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Celebrity Big Brother 2024: Best quotes and moments from the series before grand finale

In preparation for tonight’s grand finale, we’ve picked our top 10 moments from this year’s series

Evening Standard

“We hesitated to say yes. The chances of making fools of ourselves were so big”: Live Aid was Queen’s crowning glory. But they nearly turned it down

In the brand new issue of Classic Rock, Queen reveal how one of the greatest live performances in history almost didn’t happen

Louder

OPINION - Live Aid changed my entire outlook on life — and I'm delighted people can now experience it on a London stage

Live Aid, the music event that brought the word together 39 years ago, was surely the greatest demonstration of the power music can have over hearts and minds. Live Aid was not just a concert, it was a movement that spawned a mood of global communality and left an indelible…

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The week in theatre: Dear Octopus; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Just for One Day – review

Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest

The Guardian - UK

Just For One Day at the Old Vic review: it's sincere, sure, but the Live Aid musical all feels a bit sanitised

Aggressive nostalgia, 80s bangers and corny dialogue: yes, it’s all there

Evening Standard

Just For One Day review – Live Aid musical has soaring voices and pancake-flat characters

Jukebox show celebrating sweary Bob Geldof’s 1985 mega-fundraiser piles homily on cliche in a production in thrall to white saviour stereotypes

The Guardian - UK

"Bob walked in and started berating everyone that was eating." How a furious Bob Geldof ruined a posh feast and inadvertently had Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Springsteen and the rest eating chicken and waffles during We Are The World

This is one anecdote that seems to have been left off of Netflix's The Greatest Night In Pop documentary

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“Check your ego at the door”: The story of USA for Africa’s We Are The World (and why Prince and Madonna aren’t on it)

A new Netflix documentary is set to shed light on the making of the US chart’s fastest-selling hit. We look back at the making of song, and ask why two of the biggest stars of the ‘80s weren’t at the party

MusicRadar

“It was when we knew Roger Waters wasn’t going to be part of anything we did, but before he’d officially left. He had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career

Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, David Gilmour’s association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band

Louder

"Status Quo locked Spandau Ballet in the toilets": The story behind the recording of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?

"I had to record all these vocals and mix the record that night. It was a 24-hour gig": the recording engineer behind the first great charity record reveals all

MusicRadar

Angela Rayner: I'd be a good PM and Corbyn wasn't all bad

The Labour deputy leader has opened up about her ambitions in a candid interview

Evening Standard

Johnny Depp and Nick Cave join thousands to celebrate life of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan

Crowds sing ‘Fairytale of New York’ in the streets as Hollywood actors and legendary musicians pay tribute to the beloved Anglo-Irish poet at a funeral that is musical, eccletic, bittersweet and heartfelt

The Independent UK

Annabel Giles obituary

The Guardian - UK

The Rise and Fall of MuchMusic

Former staffers reveal what made the channel so special—and why MuchMusic has failed to reclaim its former glory despite a relaunch

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The Independent UK

Geldof calls for new solutions to global food crisis at Belfast summit

The singer and songwriter opened the plenary session on hunger at the One Young World Summit at the ICC centre.

The Independent UK

Bob Geldof shares approval as Old Vic announces musical based on 1985 Live Aid

‘Just For One Day’ will open at The Old Vic in January 2024

Evening Standard

Old Vic announces Just For One Day, a new musical telling the story of Live Aid

The 1985 concert was “the day rock ‘n’ roll changed the world” said the London theatre

Evening Standard

What was Live Aid? West End musical to pay tribute to benefit concert

One of the most famous concerts of all time is set to have its tale told on stage, but what was it all about?

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The Guardian - UK

Bob Geldof gives nod of approval to the Old Vic’s Live Aid musical

Just for One Day to tell stories around 1985 fundraising concert during two-month run next year

The Independent UK

Sharon Osbourne condemns Russell Brand comments to Rod Stewart and Bob Geldof: ‘You don’t do that’

Jack Osbourne, meanwhile, said ‘you never want to assume someone you know...is capable of that’

The Independent UK

Sharon Osbourne condemns Russell Brand comments to Rod Stewart and Bob Geldof: ‘You don’t do that’

Jack Osbourne, meanwhile, said ‘you never want to assume someone you know...is capable of that’

The Independent UK

‘You don’t do that’: Sharon Osbourne condemns Russell Brand comments to Rod Stewart and Bob Geldof

Jack Osbourne, meanwhile, said ‘you never want to assume someone you know...is capable of that’

The Independent UK

Russell Brand’s history of dating celebrities – and clashing with their loved ones

Russell Brand has dated (or claimed to have dated) a number of famous daughters – at times resulting in very public spats

The Independent UK

Russell Brand’s history of dating celebrities – and clashing with their loved ones

Russell Brand has dated a number of famous daughters - at times resulting in very public spats

The Independent UK

Russell Brand’s history of dating celebrities – and then antagonising their loved ones

Russell Brand has dated a number of famous daughters - at times resulting in very public spats

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