Let’s just get one thing clear before we start looking at the key moments from last night’s Brit Awards, nothing can possibly match the moment when Madonna, standing on a plinth and surrounded by dancers in dionysian states of ecstasy, was yanked backwards by her cape, coming a cropper three feet to the right in […]
With The Great Gatsby film coming on May 10, Interscope Records has added to the excitement surrounding the film by releasing songs from the soundtrack over the past couple weeks. First they released a sampler of the entire album. Then Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” was released. This weekend the cover of Amy Winehouse’s […]
Last week a sample of The Great Gatsby soundtrack was released on YouTube, giving fans a glimpse of the music that will accompany the jazz-era film. When we looked at it, we focused on Emeli Sandé covering Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” on the album, but Beyoncé’s voice will also be heard on it. She and […]
For no other reason than it’s his 37th birthday, and he’s just as London as he is New York (and therefore the perfect model of Anglophenian man) here’s a brief tapdance across Mark Ronson’s illustrious (and very collaborative) career to date: “Slow Down Baby” – Christina Aguilera It’s funny to think that Mark worked on […]
Now that we’re used to knowing what people in the public eye are thinking as soon as they think it, thanks to social media and the web, it seems curiously old-fashioned to realize that Kate Moss, one of the most famous women in the world, has never really told the story of her life. And […]
The private funeral for Amy Winehouse was held today (July 26) at the Edgwarebury Cemetery in North London, BBC News reports. Producer Mark Ronson, friend Kelly Osbourne, and boyfriend Reg Traviss were the most famous guests among the estimated 300 to 400 attendees. Osbourne and others wore their hair in Amy’s iconic beehive style in […]
Do you ever find yourself reading a new story in an internal monologue which rises in incredulous pitch with each passing word? Yeah, us too. And here’s a perfect example. Duran Duran are live streaming a concert from the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles tomorrow. It’ll be on the video sites Vevo and YouTube, and […]
Congratulations to Mark Ronson and Josephine De La Baume! UsMagazine.com reports that the Grammy-winning English DJ recently proposed to his French model/actress girlfriend. The 35-year-old Ronson first got together with De La Baume in March 2009. It looks like their July 2009 fake wedding photo shoot for Jalouse magazine (Blackbook has the archived goods) was […]
It’s been 40 years since The Beatles split this month, and 30 years since the death of John Lennon. Tom Brook, who was the first British journalist to report live from the scene of Lennon’s murder, has interviewed top celebs from the film and music worlds about the fallen Beatle’s legacy. Back on December 8, […]
Out today is the new album from English new wave legends Duran Duran. All You Need Is Now marks the quartet’s 13th studio album, which is being hailed a solid return to form à la their 1982 classic LP, Rio. English Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson manned the nine-song set and it’s as slick as you’d […]
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