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Nov302020 by adminNo Comments

What to stream: Celebrity holiday specials

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Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, BTS, The Weeknd, Carrie Underwood, Thomas Rhett and more big names in music are taking part in a number of holiday specials. Here's a list of the holiday specials set to arrive in November and December. Advertisement 'Disney Holiday Singalong' -- ABC Katy Perry, BTS and Pink will perform during the 2020 Disney Holiday Singalong, which airs Monday at 8 p.m. EST on ABC. The special will also feature the Broadway casts of The Lion King and Aladdin, the North American touring company of Frozen, Andrew Bocelli, Michael Bublé, Ciara, Chloe X Halle, Derek Hough, Hayley Erbert, Julianne Hough, Adam Lambert, Leslie Odom Jr. and Kerry Washington. Ryan Seacrest will host the hourlong musical event. 'CMA Country Christmas' -- ABC Countr...

Feb92019 by adminNo Comments

The Specials score first number one album after 40 years

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The Specials have thanked fans after scoring their first-ever number one album - 40 years on from the release of their debut.Encore, the new album from the ska legends, saw off competition from noughties pop-punk band Busted, who had also been hoping to top the album charts for the first time. After numerous splits and reunions over the years, the current incarnation of The Specials features original members Lynval Golding, Terry Hall and Horace Panter. Image: The Specials were famous for hits including Ghost Town and Too Much Too Young in the '70s and '80s Speaking to OfficialCharts.com after getting the number one, the band said in a statement: "Recording the album has been one of the most amazing trips of our lives. What ...

Jan312019 by adminNo Comments

The Specials star speaks out about paedophile abuse at age of 12

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The Specials frontman Terry Hall has spoken out about being abducted by paedophiles when he was aged just 12.In a candid interview with comedian Richard Herring for his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, the singer, now 59, brought it up after talking about growing up in Coventry. He said "the route" for teenagers in the city was usually to work in a car factory, but that the incident changed him.Hall said he took valium to cope and ended up dropping out of school. Image: Hall joined The Specials soon after they started in 1977 "At 12 I got abducted by a paedophile ring in France and that was a real eye-opener," he said. "I can laugh about it now but it sort of switched something in my head and it's like I don't have to do that...

Sep52018 by adminNo Comments

Specials singer 'numb' after grandson stabbed to death

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The Specials singer Neville Staple has said he is "numb" following the fatal stabbing of his grandson Fidel Glasgow. The 21-year-old man died in hospital less than 12 hours after being knifed in the stomach outside a nightclub in Coventry early on Saturday morning.Mr Staple, who found fame with the Ska band in the late 1970s, told a news conference in the city: "It's quite numb for me. Image: Fidel Glasgow, the grandson of The Specials singer Neville Staple, was fatally stabbed "The knife crime stuff that's been around now, I'm really feeling that because when we do shows, we talk about that, encourage the fans if they know anybody to try to straighten it out. We're advocates for don't carry knives."At the moment I can...