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    Ricky Martin's Kids Help Pick Out Songs for His New EP

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    According to the ‘Livin’ la Vida Loca’ hitmaker, his 11-year-old twins Valentino and Matteo have lent their hands to choose the tracks for his new mini album ‘Pausa’.
    May 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Ricky Martin tapped his husband and young kids to help him complete work on his new EP “Pausa” during lockdown.
    Martin, 48, has been keeping busy amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as he put the finishing touches to his surprise new collection, out now, telling Entertainment Tonight, “When you really want to do something, nothing can stop you.”
    While self-isolating, the hitmaker also shot a music video for the remix of his track “Tiburones”, taken from the EP, with the help of his husband, Jwan Yosef.
    “I shot a video at home with my phone,” he revealed. “Is that scary or what? I think it worked out. (Our) director was in Miami and we were here doing everything we could, you know, obviously maintaining social distance.”
    “But this is the new post-corona attitude. ‘What do we need to do? Let’s do it!’ And let’s do it right!”
    Explaining how Yosef also helped him to take the perfect cover shot, the “She Bangs” star continued, “My husband took the picture of my new album cover. My assistant, who is quarantining with us, he all of a sudden became a set decorator and he’s an expert at lighting. We gotta reinvent ourselves, I guess!”
    And the couple’s 11-year-old twins Valentino and Matteo, even assisted their dad in picking out which tunes made it onto the release.
    “They’re picky and they love music. When I come home with something that they don’t like, they have no filters. They tell you,” he laughed, adding that when like something, they will also express their interest.
    “Especially this new single… One of the twins, he heard it and then (he’s like), ‘Nice. Yeah. This I like,’ ” he added. “It’s pure, it’s honest, it’s real and they come up with ideas and I take them away. It’s good.”

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    Dua Lipa Opens Charity Livestream to Help Refugees

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    The ‘New Rules’ hitmaker has kicked off a day-long star-studded virtual concert held to raise money to aid refugees during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
    May 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Dua Lipa kicked off the 24-hour One Humanity Live virtual concert by urging fans to support charities helping refugees during the coronavirus crisis.
    The singer, who is a Kosovo refugee, performed a three-song set from her home in London during the livestream benefit.
    “During this time it’s good to be kind to yourself, to ask for support from the people around you,” she told fans. “For the frontline workers, all their work is not going unnoticed, they are putting themselves on the line to look after other people. When this is over slowly as a community we can help rebuild our economy in whatever way.”
    “Support the charities that are close to you, support the charities that also support refugees and people who really don’t have the opportunity to self-isolate, that do live in overcrowded areas.”
    “I think in whatever way you can, if you have the opportunities to donate to charities and help people out, and call your friends and reach out to them and see what they are doing. All those things are important during this time. That way we can look after each other collectively.”
    The day-long One Humanity Live event will feature at-home performances from Ricky Martin, Becky G, Cee-Lo Green, Melanie Chisholm, and Jason Derulo among others.
    Donations made by viewers will go to the Constellation Dream Fund, which will benefit charities like the Global Gift Foundation and Medecins Sans Frontieres.
    The show can be viewed at the Constellation website.

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    Kiss, Iron Maiden, System of a Down Tapped for Virtual Download Festival

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    The first ever virtual Download music festival is scheduled this coming summer with exclusive footage, never-before-seen performances, and interactive content.
    May 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Kiss, Iron Maiden, and System of a Down will headline the first virtual Download Festival.
    Promoters opted to stage an online version of the annual rock show when the physical event was cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and now they’ve announced a line-up.
    Download TV, which will be aired via the festival’s official social channels between June 12 and 14, 2020, will feature hours of exclusive footage and unseen performances, as well as interactive content.
    “The weekend will be split into day and evening, where the day will be everything that celebrates the spirit of Download Festival, and the evening brings 2 to 3 hours of tailor-made programming where Downloaders can tune in and rock out,” a statement reads.
    The highlights will include KISS and Iron Maiden’s best moments at the festival while the final night will close out with footage from System of a Down’s performances in 2005, 2011, and 2017.
    Sets from Korn, the Deftones, The Offspring, and The Darkness will also be streamed over the weekend.

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    Jimmy Buffett Felt Guilty for Playing Many Drunken Shows

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    The ‘Margaritaville’ singer decides to clean up his act and seek therapy for his alcohol addiction as he felt terrible for playing numerous hangover concerts.
    May 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Jimmy Buffett knew it was time to sober up for concerts when he realised he was cheating fans out of the best gig.
    The “Margaritaville” hitmaker admits he has played a series of hangover gigs and he always felt terrible about cheating fans.
    “I’ve done it and I’m not proud of it… they call it take-the-money-and-run shows, where you might not be feeling your best and you know that you can get away with something and the audience won’t know it because they’re so happy to be there anyway and I felt terrible when those things happened,” the singer tells Rolling Stone. “I never wanted to do another.”
    “You can do the amazing hangover show because adrenalin kicks in… but when all of a sudden it was two days and you’re still feeling funky… I thought, ‘Recovering from this is taking, like, surgical recovery days. I don’t wanna do this anymore’, and I just didn’t. I scared myself a few times.”
    Buffett started sobering up in his 40s and turned to therapy for a little help and now, at 73, he’s amazed he wasn’t a rock ‘n’ roll casualty, like so many of his friends.
    “You think you’re bulletproof at that age… but to me, at that point in time, I didn’t want to make my family ashamed of me, and that was a very strong deterrent from doing that and to make that change in my life at that time.”
    “I had friends who are gone along the way to that (sic)… and I always wanted to emulate those guys… Jim Morrison was 27 years old when he died and Mama Cass was 32 and I’m sitting here at 73… I forgot about how young people went away and I just feel lucky I got through it. I made some kinda right decision at the right time…”
    But his decision to clean up his act meant he had to steer clear of some good friends, like writer Hunter S. Thompson. “We had an amazing relationship but there were times I didn’t wanna be around him because I knew he was going there…,” Jimmy explains.

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    Take That Delivers Classic Hits During Reunion With Robbie Williams

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    Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, and Howard Donald have reunited with their former bandmate and performed their classic songs for an online fund-raising gig on Youtube.
    May 30, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Robbie Williams thrilled Take That fans by joining his old bandmates for a virtual charity gig on Friday night, May 29, 2020.
    The “Angels” star teamed up with Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, and Howard Donald, for the Compare The Meerkat concert on YouTube, and joked about his late arrival as he tried to beam in from Los Angeles, where he is self-isolating with his wife, Ayda Field, and their kids.
    “I’m here now,” he joked as he appeared onscreen. “Last time, I was 15 years late.”
    Robbie left the band in 1995 but he has rejoined for occasional performances – the last one in 2018.
    He joined the trio for a performance of band classics like “Back for Good”, “Shame,” and “Never Forget”, while wearing an eye-catching pink leopard print blazer.
    The bandmates also chatted about their lockdown experiences, with Donald revealing he’s tired of reading children’s stories to his kids.
    “I’ve read more books than in my life,” he grumbled.
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    Fans were clearly stoked to see the quartet back together even though another former bandmate, Jason Orange, was a no-show, with many taking to social media to rave about the virtual reunion.
    One fan tweeted, “Free Take That concert, this is the best evening ever,” while another user added, “Loved watching you all together again, was a real tonic I needed. Thanks guys.”
    Robbie previously joked about hiring a private detective to track down Orange.
    Speaking on his “At Home with The Williamses” podcast earlier this week, he said, “None of us know where he’s gone. I should hire a private detective. He finds out where Jason Orange is, we inject him with a beeping thing, a chip, then we know where Jason is at all times.”

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    Fleetwood Mac Reunited to Record Charity Single 'Find Your Way Back Home'

    Neil Finn gets the assistance of Christine McVie in writing the song aimed at raising funds and awareness for a homeless shelter in New Zealand with Stevie Nicks joining him in the studio.
    May 30, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Fleetwood Mac stars Stevie Nicks, Neil Finn and Christine McVie have teamed up to record a new song aimed at raising funds and awareness for a homeless shelter in his native New Zealand.
    Crowded House frontman Finn wrote “Find Your Way Back Home” to mark the 100th anniversary of the Auckland City Mission and asked his Fleetwood Mac bandmates to join him in the studio.
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    “I live in a pretty fortunate situation, and I move in circles that are not in daily contact with homeless people, so it’s good to be able to find a pathway in your head to relate to some degree,” Finn says.

    McVie helped Finn write the song while on tour with Fleetwood Mac and was happy to record the track, as was Nicks, who adds, “I’m honoured to be a part of Neil’s song for the Auckland City Mission. He is on a mission to make this work, and I think this beautiful song he has written will certainly help.”

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    The Rolling Stones to Take Fans Down Memory Lane With Weekend Livestream

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    Mick Jagger and his rocker bandmates are offering their Extra Licks concert from 23 years ago available for streaming online for the very first time this coming weekend.
    May 30, 2020
    AceShowbiz – The Rolling Stones are taking fans back 23 years for their latest Extra Licks concert by making footage of a 1997 gig available digitally for the first time.
    In the penultimate week of the group’s YouTube flashbacks series, Mick Jagger and his bandmates will offer up their full show from the Chicago, Illinois stop on their “Bridges to Babylon” Tour.
    The gig will be available to livestream on the Stones’ YouTube channel from 3 P.M. ET on Sunday, May 31, 2020.
    Also up for grabs among livestream fans this weekend is KISS FM international’s #RadioRave event, featuring David Guetta and Martin Garrix’s among the big-name DJs set to perform.
    The U.K. radio station is teaming up with partner networks across Europe on Saturday for the five-hour dance music marathon.
    DJs Robin Schulz, Majestic, R3HAB, and Joel Corry are also on the bill.
    #RadioRave begins at 7 P.M. BST on May 30 and you can listen in via KISS sister networks and The Kiss Kube app, which is available to download on the Apple App Store and via Google Play on Android devices.
    Busy Guetta will also be taking part in a livestream performance benefiting the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, Feeding America, the World Health Organisation, and Fondation Hopitaux de Paris – Hopitaux de France.
    That event begins at 7 P.M. ET on Saturday here.
    Other weekend highlights include:
    “Budweiser Stage at Home: The Black Crowes” (8 P.M. ET Saturday)
    “Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day” (8 P.M. BST Saturday)
    “Banding Together: The Avett Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, The Lumineers” (8 P.M. ET Saturday)
    Ben Folds (7 P.M. ET Saturday)
    Cole Swindell (7 P.M. ET Saturday)
    “Saturday Night Opry: Carly Pearce, Chris Janson, Brett Yong, and Chris Young” (7.30 P.M. ET Saturday)
    “Slay at Home Fest: Matt Heafy, Darkest Hour, Moon Destroy, Twelve Foot Ninja” (3 P.M. ET Saturday)
    “Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn Watch Party” (8 P.M. ET Saturday)
    Diplo and Dillon Francis (11 P.M. ET Saturday)
    “Project Pride” (Pet Shop Boys, Rufus Wainwright, Indigo Girls, Big Freedia & Jake Shears) (8 P.M. ET Sunday)
    “One Africa Music Festival: Davido, Efya, Nandy and more” (2 P.M. ET Sunday)
    Tim Burgess (1 P.M. ET Sunday)
    Bob Weir and Phil Lesh (8 P.M. ET Sunday)
    John Mayer (10 P.M. ET Sunday)
    Major Lazer (11 P.M. ET Sunday)

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    Lady GaGa Thanks Fans for Propelling Duet Single With Ariana Grande to Top of U.K. Pop Chart

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    ‘Rain on Me’ enters Britain’s Official Charts Company rundown at number one on the same day the ‘Born This Way’ hitmaker releases her highly-anticipated album, ‘Chromatica’.
    May 30, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Lady GaGa and Ariana Grande’s duet “Rain on Me” has stormed to the top of the U.K. pop chart.
    The “Bad Romance” hitmaker and Ariana’s collaboration enters Britain’s Official Charts Company rundown at number one on the same day GaGa releases her new album, “Chromatica”.
    Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, the singer/actress reveals she’s thrilled a song she wrote at an extremely low point is now a huge hit.
    “If someone told me the day I wrote ‘Rain on Me’, a day I was crying water like misery, that this song would someday be number one, I never would have believed them,” she explains. “Thank you for celebrating this song. It’s my gift to you, to celebrate yourself. I hope the whole world is dancing.”

    “To all my U.K. monsters (her fans), I love you so much from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for making me number one, and I hope you feel number one every time you listen to this song.”
    GaGa and Ariana now each have six U.K. number one singles and their new hit becomes the first all-female collaboration to top the chart in six years, following the “7 Rings” hitmaker’s “Bang Bang” collaboration with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, which shot to number one in 2014.
    Last week’s number one, DaBaby and Roddy Ricch’s “Rockstar” falls to two, S1mba and DTG’s “Rover” is at three, Doja Cat’s “Say So” slips two places to four, and Powfu’s collaboration with Beabadoobee, “Death Bed”, completes the top five.
    In the albums chart, The 1975 win a close battle with YouTuber-turned-rapper KSI to top the rundown with their new record “Notes on a Conditional Form”. KSI’s “Dissimulation” is at two, ahead of Lewis Capaldi’s “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent”.

    Dua Lipa’s “Future Nostalgia” and U.S. rapper Gunna’s “Wunna” complete the top five.

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