guys we started with. I’ve often wanted to go back and re-record that album, but I can never talk anyone into it.”
The album only had one single, ‘Get Up and Jump’.
After a tour in support of the collection, Sherman was fired and Slovak rejoined the band. The album also features founding members Anthony Kiedis on vocals and Martinez on drums.
The LP was produced by Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill.
Meanwhile, former guitarist Josh Klinghoffer recently confessed he’s not a fan of the music they’ve made since he left the rock band.
The musician was in the group from 2009 to 2019 and recorded two albums, ‘I’m with You’ and ‘The Getaway’, plus the B-sides compilation ‘I’m Beside You’ with them. He replaced John Frusciante, who has since returned.
And Josh thinks they were making “cooler music” when he was in the band and admitted he was “shocked” by their latest album, 2022’s ‘Return Of The Dream Canteen’, which he was unable to finish, and didn’t think much of ‘Unlimited Love’, which was also released last year.
Appearing on the Brazilian podcast ‘5 Notas’, Josh said: “I don’t think I finished [listening to] the second [2022 album, ‘Return Of The Dream Canteen’].
“I was trying to cram it in once before leaving on a plane, and I got as far as maybe the ninth song, and I don’t think I listened to the rest.”
He continued: “It’s tough [listening to their new music], only because I honestly think we were doing cooler music.
“I never want to sound negative about anyone doing music, but I was shocked when I heard their new record.”
Flea previously hinted at artistic differences with Josh.
He told NME: “It was a big shift for us, parting ways with Josh.
“He’s been with us for 10 years, and it was an emotionally difficult thing to do. Not only was he a great musician, he was also a thoughtful, supportive team player – a communally-minded, kind and intelligent person.”
He added: “But artistically, in terms of being able to speak the same [musical] language, it was easier working with John. Getting back into a room and starting to play and letting the thing unfold … was really exciting.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — David Bowie’s pianist fears he’s to blame for the late singer quitting touring.
The ‘Starman’ legend – who died in 2016 aged 69 after a private cancer battle – never toured again after 2004, and Mike Garson thinks his words might have had an impact on Bowie’s decision.
He told Music Week: “So he called me in 2006 and he said, ‘Well, Mike, do you think we should go out again?’
“Now, I think the band and my wife want to kill me because I said something absurd, but actually deep and correct and honest.
“I said, ‘David, only if you’re feeling it’, because he wasn’t feeling it. I knew it but he wanted to give work to the band – our tour was cut short in 2004, so he was feeling guilty.”
Garson – who played on the likes of ‘Aladdin Sane’ and ‘Outside’ – spent three decades as part of Bowie’s live band, right up to the final tour 19 years ago, which was cut short due to health issues.
He added: “Of course, my first thought was, ‘Yeah, let’s go’. But my second thought was, ‘I don’t want to be on the road with someone who is miserable and doesn’t want to be there.’ ”
The pair stayed in touch until Bowie’s death seven years ago, and they were planning more projects in the months before his passing.
Garson said: “He wrote to be saying he was hoping to maybe do another version of ‘Outside’ with Brian Eno and tour that.
“I had some hopes, but it was cut short unfortunately.”
Garson previously claimed he had a premonition shortly before the icon’s passing that he was going to die when they spoke via email for the last time.
He said: “Right before he died, I was working on my biography and was asked to listen 60 songs we’d recorded together.
“I was overwhelmed, because I never usually listened to our old songs – like David, I’ll be on to the next thing. I emailed him, saying I was in shock at how good we’d been.
“Within minutes, David wrote back saying, ‘Mike, we did a great body of work together.’ I suddenly felt tears, knowing something was wrong.
“I said to my wife Susan, ‘That’s the last time I’m going to speak to David.’ I couldn’t explain why, but I was right.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ice-T has called on the current generation of hip-hop artists to “get a hold” of themselves.
The 65-year-old rapper-turned-actor – whose real name is Tracy Marrow – reflected on the deaths of prominent figures in the genre from drug use or violence in recent years, with losses including the likes of Nipsey Hussle, Migos’ Takeoff, Pop Smoke, and XXXTentacion, and admitted he doesn’t know what tragedy it will take before the modern crop of musicians realise things need to “calm down”.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, he said at Essence Fest over the weekend: “My generation, we lost Tupac, we lost Biggie and we got the memo. Everybody calmed down. We all figured this out: We [were] rapping to get out of the streets.
“But the youngsters who are out here behaving like that, these kids are millionaires so I don’t know how many young people gotta get lost, I don’t know which one might trigger that message, but I think it’s time for this generation to get a hold of itself.”
The ‘Lethal Weapon’ singer – who released his first studio album, ‘Lethal Weapon’, in 1987 and his last, ‘Gangsta Rap’, in 2006 – also noted that “hip-hop was supposed to be a fad,” but now rappers are “billionaires” and he’s thrilled with the way the genre has evolved over the last 50 years.
He said: “Hip-hop has gray hairs. The beauty of it is that it’s still here, still flourishing and people still love it.
“It’s gone through a lot of different growing pains and stuff, but for them to say it was a fad — now you have hip-hop billionaires! Hip-hop is a culture. A youth culture, started by kids.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Ringo Starr is a Taylor Swift fan.
The Beatles drummer, 82, doesn’t like to let on the names of current artists and bands he listens to, but he did say he’s a fan of some “great girl singers”, including the 33-year-old ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker.
He told People magazine: “I’m not naming anybody because I just like to listen to them, but there are several great bands out there, girl singers out there.
“I mean, the biggest star in the world, Taylor. We used to meet her when she was like, five, at the Grammys with her mother. And the beat goes on.”
Of his own iconic group’s enduring legacy, he added: “That’s what’s great. We’re blessed, as the Beatles, because each generation has a listen to us. They see, ‘What does that mean to those guys?’ So we’re still selling records, can you believe it? And we’re still remastering them, and we’re still putting them in different orders and putting out outtakes. Life is good.”
Ringo also commented on the forthcoming “final Beatles” song, for which they were able to isolate the late John Lennon’s vocals with a machine named after the ‘Eleanor Rigby’ group’s roadie Mal Evans.
He insisted: “This is absolutely John Lennon’s voice, taken off, as neat as we can, a cassette. And that’s all I can tell you!”
It comes after Sir Paul McCartney, 81, clarified that it doesn’t feature a digitally-generated likeness of the ‘Imagine’ singer’s voice.
He tweeted: “Been great to see such an exciting response to our forthcoming Beatles project. No one is more excited than us to be sharing something with you later in the year.
“We’ve seen some confusion and speculation about it. Seems to be a lot of guess work out there. Can’t say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It’s all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process which has gone on for years.
“We hope you love it as much as we do. More news in due course – Paul.”
The ‘Live and Let Die’ hitmaker had previously explained AI had been used to make John’s vocals on the song “pure”.
He told BBC Radio 4: “When we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had. We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI. Then we can mix the record, as you would normally do.”
Sir Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary ‘Get Back’ pushed them to complete the song because Paul explained the director “was able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette.”
He added: “We had John’s voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, ‘That’s the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar.’”
The music legend didn’t name the song, but according to reports, it’s said to be ‘Now and Then’.
John – who was murdered in New York in 1980 aged 40 – penned the song and his widow Yoko Ono handed it to his bandmate in 1994 on a tape labelled “For Paul”.
It had been considered for release as part of the band’s ‘Anthology’ project, which included a documentary, a three-volume set of double albums and a book on the history of the group.
However, they went for ‘Real Love’ and ‘Free as a Bird’ from the same tape.
Iconic Beatles producer George Martin refused to produce the former track so they recruited ELO’s Jeff Lynne, who had already co-produced the latter tune.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Monte Cazazza, who coined the phrase “Industrial Music for Industrial People”, has died aged 68.
The American shock artist and Industrial music legend, who is said to have been the first to use the word “industrial” to describe heavy electronic music, passed away on June 29, after battling a mystery illness.
His collaborator Meri St. Mary confirmed the news on Twitter, writing: “It is With immense sadness and Love I had to let Monte go. “He was very ill and in pain so I take comfort in the fact that that part is over but I miss him already! Where ever it is we go off to I am certain He will be causing trouble in his own way RIP the One and Only Monte Cazazza. (sic)”
Monte is best known for shaping the genre by working with London’s Industrial Records in the mid-1970s.
He is credited for the noise collages and experimental sound manipulation the label was making that became known as industrial music.
Industrial music has harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.
And Re/Search Magazine’s Industrial Culture Handbook dubbed his work as “insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events”.
One of his performances in 1975 was hailed a “Sex – religious show; giant statue of Jesus got chainsawed and gang raped into oblivion.”
Much of his artwork courted controversy and he was disruptor from an early age.
Monte attended the California College of Arts and Crafts and got expelled after creating a cement waterfall that disabled the main stairway of the building for his first sculpture assignment.
Later, he made a metal swastika and was known to bring a dead cat and formaldehyde (methanal) to set alight in front of friends.
Monte released eight solo albums, his final being 2010’s ‘The Cynic’.
He was also known for his work with the Industrial group Factrix from San Francisco and recorded soundtracks with Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories.
Monte infamously sent out photos of himself in an electric chair on the day of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore’s execution, which mistakenly led to a Hong Kong newspaper publishing it as the real execution.
In 1977, Gilmore became the first person in almost a decade to be executed in the United States after being convicted of a double murder.

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OHMYGOSSIP — MF DOOM’s cause of death has been revealed.
The rap legend – whose real name was Daniel Dumile – passed away on October 31, 2020, aged just 49, a statement by his family confirmed two months later.
And following an inquest, it has been confirmed that DOOM died from a rare and severe reaction to blood pressure medication, a condition medically known as angiodema.
DOOM had a “severe and rare” reaction to just two doses of prescribed ACE inhibitors.
He also battled kidney disease and anxiety.
The ‘Beef Rap’ star’s widow Jasmine raised concerns about her spouse’s treatment at Leeds’ St. James Hospital during the inquest.
She claimed he was forced to call his wife when his breathing and swelling of the throat worsened because his buzzer was out of his reach.
Jasmine also went on to claim that they were allegedly two hours late administrating medication.
On October 21, DOOM tried to escape from his hospital trolley, but collapsed and went into respiratory arrest.
Jasmine was also not happy with the condition of the “old-looking” room he was placed in, though she was told all of the rooms were the same.
According to Leeds Live, Jasmine said: “I don’t want to say it was an old storage room…it wasn’t set up.”
She could only get in to see her husband at the end due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Jasmine said: “I was not able to see him until the 31st [of October] — that’s when the respirator was turned off that was helping him breathe.”
The inquest also brought up the fact that the hospital in the north of England could not get access to his medical documents from London.
And how, at one stage, DOOM was showing promising signs when he was eating, drinking water, talking, and his oxygen levels were back on track.
St. James Hospital carried out a “serious incident investigation” and the inquiry is still ongoing.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Noel and Liam Gallagher once ganged up and planned to “annihilate” a gig-goer who threw a shoe at the Oasis frontman’s head.
Amid an increase in flying objects being propelled at artists onstage, Noel – the Britpop band’s former guitarist and chief songwriter – has revealed he and his now-estranged sibling were ready to get their own back on the individual by waiting to spot the only person with one shoe walking out of the venue at the end of the gig.
Speaking to Dermot O’Leary on ‘BBC Reel Stories’, Noel recalled: “I remember one gig when somebody hit Liam in the head with a shoe. Liam had the shoe, and I remember we’d come off stage, just waiting at the front door for this guy to walk past with one shoe.
“We were going to annihilate him.”
The 56-year-old rocker insists that he was forever getting black eyes or nose injuries from being pelted onstage and often wore sunglasses to protect himself.
He recalled: “Nearly every gig that we did ended in a fight or a brawl in the crowd. I wore sunglasses for about six months and it was always because I had a black eye or a busted nose.”
One time, he hit a fan with a guitar after they turned on him.
Noel shared: “There was one particular night in Newcastle – it was being broadcast live on the radio – where somebody got on stage and attacked me. I hit him with a guitar.”
Noel and Liam, 50, haven’t spoken since the ‘Supersonic’ hitmakers split in 2009, following a backstage bust-up between the feuding brothers at their final concert in France.
And Noel admits he’d probably get on with Liam if they weren’t siblings.
He went on: “There was never a point in Oasis where we were all getting on.
“I mean, I joined last, and I remember on the first day, thinking ‘That drummer has got to go – he’s an idiot’.
“If Liam wasn’t my brother we’d have probably got on better. The fact that me and him were brothers, it only really meant that we could say things to each other that no one else could say.
“But I would never put my arm around him and say ‘You might want to do this, you might want to do that’ because he’s not the kind of guy that you can reason with.”
Listen to the full interview on ‘BBC Reel Stories’ on BBC iPlayer now.

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OHMYGOSSIP — George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s friendship was “founded on juvenile humour”.
The Wham! stars – who met at secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in the 1970s, before going on to become 80s pop legends – took crafting music very “seriously”, but they had huge amounts of fun outside of the studio, with Andrew recalling himself and George – who sadly passed away on Christmas Day 2016 aged 53 – once going Christmas carolling with a giant blow-up sex doll after hitting the booze.
Those who knew who they were laughed it off, but not everyone that opened their door was best pleased by the cheeky pair’s prank.
Taking part in NME’s ‘Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ Q+A, Andrew recalled the responses were: “Varied! Some people had no idea at all who was carolling outside their front door and others obviously knew immediately, but those carolling forays were always fairly well-lubricated . Like any other 20/21 year-olds, we were having the times of our life. Our friendship was founded on juvenile humour. We didn’t take ourselves seriously. We took the songwriting and making the records seriously, but that’s when it stopped!”
Andrew, 60, played Scrabble with George at their final meeting.
The last time the ‘Club Tropicana’ hitmakers met up, several months before the tragedy, they had one of their regular board game sessions.
He recently told PEOPLE: “[George] was a big fan and we’d have regular games of Scrabble. He’d beaten me the week before, and I was exacting my revenge. It took us right back to just … the essence of our schoolboy friendship and one-upmanship. It was a game that stimulated him, and me also. That was a few months prior to his passing.”
When asked what he would say to his old friend if he was still around, Andrew added: “What would I say to him? Oh, let’s go and have a drink.”
The musician went on to speak about plans to induct the ‘Careless Whisper’ star into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year – revealing his pal would have been thrilled with the honour.
He said: “[It’s] obviously a great privilege, and I’m sure that he would recognise it as such. He was aware of the meaning of accolades from his peers.
“He would be very rightly proud, and he deserves his place there. You know, he is a genuine legend and an icon of contemporary music … He was a supernova in a firmament of shining lights and stars, and he was probably the finest singing voice and songwriter of his generation. There ain’t too many that held a candle to him.”
The induction will take place during a ceremony on Friday, November 3 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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