Rock star Rick Wakeman recalls memories of David Bowie on Desert Island Discs

He told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that Bowie invited him to his mansion to hear his opinion of songs that would eventually feature on his Hunky Dory album. Wakeman, who was working as a session musician at the time, then wrote the song’s piano part that helped make the track one of the […]

SNL: Jimmy Fallon Sings David Bowie, Harry Styles Moves Like Jagger & More

Did Saturday Night Live make Jimmy Fallon great again? VIDEOSSNL: Melissa McCarthy Returns as ‘Spicey’ to Atone for Hitler Gaffe — WATCH The Tonight Show emcee hasn’t hosted SNL since December 2013, long before the Internet came down on him for playing with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s mystifying mane last September. Having already addressed the controversy not once, but twice, this weekend’s SNL avoided mention of the PR […]

Harry Styles’ debut single Sign of the Times ‘He's the new David Bowie’ – LISTEN HERE

The singer dropped the single on BBC Radio 1 this morning and fans are more than happy. His first single outside of One Direction follow Niall Horan’s This Town, released last year. Despite the praise Styles could see big competition from fellow One Directon star Liam Payne, whose solo debut is expected in May or June. […]

One Direction solo: Guess which member’s new music ‘sounds like David Bowie and Queen’?

That person is Harry Styles, 23 – arguably the most famous member of the boyband, and one of the last to provide fans with a taste of his own material. He and Liam Payne are the only 1D stars yet to release any music of their own, although both have co-written work for other artists. […]

The Sweetest Debut: Lilliam Rivera on Bowie, Star Wars, and Trying to Stay Calm Post-Trump

Welcome to The Sweetest Debut, a regular installment in which we reach out to debut (or near-debut, we’re flexible!) fiction, poetry and nonfiction authors working with presses of all sizes and find out about their pop culture diets, their writing habits, and their fan-fiction fantasies.  Lilliam Rivera’s debut YA novel, The Education of Margot Sanchez, […]

BBC Bowie Documentary ‘David Bowie: The Last Five Years’ Has Been Purchased by HBO

If you weren’t able to watch (or, ahem, somehow “acquire”) the documentary film Bowie: The Last Five Years when it screened on the BBC last month, then rejoice, because the film is coming to American screens soon. As per a press release issued today, HBO has acquired the U.S. TV rights to the film. As […]