Beatles legends Paul McCartney and John Lennon met for the very first time at St. Peter’s Church in Liverpool, where Lennon’s skiffle group, the Quarrymen, was playing a show.
The Quarrymen’s sometime bass player Ivan Vaughan, who was McCartney’s classmate at the Liverpool Institute, introduced the 15-year-old McCartney to his bandmates, including a 16-year-old Lennon.
McCartney, who impressed Lennon by playing Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” and other songs at the meeting, was eventually invited to join the group, making his debut in October 1957.
McCartney’s friend George Harrison joined the band about a year later. In 1960, Lennon brought on his art school friend, Stuart Sutcliffe, and the band eventually changed their name to The Beatles.
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne speak onstage during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Sharon Osbourne shared a tribute to her late husband, Ozzy Osbourne, Saturday on what marked the couple’s first wedding anniversary since the metal icon’s death in 2025.
“Today would have been our 46th wedding anniversary,” Sharon wrote in an Instagram post. “Instead, it is a celebration of a love that even death could not diminish.”
The post is accompanied by a closeup image of Ozzy’s hand holding Sharon’s.
“I miss your hand in mine, but I carry your love with me every step of the way,” Sharon continued. “Forever my husband. Forever my heart.”
Ozzy died on July 22, 2025, just over two weeks after performing his final concert at the massive Back to the Beginning show on July 5. He was 76.
In related news, Ozzy’s hometown of Birmingham, England, where Back to the Beginning took place, has launched a photo exhibit dedicated to the concert in celebration of its one-year anniversary.
Duran Duran feat. Nile Rodgers perform on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Duran Duran will once again take the stage for a special Halloween show, this time in London.
The band just announced that their Danse Macabre Halloween Party will be happening Oct. 31 at The O2, London, promising fans a show “packed with twisted hits, unexpected deep cuts and rarely played treasures resurrected from the Duran Duran crypt.” Duran Duran is encouraging fans to dress up for the show and get in the spirit of the holiday.
A VIP presale for tickets kicks off Wednesday, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. BST.
This will be the band’s first Halloween show in London. They first headlined a Halloween show in Las Vegas in 2022, which went on to inspire their 2023 spooky-themed album, Danse Macabre. They then went on to headline Halloween shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Manchester’s Co-op Live in 2024 and 2025, respectively.
The Halloween show will be the final night of an already announced Duran Duran U.K. tour, which launches Oct. 15 in Glasgow, Scotland. A complete list of dates can be found at DuranDuran.com.
Duran Duran headlined BST Hyde Park in London on Saturday where, according to setlist.fm, they were joined by Nile Rodgers for “Notorious” and their latest single, “Free to Love.” The rest of the set featured iconic Duran Duran tunes, including “A View to a Kill,” “Hungry Like The Wolf,” “The Reflex,” “Ordinary World,” “The Wild Boys,” and “Rio,” among others.
ACM new male artist of the year Tucker Wetmore got a “Sunburn” last winter that’s fueling his vision for his sophomore album.
His latest track, titled “Sunburn,” is so far the only new music he’s released since his debut album. For Tucker, the new track had timing on its side.
“I’m a sucker for feel-good songs, and a couple of my buddies actually wrote it while I was out in the islands and they sent it to me,” he recalls. “And I’m like, ‘This feels like the summertime,’ you know? I was in the islands in December so I was feeling all the summertime feelings.”
If you’re wondering what to expect from the follow-up to What Not To, which boasts his number ones “Brunette,” “3,2,1” and “Wind Up Missing’ You,” Tucker says “Sunburn” is a pretty good indication of what’s to come.
“I love the song and it’s very much in the direction of where my music is going in this next project that I’m working on, you know, sonically and lyrically and everything,” he explains. “It just, it fit super well and we got it done, right in time for summer.”
Tucker’s playing lots of fairs and festivals this summer. The next date on the Brunette Tour is coming up July 18 in Indianapolis, with more to follow closer to fall.
Jon Bon Jovi of the band Bon Jovi performs on stage during Rock In Rio day 3 at Cidade do Rock on September 29, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images)
Bon Jovi fans have been waiting for this day for more than four years.
The New Jersey rockers are returning to the road with the launch of the Forever Tour at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.
The tour is the band’s first since 2022, and their first since frontman Jon Bon Jovi underwent vocal cord surgery that year. His recovery was detailed in the band’s 2024 Hulu documentary, Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story.
“It’s been a slog,” he told Planet Rock in 2024 of his recovery. “Nothing that I would ever wish on my worst enemy.”
Bon Jovi announced the tour in October, with Jon thanking fans for sticking by him.
“I’m deeply grateful that the fans and the brotherhood of this band have been patient and allowed me the time needed to get healthy and prepare for touring,” he said. “I’m ready and excited!”
As for his voice, Jon told People in June he’s “fully recovered.” He noted, “It was longer than I’d ever expected, but it had to be right. We never lost faith.”
Fans can expect plenty of hits when the band takes the stage again; one song that’s pretty much guaranteed to be on the setlist is their iconic track “Livin’ on a Prayer.” Bon Jovi previously asked fans to submit videos of themselves singing the iconic hit for a chance to be featured as part of the tour visuals.
Bon Jovi’s Forever Tour begins with nine shows at MSG, which are the tour’s only U.S. dates. It will then head to the U.K. for shows in Ireland and Scotland, before wrapping with three nights at London’s Wembley Stadium.
A complete list of dates can be found at BonJovi.com.
Michael Strahan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos on ‘GMA.’ (ABC News)
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce managed to transform Madison Square Garden — a 19,500 person arena — into an “intimate” and “personal” wedding venue filled with people they love, according to the Good Morning America co-anchors, who all attended Friday’s wedding.
“It really was intimate,” Robin Roberts said Saturday on a special July Fourth edition of GMA, later adding, “They had their neighbors, their high school friends. It was like any wedding that you would attend.”
Roberts said that Swift and Kelce wrote their own vows, with George Stephanopoulos adding that the couple’s vows were written in “little books.”
“It was their dream wedding and it really was amazing,” Michael Strahan said about the ceremony, which was reported to have been attended by around 1,000 guests.
Swift and Kelce have not commented on details about their wedding. A representative for Swift confirmed in a statement to ABC News Friday that the couple wed in a ceremony in New York City officiated by actor and comedian Adam Sandler.
Swift’s brother, Austin, served as her “man of honor,” while Kelce’s brother, Jason, served as his best man. They were the only members of the wedding party, according to the rep.
Swift and Kelce’s wedding celebration Friday was scheduled to take place from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., sources previously told ABC News.
Stephanopoulos said that the couple turned MSG, home to the New York Knicks and Rangers, into a garden of its own.
“[It was] as intimate as it could possibly be given that it was Madison Square Garden. Really this garden inside the Garden. Just so beautiful,” he said. “It’s hard to imagine that a place that big and a wedding with such stars could feel so personal and so intimate.”
Roberts added of the transformation of MSG, “You couldn’t recognize it.”
In addition to Roberts, Stephanopoulos and Strahan, other guests at the wedding were said to have included Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, Benson Boone, Ethan Hawke, Abby Wambach, Jason Sudeikis and NFL stars including Matthew Stafford, Baker Mayfield, Cooper Kupp and Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs teammates.
Roberts also revealed that music legend Stevie Nicks performed.
Cover art for Beyoncé’s ‘Morning Dew (Donk)’ (Parkwood Entertainment)
While America commemorates its 250th anniversary on Fourth of July, the Beyhive has another reason to celebrate. Beyoncé has released her first new song in two years, “MORNING DEW (DONK),” which she co-wrote with The-Dream, Darius Dixon and Pharrell, and co-produced with Pharrell.
The song arrives with a lyric video directed by Cliff Watts and featuring recycled footage. It kicks off the countdown to her birthday on Sept. 4, which will also mark the 20th anniversary of her album B’Day. She is paying tribute to the album with the upcoming release of a 20th anniversary edition.
B’Day marked Bey’s sophomore solo album and featured singles “Ring the Alarm,” “Déjà Vu” featuring JAY-Z and “Irreplaceable,” among others. It charted atop the Billboard 200, becoming her second solo #1 album. It’s now certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA.
In this May 16, 2026, file photo, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are seen in New York. (Xny/star Max/GC Images via Getty Images, FILE)
Sparks are flying for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, whose second wedding event is reportedly being held today at Madison Square Garden, sources familiar with the plans told ABC News.
The event today is slated to take place around 4 p.m. beginning with a cocktail hour. One thousand people are expected to be in attendance at the event, which isn’t scheduled to end until 4 a.m. Saturday morning, sources told ABC News earlier this week.
On Thursday, an SUV with tinted windows believed to be transporting Swift was spotted arriving at MSG around 5 p.m., according to a photo released by Reuters.
Swift and Kelce were scheduled to hold an event at the arena beginning at 6 p.m. for around 100 people, sources previously said.
For both events, a strict no-phone policy is in place for everyone inside the venue, including guests, vendors and security personnel, according to sources.
Representatives for Swift or Kelce have not confirmed any details about the events.
Outside of MSG, home to the New York Knicks, the New York Police Department has put around one dozen street closures in place over Thursday and Friday because of the events.
In addition, access to Moynihan Train Hall and Penn Station, where travelers catch Amtrak and commuter trains, is also being limited, the NYPD said Thursday.
Leading up to this week, there had been growing reports that the couple may tie the knot around the Fourth of July holiday, but neither Swift nor Kelce had confirmed any details publicly.
On Thursday, just hours before their first reported event at MSG, a representative for Swift confirmed to ABC News that she and Kelce had donated $26 million to charities both in New York City and across the United States.
The “Shake It Off” singer and Kansas City Chiefs tight end announced their engagement in August last year, after first sparking speculation about their relationship in the fall of 2023.
Godfather of Harlem, the TV drama about 1960s Harlem gangster Bumpy Johnson, is coming to an end after four seasons, Deadline reports. Instead of a fifth season, the series will wrap with a two-hour series finale. Production is set to begin July 10 in Brooklyn. “Playing Bumpy Johnson has been one of the greatest experiences of my career,” Forest Whitaker said in a statement. “This character, this story, and this ensemble have allowed me to explore the complexity of a man caught between ambition, loyalty, and survival.”
Remy Ma will join Rick Ross as a special guest when his Port of Miami tour hits New York. “NEW YORK… It’s only right. @remyma joins me for the #POM20 celebration. See you at the Beacon Theatre,” he wrote on Instagram. The show takes place on July 10.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani revealed 50 Cent is one of his dream dinner party guests in an interview with Complex’s 360 with Jillian. He said he’d choose him so “we could have a conversation around tax policy.” Elsewhere in the interview, he joked that A$AP Rocky is no competition in a rap battle and that he has a soft spot for Cardi B, who he deems the queen of New York. The full interview is now on YouTube.
Nikki Sixx arrives at the premiere of Netflix’s ‘The Dirt’ at ArcLight Hollywood on March 18, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx marked his 25th sobriety anniversary on Thursday.
“It’s hard to wrap a lifetime of lessons into a few paragraphs, but one thing has never changed: sobriety gave me a life I never imagined was possible,” Sixx writes in an Instagram post. “It gave me my family. It taught me how to be present instead of just existing. It showed me what it means to be a husband, a father, a friend, and a bandmate—not perfectly, but honestly.”
Sixx detailed his drug use in his 2007 book, The Heroin Diaries, which was accompanied by the debut Sixx:A.M. album, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack.
“If my story helps even one person believe there’s another way, then every scar has found a purpose,” Sixx now says. “Twenty-five years later, I don’t celebrate perfection. I celebrate progress. I celebrate love. I celebrate the people who walked beside me when I couldn’t walk alone.”
