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‘I’m Still Standing,’” Mitchell said to the crowd. “But I think I have to sing, ‘I’m still sitting after all these years.’” As if that weren’t enough, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox and Meryl Streep — yes, Meryl Streep — also joined in the fun for an all-star rendition of “I’m Still Standing” that drew cheers from the crowd of 17,000 at the amphitheater.It was a joyous highlight of Mitchell’s two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl — her first headlining concerts in Los Angeles in 24 years.

was finally bestowed that honor at this year’s ceremony on Saturday in Cleveland and said in her speech that she had an “easier” time getting divorce from her former husbands Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman.Cher came out on stage after being introduced by Zendaya, who shared kind words about the legendary music artist. “She has navigated a multitude of musical genres, defined new ones and reinvented others,” said Zendaya, 28. “Her music touches your heart, your spirit, makes you dance, makes you rock, and has stood the test of time.”After performing with Dua Lipa, Cher joked about her love life while celebrating her induction that was long overdue.“It was easier getting divorced from two men than it was getting into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” she said to the crowd.The Goddess of Pop then thanked her late mother, Georgia Holt, for instilling in her to always get back up after defeat.“She said, ‘You know, if you’re down and you’re out, you get up again.’ And in my life, I’ve been so down,” Cher said.

Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir, which the pop superstar released in 2017. As she tells it, Lauper was especially distraught hearing stories in which her grandmother, her mother, and her aunt were each dissuaded or denied chances to pursue their individual dreams or opportunities — and all solely because of their gender.

Liam Payne’s death.The 31-year-old “Pillowtalk” singer shared the news on his Instagram Stories Saturday, four days before the tour was set to begin in San Francisco on Oct. 23.“Given the heartbreaking loss experienced this week, I’ve made the decision to postpone the U.S.

Low-Hanging Fruit: Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda (St. Martin’s Press, $28), the comedian whose scorchingly satirical, magnificently crafted YouTube videos set the internet ablaze whenever a new one drops, presents his case for taking on the highest office of the land. It’s one chapter nestled in a book filled with tremendous wit, bitchy zing, and wildly zany observations from a satirist who has become this generation’s Tom Lehrer.“It’s not a memoir,” Rainbow says of the book during a recent chat.

Dionne Warwick insists that she never said a little prayer to get into the Rock & Roll of Fame.“I never thought about getting inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame,” Warwick, 83, told The Post. “I don’t consider myself rock ’n’ roll.

Liam Payne wrote to his 10-year-old self has resurfaced in the wake of his tragic death at 31.On Thursday, a video was posted to BBC Radio 2’s Instagram account in which host Scott Mills speaks about the time Payne was a guest on his show at the height of COVID-19.“During the pandemic, Liam came on my show,” Mills says to listeners in the October 17 clip before explaining that the BBC Radio 1 show he was hosting at the time was “asking people to write a letter to their 10-year-old selves.”“Liam’s is so poignant today,” he continues before stating he was giving “a little warning,” ahead of sharing the late singer’s letter.“This is … it’s quite sad to listen to. But I just really, really wanted to play it to you today,” he says before the clip begins.In the video, Payne is seen wearing headphones as he reads the letter.

his shocking death on Wednesday, Liam Payne’s last single, “Teardrops,” will be giving you just that.The former One Direction member released the track in February, months before he died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 16 at age 31. “Teardrops are falling down your face again/‘Cause I don’t know how to love you/When I am broken too,” a pained Payne sings.Admitting that “I could be the problem,” he expresses his regret: “I’m hating on myself ’cause I hate it when I make you cry.”In his tender lyrics, the former One Direction singer confesses his own suffering: “I’m struggling to see the sunrise lately/I really wish that I could mend.”But Payne pledges to heal the heartbreak: “I’ll make you love me again, I swear/I’m gonna learn how to be a better man.”As The Post previously reported, officials initially stated that Payne “jumped from the balcony of his room” at CasaSur Palermo.

Billie Eilish did indeed seem to have everything she wanted on Wednesday night.In the first of three sold-out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden on her “Hit Me Hard and Soft” Tour, the 22-year-old pop phenom got all the love she could’ve asked for — and then some.“It’s pretty f—king amazing — gosh,” said an almost embarrassed Eilish to deafening cheers. “Thank you guys for being here and joining me.”But when she sang “Everything I Wanted” — the 2019 hit that won Eilish one of her nine Grammys and her second straight for Record of the Year — it didn’t exactly feel as if she was living the dream.In fact, on her first tour without her producer brother Finneas, she seemed to be conflicted about it all.

Liam Payne’s tragic death at 31, the singer spoke candidly about his time in One Direction on Jessie Ware’s podcast “Table Manners” in 2019.Payne said that the boy band, which was formed during “The X Factor,” endured a “mess” of a schedule dealing with sold out tours before an album was ever recorded. “There’s no stop button,” he told Ware at the time.

died from falling from a hotel balcony on Wednesday, he reportedly postponed the release of his second solo album because he was “struggling” in the industry. A source told the Sun on Oct.

Liam Payne’s close friend found out about the One Direction star’s tragic death moments before going on live TV.During Thursday’s episode of Australia’s Channel 7 morning show “Sunrise,” British adventurer, Ant Middleton, paid tribute to the singer after finding out that Payne died at 31.“I speak to Liam quite often, he’s a good friend of mine. And, wow, I’m shocked, this is obviously the first I’m hearing of it,” the 44-year-old said. Middleton, who filmed the 2019 documentary “Ant Middleton & Liam Payne: Straight Talking with Payne,” added of the artist’s death, “I don’t really know what to say about that.

who died Wednesday after falling from his hotel balcony at age 31 — originally appeared on the UK singing competition series in 2008, where he met his future girlfriend, Cheryl Cole. The pair dated from 2016 to 2018 and had a son named Bear.Cole, 41, was one of the judges alongside Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh who watched a then-14-year-old Payne audition for the show for the first time.“When I’m at school, in general, I think about singing all the time,” Payne told producers before his audition. “I should really be concentrating on my work, but I just think about singing too much.

Andrea Bocelli just announced he’s returning to the road in February and June 2025 for ten concerts with local symphonies and orchestras at venues all over North America.These shows will come on the heels of Bocelli’s annual October/November/December Christmas jaunt; this year, he’s scheduled to headline at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, Dec. 18 and Thursday, Dec.

Ozzy Osbourne, when he almost became the lead singer of the band.After stints by David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar and Extreme’s Gary Cherone, the group was between frontmen circa 2001 when its namesake brothers, Eddie and Alex Van Halen, were in talks for Osbourne to bring his signature wail to VH. “When you get a dog, you don’t expect it to be a cat,” Alex told Rolling Stone in his first interview since guitar god Eddie’s death in 2020.

record-breaking Eras Tour, which is ending in December.The 33-year-old music artist shared the big news about her first-ever book on Instagram and on “Good Morning America.”“We’ll be kicking off the final leg of The Eras Tour this week, which is hard to comprehend,” Swift wrote in her IG post. “This tour has been the most wondrous experience and I knew I wanted to commemorate the memories we made together in a special way.

on a nationwide tour, said his fiancee Michele Nigro and 19-year-old son will accompany him to the parade, the first one he will be in.Anka said he doesn’t want to get into the politics of the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but noted, “We took their land, and I support that injustice from years ago.”

on Oct. 7“He then quipped, “You killed at Coachella this year, but when Hamas kills at a music festival, it’s a whole other thing.

US Weekly that the “Baby” singer, 30, “wants nothing to do” with Combs, 54, who was arrested last month and has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.“Justin has been advised to stay as far away as possible from anything and everything related to Diddy,” the insider said in the report published Wednesday.They explained that Bieber — who welcomed his first child, son Jack, with wife Hailey Bieber in August — “wants to protect himself” amid the scandal involving Combs.A second source claimed Bieber “is in a hard place mentally right now.”“He has such a history with Diddy and the allegations against him have been hard to process,” the insider added, while noting that Bieber is more focused on his son right now.“His happiness being a dad has outweighed his anxiety about Diddy,” the source shared.The Post has reached out to reps for Bieber and Combs for comment.After becoming an overnight success at just 14, Bieber signed to the record label of Combs’ protégée Usher in 2008, which marked the start of his friendship with the now-disgraced rapper.Following Combs’ arrest, old videos have been recirculating on the internet that show creepy interactions between the record executive and Bieber when the pop star was a teenager.In one video, Combs presented Bieber, then 15, with a convertible, before telling the camera, “He’s having 48 hours with Diddy, where we hanging out and what we’re doing we can’t really disclose.

according to the Daily Mail.“I usually dedicate this song to my ex, but I dedicate this song to my f—ing theater teacher…who kicked me out, b–ch! I’m here!”As she started to sing, a few lines were changed as Roan took a dig at her former teacher, singing, “We broke up on a Tuesday. Kicked me out…of theater club.”Fans took to social media to defend Roan’s words, with some sharing their own experience with their theater teachers.“As someone who got bullied by his high school theater teacher, Chappell Roan calling out her theater teacher at ACL was healing for the soul,” one person wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.“Chappell Roan’s teacher who kicked her out of theater club is never going to know peace ever again… and rightfully so!!” another person wrote.Another social media user tweeted: “Chappell Roan calling out her theater teacher for kicking her out of their theater troop at ACL is so fvcking funny dude if you’re a theater kid you get it.”Singer and rapper Tyler, the Creator even applauded Roan for her statement at the festival.“Shoutout Chappell man.

Greatest Hits Deluxe Edition.A genre-spanning concept album, Greatest Hits is a collection of all-time greats by a fictional pop superstar with hits from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Inspired by the sounds of Motown, doo-wop, gospel, disco, musical theatre, and the Great American Songbook, Duff channels his character’s evolution from crooner to pop-rocker on tongue-in-cheek tracks like “Forgotten How to F*ck” and “Hoe Is Life,” featuring The Life Tony winner Lillias White.“She really loved the lyrics of everything I do,” Duff says of Broadway powerhouse White, who also jumped on his 2021 single “High Heels” after hearing the song played over the phone.

an Instagram statement.“It pains us so much to say that our feisty, talented, unique, beautiful daughter was cruelly taken from us on Saturday night,” began the statement, written by her family members Jude, Rachel, Jed and Ike.“We are reeling from the news and don’t know what to do or say,” they continued. “She had so much more to experience and to give this world but we are grateful that she got to experience so very much in her 17 years.

‘Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour’ and stopping into NYC’s Madison Square Garden on Oct. 16-18.As for her older brother Finneas, he just released his second studio album “For Cryin’ Out Loud!” and announced a 2025 tour with the same name.Ahead of next year’s trek, the ten-time Grammy winner is playing an intimate show at Brooklyn’s Warsaw on Saturday, Oct.

The Associated Press broke the news of her passing on Monday, Oct. 7. Story developing…

An update from Forbes revealed that Swift, 34, is now worth $1.6 billion.Meanwhile, Rihanna, 36, is worth $1.4 billion.Swift became a billionaire in October 2023 thanks to her massively popular Eras Tour and her music catalog.The “Anti-Hero” singer has $600 million from royalties and touring while her music catalog is also worth an estimated $600 million, according to Forbes.Plus, Swift has an estimated $125 million in real estate holdings. She has homes in Rhode Island, New York City, Nashville and Los Angeles.Her Eras Tour has grossed over $2 billion as of earlier this year.

Billie Eilish was made for Grammy and Oscar-winning glory.But don’t get it twisted — it’s not because she was a nepo baby.That was the claim that the internet was making after a clip recently went viral of Eilish’s mother, Maggie Baird, appearing in a 1999 episode of “Friends.” But Mama Maggie rejects that notion.“I think it’s hilarious,” Baird, 65, told Glamour in a cover story for their new “Women of the Year: The Moms” issue also featuring the mothers of Beyoncé (Tina Knowles), Selena Gomez (Mandy Teefey), and Travis and Jason Kelce (Donna Kelce).“Because that came out, and it was like, ‘Oh, Billie is a nepo baby.’ And I’m like, ‘Did you know that I got that episode of ‘Friends’ because I was about to lose my health insurance?’ ”Baird had already acted in the soap operas “Another World” and “As the World Turns” as well as other TV series such as “L.A. Law,” “Picket Fences” and “Chicago Hope” before she got cast in the Season 6 episode of “Friends” titled “The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance.”But despite sharing screen time with Matt LeBlanc, Baird notes that she was hardly on the same level as the “Friends” stars.“My husband and I are working class actors,” she said of Patrick O’Connell, father of Eilish and her producer/co-writer Finneas.

Coldplay is not as hot as they once were.Certainly not like when “Yellow,” “Clocks” and “Viva La Viva” — their Grammy-winning single that topped the charts in 2008 — were some of the defining alt-rock hits of the aughts.But then again, the same can be said for any middle-aged act that ruled the 2000s. With the exception of Beyoncé, of course.So it was kinda sad to hear that Chris Martin and crew — who released their 10th studio album, “Moon Music,” on Friday — were only going to make two more LPs after this.That’s right — the biggest band of the 21st century will be retiring from recording.“We are only going to do 12 proper albums, and that’s real,” Martin, 47, told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe earlier this week.

emotional Instagram post on Thursday after performing in Las Vegas on the heels of a former employee filing a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and rape.“If there was ever a night that I really needed this, TONIGHT was that night! Thank you for my life!!!!! Love, g,” Brooks, 62, wrote alongside a picture of himself performing to a sold-out crowd. The singer is in the middle of his residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which started in May 2023 and is set to run through early 2025.

fan footage from the concert showed that Jonas left Combs’ name out of that part of the song. On TikTok, fans speculated what Jonas said in the revised lyrics.

CMA snub.The country superstar — who will return to co-host the CMA Awards on Nov. 20 with NFL legend Peyton Manning and 2023 Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson — gave his thoughts about Beyoncé being shut out of nominations for her history-making “Cowboy Carter” album in an interview on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” radio show on Tuesday.“It’s a tricky question,” said the two-time CMA Awards entertainer of the year winner . “Obviously Beyoncé made a country album.

Sabrina Carpenter is currently midway through her international ‘Short n’ Sweet Tour’ and, based on what we’ve seen online, she’s going all out at each and every show.According to Set List FM, the 25-year-old headliner typically delivers an elaborate three-act, 21-song, 90-minute set featuring all of her biggest hits including the aforementioned “Espresso” and “Please, Please, Please” among others.But, outside of Instagram clips and YouTube videos, it’s hard to get a sense of what a Sabrina Carpenter ‘Short n’ Sweet’ show is really like.Until now.The New York Post’s Angela Tricarico attended Carpenter’s Sept. 30 concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and filled us in.“It was really cool because in the first act she woke up and goes through her day,” Tricarico told us.

Sabrina Carpenter is shutting down the nonsense.The 25-year-old clapped back at social media critics who accused her of lip-syncing on her Short n’ Sweet Tour.After one user commented on TikTok asking if she “ever” sings live at her concerts, someone posted a clip taken from one of Carpenter’s recent performances and claimed that it proved she was lip-synching. In the video posted Tuesday, the artist is seen dancing onstage to her hit single “Please Please Please.”“Hate to say it,” the person wrote, “30% lip singing [sic] 30% backing track 40% singing.” But Carpenter didn’t take the speculation lightly, commenting beneath the footage, and even offered to have the user check in with the crew of her sold-out tour for confirmation.“I sing live at every show 100%,” declared the Disney alum.

Selena Gomez is making a rare comment about her financial status.“I’m very grateful,” the 32-year-old told” Entertainment Tonight” on Monday about becoming a billionaire due to the success of her Rare Beauty brand. “I personally think it’s distasteful to talk about money.

Chappell Roan is making a pit stop in Franklin, TN.On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the “Hot To Go” singer will be at the Firstbank Amphitheater for a one-off show as part of her ongoing ‘Midwest Princess Tour.’After that gig, she’s slated to drop into Rogers, AR’s Walmart AMP on Oct.

died Saturday at age 88. Over 25 years earlier, Kristofferson revealed in an interview with People that he thought he’d die by age 30 due to his alcoholism.“I never could have imagined this,” he said in 1998 after getting sober. “I sit right here and think how it could have turned out so differently.

died Saturday at age 88, became pals with Swift, 34, in the early years of her career before she became a mainstream pop star.In 2010, both musicians were at the annual All for the Hall concert benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Swift, then 20 years old, was on stage at the event that honored Kristofferson, as well as Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and Lionel Richie.“These are the best role models I could have,” Swift told the 2,000-person crowd, according to the Los Angeles Times.The pair also crossed paths at the 2009 Country Music Association Awards.Kristofferson presented Swift with the award for Female Vocalist of the Year.