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Legendary American singer Tina Turner has described how she was forced to watch a live sex show on the night she married blues musician Ike Turner. She told the Mail on Sunday the “experience was so disturbing… I suppressed it, scratched it out”. Tina was 22 when she married Ike, and they went on to become a famous husband-and-wife R&B ...

Opera singer Montserrat Caballé, whose duet with Freddie Mercury became the signature song of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, has died aged 85. She had been suffering from health complaints for some time and was admitted to hospital in Barcelona last month, according to news agency Efe. Her career spanned 50 years. She had stints with the Basel Opera and Bremen ...

It looks like Chris Evans – the actor who plays Captain America in the Marvel movies – is giving up the role after eight years. He’s played him in 10 films, starting with Captain America: The First Avenger. Chris portrayed one of the original cinematic Avengers alongside Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye. He’s now finished filming Avengers ...

Visitors to the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in London are normally intent on buying art. But for 24 hours this weekend it’s open for the issue of Swiss passports – at a bargain price. The issuing authority isn’t the Swiss government but American artist Tom Sachs. Tom Sachs has previously set up his temporary installation Swiss Passport Office in Brooklyn and ...

Ed Sheeran’s ÷ is the most-requested album on Amazon’s voice-activated speakers, the company has revealed. It’s hardly surprising: The record was the UK’s best-seller last year, shifting more than 2.5 million copies. Hit records by George Ezra, Adele and Dua Lipa also feature in the Top 50, which was released to coincide with National Album Day. But a closer look ...

Kim Kardashian West’s bodyguard is being sued for $6.1m (£4.7m) by the celebrity’s insurer after she was robbed in Paris two years ago. Insurer AIG claims Pascal Duvier and his company Protect Security “negligently” protected the star’s private apartment. Kardashian West was robbed at gunpoint and tied up during Paris Fashion Week in October 2016. AIG paid for the cost ...

Kanye West was supposed to release his ninth album, Yandhi, on Saturday. Three days later, he’s appeared on Saturday Night Live and called for the abolition of the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which ended slavery – but the album has yet to materialise. Speaking to TMZ, the star explained he “didn’t finish” the album in time; and would ...

Lafarge Zambia has contributed 100,000 kwacha towards the hosting of the 2018 Stanbic bank Music festival. Speaking during the handover ceremony of the K100, 000 cheque at the Lafarge offices in Chilanga, Lafarge Zambia PLC Chief Executive Officer Vincent Bouckaert says the contribution is aimed at assisting in the promotion of local talent in the country. Mr. Bouckaert states that ...

Rapper Kanye West is changing his name – to Ye. Announcing the change on Twitter on Saturday, he wrote: “The being formally [sic] known as Kanye West. I am YE.” West, 41, has been nicknamed Ye for some time and used the moniker as the title for his eighth album, which was released in June. The change came ahead of ...

If you like to unwind with a formulaic drama that you can half-watch while scrolling through Instagram – and still be able to keep up with the plot – Maniac is probably not for you. Boasting a Hollywood A-list cast led by Emma Stone, Jonah Hill and Justin Theroux, the experimental Netflix series dropped on Friday. It’s directed by none ...