Ray Davies has never voted in a General Election

OHMYGOSSIP — Sir Ray Davies is to vote for the first time ever in the forthcoming General Election on June 8.
The Kinks legend has confessed he has always dodged voting for the British Prime Minster because he’s always been on the road touring, be he feels now with Brexit it is a “very important” time to make a difference as he feels leaving the European Union is going to “turn the world upside down”.
He told BBC Radio 2: “I’ve always been on tour. I managed to work it that way.
“Now I think I will. It’s a very important time in our history.
“I think it’s going to be a time that we look back on as being a momentous occasion.
“We’re doing something that’s turning the world upside down.”
Meanwhile, it was recently reported that there is a Kinks biopic in the works.
The movie will tell the story of how the 72-year-old frontman, his brother and guitarist Dave, bassist Pete Quaife and drummer Mick Avory formed the group and rose to success, and examines how the singer coped with the “mayhem of fame”.
The currently untitled film will be based on the popular musical ‘Sunny Afternoon’, which was based on the rise of the group and features a lot of their songs.
According to the Daily Mail newspaper’s Baz Bamigboye, Joe Penhall, who wrote the play, is to write the script for the movie, while ‘Sunshine On Leith’ filmmaker Dexter Fletcher has been approached to direct.
Francois Ivernel, Charles de Rosen and Sonia Friedman are producing the film and are currently working on securing the story and music rights.
No one has been cast in the film yet, and it is not a foregone conclusion that John Dagleish and George Maguire, who have won awards for their portrayal of the Davies brothers in ‘Sunny Afternoon’ will reprise their roles on the big screen.
Ray and Dave founded the band in 1963 and split in 1996.
However, the brothers performed together for the first time in almost 20 years in 2015, when Ray joined Dave on stage in London for a performance of ‘You Really Got Me’.
The band has had a number of different line-ups over the years but the siblings have featured in each one.
The Kinks’ classic line-up featured Mick on drums and the late Pete on bass.
Pete was replaced by John Dalton in 1969 while Bob Henrit took over as sticksman in 1984.

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DJ Khaled's album features Rihanna and Nicki Minaj

OHMYGOSSIP — ihanna and Nicki Minaj are featured on DJ Khaled’s forthcoming album ‘Grateful’.
The 41-year-old hip-hop star confirmed that the R&B superstar and ‘Anaconda’ rapper will both appear on the already star-studded record – the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Major Key’ – which also features the new single ‘I’m The One’ – a collaboration between Khaled, Lil Wayne, Justin Bieber, Quavo and Chance the Rapper.
Teasing the guest features, also including Nas, he simply told Los Angeles’ Power 106 radio: “Be ready.”
The ‘Do You Mind’ hitmaker also took to Instagram to unveil his collaborations with Nicki and the ‘Work’ singer.
Sharing a clip from the interview on the app, he wrote: “THEY SAYING I CANT GET @badgirlriri on #GRATEFUL !!! Tell THEY BE READY !!! #GRATEFUL THE ALBUM IS COMING ! @wethebestmusic @epirecords @rocnation ME AND @asahakhaled we so focused ! FAN LUV I GOT US !!! (sic)”
And teasing the 34-year-old bootylicious babe’s duet, he wrote: “AYO JUAN! Turn @nickiminaj vocals up ! #GRATEFUL THE ALBUM ITS COMING ! @wethebestmusic @epicrecords @rocnation please keep EveryTING Top Secret! FAN LUV #GRATEFUL ITS COMING (sic)”
Previously released songs on the record include ‘Shining’ with Beyoncé and Jay Z.
On the uptempo track, Beyonce takes the lead and she adopts a boastful tone, singing: “All of this winning/I’ve been losing my mind.”
There is also a track with ‘One Dance’ rapper Drake.
Khaled previously revealed his six-month-old son Asahd – whom he has with his fiancee Nicole Tuck – has had a big influence on his 10th album.
He previously said: “The poops and the throw-ups, believe it or not, are blessings, so those [songs] are actually the real good ones. He actually threw up on me while I was mixing and working on ‘Shining,’ and when he threw up on me, that’s a blessing.”

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Robbie Williams releases single in French

OHMYGOSSIP — Robbie Williams has re-recorded his track ‘Time On Earth’ in French.
The 43-year-old singer – whose last single ‘Love My Life’ only reached number 22 in the UK charts – has decided to swap his native English tongue in favour of the language for the new version of the song to release as an exclusive single in France, according to the Daily Star newspaper.
Robbie’s latest single in the UK is ‘Mixed Signals’, but for his loyal fans in the European country he is giving them the electro pop track which is included on the deluxe version of his album ‘The Heavy Entertainment Show’.
Robbie has been learning French since 2013 after being inspired by his wife Ayda Field, who used to live in the French capital Paris and can speak the language “fluently”.
Plus the silver-haired hunk has vowed to learn to speak it too as his daughter Teddy, four, will be going to a French-speaking school.
The ‘Angels’ hitmaker said: “I holiday in France, I love French football, my wife speaks French fluently, she spent a lot of time there, our daughter Teddy will go to a French school. If I don’t learn French they’re going to speak in code and I’m not going to know what they’re saying. So I’m going to learn to speak French in time.”
The ‘Party Like A Russian’ singer previously made a French version of ‘Supreme’, called ‘L’amour Supreme’, in 2000 from his third studio album ‘Sing When You’re Winning’ and it made it to number 12 in the French singles chart.

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Katy Perry drops hint of new single called Bon Appétit

OHMYGOSSIP — Katy Perry has hinted that ‘Bon Appétit’ is her next single.
The 32-year-old pop beauty took to Instagram and Twitter on Tuesday (25.04.17) to share with her 97.3m followers potential lyrics from the track.
She wrote on the micro-blogging site: “Bake me a pie and you may get a surprise (sic)” And added the wink face and cherry emojis.
Katy then decided to send her fans a newsletter with the recipe for the “World’s Best Cherry Pie” and followed this with a a picture of a rocket pie.
She captioned the graphic: “Open and swipe up (sic)”
Fans proceeded to bake Cherry Pies and tweet the singer with their photos.
When one fan simply asked the star to reveal the surprise, she teased: “There’s no tell but if you do (bake) there’s gift in the mail.(sic)”
And eagle-eyed fans spotted that hidden in the recipe and method appears to be lyrics for the new track, which read: “This pie is gonna hit that sweet tooth, boy / Calm those hungry eyes / Bon appétit, baby!”
The brunette beauty first teased the single last month when she shared a video of her jamming out to the song on her Instagram story.
The track, which will be the follow-up to her number one smash ‘Chained to the Rhythm’, is expected to feature Ariana Grande.
Katy recently said she will have an album on the way, but she wants to release a few songs before giving her fans – known as KatyCats – the “full meal” as she fells music listeners can only manage small chunks at a time.
She explained: “I’ve got something swirling, but, you know, I think I want to put out some songs first before I give them the full meal.
“I think we are digesting things in bite-size these days and that’s what we can handle. It’s not shade at all anything like that — you’ll know when it’s shade.
“But when someone has a 17 or 19-track album, you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I have to take a trip to Mars to listen to your record in full!’ I mean I love you, you’re my favorite dope artist, but like we want bite size. We, like, only read headlines. We don’t even read the whole story!”

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Robbie Williams' Time On Earth recorded in French

OHMYGOSSIP — Robbie Williams has re-recorded his single ‘Time On Earth’ entirely in French.
The 43-year-old singer – whose last single ‘Love My Life’ only reached number 22 in the UK charts – has decided to swap his native English in favour of the French language for the song, which is on the deluxe version of his album ‘The Heavy Entertainment Show’.
The ‘Angels’ hitmaker’s latest single in the UK is ‘Mixed Singles’, but for fans of the part-time Take That star in France he has made a new version with a twist.
The song pays homage to the fact that Robbie plans to visit the country more often and the fact his wife, Ayda Field, used to live in the French capital Paris and can speak the language “fluently”.
Plus the silver-haired hunk has vowed to learn to speak it too as his daughter Teddy, four, will be going to a French-speaking school.
According to the Daily Star newspaper, Robbie – who also has son Charlton, two, with the 37-year-old actress – said: “I holiday in France, I love French football, my wife speaks French fluently, she spent a lot of time there, our daughter Teddy will go to a French school. If I don’t learn French they’re going to speak in code and I’m not going to know what they’re saying. So I’m going to learn to speak French in time.”
The ‘Party Like a Russian’ singer previously made a French version of ‘Supreme’, called ‘L’amour Supreme’, in 2000 from his third studio album ‘Sing When You’re Winning’ and it made it to number 12 in the French chart.

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JoJo blames record label for removing music from Spotify

OHMYGOSSIP — JoJo has slammed her former record label for removing her music from Spotify.
Fans of the ‘Leave (Get Out)’ hitmaker – real name Joanna Levesque – won’t find her self-titled debut album on the music streaming site, and after one fan asked why, the star blamed her “former label” for removing the music, claiming she has “no control” over what they do with her tracks.
One fan wrote on Twitter: “Why did you remove your timeless music from Spotify? Do you hate us– aka your fans? @iamjojo (sic)”
To which JoJo responded: “My former label removed my music. I unfortunately have absolutely no control over what they do or don’t do.”
And her response triggered an onslaught of questions from other fans in regards to the album, with one fan asking if the 26-year-old singer thinks she’ll ever get the rights to her music back.
The fan asked: “do u think u could somehow get the rights to ur music and then put it up on Spotify? they cant keep it locked up forever (sic)”
JoJo then replied: “Somehow? Probably. Is that my focus right now? No. I want to let bygones be bygones. I pray one day they put my music back up.”
The debut album from the ‘Save My Soul’ singer – which was released in 2004 when JoJo was just 14 years old – also isn’t available to buy on iTunes according to Billboard.com, although it can be streamed via Apple Music.
And it isn’t the first time JoJo has slammed her former record label either, as she said last year she was told to “lose weight fast” or risk not having her album released.
She said: “Here’s something that I agreed to do that ended up messing with me psychologically. I was under a lot of pressure with a company I was at previously and they wanted me to lose weight fast.
“So they got me with a nutritionist and had me, like, on all these supplements, and I was injecting myself – this is a common thing ‘the girls’ do all the way – it makes your body only need certain calories, so I ate 500 calories a day. It was the most unhealthy thing I’ve ever done.
“I felt like, ‘If I don’t do this, my album won’t come out.’ Which it didn’t! So it’s not like it even worked!”

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Bananarama split because they were 'immature'

OHMYGOSSIP — Bananarama originally split because they were “emotionally immature”.
The female pop group achieved significant success during the 80s, but Sara Dallin has confessed that she and the other girls, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward, would argue over petty things.
She shared: “In the end it was little things like Siobhan taking 15 minutes too long to come down and get into a taxi which was waiting, and we’d all fall out over it.
“It’s really because we were emotionally immature – whereas nowadays we’d just talk about it and deal with things properly.
“But instead we just went off in a huff, and didn’t speak to each other, and it caused all those issues.”
However, Sara stressed that moments of tension were generally “few and far bar between”, insisting the band also enjoyed some great times together.
The singer, who has reunited with her bandmates for a comeback tour, told The Sun newspaper: “We just should have spoken to each other properly, but I didn’t get to that point until I was in my 30s, and that’s how it happened.
“Those moments really were few and far between for most of our time together. It was right at the end that it became a big issue and Siobhan walked away – until then we’d had so much fun together.”
Meanwhile, Keren also admitted the group’s arguments were petty – but she thinks it was a function of their youthfulness.
She said: “When you’re so young it all seemed like such a massive deal.
“I look back now and I think about some of the rows, she left a pizza on the floor and there was a cockroach, and I wonder how that became such a big deal. The sulking was even worse than the rows.”

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Bananarama's 'love and friendship has been restored'

OHMYGOSSIP — Bananarama’s Siobhan Faley says the group’s “love and friendship” has been “restored”.
The 58-year-old singer – who is joined by Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward in the popular 80s trio – admits reuniting for their first tour together after almost three decades was “emotional” and happened in the early hours of the morning after a few drinks.
She revealed: “It was two in the morning, and lots of wine has been drunk, and we were all really emotional. The feeling of love and friendship had been restored. That night, we really felt it.”
The reunion comes as a surprise for Siobhan as the group famously fell out when she left in 1988, and she admitted she felt “isolated” a year before she departed after her “painful divorce.”
She told the Guardian newspaper: “I felt really isolated within the band for a year before I left. And they felt betrayed that I had left.
“It was every bit as intense as a marriage, but without the sex. So we stayed together longer than most marriages these days.
“It had been a real pressure cooker, the three of us being together 24/7 for years, it couldn’t continue.”
But aside from their previous fallout, the singer admitted she was excited for their upcoming comeback tour and insisted the reunion couldn’t have come at a better time for her.
She said recently: “They just caught me at a time when I was really … I was really touched because it wasn’t for any other reason other than we love each other and we’re really proud of what we did together and I was feeling really nostalgic and proud, and what a wonderful thing to celebrate.”
As well as hitting the road again, it will be a race against the clock for the girls to get back into the studio together to write a comeback track.
Speaking to Chris Evans on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Monday morning (24.04.17), Keren, 56, revealed their plan to record new music but they only have one week to get Siobhan in the studio before she jets back to her home in Los Angeles.
She said: “The tour is the main thing. We have talked about maybe doing a song together that would be good. Siobhan lives in LA so we’ve got to grab her quick while she’s over until the end of May.”
Siobhan, 58, added: “We’ve got a week to write a single!”
When suggested that Ed Sheeran would be able to bash out a quick single for the band, they replied: “Get him on board, give him a call!”

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Noel Gallagher's new album set for November release

OHMYGOSSIP — Noel Gallagher says his new album is scheduled to be released in November.
The former Oasis rocker has been working with producer David Holmes at the music maestro’s home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and at his private studio at his house in London and he has spilled that it will be out by November.
Appearing on his close friend Russell Brand’s Radio X show, he was quizzed by the comedian as to when fans can expect to hear his next batch of songs.
He replied: “I believe it’s slated for a November release.”
When pushed for a song title, he said: “There’s one just called instrumental number three.”
Noel, 49, previously revealed that he expected the third High Flying Birds LP – the follow-up to 2015’s ‘Chasing Yesterday’ – to be finished by June before he makes his annual trip to Glastonbury with his wife Sara MacDonald.
And the ‘AKA… What a Life!’ hitmaker admitted he is very excited about unveiling the album to the world because Holmes – who is famous for his movie soundtrack work – got him to record in a totally different way for him.
In a 2016 interview with BBC Radio 6, he said: “I think we’re into the home straight now. I’ve been given the deadline which is to have everything finished – mastered, artwork, videos, the lot done by the time I go to Glastonbury in June”.
“All the songs that I was writing towards making a record have not been used because when we decided to make a record with David Holmes the way he works is that all the writing gets done in the studio. So I started this record at his house in Belfast. The process is the complete opposite to the way that I’ve always worked. With this, you have no idea what you’ve got until it’s there, and the end results are great because they’re constantly evolving.”
Noel’s younger brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam Gallagher is also putting the finishing touches to his own album.
The 44-year-old singer is releasing his debut solo LP, titled ‘As You Were’, and the wild rocker has previously told the band’s fans to expect 2017 to be “the year of the face off” between him and Noel – who he has barely spoken to since the guitarist quit Oasis in 2009 following a backstage fight between the siblings.
In a Twitter rant, Liam posted: “2017 the year of the face off Wright vs wrong Real Vs fake Love vs Hate as you were LFUKING x
“He’s not the messiahs he’s a vet NORTY boy … Chilli putter Carlo void man (sic)”

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Lady Gaga is always trying to 'expand' her creative bubble

OHMYGOSSIP — Lady Gaga never stops trying to “expand her bubble” creatively, according to her visual director Richy Jackson.
The pair started working together back in 2011 when Richy became her lead choreographer and he has been responsible for helping the pop megastar create some of her most iconic moments, including her unforgettable ‘Telephone’ video with Beyoncé, her Super Bowl halftime show and her headline performances at this year’s Coachella Festival.
Richy, 38, says the greatest thing about working with Gaga, is that she never wants to stall as an artist and is always determined to push herself and everyone who is part of her team.
In an interview with Billboard, he said: “I think we’ve learned to continue pushing our creative bubbles. She’ll challenge me to try this or go with that. I’ll say, ‘OK, how do we make it faster or slower? How do we turn it another way?’ I always think about where we’ve come from and where we’re going on. For instance, for ‘John Wayne’, I knew that was about her intense relationships with men, so I wanted the dance to feel rougher. I loved the couple section I created for her where she’s hopping on the guy’s back and still dancing and singing. That’s the beauty of our organic, creative relationship: we both keep trying to expand each other’s bubble.”
Richy – who has also worked with Usher, Will Smith, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliot and *NSYNC among many more big names – is very proud of the stage show he and Gaga created for Coachella.
The dance expert was delighted when their rock vision for the annual event – which is held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California – was realised fully by Gaga for her fans.
He said: “What we decided to do with this show [Coachella] is play with the many genres within [Lady Gaga]. She can go from a pop vibe to a rock style. We found a way to mix all her vibes with the set. When we performed ‘Just Dance’ it was more of her and the band, and she remixed it a bit at the top. Normally, we have her with all the dancers. It’s usually more of a pop visual, as opposed to Coachella where [we made it] more of a rock visual that allows the band to soar.”
And Richy is excited for the rest of 2017 which will see Gaga take her ‘Joanne World Tour’ around the globe.
He said: “With Lady Gaga, it’s going to be the ‘Joanne Tour’, I’m really excited about that. It’s going to be fun to bring that album to life, so people can see the vision. I love going on tour and seeing all the fans in different cities. They’re so excited and welcoming.”

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Louisa Johnson treats her fans like her sisters with bullying support

OHMYGOSSIP — Louisa Johnson treats her fans as if they were her “sister” when it comes to giving advice about bullying.
The 19-year-old singer – who won the ‘X Factor’ in 2015 – had to endure cruel taunts herself at school and is passionate about providing support to any of her followers who are going through the same thing to reassure them of “their worth”.
She said: “When I was little, about my sister’s age now, I was bullied at school and I would never ever want her to feel that way.
“That’s why I treat my fans like they are also my sister; or even my sister’s friend because no one should be treated that way.
“I try to get the message across to my younger fans that they are worth even living, because you never know what they are thinking. There has been quite a few messages and I try to get back to everyone. I’m not doing this to try and get attention and I’m not setting out to be a role model at all, but people need to know their worth.”
And the ‘Best Behaviour’ hitmaker also revealed that despite being successful in her music career since becoming the youngest contestant to win the ITV show with former judge Rita Ora, she still has her down days.
She told the Daily Star newspaper: “I still have my s**t days, it still happens but you just have to remind yourself of what you have, and I have a great family supporting me.”
Meanwhile, Louisa – who collaborated on track ‘Tears’ with Clean Bandit – has hopes to explore different music for her second album and would love to work with Eminem.
She said: “I love so many different styles of music, where I grew up it was always about rap music. I always grew up listening to rap, Eminem before he even became commercial and garage I absolutely love, it would be great to explore and consider doing that. If I could work with anyone it would be Eminem. I always loved rapping growing up.”

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Bananarama have a week to write a comeback single

OHMYGOSSIP — Bananarama have revealed plans to release a comeback single.
The original line-up of the pop trio, Siobhan Fahey, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, have reunited for a UK tour in November and December almost 30 years after Siobhan left the group to start Shakespears Sister.
As well as hitting the road again, it will be a race against the clock for the girls to get back into the studio together to write a comeback track.
Speaking to Chris Evans on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Monday morning (24.04.17), Keren, 56, revealed their plan to record new music but they only have one week to get Siobhan in the studio before she jets back to her home in Los Angeles.
She said: “The tour is the main thing. We have talked about maybe doing a song together that would be good. Siobhan lives in LA so we’ve got to grab her quick while she’s over until the end of May.”
Siobhan, 58, added: “We’ve got a week to write a single!”
When suggested that Ed Sheeran would be able to bash out a quick single for the band, they replied: “Get him on board, give him a call!”
The reunion news broke via Bananarama’s official Twitter page with the message: “Miss Fahey is BACK! We’re so excited to be going on tour this Nov/Dec Sign up to our new website bananarama.co.uk #Bananarama2017 (sic)”
Speaking about their decision to return to the music scene, Keren said: “Sara and I have done shows for years and years and never really stopped and just wanted to do something different – we’ve had stuff go on and we thought it’s now or never and so I gave Siobhan a call and put the idea in her head but thought it was never going to happen but what do you know it did.”
And when Siobhan was asked about why she had a change of heart about returning, she put it down to feeling nostalgic about her nine years with the girls.
Siobhan said: “They just caught me at a time when I was really … I was really touched because it wasn’t for any other reason other than we love each other and we’re really proud of what we did together and I was feeling really nostalgic and proud, and what a wonderful thing to celebrate.”
The girls revealed it will be the first time this line-up will ever perform completely live as their previous gigs involved backing tracks.
Bananarama sold 40 million records at their height of fame, including top 10 singles ‘Really Saying Something’, ‘Cruel Summer’ and ‘Love in the First Degree’ but Karen played down the band’s success.
She said: “I think that includes singles, it certainly wasn’t albums.”
But the band did pride itself on being instrumental in the creative process. Sara, 55, said: “We were always very involved from the beginning that’s the reason why we’ve put the group together, we’ve always written or co-written tracks ourselves, and found producers ourselves, always totally committed to the group … It was totally DIY and we were the creative force, like nobody even believed in us, we did it ourselves, I think everybody thought we were going to be a one hit wonder, so when the hits just kept coming – we’ve had like 30 top 40 hits.”
The girls are keen to beat their record by having 40 hits in the top 40.
Sara added: “We can’t wait to get back in the studio and the tour will be all the hits.”
Bananarama – which featured Jacquie O’Sullivan after Siobhan quit –
have announced 15 dates on their tour so far, but the band confirmed the dates could be extended should they sell out through popular demand.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday (26.04.17) at 9am.

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Liam Gallagher 'takes aim at Noel on solo album'

OHMYGOSSIP — Liam Gallagher reportedly takes a swipe at his brother Noel on his new album.
The 44-year-old rocker has just finished his solo record and one of the tracks, ‘Never Wanna Be Like You’, is said to be aimed at his older brother, according to The Sun newspaper.
Liam – whose ongoing feud with his former Oasis bandmate is legendary – is reportedly set to release his first single from the new album before the summer in the UK, while he is also poised to appear at a number of big events across Europe over the coming months, including the Reading and Leeds festivals.
Last month, meanwhile, Liam accused his sibling of being fake in a Twitter tirade.
The outspoken rock star slammed Noel for supposedly behaving in a way that wasn’t genuine during a trip home to Manchester, England.
He wrote: “See the fake bombing about in his stone island again coz he’s in manc he’ll be back in his Prada 1st thing tmorrow LG X (sic)”
Liam was referring to Stone Island, the clothing company known for its parka jackets, which he claimed Noel had started wearing on his return to Manchester in order to fit in with the locals.
Liam also took aim at Noel’s music career, referring to the Oasis tracks ‘Rockin’ Chair’ and ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, and claimed he is more talented than his elder brother.
He wrote on the micro-blogging site: “Opening with Don’t look back in anger ending with Rocking chair bout time they were done proper LG not for sale.
“To all you NG fanboys I can and will sing any song he wrote bigger better than him even if I was kicked in the b****x by a wood pigeon LG (sic)”

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Ed Sheeran is rumoured to quit the music industry

OHMYGOSSIP — Ed Sheeran is rumoured to quit the music industry to pursue a “more normal life”.
The 26-year-old vocalist made his comeback earlier this year when he released two new singles ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’ from his ‘Divide’ album after taking a one-year hiatus, but it has been reported the flame-haired musician is contemplating taking a more permanent break because he has “achieved everything there is to achieve”.
Speaking about the award-winning artist – who picked up the gong for Song of the Year at the 2016 Grammy Awards of ‘Thinking Out Loud’ – a source told the Daily Star newspaper: “Ed has pretty much achieved everything there is to achieve in music.
“He absolutely loves what he does and is riding the wave of his success at the moment, but at the same time he wants a more normal life.”
And it has been reported the ‘A Team’ hitmaker, who is currently dating Cherry Seaborn, would gladly put his career on hold for his partner if their relationship was to progress on to the next step and he was to marry and start a family.
The insider continued: “When or if he gets married he wants to put his wife and kids first and not his career. If that means going AWOL for years then so be it.”
Ed is set to headline Glastonbury festival this year, and he is also travelling around the UK as part of his latest tour, but it is rumoured his busy work schedule will be a “big test” for him and his girlfriend because “every day” for the next 12 months he is believed to be “practically full”.
The source said: “The big test is if the relationship survives this album and the tour,
“When they got together Ed was on his year off but every day in his schedule for the next year is practically full.”

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Bananarama reunite for new tour

OHMYGOSSIP — Bananarama are reforming for a new tour.
Siobhan Fahey – who left the group in 1988 – will reunite with fellow founding members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward for a UK tour in November and December.
A picture of the trio was shared on Bananarama’s official Twitter page with the message: “Miss Fahey is BACK! We’re so excited to be going on tour this Nov/Dec Sign up to our new website bananarama.co.uk #Bananarama2017 (sic).”
Speaking to The Sun, Sara said: “We first had a chat about it over Christmas and before we knew it the whole thing snowballed. Keren and I called Siobhan to chat about it and things went from there.”
Siobhan added: “By the time I managed to come over to talk about it, somehow it had become a done deal, the dates had been scheduled and we had a photoshoot arranged.
“It’s pretty nerve wracking for me, it was 29 years ago that I left so I’m rusty to say the least.
“I didn’t say ‘yes’ immediately, I was in complete shock but my heart felt a sense of absolute joy and I just felt it was the right time in my life.
“Emotionally it felt like something I needed to revisit, to go back to my roots and that time with my best friends.
“We’re going to go back and celebrate that extraordinary life we led together in our twenties.”
Siobhan quit the group in 1988 because she was frustrated with the direction it was taking and went on to form Shakespears Sister.

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Paramore almost split

OHMYGOSSIP — Hayley Williams wanted to disband Paramore two years ago.
The 28-year-old singer admits in-fighting including the public criticisms and accusations of being controlling she faced on the departures of guitarist Josh Farro, her ex-boyfriend, and his brother, drummer Zac – who has since rejoined – in 2010 and bassist Jeremy Davis leaving two years ago and launching a lawsuit against her and guitarist Taylor York left her feeling drained and seeking a fresh start.
She admitted: “Two years ago I asked Taylor if we could start a new band. I was so sick of this c**p. I said we should just try something new, give it a new name.”
Taylor added: “I’ve wanted to quit this band so many times. Going through all this conflict and drama over the years … I was just like, ‘Man, I feel like we can keep going, but this is not worth it if we don’t want to be here.’ ”
And the pair are unsure as to why they have continued.
Hayley told the Guardian newspaper: “Honestly, I don’t know. We, for some reason, kept showing up and kept writing and, little by little, the songs got better and we got a little more inspired to do it.”
When Jeremy quit and sued for unpaid royalties, arguing the trio had agreed to share authorship of all the tracks on their 2014 self-titled album, but he had just one credit, Taylor admitted he was too “numb” to care.
He said: “I was just numb. It was just another drama and another example of being in a band and it being really difficult, and feeling bad about that. We have the coolest job ever but why does it have to be so hard?”
And while they are not allowed to address his departure directly, Hayley maintains the lawsuit is “bulls**t”.
She said: “What I will say is that it’s such bulls**t that we’re in a lawsuit. I wasn’t OK for a while; maybe I’m still not.”

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