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Surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale, whose song Misirlou played over the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, has died aged 81. Dale was known for his blindingly fast strumming style, which inspired acts like The Beach Boys and Jimi Hendrix. He said the sound reminded him of the rumble and crash of the waves, and the noises of marine ...

Paris Jackson has said it is “not my role” to publicly defend father Michael against allegations of abuse. The 20-year-old was speaking a week after the broadcast of Leaving Neverland, a documentary in which two men accused Jackson of sexually abusing them as children. “There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said in regards to defence,” the model ...

Hal Blaine, one of the most prolific and influential drummers of his generation, has died at the age of 90. Over the course of his career, he played on countless hits by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys and John Lennon, amongst others. But his most recognisable riff was the “boom-ba-boom-crack” bar that opened The Ronnettes’ Be My Baby. ...

Embattled US R&B singer R Kelly has been taken into custody for failing to pay child support. A judge in Chicago said he would be held until he paid $161,000 (£122,000) owed to his ex-wife and their children. It comes hours after R Kelly tearfully and angrily denied allegations of sexual abuse in a TV interview. Last month, he was ...

Two men have told the BBC they were abused hundreds of times by Michael Jackson, from the ages of seven and 10. Wade Robson, 36, told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme the singer had sexually abused him from the age of seven and tried to rape him when he was 14. James Safechuck, 40, told the programme Jackson had sexually ...

Lady Gaga has laughed off the deluge of suggestive social media comments following her passionate duet with co-star Bradley Cooper at the Oscars. Rolling her eyes, she told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday: “People saw love, and guess what, that’s what we wanted you to see.” During their performance of Shallow, they gazed lovingly at each other and ...

Lady Gaga has laughed off the deluge of suggestive social media comments following her passionate duet with co-star Bradley Cooper at the Oscars. Rolling her eyes, she told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday: “People saw love, and guess what, that’s what we wanted you to see.” During their performance of Shallow, they gazed lovingly at each other and ...

A leading Hollywood designer has described the wacky outfits worn by Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry to present the Oscar for best costume design as “tasteless and insulting”. The actors wore spoof period costumes inspired by the film The Favourite. They included a group of fake rabbits on the train of McCarthy’s dress. Arianne Phillips, who has been nominated ...

Two HP servers sent up to the International Space Station in August 2017 as an experiment have still not come back to Earth, three months after their intended return. Together, they make up the Spaceborne Computer, which operates on the open-source Linux system and has supercomputer processing power. They were sent up to see how durable they would be in ...

A US man whose murder conviction was the focus of the popular Netflix series Making a Murderer will have his case re-examined by a court in Wisconsin. Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder of young freelance photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. He says he is innocent. Avery has won a motion to appeal based on possible ...