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On This Day, July 1, 1967: The Beatles hit #1 with ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’

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On This Day, July 1, 1967: The Beatles hit #1 with ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’

On This Day, July 1, 1967 …The Beatles hit #1 with their eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured such classic Beatles tunes as the title track, "With a Little Help From My Friends," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "When I’m Sixty Four," "Lovely Rita" and "A Day in the Life."Sgt. Pepper's was The Beatles eighth #1 album and spent 15 weeks at the top of […]

todayJuly 1, 2025

In brief: ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ official trailer and more

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In brief: ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ official trailer and more

The official trailer for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale has arrived. Focus Features released the trailer for the third and final film in the movie series on Monday. The movie, which arrives in theaters on Sept. 12, follows the Crawley family as they enter the 1930s, embracing all of the change that comes with a new chapter of life ...The Bachelor has been given another rose. Deadline reports that ABC […]

todayJuly 1, 2025

Cynthia Erivo to star in, produce ‘Saturation Point’ film adaptation

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Cynthia Erivo to star in, produce ‘Saturation Point’ film adaptation

Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesCynthia Erivo has found her next project.The Wicked star is set to produce and star in a film adaptation of the Adrian Tchaikovsky sci-fi thriller Saturation Point, Deadline reports.Saturation Point follows Dr. Jasmine Marks, who leads a search and rescue mission into "The Zone" — a select part of rainforest close to the equator that has a climate inhospitable to intelligent life.As part of her […]

todayJuly 1, 2025

Call me the birthday girl: Blondie’s Debbie Harry turns 80

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Call me the birthday girl: Blondie’s Debbie Harry turns 80

Dia Dipasupil/Getty ImagesCelebrations are in order as Blondie's iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry is turning 80 on Tuesday.Harry co-founded Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York in the ‘70s. The band hit it big in 1979 with the release of their third studio album, Parallel Lines, a top-10 hit in the U.S. thanks to songs like "Heart of Glass," their first #1 single, "One Way or Another" and "Hanging on the Telephone."The band went on […]

todayJuly 1, 2025

ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’ hits 1 billion views on YouTube

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ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’ hits 1 billion views on YouTube

Michael Putland/Getty ImagesABBA’s iconic tune "Dancing Queen" has reached a new milestone.The video for the track, first uploaded to YouTube in 2009, has now reached 1 billion views on the site, making it the Swedish band’s first video to accomplish such a feat.In a message on Instagram, ABBA’s Frida Lyngstad shares that the band's "overwhelmed" that so many people have viewed and listened to the song, noting there are only about 300 other videos that have reached […]

todayJune 30, 2025

Culture Crash: James Gunn’s Superman: The Hero The DC Universe Desperately Needs

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Culture Crash: James Gunn’s Superman: The Hero The DC Universe Desperately Needs

Welcome to Culture Crash, where we examine American culture – what’s new and old in entertainment… The stakes are high for Warner Brothers’ new movie Superman, a reboot for maybe the most iconic character in comics from writer/director James Gunn. Not only is the film a reboot for the last son of Krypton, but it’s also WB’s attempt to reboot the entire DC Universe, which has largely played second fiddle […]

todayJune 30, 2025

Sofia Carson, Corey Mylchreest have a student-teacher romance in ‘My Oxford Year’ trailer

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Sofia Carson, Corey Mylchreest have a student-teacher romance in ‘My Oxford Year’ trailer

NetflixSofia Carson stars in the trailer for her latest Netflix rom-com, My Oxford Year.The film stars Carson as Anna, an ambitious young American woman who moves to England to study at the University of Oxford. She soon falls for her charming professor, Jamie, played by Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story star Corey Mylchreest."Flirting with the hot teacher on the first day?" a student played by Harry Trevaldwyn asks Anna in […]

todayJune 30, 2025

Deep Purple releases new preview of upcoming ‘Rapture of the Deep’ reissue

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Deep Purple releases new preview of upcoming ‘Rapture of the Deep’ reissue

earMUSICDeep Purple has shared another preview of the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of their 18th studio album, Rapture of the Deep.The band has released a newly remixed and remastered version of the track "Clearly Quite Absurd," along with a B-side, "MTV (2005 Studio Jam)," which is a previously unheard instrumental take from a rehearsal session.Both songs are available now via digital outlets."'Clearly Quite Absurd' is a very unusual Deep Purple song, […]

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AC/DC sets one-day ticket sales record in Australia

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AC/DC sets one-day ticket sales record in Australia

Tibrina Hobson/Getty ImagesAC/DC recently announced they were bringing their Power Up tour to Australia, and their hometown fans were certainly eager to snap up tickets.Ticketek, which handled ticket sales for the tour, reports that AC/DC moved over 320,000 tickets in a single day, breaking a record for the most concert tickets sold in one day on the platform. The previous record for the most concert tickets sold was set in […]

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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ begins production with Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and more

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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ begins production with Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and more

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesGird your loins: The Devil Wears Prada sequel begins filming this week.Production on the sequel to the iconic 2006 film starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci has started. To mark the occasion, 20th Century Studios shared a teaser.The video shows a pair of stylish red stilettos with devilish pitchforks as the heels, a reference to the original film's poster, which featured a single red […]

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