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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'

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      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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      Lady GaGa Calls Off Album Release Party Amid Minneapolis Protests

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      The ‘Chromatica’ singer has decided to pull the plug on the party celebrating her sixth studio album amid the ongoing protests to seek justice for George Floyd.
      May 30, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Lady GaGa pulled the plug on a planned virtual album playback party on Friday, May 29, 2020 because the violence in Minnesota had left her raw and emotional.
      The “Stupid Love” singer was looking forward to hosting a listening session for her new release, “Chromatica”, but postponed the online fan get together in light of current events, including the protests regarding the death of African-American George Floyd, who was killed at the hands of white police officers on Monday, May 25, 2020.
      On Thursday night, protesters set fire to a police precinct, while U.S. leader Donald Trump was heavily criticised for posting threatening tweets to the activists.
      And Gaga wasn’t in a celebratory, album-release mood when she woke up to all the drama on Friday.
      “As much as I want to listen to Chromatica together as a global group of kindness punks right now, our kindness is needed for the world today,” she wrote. “I’m going to postpone our listening session right now and encourage you all to take this time to register to vote and raise your voice.”
      “I’m so glad the album is bringing you some joy, because that’s what I always wanted it to do. We’ll reschedule this very soon.”
      Her comments came hours after Taylor Swift condemned Trump for a tweet in which he threatened, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
      The pop star took to social media and wrote, “After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump.”

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      David Guetta Stages Live Lockdown Performances Outdoors Because of This Reason

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      One month after performing at ‘United at Home’ on a rooftop in Miami, Florida, the ‘Dangerous’ hitmaker prepares for a second virtual benefit show that will take place in New York City.
      May 29, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Dance superstar David Guetta decided to take his live lockdown performances outdoors after finding it “frustrating” to play without an in-person crowd.
      With concerts and club nights shut down around the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic, many musicians have taken to the Internet to livestream gigs from the comfort of their own homes, but staging the shows indoors just wasn’t working for the Titanium hitmaker.
      “A lot of artists, especially DJs, were doing performances from their bedrooms. I felt like that was a little bit frustrating. I really wanted to feel like I have a crowd,” Guetta explained to The Associated Press.
      The French star came up with a plan to stage a virtual benefit gig last month on a rooftop in Miami, Florida, complete with festival-grade production, and the location of the first event, titled United at Home, allowed residents in nearby apartment buildings to view the concert in person, while still abiding by social distancing regulations.

      Guetta said, “I had the idea of doing this in the middle of (apartment) towers and people were on the balconies and that was absolutely amazing.”
      The livestream attracted over 12 million viewers and raised more than $700,000 (£568,000) for COVID-19 relief efforts, and Guetta is now preparing to play his second United at Home show at an undisclosed location in New York City on Saturday, May 30.
      During the Miami event, he also connected with fans via video conferencing app Zoom so he could watch them enjoy his concert as it happened, and he will be doing the same for the Big Apple bash.
      “To me it’s essential,” he shared of the fan engagement. “That was the idea behind the show. I’m going to do it in a different way in New York City, but we were also interacting with people on Zoom. I thought that was so cool. I could see the kids dancing at home. I could see everybody having their own little parties. I could interact with them. Some people would write messages to me and I would answer them. Like, this is really cool! It feels more real.
      “We’re entertainers, this is what we do. It’s not just like playing at home on the keyboard. I’m performing for the people. It’s amazing to receive energy back.”
      And while the concert will be raising donations for good causes, Guetta is thrilled to be able to entertain fans as best he can until the live music industry is up and running again.
      “We’re doing something good. And also, we’re bringing a little bit of happiness in people’s life (sic) which is what I’m trying to do as a DJ,” he smiled.
      Fans can join the next United at Home concert from 7pm EST here.

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