‘Joan Baez I Am a Noise’ Review: She Shall Overcome — but Only After a Lifetime of Panic Attacks

The full programme of events for this year's Manchester International Festival has been revealed including a three-day residency from singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe and a world premiere art project from former Manchester United player Juan Mata.

In the five years since her Reputation stadium tour in 2018, Taylor Swift has achieved a lot.

National Album Day is returning for 2023 to celebrate the classic albums of the 1990s. 

Roger Daltrey has spent a long time not getting a biopic about his late Who bandmate Keith Moon produced. Rest assured though, it “will be made”. So says the Dalt-man himself.

Pregnant Laura Anderson has jetted off to the Maldives for some "much needed R&R" ahead of her little one's arrival. Former Love Island star Laura, who is expecting her first child, headed to the luxury Ayada Maldives resort for some sun as a cold snap hit the UK. According to the Ayada Maldives’ Instagram account, the resort is “a beautiful private island surrounded by a vibrant turquoise lagoon, just a boat ride away from the equator”.

Kate Middleton did not curtsy to King Charles at the Commonwealth Day Service - leaving many royal watchers confused. The King, 74, and Queen Consort Camilla were shown chatting with the rest of the Royal Family before taking their seats at this year’s event at Westminster Abbey. They were seen exchanging small talk with Prince William, 40, and Princess Kate, 41, as well as the new Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh - Edward and Sophie.

Jussie Smollett's Hollywood career is likely over, even though the actor is attempting to appeal his conviction. The outcome of Smollett's legal battle won't be able to fix the "reputation problems" the 2019 hate crime hoax created for the actor, according to a PR expert who spoke to Fox News Digital.

Giovanni Pernice was put on the spot over his new relationship with fellow Strictly Come Dancing star Jowita Przystal.During a joint interview with Strictly judge Anton Du Beke, the 32-year-old pro – who won the BBC show alongside Rose Ayling-Ellis back in 2021 – referred to him and Jowita as a "we".Look back at the moment Giovanni Pernice reacted to Jowita Pryzstal's Strictly win... Asked about his romance, Giovanni told Radio Times: "This was my New Year resolution. We are not talking about anything."The interviewer then pressed: "We, so there's a 'we'?" to which Giovanni "smiled silently".Laughing at the not-so-subtle indiscretion, Anton - who is set to go on tour with the Italian hunk - remarked: "I want Gio to find love like I have.

Nicola Peltz Beckham channelling Victoria Beckham’s style when she married her son, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, was pretty much a given considering she has one of the most respectably voguish mother-in-law’s on the entire planet.And though we’ve witnessed a recent slew of VB inspired moments over recent months (matching outfits with Brooklyn and wearing the exact same handbag as Victoria to name a few), this might just be her most iconic moment yet.MORE: Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham recreate classic David and Victoria moment in matching clothesRELATED: Nicola Peltz just wore Victoria Beckham’s favourite 2000s accessoryThe Welcome To Chippendales actress uploaded a series of photographs to her 2.9 million Instagram followers sporting an ‘angelic-chic’ agenda in an ethereal white blazer and trousers combination that made us both: want a white suit for spring, and to potentially brave low-rise trousers again (the latter is TBC…). @nicolaannepeltzbeckhamShe wore a single breasted blazer with notch lapels and layers eschewed underneath.

Steph McGovern keeps much of her private life under wraps. From her mystery girlfriend to her three-year-old daughter, the TV star keeps her family firmly out of the spotlight!The Steph's Packed Lunch presenter is a doting mum to her little girl, who she welcomed in November 2019, but has always kept her daughter's name and photo out of the media.WATCH: Steph McGovern opens up about the birth of her babyThe 40-year-old also protects her partner's privacy.

Mindy Kaling stunned in a gorgeous white Vera Wang gown at Sunday's Academy Awards, and later teased fans about her future wedding dress in a cheeky Instagram post.The 43-year-old star of The Mindy Project has been notoriously private about her personal life, but fans were thrilled to get a glimpse of what could be her wedding gown.In the photo, Mindy is wearing a white structured design with boned detailing and a transparent bodice.WATCH: See the best looks from the 2023 OscarsShe captioned the post, "Who knows if I am ever getting married, I am wearing as many Vera Wang gowns as I can!" leaving fans wondering if the dress is a hint at what she could wear if she eventually ties the knot. Mindy has never publicly confirmed any engagement or shared any details about her partner or the father of her two children. But many have questions about her relationship with her good friend and fellow co-star BJ Novak over the years. Mindy showed off her slim figure in a gorgeous Vera Wang dressFans flooded the comments section with compliments with many saying she "looks really good in white", referring to the iconic phrase she once said on her show.The star, who recently shared her weight loss transformation, had one more surprise in store when she stepped onto the stage later that evening in exactly the same gown, but in black paired and with a bright red lip.

Nicole Kidman is notoriously private when it comes to her family and personal life and rarely opens up about them.On Sunday, she stepped out at the Oscars with her husband, Keith Urban, and the pair looked more loved up than ever - having reunited following time apart due to the singer's Las Vegas residency.Nicole's ex-husband, Tom Cruise, was also due to attend the ceremony, but was absent from the event.VIDEO: Nicole Kidman's relationship with her children with Tom CruiseThe former couple have remained tight lipped about their relationship following their split in February 2001, however, Nicole has previously shared some thoughts on the Top Gun star in a personal essay for New York magazine in 2018.She wrote: "Being married to Tom Cruise at 22 is something I'm always reluctant to talk about, because I'm married now to the man who is my great love [Keith Urban], and it almost feels disrespectful.MORE: How Nicole Kidman's daughters have a very different life to their famous siblingsRELATED: Nicole Kidman and daughter Bella celebrate incredible personal news"That said, I got married very young, but it definitely wasn't power for me ― it was protection."Nicole and Tom adopted two children during their marriage, Isabella, 30, and Connor, 28. The Undoing star went on to welcome two daughters with Keith - Sunday Rose, 14, and Faith Margaret, 12.

The security minister has not ruled out the possibility of banning TikTok in the UK after concerns were raised over its relation to China.

The thing about living in such a fast paced digital world is that people want to see results for everything immediately. And with skincare, it can be a slog waiting to see if the product you’ve been using for six months really has reduced your wrinkles.

Emmerdale fans were left asking 'what was that' as they tuned into the first episode of the week. The ITV soap was back on screens following an emotional all-male episode before the weekend.

Drivers could face higher prices or less choice as a result of Asda's £600m deal to buy 132 petrol stations from the Co-op, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was warned.

Coronation Street fans have been left confused by the arrival of Faye Windass' daughter as they realised that she is the 'double' of another existing character. It was revealed last week that Miley would be making a return to her life after her former flame Jackson Hodge got in touch and told her they were back in the UK.

The greatest show on turf is upon us as the Cheltenham Festival sees the top National Hunt horses in action over four sensational days of racing.

Renfrew boss Jimmy Quigley insisted he wouldn’t be too hard on his misfiring forwards after the league leaders dropped precious points in Clydebank.

Gemma Collins may be known as the Essex queen, but in a new chat with OK! , she has revealed it might be time for her to move on from her stomping ground. Gemma, 42, recently visited South Wales for 48 hours to explore her Welsh roots as part of the TV show More Than Daffs And Taffs.The TOWIE star said she’s never felt happier than being out in the country, as she was away from “toxic people and toxic environments”. And after discovering her granddad used to work with the iconic Tom Jones, 82, before he found fame, Gemma said she could be tempted to relocate.

As this recent season of Love Island came to an end on 13 March, two people who weren’t at the final were Will Young and Casey O’Gorman. During their time in the villa, 26 year old Casey and Will, 23, sparked up a friendship – even creating their own spin-off show Villa Wives alongside Tom Clare and Shaq Muhammad.

Dancing on Ice fans speculated that professional Vanessa Bauer was left “fuming” following her final performance with Joey Essex during the show’s finale. On Sunday, the latest season of the skating show wrapped with former Olympian Nile Wilson securing the crown with his partner, Olivia Smart. RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, The Vivienne, was eliminated from the finalists first, which left Nile to battle it out with Towie’s Joey Essex.

Coronation Street is set to be rocked by a shock death next week as Evelyn and Roy’s friendship is tested. Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman) visits the cafe with her dog Cerberus and chats with Roy Cropper (David Neilson), who apologises for missing her birthday. Later, Evelyn becomes concerned about her beloved dog after he shows no interest in his food and ends up taking him to the vet to see what’s wrong.

Sir Brian May will be among those recognised at Buckingham Palace later after he was given a knighthood in the New Year Honours. As the virtuoso guitarist in rock band Queen, the 75-year-old is responsible for some of the biggest riffs in popular music, from the solo on Don’t Stop Me Now to the melodic strums of Somebody To Love.

Hollyoaks star Jessica Fox has announced the safe arrival of her first 'miracle' baby alongside a string of candid snaps. The Channel 4 soap actress revealed back in October that she was pregnant with her and her husband Nicholas Willes' first child after going through two devastating miscarriages in 2021.

Tributes have been paid to a mum and a three-year-old boy who died in a horror crash on the A180 motorway.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For more than half a century, John Fogerty stood as the poster boy for all musicians who’d ever signed away rights to their publishing or master recordings and been unable to buy them back. Over time, Paul McCartney and then Taylor Swift came to be symbols, as well, of artists who tried and failed to win full ownership of their own music. But even Swift’s radical decision to re-record all her old albums, to do an end run around her former label selling her masters, may not count as quite as bold as the stance Fogerty took for several decades, during which he refused to perform any of his classic late ’60s and early ’70s Creedence Clearwater Revival songs in protest of his inability to purchase publishing rights for that material.

Folk music icon Joan Baez, who’s now 82, came of age just as musicians’ live gigs were often recorded and thereby preserved for the record, virtues that are used to advantage in Joan Baez I Am A Noise. An up-close, intimate and mostly frank account of a career that arched across more than 60 years of musical and political expression while countless trends came and went, this elaborate documentary navigates adroitly through the professional and the personal aspects of a very full life, one marked by far more good fortune than bad. Whether you’ve followed her career for decades or are just now discovering her, the life under scrutiny is undeniably impressive and ceaselessly engaging.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career will forever be intertwined with that of another 1960s folk legend: Bob Dylan.So what did she think when the “Blowin’ in the Wind” bard received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?“I thought, ‘Oh, how Bob,’” Baez, 82, told the Hollywood Reporter. “I mean, people differ about whether or not he deserved it for his writing, but whatever — I thought he was a great writer of music. It moved me for half a century and millions of people ever since.”But Dylan was a no-show in Stockholm to accept the prestigious honor.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It used to be that it was considered a Herculean feat if artists dug into their back catalogs to recreate two, three or even four classic albums in their entirety for a run of back-to-back concerts. Now, Elvis Costello has pulled off something to make even a stunt like that seem like the stuff of slackers. His 10-night stand at New York’s Gramercy Theatre was billed as “100 Songs and More,” with the artist laying out 10 unique songs he would be playing each night, just as a starting point. By the time the run wrapped up with one final three-hour show Wednesday night, the emphasis was on the …and more, with Costello actually having played exactly 250 songs over the course of the Feb. 9-22 residency (not counting interpolations), with only a handful of those breaking his vow to have no repeats between shows.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Watching “Kiss the Future,” a documentary about the band U2’s relationship with wartorn Sarajevo in the 1990s, it’s hard not to think: “We’ve seen this movie before.” That’s not to do with the doc itself so much as how aspects of the 30-year-old footage from Bosnia’s brutal civil war parallel what we’ve seen in the news coverage coming out of Ukraine for the past year. Both involve stranger-than-fiction (or stranger-than-fascism) scenarios of cosmopolitan cities suddenly subject to state terrorism, which makes the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck-produced film coincidentally timely, for all its belatedness. In a sense, “Kiss the Future” is the story of a long-distance romance, between a superstar rock quartet reaching its peak and a once-grand metropolis that’s bottoming out. In the early ’90s, genocidally minded Serbian president Slobodan Milošević tried to subject the happily mixed population of Sarajevo to ethnic cleansing by any means necessary. The area’s young people fought back in whatever spirit-lifting way they could — including founding underground discos, forming punk bands and otherwise keeping the arts alive as they dodged shelling and snipers. An American activist, Bill Carter, had the idea to enlist the stadium-filling U2 in publicizing their plight, which led to nightly satellite appearances by Sarajevo locals on the giant screens of the “Zoo TV” tour’s European leg.

There’s a pretty traditional formula that most music documentaries follow. They’ll often center around a standard birth to mainstream success overview, populated with talking heads and contemporaries to contextualize the music, politics, and social scenes.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent In “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise,” which is premiering on Feb. 17 at the Berlin Film Festival, the folk icon with a supple soprano voice and a long history of activism, takes a disarmingly candid look on her life as she faces the end of her 60-year musical career. The immersive doc is co-directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle. They interweave Baez’s 2018 Fare Thee Well final concert tour with her early years, her rise to fame, struggles with drugs that ensued, and a darker psychological thread involving a form of child abuse on the part of Baez’s father. A surprising level of intimacy is reached thanks to a wealth of material obtained from Baez’s meticulously preserved personal archives comprising home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings of voice letters to her family. Some, while Baez was on tour in England in 1965 with Bob Dylan whom, she confesses in the doc, “broke my heart.”

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The good news for Taylor Swift fans: She is participating in Record Store Day again with a vinyl exclusive, for the second straight year. The bad news is that it’s in quantities of … Wait, that’s good news, too — there will be 115,000 copies available of “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions,” worldwide, about 10 times the amount that were pressed for her RSD 2022 single. Is that enough to meet demand, or keep legions of Swifties from queuing up before dawn along with the Record Store Day regulars on April 22? Not likely, but the volume of the pressing —more than four times as many as any RSD exclusive to date — should keep panic over procuring a copy to a lower level.

From the time Joan Baez gave her first performances as a teenager in the late 1950s, she possessed a remarkable soprano voice with distinctive vibrato that paired magically with acoustic guitar. Baez also displayed an exceptional stage presence — confident, natural and serene.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When Kelsea Ballerini did interviews last year for her largely upbeat “Subject to Change” album, she was in a tough spot, being in the public spotlight for her less cheerful personal state of affairs but having to affirm (as she did to Variety at the time), “It’s been pretty difficult, to show up and want to talk about a record that I love, and end up doing divorce press, you know?… This is not a divorce record.” And yet, six months later, Ballerini is back with the surprise drop of an EP that is so single-mindedly about that split, it’s nothing but a divorce record. The only thing she’s got dibs on in “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat” is filing court papers. And it’s fairly shocking — in a good way — to hear her baring her post-marital soul on record so soon after seemingly placing limits on how far what she was going through at the time needed to make its way into her music. Ballerini faced the quandary many country artists do: how to proceed in a genre where fans want to believe artists are keeping it real, when the realness has become a major mess. Her solution to that, now, is an unexpectedly savvy one: parcel all that pain into a dam-burster of a side project with no commercial expectations, no press (“divorce press” or otherwise) and no holds barred, before presumably getting back to the sunny side of the street.