Roger Waters and David Gilmour are currently feuding, but Waters took to social media to declare that he has nothing but admiration for his former bandmate’s ability to play guitar.
Waters took issue with a piece that journalist Stuart Maconie wrote for the British publication New Statesman. In it, he referred to an article in the Spanish paper El Pais that quoted Waters as saying he was planning to remove Gilmour’s “horrible guitar solos” from his new version of The Dark Side of the Moon.
In a Twitter posting, Waters said he had to “set the record straight” about something in Maconie’s story. Referring to the “horrible guitar solos” quote, Waters wrote, “I don’t know who he thinks he’s quoting when he says Gilmour’s ‘horrible guitar solos’ but it sure as s**t ain’t me.”
He continued, “I was there, I love Dave’s guitar solos on DSOTM, both of them, and on [Wish You Were Here] and on ANIMALS and on THE WALL and on THE FINAL CUT…Dave’s solos on those albums constitute a collection of some of the very best guitar solos in the history of Rock and Roll.”
He then addressed Maconie, writing, “Please check your copy with the subjects of your grubby little piece, before you go to print.” The current version of Maconie’s article now notes that the El Pais quote has been removed.
Of course, there still hasn’t been any resolution between Waters and Gilmour regarding their most recent war of words. Earlier this month, Gilmour’s partner, Polly Samson, tweeted a slew of insults at Waters, to which Gilmour added, “Every word demonstrably true.”
Waters threatened legal action and, then speaking to The Telegraph , claimed Gilmour and late Pink Floyd member Rick Wright “can’t write songs…They have no ideas, not a single one between them.”
L-R: Fox, Lloyd, Thompson, Wilson in 2018 – Che Rosales/Getty Images
Lea Thompson was reunited with her Back to the Future co-stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Tom Wilson over the weekend at a pop culture convention, posting a selfie that gave fans all the feels.
The quartet from the movie trilogy, which started with the 1985 original, was shown smiling at the camera during Fan Expo Portland, and took to their socials to mark the occasion.
Thompson, who played Fox’s mom, Lorraine Baines-McFly, in the films, noted, “Wow honestly had the best time today with my #bttf family.”
Fox posted a photo of him and Thompson together on a now-vanished Instagram Story, noting, “I love being at these FanExpo events and seeing some of my favorite people like Lea, Tom, Chris and all you #bttf heads. Heavy.”
Wilson, who starred as Biff Tannen in the original and played both the bully’s offspring, Griff, and also his progenitor, Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen in the course of the time-spanning trilogy, also shared the selfie, captioning, “Okay, so this happened. 2023.”
In one of actress-director Thompson’s videos, she warmly embraced Lloyd, who played Dr. Emmett Brown, and in another hugged Wilson, calling him, “my favorite, favorite guy,” to which he answered, “I love this lady.” She then playfully asked him, “I’m a butthead, right?” aping one of Biff’s famous put-downs. Wilson responded, “I’ve never done this to you, I don’t bring this out …for anybody,” and pretended to knock on her head, and quoted his character, saying, “Hello, anybody home? Think, Lea!”
Fox and Lloyd recently reunited at New York Comic Con in October 2022.
While adding the taste of dirty, sweaty feet to your adult beverage doesn’t seem like a good idea, drinking out of one’s shoe — or “doing a shoey” — is apparently a beloved tradition in Australia. So who was Harry Styles to argue?
In fan-shot video of his concert in Perth, Monday night, Harry is seen asking if anyone has a drink they can lend him in order to try his hand at the activity. “Can we do a shoey with water or is that against the rules? No?” he asks.
After pouring water into his sneaker, Harry announces, “This is one of the most disgusting traditions I’ve ever witnessed,” before shotgunning it into his mouth as the crowd cheers.
Harry’s in the middle of the Down Under leg of his Love on Tour trek, which takes him to Melbourne later this week. After wrapping up his run of shows in Australia, he’ll head to New Zealand, then to Asia and on to Europe.
Earlier this month, Harry’s album Harry’s House was named Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards.
Guns N’ Roses are hitting the road for the first time since 2021.
The band’s 2023 world tour will start June 5 in Tel Aviv, Israel and storm through Europe through July 22. The North American dates kick off August 5 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada and will hit arenas and stadiums across the U.S. and Canada, wrapping up in Vancouver on October 16.
U.S. stops include August 15 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, August 21, at Boston’s Fenway Park and August 24 at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
The band’s ‘Nightrain’ presale starts Wednesday, February 22 at 10 a.m. local time. The general on-sale date for all shows starts February 24 at 10 a.m. local time via gunsnroses.com. The website also has full details about VIP packages and more.
Interest in Axl Rose and company remains high: Their video for “November Rain” just hit two billion views on YouTube, and last year, the vinyl version of their Use Your Illusion I & II box set sold out.
(NEW YORK) — ABC News’ Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts said she is “beaming in gratitude” as she marks the 10th anniversary of her return to GMA after undergoing a lifesaving bone marrow transplant.
On Feb. 20, 2013, Roberts returned to the GMA set after spending nearly six months off the air while undergoing treatment.
“I have been waiting 174 days to say this, ‘Good morning, America,'” Roberts said in her first on-camera remarks upon her return.
Nearly one year prior, in June 2012, Roberts announced to GMA viewers that she had been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a condition that occurs when blood cells don’t form and don’t work properly, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Roberts, who years earlier had beat breast cancer, would go on to endure months of treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
On Sept. 20, 2013, Roberts underwent a lifesaving bone marrow transplant using stem cells from her sister Sally-Ann Roberts, who was her perfect match.
“I was blessed to have the perfect match, the greatest gift from my sister Sally-Ann,” Roberts said Tuesday on GMA. “In those challenging moments to follow, focusing in on the fight and not the fright during my intensive treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering.”
Roberts shared her health journey with GMA viewers, following a lesson she said she learned from her beloved mother, Lucimarian Roberts, to “make my mess my message.”
Her hope, she said, in sharing her own story was to “help others through their own journey.”
That hope continued for Roberts when she returned to the GMA anchor desk on Feb. 20, 2013.
“Those 174 days there was a lot of challenges. There was a lot of fear,” Roberts said. “I was really grateful to be able to once again say, ‘Good morning, America,’ and also grateful and hopeful that by being back, I could somehow be a symbol to others going through something that this too shall pass.”
In the decade since her return to GMA, Roberts has continued to “make her mess her message” by raising awareness about the need for bone marrow donation.
While Roberts’ sister was luckily her perfect match, about 70% of patients on bone marrow registry lists do not have a family match and rely on anonymous donors for a cure, according to the Be The Match registry, a nonprofit organization operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, which manages the world’s largest bone marrow donor registry.
Even then, a patient’s chance of having a matched, available donor on the Be The Match registry ranges from 29% to 79%, depending on the patient’s ethnic background.
Over the past decade, Roberts and GMA have continued to report extensively about blood stem cell transplants, which can cure or treat more than 75 different diseases, such as leukemias and lymphomas, and spread awareness of the importance of the Be The Match registry.
Now more than ever the need is urgent as over 12,000 people are diagnosed each year with conditions that require a blood stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor, according to Be The Match.
Be The Match reports regional and national recruitment efforts decreased 36% during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and that only 50% of people on the registry will go on to make a donation when they’re a match for a patient in need.
Be The Match has put a call out in particular for younger donors under the age of 40, as research has shown younger donors help improve overall outcomes for patients, according to the Mayo Clinic.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Roberts’ return to GMA, the show partnered with Be The Match to host bone marrow registry drives across the country.
The effort focused particularly on college campuses in order to reach donors under the age of 40.
“Still a decade later, our hope is to inspire others to help others be a match,” Roberts said Tuesday, adding that she is “filled with gratitude” for the “love, support and prayers” she has received over the years.
The NAACP kicked off the week by announcing the first round of winners at the 54th NAACP Image Awards, with Beyoncé, Rihanna and Tems among them.
The awards announced Monday were part of the non-televised categories, which included Outstanding Female Artist, Outstanding International Song and more. The NAACP Image Awards will continue their week-long celebration, ending with the live awards show airing Saturday, February 25 at 8 p.m. ET on BET.
Here is the complete list of first-round winners:
Outstanding International Song
“No Woman No Cry” – Tems
Outstanding Jazz Album – Instrumental
“JID014 (Jazz is Dead)” – Henry Franklin, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge
Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song
“Positive” – Erica Campbell
Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album
“Kingdom Book One” – Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional)
Silk Sonic – “Love’s Train”
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary)
Chris Brown feat. Wizkid – “Call Me Every Day”
Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album
“Lift Me Up” – Rihanna
Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Music From and Inspired By – Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis and Dave Jordan
Outstanding Male Artist
Chris Brown – “BREEZY” (Deluxe)
Outstanding Female Artist
Beyoncé – “Renaissance”
Outstanding Soul/R&B Song
Cuff It – “Beyoncé”
Outstanding Hip-Hop/Rap Song
“Hotel Lobby” – Quavo, Takeoff
Barbara Bosson, the actress best known for her role as Fay Furillo, wife of Daniel J. Travanti‘s Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues from 1981-86, died Saturday in Los Angeles, her son, Jesse Bochco, confirmed Monday on Instagram. She was 83 years old. Bosson’s other acting credits include Cop Rock and The Last Starfighter, as well as guest appearances in Mannix, L.A. Law and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In 1970, Bosson was married to Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law writer-producer Steven Bochco from 1970-1997. Bochco died in 2018…
Ahead of Outer Banks‘ season 3 premiere, Netflix has renewed the drama series for a fourth season, according to Deadline. Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Austin North, Drew Starkey and Charles Esten are returning for season 3, along with Carlacia Grant, who has been promoted to series regular. Outer Banks, which follows a group of teens dubbed the Pogues as they embark on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, has been huge a hit for Netflix since its debut. Seasons 1 and 2 are currently available to stream on Netflix…
Variety reports Big Shot and The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers have been canceled at Disney+. Big Shot starred John Stamos as Marvyn Korn, a men’s basketball coach whose temperamental nature has him ousted from the NCAA and ends up coaching girls at an elite private high school. The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers — a sequel to 1992 film The Mighty Ducks, followed Lauren Graham as Alex, the mother of 12-year-old Evan, played by Brady Noon, who’s cut from the titular youth hockey team and becomes a competitive powerhouse. Together, Alex and Evan recruit a new group of misfits to take on the “cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of competitive youth sports”…
Stella Stevens, the actress best known for her roles in The Nutty Professor and The Poseidon Adventure, died Friday in Los Angeles after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, her son, actor-producer Andrew Stevens, and her longtime friend John O’Brien confirmed to Deadline. She was 84. A former Playboy centerfold, Stevens also starred opposite Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! and Dean Martin in How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, among others. Her TV credits include Bonanza, Ben Casey, Wonder Woman, The Love Boat, Police Story, Hart to Hart, Newhart, Magnum, P.I. and Night Court…
(OAKWOOD, Ohio) — One person was killed and multiple others were injured in a fiery explosion at a manufacturing plant in Ohio, according to a local official.
Steven Mullins, a 46-year-old man from North Ridgeville, Ohio, was found dead at the scene, said Christopher Harris, external affairs manager of the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The Monday afternoon explosion took place at I. Schumann & Co., which manufactures brass and bronze alloy, in Oakwood, Ohio, according to Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS-TV.
Firefighters were able to get the blaze under control.
There were “multiple burn victims” from inside the plant taken to the hospital, Bedford Heights Police Department Sgt. Robert Majer told ABC News.
WEWS initially reported that 14 people were injured, including one critically.
Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania overcame uneven reviews to score the biggest opening weekend in the Ant-Man trilogy, delivering an estimated $120 million over the long Presidents Day weekend and $105 million between Friday and Sunday at the domestic box office, beating expectations.
The film — starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonathan Majors and Kathryn Newton — added an estimated $121 million at the international box office, bringing its global total to $225 million.
Avatar: The Way of Water held on to second place, earning $6.4 million over the weekend and an estimated $7.88 million through Monday. James Cameron‘s sequel to 2009’s Avatar has generated $658 million in North America, passing 2015’s Jurassic World as the ninth-highest-grossing movie in domestic box office history. After 10 weeks, The Way of Water eclipsed $2.2433 billion globally, overtaking Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic as the third-highest-grossing movie of all time.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish took third place with $5.3 million over the traditional weekend and an estimated $7 million over the four-day weekend.
Last week’s box office champ, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, fell to fourth place, collecting $5.46 million between Monday and Friday and an estimated $6.2 million through Monday, bringing its North American haul to $18.85 million.
The psychological thriller Knock at the Cabin rounded out the top five with $3.9 million over the three-day weekend and $4.59 million through Monday.
The weekend’s only other new major release, Marlowe — the crime thriller starring Liam Neeson — finished in ninth place, only managing to earn $1.9 million over the three-day and an estimated $3 million through Monday.
Shawn Mendes is opening up about the “very difficult” decision to cancel his tour last year.
In a new interview with WSJ. Magazine, the “In My Blood” singer reflected on his decision to cancel his tour dates to focus on his mental health.
“The process was very difficult. A lot of doing therapy, a lot of trying to understand how I was feeling and what was making me feel that way,” he explained. “And then doing the work to help myself and heal. And also leaning on people in my life to help a little bit.”
Mendes added that although it’s been “a lot of work…the last year-and-a-half has been the most eye-opening and growing and beautiful and just healing process of my life.”
“I’m also really grateful for all the people that were so accepting and loving and kind and understanding,” he continued. “And it just really made me see how culture is really starting to get to a place where mental health is really becoming a priority.”
In July, Mendes, 24, canceled the rest of his Wonder Tour so that he could prioritize his mental health.
The “Stiches” singer also discussed his decision to shave his head, telling the outlet, “I think everyone should know what they look like with a shaved head. I also was just feeling this urge to just shake myself up a little bit.”
And when it comes to new music, Mendes shared, “I’m at the point where I’m like, ‘OK, I’m ready to start making some songs,’ which is exciting.”
