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Yahoo
28-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Queen's Brian May, Roger Taylor awarded 2025 Polar Music Prize
Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen have been awarded the 2025 Polar Music Prize by Sweden's King Carl Gustaf. Attending the gala at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, the rockers were recognised for the entirety of their career. Speaking on stage, May shared, "In this special moment, I contemplate how that younger Brian May in 1974 would have felt if he knew that we would be living this kind of dream 50 years in the future." Taylor added, "When we started our band, we had ambitions, but never dreamed of the journey that was to follow. "We were fortunate in the fact that our four wildly different personalities came together to achieve a wonderful chemistry." Known as the Nobel Prize of Music, the Polar Music Prize is a Swedish international award founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, best known as the manager of the Swedish band ABBA. It is annually given to one popular musician and one classical musician. Previous winners of the contemporary award include Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Dizzy Gillespie and Björk. It is awarded for "significant achievements in music and/or musical activity, or for achievements which are found to be of great potential importance for music or musical activity, and it shall be referable to all fields within or closely connected with music".
Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor are awarded the 2025 Polar Music Prize by Sweden's King Carl Gustaf
Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen were awarded the 2025 Polar Music Prize by Sweden 's King Carl Gustaf on Tuesday. Attending the Polar Music Prize gala at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, the rockers were recognised for the entirety their career. Speaking on stage, Brian, 77, said: 'In this special moment, I contemplate how that younger Brian May in 1974 would have felt if he knew that we would be living this kind of dream 50 years in the future.' Roger, 75, added: 'When we started our band…we had ambitions, but never dreamed of the journey that was to follow. 'We were fortunate in the fact that our four wildly different personalities came together to achieve a wonderful chemistry.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. He continued: 'The Polar Music Prize is exceptional in the fact that unlike other awards it recognises the entirety of an artiste's career. 'What an honour to be included in the glittering cavalcade of previous laureates. True Olympian company indeed. We are so proud to be the recipients of this incredibly prestigious award.' Roger was joined on the red carpet by his wife Sarina while Brian was joined by his wife Anita Dobson. During the event Adam Lambert performed a number of Queen hits, including Who Wants to Live Forever, and Another One Bites the Dust. Last month, Brian looked the picture of health as he took to the stage at the Coachella festival, in Indio, California in the wake of his stroke. The Queen legend revealed he had been rushed to hospital following the medical emergency back in September. But he was on fine form as he posed with Benson Boone, 22, after the pair had performed an epic version of Bohemian Rhapsody together. Dressed in a patchwork cream shirt and distressed grey jeans, Brian was in great spirits after joining the former American Idol star as a special guest during his set at the annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club. After merging on the stage for his guitar solo during Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian stayed to duet with jumpsuit-clad Benson on his 2024 breakthrough single Beautiful Things. The pair certainly appeared to have hit it off as they happily chatted backstage before snapping photos together. Earlier in the day, Brian dropped a hint about the duo's collaboration as he shared a snap of Instagram of himself travelling to Coachella on a plane with Benson. He teasingly penned: 'Look who I bumped into – on the way to the fabled Palm Springs … Maybe something will happen ?!' In another selfie with the performer, the Will Will Rock You hitmaker remarked: 'Do we look happy ? !!! Gonna treasure this moment on the plane with @bensonboone – a truly golden 22 year old prodigy. I'm proud and happy to say we are now officially pals.' It comes after Brian's wife Anita Dobson recently issued a health update about him on Good Morning Britain after he suffered a stroke. A legendary musician, astrophysicist and animal rights campaigner, Brian had previously shared in a video posted online that he had suffered a 'minor stroke'. Brian was on fine form as he posed with Benson Boone, 22, after the pair had performed an epic version of Bohemian Rhapsody together On Good Morning Britain, Brian's wife and EastEnders icon Anita, 75, chatted with hosts Ed Balls, 58, and Charlotte Hawkins, 49, and provided an update on how he was doing. Charlotte asked: 'How is Sir Brian doing, we should ask of course as he hadn't been well had he?' 'He's very well now. I'm very happy to say, thank you both for asking,' Anita replied. 'He's very well now, he's back to his old self!'
Forbes
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Queen's Album Surges Back Onto Several Charts At The Same Time
Queen's Greatest Hits climbs on five Billboard charts this week, reentering both the Vinyl Albums ... More and Top Album Sales lists thanks to a 20% sales jump. 1975: British rock band Queen (L-R: Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon pose for an Electra Records publicity still to promote their tour of Japan in 1975. (Photo by Michael) Greatest Hits by Queen is one of a select few compilations by beloved rock bands that continues to find space on the Billboard charts, even decades after its release. At times, it appears on multiple rankings simultaneously, while in other instances — especially when competition is fierce or interest in the band's catalog dips slightly — it doesn't occupy quite as much real estate. The current chart week is a huge one for Greatest Hits by the English rock outfit. Pure purchases of the title have increased, bringing the compilation back to several rankings at once and helping it climb on a handful of others. Greatest Hits currently appears on half a dozen Billboard charts. It reenters two of them and climbs on three others. Not too shabby for a release that's more than 40 years old. This frame, Greatest Hits earns its most impressive return on the Vinyl Albums tally, where it rocks back in at No. 23. It's also found once again on the Top Album Sales ranking, landing at No. 44 on that 50-spot roster. Luminate reports that from one week to the next, Queen's compilation saw its sales spike by more than 20%. One week, the title sold just under 2,000 copies. In the most recent frame, which is currently powering the Billboard charts, it sold a little under 2,400 units — an increase of almost exactly 400 sales from one week to the next. The bestselling compilation also climbs on three other tallies, in addition to returning to a pair of lists. The set surges back into the top 10 on both the Top Rock Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums rankings, settling at Nos. 9 and 10, respectively. It also ascends to No. 54 on the Billboard 200. The only tally where Greatest Hits doesn't move up or reappear is the Top Hard Rock Albums ranking. On that list, it holds steady at No. 3. The compilation has already spent time inside the top 10 on all six of these Billboard rankings. It has ruled four of them and stalled at No. 3 on the Top Album Sales chart. So far, its lowest peak position remains No. 8, where it stalled on the Billboard 200.
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Heartache for Queen superstar Roger Taylor as his daughter and her husband call it quits
Queen drummer Roger Taylor has been happily married to Sarina Potgieter for 15 years, but his daughter Rory has been less lucky in love. I hear that Rory, a doctor, has separated from her husband, Rory Hoddell, who arranges luxurious ski holidays for rich clients. The couple were married in 2021 in a lavish wedding attended by Roger's band mates. 'It's terribly sad,' one of their friends tells me. 'Despite her starry background, Rory is very down to earth. They are finding their split hard, particularly for their children.' The pair exchanged vows in front of their baby son, Buddy. Since then, they have had another child. Rory's half-sisters, Lola and the model Tigerlily Taylor, were bridesmaids at the wedding in Mawnan Smith, Cornwall. Queen guitarist Brian May turned up in a helicopter, landing in the middle of a cricket pitch, stopping play. While guests might have expected a few renditions of We Will Rock You, the music was, in fact, provided by a folk band. Rory, 39, is one of the musician's two children with his first wife, bereavement counsellor Dominique Beyrand, who is French. With model Debbie Leng, who can be seen in Queen's Breakthru video, he had three more children: Rufus, a drummer for The Darkness and a touring musician for Queen + Adam Lambert, Tigerlily and Lola. Rory has spoken of how she avoided following her father into showbusiness. 'I knew that I wanted to help people, so I studied medicine and qualified as a GP in 2011,' she said. 'There's a lot of pressure in a job like this, and very long hours, but I love it, and Dad has always been so supportive.' During the pandemic, Roger, 75, voiced his concerns over Rory, who is a GP in west London and continued seeing her patients. The couple decline to comment. Lennon sister's family lament HER book, Imagine This – Growing up with my brother John Lennon, was adapted into the film Nowhere Boy, but Julia Baird laments that the Beatles star's sons, Julian and Sean, are nowhere in her life. 'I'm in touch with both of them, but we're not great mates or anything like that, we really aren't,' she tells me at the Live Odyssey VIP launch party in the Stables Market, Camden. 'It's sad, but when it comes down to it, that's just the way it is. Julian lives in France and is toing and froing to Los Angeles all the time, and, of course, Sean is based in America.' She adds: 'Even if you're blood related, you have to have a relationship. It's a shared history you haven't got.' Crime writer Richard Osman is making a killing. The former Pointless host has returned a £1.8 million profit at his artistic creation company, Six Seven Entertainment, in the year to the end of March, taking accumulated profits to £3.7 million and retaining £4.45 million in cash before bills. Osman, 54, is currently on his fifth book in the Thursday Murder Club series. The first title is being turned into a Netflix film by Steven Spielberg. As Damsel in distress Ann Darrow, Naomi Watts formed an unlikely bond with King Kong, who took her to the top of the Empire State Building in his palm in Peter Jackson's 2005 epic. And in New York this week the 5ft 5in Hollywood star appeared dwarfed by her younger child, Kai Schreiber, too. The Kent-born actress, 56, was towered over by 5ft 10in model Kai, 16, whose father is US actor Liev Schreiber. They were at an LGBTQ event hosted by the trans rights fundraiser Mother Daughter Holy Spirit. Apple guru's Eve to wed Team GB gold winner in Cotswolds ARE the Cotswolds – not Canada – becoming America's 51st state, irrespective of Donald Trump's desires? Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, former Ally McBeal star Portia De Rossi, snapped up a farmhouse there for £15million as soon as The Donald won the US election, while Beyonce and her husband, billionaire rapper Jay-Z, intend to base themselves there in June when the Texas-born superstar is on the English leg of her Cowboy Carter world tour. Now, I can disclose, the Cotswolds' bucolic charms and honey-stone villages will be the setting this summer for the society wedding of the year when Eve Jobs, 26, model daughter of the late Steve Jobs, billionaire founder of Apple, marries true Brit Harry Charles, who won gold in the team equestrian event at last year's Olympics in Paris. Though Harry, 25, will be joined by friends and family – including his father, fellow Olympian gold medallist Peter – they'll be matched by a US contingent which seems certain to include Bill Gates's younger daughter, Phoebe, 22, a chum of Eve, and former vice president Kamala Harris, of whom Eve's mother, Laurene, thinks so highly that she has, in the past, put her private jet at Harris's disposal. Why Tracey Emin is ken to downplay her latest works... Tracey Emin, whose recreation of her squalid bed was once shortlisted for the Turner Prize, has splashed out on building work at a historic seaside townhouse without permission – right under the local council's nose. The artist, 61, who was awarded a damehood last year, was given the go-ahead by planners for a 'change of use' of the former accountant's office to a five-bedroom house in Margate, Kent. But she had already built a new basement kitchen, first-floor partition and second-floor bathroom at the 18th century property, which is Grade II listed. She also added ground-floor doors to connect to a former printworks-turned artist studio next door, one of four properties in the block which she owns opposite the town council's offices. Emin has now applied for retrospective consent and officials at Thanet Council are expected to make a decision later this month. Her planning agent says: 'The works are modest in scale and have minimal impact on the conservation area and its historic fabric.' Launching Saints And Sinners, recording 1,000 years of his family history, including more than 400 years' occupation of St Michael's Mount, the island castle off Cornwall, Nicholas St Aubyn reflects: 'We've been captains, not generals; backbenchers, not ministers; barristers, not judges.' The exception to the rule – the indisputable brilliance of his cousin Edward, author of the Patrick Melrose novels – had proved too much for one of his guests. 'I threw it in the bin,' the guest tells me. 'I didn't want the staff to read it.' Ballet star Yasmine's next role: motherhood! Royal ballet star Yasmine Naghdi is to stage her disappearance from Covent Garden – for the most delightful of reasons. I hear that Yasmine, who became in 2017 the first Londoner to be made a principal dancer at Covent Garden since Dame Darcey Bussell 28 years earlier, is expecting her first child. 'We are thrilled that we are expecting a little one,' confirms Yasmine, 33, who married private equity boss Riccardo Ghezzi in 2023. She shared this photograph of her holding up ultrasound images of their unborn child. Confirming that their baby is due in December, the ballerina adds: 'I'm stepping away from the spotlight for a little while to embrace a whole new role: motherhood.' Disgraced Huw cuts £500,000 of house price Huw Edwards, who refused to hand back the £200,000 he was paid by the BBC between his arrest and resignation, is having less luck on the property market. I can disclose that the former newsreader, 63, who pleaded guilty to possessing 41 indecent images of children, some of whom were as young as seven, has slashed the asking price of his family home by another £500,000. It comes two months after he cut the price from £4.75million to £4.5million. The six-bedroom property in south-east London had been put on the market last October. It's now yours for £4million. He and his estranged wife, Vicky Flind, bought the 4,200 sq ft home for £1.85 million in 2006. Titanic is loved by millions, apart from Kate Winslet's daughter, Mia Threapleton, who has never watched it all – because of the racy scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio. 'As I got older, kids sort of knew who my mum was,' says Mia, 24, who stars in Wes Anderson's new film, The Phoenician Scheme. 'Sometimes they asked if I'd ever watched the car scene in Titanic and I'd say no.' When she was 12, the film was playing on the family television. 'That was the only scene I ever remember her going, "Oh God!" and covering my eyes! And I remember turning round and saying, "Mum, I can still hear it!"' (Very) modern manners Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville is finding the politically correct literary world challenging. 'I've just handed in my first children's book, Rory Sparks And The Elephant In The Room, which is coming out in October,' he tells me at Goodwoof, the dog show and event at Goodwood in West Sussex. 'It's been through its diversity read, which was interesting. Words you can and can't say these days is quite interesting.' Mimicking his publisher, the actor, 61, says: 'Could you not say cowboy or cowgirl, but cowhand?' 'No, I'm saying cowboy and cowgirl, thank you very much!' Things like that.'
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Legendary '80s Rock Band Praised for Rare Appearance at Cannes
Iconic British band Duran Duran made a stunning return to the spotlight with a rare performance at the amfAR Gala during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, May 22. The annual star-studded benefit, known for merging Hollywood glamour with philanthropy in the fight against AIDS, received a dose of musical nostalgia as the "Hungry Like the Wolf" artists took the stage as headliners after last performing at the amfAR Gala in the event, the group of four—comprised of John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, and Simon Le Bon—stylishly coordinated in black, white, and cream-colored ensembles, while Rhodes chose a standout pale pink satin suit. The musical act was praised by the organization for their presence and continuous support. 'We are so excited to have the iconic Duran Duran back with us at amfAR Gala Cannes and we are grateful for their longstanding support of our work,' Kevin Robert Frost, chief executive officer of amfAR, said, per WWD. This summer, the band is set to head out on a special run of shows, hitting Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Ireland and more. The tour kicks off on June 3 and continues through July 9, 2025, according to their website. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Legendary '80s Rock Band Praised for Rare Appearance at Cannes first appeared on Parade on May 23, 2025
