The Rolling Stones brought their SIXTY tour to Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium on Thursday, marking the first time the band played in the English city since 1971.
For their fifth song of the concert, The Rolling Stones appropriately played “I Wanna Be Your Man,” a tune written by two of Liverpool’s favorite sons — The Beatles‘ John Lennon and Paul McCartney — that also happened to be one of The Stones’ first singles.
Rolling Stone magazine reports that Mick Jagger introduced the tune during the Liverpool show by telling the crowd, “We had decided to rehearse a special version of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ [the Gerry and the Pacemakers hit adopted by Liverpool’s soccer team], but we decided instead to do a cover song written by other local lads, so we’ll do this especially for you.” RollingStone.com shared fan-shot footage of the performance.
Lennon and McCartney had given “I Wanna Be Your Man” to The Stones in 1963, and in November of that year it became the band’s second single and first top-20 hit in the U.K., reaching #12 on the chart. Later that same month, The Beatles released their own version of the tune, with drummer Ringo Starr on lead vocals, on their U.K. album With The Beatles.
The last time The Rolling Stones performed “I Wanna Be Your Man” in concert was in 2012, when they dusted the song off for three shows during their 50th anniversary tour.
You can check out the full set list of The Stones’ Liverpool concert at the band’s socialmediapages. The show was the fifth performance of the group’s 60th anniversary trek, which kicked off June 1 in Madrid. The European outing continues Monday, June 13, in Amsterdam and runs through a July 31 concert in Stockholm, Sweden.
With Top Gun: Maverick still flying high in theaters, the 1986 original is maintaining air — or, more accurately, streaming — superiority for a fifth straight week.
The film starring Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer and Kelly McGillis topped the list of all streaming competition once again, according to streaming service aggregator app Reelgood.
Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+ ranked second for this week, and Netflix’s powerhouse Stranger Things finished in third place.
Rounding out the Top 5 for this week were Amazon Prime’s The Boys and The Northman on Peacock, according to real time data from the app’s 5 million users.
More details about Britney Spears wedding are out, thanks to Vogue, whichwas front and center at the ceremony.
Britney tied the knot with Sam Asghari at her Thousand Oaks, California, home and revealed she knew exactly what she wanted for her big day. “We really wanted to make this a small and beautiful moment with family and friends,” she said. “We wanted warm and feminine colors, including blush, white, cream and gold, and a lot of various shades of pinks, blush and reds.”
The guest list included Madonna, Selena Gomez, will.i.am, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Britney’s dress designer, Donatella Versace. The fashion icon sculpted a custom, off-the-shoulder white dress with an open neckline and a long slit up the side. As for Sam, he wore a complementary Versace tux.
Among the decorations was a sea of pink, velvet and blush roses and an ornate, princess-like carriage pulled by a white horse with gold hooves. The ceremony lasted 10 minutes, and Britney had three separate outfit changes — by Versace — for her reception.
The outlet reports she and Sam did not have a first dance, but Britney did take over the dance floor with Selena and Madonna. The “Toxic” singer also joined Paris to belt out the heiress’s hit “Stars Are Blind.”
The reception wrapped at 10:15 p.m. The couple climbed into a Rolls Royce and were driven away to their happily ever after as guests waved sparklers in the air.
Britney and Sam first began dating in 2016 after meeting on the set of her “Slumber Party” music video. The Iranian-born actor popped the question in September 2021 with a 4-carat diamond ring.
This is Britney’s third marriage and Sam’s first. Britney shares two sons with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
With the release of his 15th studio album, Substance, on Friday, gospel great Marvin Sapp is showing no sign of slowing down.
The 50-minute project boasts 11 message-oriented tracks that, as Apple Music puts it, are “rooted in soulful pop-gospel R&B.”
The Texas pastor and co-founder of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, told Rolling Outof the new album, “Substance is what I believe that we need to stand on.”
“I wanted to make sure that this particular record was something that people could stand on, something that they can listen to, and apply the principles of the song to their lives so that the rest of [their] days can be the best of their days,” he said.
Sapp says the lead single, “All in Your Hands,” which released in March, was born out of the pandemic.
“When we looked at where we were, all of us said the only way we’re going to be able to get through any of this is if we put it in God’s hands, because we’re supposed to cast our cares upon him,” he told Rolling Out.
Also on the album is a special 25th anniversary remix version of his 1997 hit, “Grace and Mercy.”
Check out Sapp’s new album, Substance, available on major streaming platforms today.
Five Finger Death Punch has premiered a new song called “Welcome to the Circus,” the opening track off the band’s upcoming album, AfterLife.
“Welcome to the Circus,” which is available now via digital outlets, is the third cut to be released off AfterLife, following the title track and the cut “IOU.” The whole album is set to arrive August 19.
Meanwhile, the song “AfterLife,” which is also the record’s lead single, has hit #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. Five Finger Death Punch now has a streak of eight straight #1 hits on Mainstream Rock Airplay, breaking a tie with Shinedown and Disturbed for the most consecutive leaders in the chart’s 41-year history.
Five Finger Death Punch will launch a U.S. tour in support of AfterLife in August. The bill will also include Megadeth, The Hu and Fire from the Gods.
Machine Gun Kelly has premiered a new song called “More Than Life.”
The track, which features rising teenage musician glaive, will appear on the upcoming vinyl edition of MGK’s new album, Mainstream Sellout, due out June 24.
You can listen to “More Than Life” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
Mainstream Sellout, the follow-up to 2020’s Tickets to My Downfall, first dropped in March. The Travis Barker-produced record includes collaborations with WILLOW, Bring Me the Horizon, blackbear and Lil Wayne.
Earlier this week, Kelly launched his U.S. headlining tour in support of Mainstream Sellout. Openers include Barker, WILLOW, blackbear and Avril Lavigne, depending on the date.
(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is lifting pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements for international travelers to the United States, according to a senior White House official.
Effective Sunday, those traveling to the U.S. will no longer need a negative COVID-19 test one day before their flight to the country.
Dolly Parton’s long-standing Buddy Program is getting a new dose of attention, thanks to a TikTok video that racked up 148.1 thousand view and counting in its first few days up.
In the video, a TikTok user named Cam shares a story from his co-worker, who went to the same high school as the country legend. “Not at the same time, but the same high school,” he clarifies. And that would have been notable enough for a story in its own right, but the co-worker added, “And when I graduated, she gave me $500.”
As the video notes, $500 when the co-worker graduated is equivalent to $1,061.34 in 2022, and Dolly’s gift was part of an initiative that made a massive difference in graduation rates. Launched in 1988, the Buddy Program began when Dolly promised every 7th and 8th grade student in her home county that she would personally give them $500 if they graduated.
“And I started looking into it after my shift was over,” Cam continued in the TikTok video. “Tell me how Dolly Parton single-handedly drove down the drop-out rate from 30 percent to six.”
It’s true: In fact, according the the Dollywood Foundation’s website, the program actually took the high school drop-out rate in Sevier County from 35 percent to six percent, and fostered the community to implement more initiatives incentivizing students to finish high school.
“That’s only one of the initiatives from the Dollywood Foundation. There’s more,” the video concludes. For example, Dolly’s Imagination Library gifts a free book each month to children under five.
(UVALDE, Texas) — Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has broken his silence since the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School and is defending the police response to the mass shooting that saw 19 children and two teachers killed.
Arredondo — who was sworn in as a city council member in late May — told The Texas Tribune he didn’t consider himself the commanding officer on the scene that day, and he also claimed no one told him about the 911 calls that came in during the 77 minutes before the gunman was taken down.
This comes after a new report in the New York Times describes a briefing to state officials that “more than a dozen of the 33 children and three teachers originally in the two classrooms remained alive during the 1 hour and 17 minutes” from when the shooting began to when officers initially entered.
According to an official interviewed by the Times, “investigators have been working to determine whether any of those who died could have been saved if they received medical attention sooner.” At least one teacher and three children reportedly died after being evacuated from the school.
Arredondo claimed he didn’t bring his radios with him because time was of the essence and he said the radios would get in his way, and he wanted to have his hands free, telling The Texas Tribune one had a whiplike antenna that hit him when he ran, and one had a clip he said would cause it to fall off his tactical belt during a long run.
The chief also told The Tribune the radios didn’t work in some school buildings, which he said he knew from experience.
Arredondo said he teamed up with a Uvalde police officer when he arrived on the scene and began checking classrooms, searching for the suspected shooter.
“Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,” Arredondo told The Texas Tribune. “We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced. Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat.”
However, state investigators, according to a preliminary assessment, believe the decision to delay police entry into the Robb Elementary School classroom was made in order to allow time for protective gear to arrive on scene, an official briefed on a closed-door presentation by the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety told ABC News.
Waiting for protective gear contradicts active shooter protocols that have been adopted by law enforcement agencies across the country in the last 20 years.
The DPS information is based, in part, on transcripts from 911 calls, dispatch audio and body camera recordings. The review is ongoing and the DPS preliminary findings have not been made public.
The official confirmed to ABC News that Arredondo appeared to be aware police needed to move faster as shots were being fired in two classrooms.
“People are going to ask why we’re taking so long,” according to one of the transcripts, as relayed by the official to ABC News. The statement is believed by investigators to have been uttered by Arredondo during the 77 minute rampage.
At 11:35 a.m. on May 24, three Uvalde Police Department officers entered the school using the same door as the shooter, which had not locked upon being closed. Law enforcement is looking into why the door did not lock.Those officers were later followed by three other Uvalde police officers and a county deputy sheriff, authorities said.
A total of seven officers were in the school and two sustained “grazing wounds” from the gunman, who fired down the hallway from behind a closed door, according to Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
At 12:03, a 911 call was made from classroom 112, according to McCraw. That person called back at 12:10 p.m. and said there were multiple people dead in the classroom. The 911 caller made another call at 12:13 p.m., according to McCraw.
In a portion of a videotape obtained by ABC News from outside of Robb Elementary School, what appears to be a police radio dispatcher details a 911 call from a student inside room 112 who describes a room “full of victims” at about 12:13 p.m.
Arredondo claimed he wasn’t aware of the 911 calls because he didn’t have his radio, and that the other officers in the hallway did not have radio communications. He also said if they had radios they would have been off to avoid alerting the gunman about their location.
He found no way to enter the classroom, called for a SWAT team from his cellphone and then waited in the hallway, according to The Texas Tribune.
However, the chief also claims he didn’t give orders not to breach the doors.
“I didn’t issue any orders,” Arredondo said. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door.”
At 12:16 p.m., the 911 caller called again and said eight to nine students are still alive, according to McCraw.
The 911 caller inside room 112 called at 12:43 p.m. and asked for police to be sent in, according to McCraw. That caller again asked for police to be sent in at 12:47 p.m., McCraw said.
Officers from the Border Patrol tactical unit breached the classroom door using a set of keys acquired from a school janitor at 12:50 p.m. Officers shot and killed the gunman in classroom 111, sources told ABC News.
A janitor first brought six keys, then eventually brought a set of 20-30 keys to the chief, The Texas Tribune reported.
“Each time I tried a key I was just praying,” Arredondo told the outlet.
Karsen Liotta, the 23-year-old daughter of Goodfellas star Ray Liotta, posted a tribute to him on Instagram Thursday, following his untimely death last month.
On a throwback photo of herself as a young girl, being carried by her famous father, she captioned, “Those who knew him, loved him. You are the best Dad anyone could ask for. I love you. Thank you for everything,” following it with a heart emoji.
Liotta died in his sleep at 67 on May 26 in the Dominican Republic, where he was with his fiancée Jacy Nittolo while shooting a movie.
Among those who were first to respond to the sweet post was writer-director Joe Carnahan, who directed Liotta in the acclaimed cop movie Narc. “He was the best,” Carnahan agreed. The Boss Level filmmaker had posted a lengthy tribute to the star when news broke of his passing, saying in part, “I will never be able to adequately describe what this man did for me.”
Incidentally, Liotta explained on Live with Kelly and Ryan that it was his daughter who introduced him to his fiancée Nittolo. Karsen and Nittolo’s son Chazz are friends, and she thought her father and her friend’s mom would hit it off. Liotta and Nittolo announced their engagement in December of 2020.
