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When Bono walked onstage at New York's BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on June 13 to present Bruce Springsteen with the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award, he began his speech by winding the clock back to 1975. He was 15 then. “I was off to being very good at being no good, but then that August, Bruce Springsteen released Born to Runand part of me stopped running,” said Bono, who'd been introduced by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro. “In November, Patti Smith put out Horses. Wow. The next February, I witnessed Robert De Niro play Travis Bickle…
The story of the concert: “Now I want to do a residency in Naples like Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico”. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
North West gave her first-ever solo music festival performance at a Chicago festival – check out footage below. North, who is the 12-year-old daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, has been steadily launching her music career over the past few years, and took to the stage at Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash 2026 in Chicago on Friday (June 12) for her festival debut. She performed ‘Talking’, her 2024 collaboration with Kanye – now known as Ye – which is featured on his album ‘Vultures 1’, as well as tracks from her debut EP ‘N0rth4evr’, which was released in May. Both…
Boy George and Jon Moss open up about the skepticism and cruelty they faced during the early days of Culture Club in a new clip from Alison Ellwood’s documentary about the legendary English pop band. Formed in London in 1981, Culture Club’s first batch of songs came easily thanks to how well the members gelled, as Moss recalls in the clip from Boy George & Culture Club. (The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year but is now available to rent on streaming services.) Their earliest performances could be fun and irreverent, too, but Boy George says they…
“I'm just a girl who wants the last hug at the last Sphere show,” superfan Rodrigo requests of Gwen Stefani as band's residency wrapped up Saturday No Doubt performed the final show of their 2026 Sphere residency Saturday in Las Vegas, where a surprise guest briefly joined them onstage: Olivia Rodrigo. Throughout the 18-show Sphere run, Gwen Stefani pulled superfans out of the crowd and brought them onstage for hugs between songs. On Saturday night, one fan's poster in the crowd caught her eye: “I'm just a girl who wants the last hug at the last Sphere show.” “Get up…
The ex Lunapop's tribute to the king of Italian rock, in Imola, in front of 75 thousand fans: the video. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Maybe you’ve heard the news: YouTube is not going to kill the movies. It’s actually going to save the movies! In the span of two weeks this past May, two very different films arrived to upend the notion of will or won’t play big with multiplex audiences. One concerns a romantic dream come true that becomes a bit of a nightmare. The other turns an industrial office space into an infinite realm of psychic dread. Both movies slot nicely into the category of “modern horror.” Both take familiar genre ideas and infuse them with a gonzo Gen-Z sensibility. And both…
Almost twenty years after “Karashò”, the two Roman rappers collaborate again on a song. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
The most awaited musical event of the summer is back: TIM Battiti Live 2026 will be broadcast in prime time on Canale 5 from 2 to 30 July. Now in its twenty-fourth edition, the show organized by Radio Norba confirms its Apulian home and brings with it an important innovation in its hosting. Next to the confirmed Ilary Blasiin fact, a new entry arrives: Fabio Rovazzi. The singer and presenter takes over from Alvin, the historic face of the programme, who was busy this summer as a correspondent for the Island of the Famous. Tim Battiti Live 2026: when it…
Ariana Grande has launched a new foundation aimed at supporting the LGBTQ+ community. Find all the details below. The singer announced the launch of the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation on Friday (June 12), which will support gay and trans rights and provide mental health services to people in the LGBTQ+ community. “Our mission is to support, protect, and provide resources for our vulnerable friends in need,” she wrote in a statement on social media. “Through four different funds, we will be supporting handfuls of incredible organizations that provide the safe space and care that is desperately needed by so many…
