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KANYE WEST ANNOUNCES THAT HE IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

Kanye West has announced that he is running for president again in 2024. A video surfaced this past weekend of Ye Alt-Right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos. Ye revealed that Milo will work on his campaign. When someone asked, "Is that an announcement?" Yiannopoulos responded, "I guess it is. Thanks, I accept."

The cameraman then asked Ye, Ye laughs and says, "Yes. It's simple 'cause ain't nobody can tell me, you know, ‘You should say this, you shouldn't say that,' you know? It's just we're moving towards the future."

KANYE SKIPS DEPOSITION IN KIM KARDASHIAN DIVORCE CASE

In other Ye news, according to TMZ, Ye didn't show up to a scheduled deposition in his divorce with Kim Kardashian. In legal docs, the parties agree that the deposition will now happen on November 29th at 9:30 am.

Miley Cyrus will ring in the new year with a new co-host.

The second iteration of Miley's New year's Eve Party will feature global superstar Dolly Parton.

According to a press release, the NBC special, executive produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, promises an A-list lineup of yet-to-be-announced musical performances and special guests.

Miley's New Year's Eve Party will air live on NBC from Miami on Saturday, Dec. 31 from 10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET and will also stream live on Peacock.

Brian May says that Queen + Adam Lambert are eying a return to the road in 2023. During a new chat with Variety, May admitted, "There's a strong possibility that we'll be going out together again. We're talking about that as you and I speak, making those decisions. Now, it does get to be more of a decision as you get older. I'm not 35 anymore, and leaving home for two months is not easy. But we feel as like if we're all fit and well, that we'd like to go out there one more time. It would probably be in the United States in 2023 at some point. I'm hoping that happens, but it's a strong possibility."

May went on to say, "The new music thing? I've got to tell you it hasn't happened yet, but we do bring the subject up. Generally, when we are together, the live show is all-consuming. There isn't really time to discuss any studio action. We feel as if the live stuff is what the public wants. And when we're not on tour, Adam has his own career -- he just gave me some stuff that he's working on for his next album, and it's remarkable. So, I suppose that the opportunity to make an album together doesn't come up, but I'm not saying that it couldn't happen."

Brian May told us a while back that he struggled with revamping Queen as a live act following Freddie Mercury's death in 1991: "I started to see it from the outside, in a sense, y'know? It was a long grieving process, in a sense, losing Freddie, y'know, and I was resistant to doing anything -- I didn't even want to talk about Queen for such a long time. And then finally, you, you realize the love that is out there, and I thought, 'Well, yeah, if I was out there, I would like to see us go out and do the songs.'"

Sam Smith's new single, "Unholy" ft. Kim Petras, has attained Platinum certification in a year when only 14 singles have achieved RIAA Platinum status.

The news, shared in a press release, comes as "Unholy" ascends to the #1 position on the Mediabase Top 40 Airplay chart.

Released by Capitol Records on September 22nd, the track, which is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, is the first and only pop collaboration of 2022 to be certified Platinum and the third collaboration across all genres to reach this milestone.

It was 54 years ago today (November 22nd, 1968) that the Beatles released their 30-song self-titled double album, which was commonly known as the "White Album." The album's release followed the group's extended stay in Rishikesh, India where they studied transcendental meditation under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Most of the songs from "The White Album" were written while the group was in India, including "Back In The U.S.S.R.," "Yer Blues," "I Will," "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill," "Revolution 1," "Rocky Raccoon," "I'm So Tired," "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da," "Dear Prudence," "Mother Nature's Son," and John Lennon's thinly-veiled attack on the Maharishi, titled "Sexy Sadie."

Other highlights on the album included Eric Clapton guesting on George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Julia," "Helter Skelter," "Glass Onion," "Martha My Dear," "Birthday," and Ringo Starr's first composition, the country-flavored "Don't Pass Me By."

Several songs originally intended for the "White Album" turned up on later solo albums, such as "Junk," which Paul McCartney released on his 1970 solo debut McCartney; "Child Of Nature," which Lennon rewrote as "Jealous Guy" for his 1971 album Imagine; "Not Guilty," which made its way onto Harrison's 1979 self-titled album; "Circles," which saw release on his 1982 album Gone Troppo; and McCartney's "Cosmically Conscious" which appeared on 1993's Off The Ground album -- with an extended version appearing on the B-side of the title track's single.

Paul Saltzman, the author of the photo book, The Beatles In India, spent weeks within the group's inner circle at the Maharishi's ashram. He says that he never so much as saw the Beatles smoke a cigarette -- let alone partake in any illicit drugs: "That was their single most creative period of time in their history. Dennis O'Dell, (who) used to be the head of Apple Films in the '60s, said to me about a year ago: 'Do you know how many songs they wrote in India?' -- and I said, 'Do you know how much?' And he said, 'I sure do. When John and Paul came back I asked them how many songs did they write? And Paul answered '48.' In less than eight weeks. Paul was only there five weeks, George and John eight weeks and of course Ringo, 11 days."

In a sick example of the Beatles' growing influence in popular culture, Charles Manson and his "family" members credited the "White Album" as their inspiration for the vicious August 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles.

Not long before his 2016 death, producer George Martin, who was behind the boards for all the Beatles albums and a handful of solo McCartney discs, told us that McCartney's 1968 "White Album" classic "Blackbird" as one of his all-time favorites: "I always liked the finger-picking style of guitar playing, from both John and Paul. And when Paul did 'Blackbird' it was such a simple way of performing a song -- all by himself, nothing else -- just tapping away with his foot."

Martin said that the album still sounds more like the work of four solo artists rather than one unified band: "They came back from abroad. . . They'd been away for quite a while after the death of (manager) Brian Epstein. They came back and presented me with 33 songs, which they all wanted to record at once, literally. They said, 'Well, you've got another studio. George has something going in one studio, and I can go in another,' says Paul. I was running from one studio to another, doing a kind of executive role."

George Martin recalled that the material seemed to not be up to the Beatles' usual standards when they first presented it to him: "A lot of the recordings, they would have a basic idea, and then they would have a jam session to end it, which sometimes didn't sound too good. But this was fairly small criticism. When they did The White Album, I thought we should have made a very, very good single album out of it, rather than make a double album out of it. I think it was an album that could have been a fantastically good album if it had been compressed a bit and condensed. But a lot people I know think its the best album they made. So, it's not my view."

Paul McCartney didn't buy into Martin's revisionist beliefs that it could have made a single album on par with Revolver and other single-disc Beatles masterpieces: "Well, y'know, you can always say that. Perhaps I'll go with -- but not definitely -- in fact I think it's a fine little album. I think the fact that it's got so much on it is one of the things that's cool about it, 'cause they're very varied stuff, y'know 'Rocky Raccoon,' 'Piggies,' 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' -- that kind of stuff. I think it's a fine album. I'm not one for that: 'Maybe it was too many of that -- what do you mean? It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles' White Album -- shut up!"

George Harrison defended the group's decision to release a 30-song album: "But y'know, what do you do when you've got all them songs and you want to get rid of them so that you can do more songs? Y'know, there was a lot of ego in that band, and there was a lot of songs (on The White Album) that should have been elbowed, or maybe made into B-sides." 15

The Beatles' late-chief engineer Geoff Emerick -- who was the first engineer to score a Grammy for his work on Sgt. Pepper -- told us that the band finally moving to an eight-track recording console for the "White Album" changed the way Beatles records were mixed forever: "Because of the way we had been working in the past, and basically mixing the finished sounds to tape with echo and almost the right EQ's and everything else; Now we could just -- we still approached the recording like that, with the finished sounds. And this was like icing on the cake, 'cause now I had extra tracks and I could actually record the drums in stereo. So this was like magic."

With tensions in the band so high, Geoff Emerick quit the sessions rather than face further attacks by the band. Engineer Chris Thomas stepped in and later went on to produce key albums for the Sex Pistols, the Pretenders, Pete Townshend and McCartney. Emerick was asked if he ever regretted his decision to miss out on engineering the "White Album" and Let It Be classics such as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Back In The U.S.S.R.," and later on, "Get Back" and "The Long And Winding Road": "Not at all. And thinking about it afterwards, I think it was good because it certainly jolted them. It's something that should have been done a long time ago. Looking back, I'm glad I did it. I didn't lose any respect (from them) because I went back and worked at (the Beatles' company) Apple and recorded (their album) Abbey Road."

Beatlefan magazine executive editor Al Sussman recalls at the time that less than a year after Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles had amazingly dropped all vestiges of psychedelic production: "This was 30 songs! It was much simpler than Sgt. Pepper had been. But we were kind of expecting that, because of the fact that in England, there had been this kind of 'back to the basics' thing -- 'Lady Madonna' was part of that, certainly (the Rolling Stones') "Jumpin' Jack Flash' was part of that -- "Street Fighting Man." Y'know, it wasn't as grandiose as Sgt. Pepper or Magical Mystery Tour had been. It was very kind of basic."

The group's biggest hit, "Hey Jude" -- and its B-side, "Revolution" -- were both recorded during sessions for the "White Album," but were left off the album after being released as a single the previous August.

The Beatles' the "White Album" hit Number One on December 28th, 1968 and went on to top the charts for nine non-consecutive weeks.

FAST FORWARD

November 2018 saw the Beatles back in the Top 10 with the 50th anniversary reissue of the band's "White Album." The set jumped back onto the Billboard 200 album charts hitting Number Six.

The massive six-CD, one Blu-ray "Super Deluxe" version of the "White Album" features the album's 30 tracks newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell in stereo and 5.1 surround audio, joined by 27 early acoustic demos and 50 session takes, most of which are previously unreleased in any form.

This was the first time the "White Album" had been remixed and presented with additional demos and session recordings. The album's new edition follows 2017's universally acclaimed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band "Anniversary Edition" releases.

To create the new stereo and 5.1 surround audio mixes, Martin and Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio restoration specialists at Abbey Road Studios in London. All the new "White Album" releases include Martin's new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original four-track and eight-track session tapes. Martin's new mix is guided by the album's original stereo mix produced by his father, the late-George Martin.

The "White Album" has now been certified 24-times Platinum.

The reunited Jane's Addiction welcomed ousted Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on stage for a mini-set of their classics. Klinghoffer, who has jumped stage with the band previously -- and as recently as last month -- was on hand this past November 12th during the band's joint gig with Smashing Pumpkins at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena.

Ultimate-Guitar.com posted Klinghoffer -- who now serves as a touring member of both Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder's solo outfit, the Earthlings -- performed on "Ocean Size," "Three Days," and "Mountain Song."

After more than 2 million tickets were sold for Taylor Swift's 2023 Eras tour through Ticketmaster's Verified Fan presale on Tuesday, the ticketing company announced Thursday (11-17) that a planned general sale for all other customers has been canceled.

Ticketmaster stated that it was due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory.

While many fans were able to get tickets on Tuesday, others were left waiting in hours-long Ticketmaster queues that eventually either crashed or sold out. The company later issued a statement about "historically unprecedented demand."

The site was supposed to be opened up for 1.5 million verified Taylor Swift fans and instead had 14 million people hit the site — including bots.

Swift's last concert tour in 2018 sold a total of 2.8 million tickets across 53 global dates and became the highest-grossing U.S. tour of all time. Her upcoming tour features 52 shows in North America alone.

The Eras tour is set to kick off in March in Arizona, and will hit a number of cities across the U.S. before wrapping things up in Los Angeles in August.

More than 90% of the ticketing inventory is already gone, breaking the record Tuesday for the most tickets ever sold in a single day by a touring artist.

It's unclear how the remaining tickets will be distributed or sold.

TL;DR:

• After more than 2 million tickets were sold for Taylor Swift's 2023 Eras tour Ticketmaster announced Thursday (11-17) that a planned general sale for all other customers has been canceled.
• The site was supposed to be opened up for 1.5 million verified Taylor Swift fans and instead had 14 million people hit the site — including bots.

Bruce Springsteen revealed that his long-awaited next box set will be comprised of unreleased material from the 1990's. During a chat with Rolling Stone, "The Boss" explained, "I have a box set of five unreleased albums that are basically post-1988. People look at my work in the '90s and they go, 'The '90s wasn't a great decade for Bruce. He was kind of doing this and he wasn't in the E Street Band. . . ' I actually made a lot of music during that period of time. I actually made albums. For one reason or another, the timing wasn't right or whatever, I didn't put them out."

Springsteen, who just released his first soul covers collection, Only The Strong Survive, said of his unreleased works: "I spent time over one of the past winters completely cleaning out the vault. I have a series of Tracks albums that eventually we'll release. Some of it is older stuff that the band plays on, and some of it is newer stuff where I was conceptualizing during that period of time. It'll give people a chance to reassess what I was doing during that time period. Also, a lot of the stuff is really weird. I can't wait to see the response to some of it (laughs)."

The upcoming 2023 dates will see the E Street Band supplemented by a horn section and a few background singers, recalling to fans the 2012/2013 "Wrecking Ball" tour. The additional played will be on board so that the band can included tunes from the new covers set.

When pressed as to whether fans can expect songs from Springsteen's country-based Western Skies album to find their way into next year's setlists, he said, "I might do one, but the E Street Band is going to come out and put on a rock show. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to play. And that's what it's going to be."

During Bruce Springsteen's recent appearance on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he shed light on his penchant for playing long shows with the E Street Band: "The great, great acts used to play 20 minutes. Now, they'd play 20 minutes -- five shows a day. You can get what someone has to deliver in a short period of time, but we came up playing in bars where you played five hours a night. You played 50 minutes on -- 10 minutes off -- for five sets. So, we were used to playing a long time, y'know?"

Last night (November 20th) was filled with music, fun and laughs at the 50th annual American Music Awards, which took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Wayne Brady brought the funny and impromptu freestyles while hosting the night in celebration of music of all genres. Taking his job quite seriously, he even broke into a freestyle rap in honor of the award show and later did a quick dance number with professional dancer and choreographer Witney Carson, his partner on Dancing With the Stars.

Brady also gave a tribute to Takeoff of the Migos who was tragically shot and killed in Houston earlier this month.

As far as awards go, Taylor Swift took home top honors, winning Artist of the Year, as well as Favorite Pop Album for Red (Taylor's Version), Favorite Music Video for "All Too Well: The Short Film" and several others.

Dove Cameron won the award for New Artist of the Year while Dan + Shay walked away with the nod for Favorite Country Duo or Group.

And despite there being controversy surrounding Chris Brown's abruptly canceled performance in tribute of the 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Brown won the award for Favorite Male R&B Artist. The nod was presented by R&B singer Kelly Rowland, who gathered audience members who chose to boo following Breezy's win. Rowland honored Chris and thanked him for his contributions to R&B music.

Closing out the night, Smokey Robinson introduced Lionel Richie and presented him with the Icon Award. Stevie Wonder and Charlie Puth then put on a tribute performance for Icon Award winner.

WINNERS

ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Taylor Swift
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Dove Cameron
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR: Elton John & Dua Lipa - "Cold Heart - PNAU Remix"
FAVORITE TOURING ARTIST: Coldplay
FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO: Taylor Swift - "All Too Well: The Short Film"
FAVORITE MALE POP ARTIST: Harry Styles
FAVORITE FEMALE POP ARTIST: Taylor Swift
FAVORITE POP DUO OR GROUP: BTS
FAVORITE POP ALBUM: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
FAVORITE POP SONG: Harry Styles - "As It Was"
FAVORITE MALE COUNTRY ARTIST: Morgan Wallen
FAVORITE FEMALE COUNTRY ARTIST: Taylor Swift
FAVORITE COUNTRY DUO OR GROUP: Dan + Shay
FAVORITE COUNTRY ALBUM: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
FAVORITE COUNTRY SONG: Morgan Wallen - "Wasted on You"
FAVORITE MALE HIP-HOP ARTIST: Kendrick Lamar
FAVORITE FEMALE HIP-HOP ARTIST: Nicki Minaj
FAVORITE HIP-HOP ALBUM: Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
FAVORITE HIP-HOP SONG: Future featuring Drake & Tems - "Wait for You"
FAVORITE MALE R&B ARTIST: Chris Brown
FAVORITE FEMALE R&B ARTIST: Beyoncé
FAVORITE R&B ALBUM: Beyoncé - Renaissance
FAVORITE R&B SONG: Wizkid featuring Tems "Essence"
FAVORITE MALE LATIN ARTIST: Bad Bunny
FAVORITE FEMALE LATIN ARTIST: Anitta
FAVORITE LATIN DUO OR GROUP: Yahritza Y Su Esencia
FAVORITE LATIN ALBUM: Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti
FAVORITE LATIN SONG: Sebastián Yatra - "Dos Oruguitas"
FAVORITE ROCK ARTIST: Machine Gun Kelly
FAVORITE ROCK SONG: Måneskin - "Beggin'"
FAVORITE ROCK ALBUM: Ghost - Impera
FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL ARTIST: for KING & COUNTRY
FAVORITE GOSPEL ARTIST: Tamela Mann
FAVORITE DANCE/ELECTRONIC ARTIST: Marshmello
FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK: Elvis
FAVORITE AFROBEATS ARTIST: Wizkid
FAVORITE K-POP ARTIST: BTS

PERFORMANCES

Pink opened the show, showing off her rollerskating skills while simultaneously performing "Never Not Gonna Dance Again."

Bebe Rexha hit the stage to perform her smash "I'm Good (Blue)" featuring David Guetta.

Brazilian artist Anitta made her American performance debut with Missy Eliott and performed "Envolver."

Carrie Underwood performed "Crazy Angels."

GloRilla performed her hit single "Tomorrow 2" and was joined by Cardi B.

Wayne Brady performed a freestyle on the spot, using the words/phrases "Owes You Money," "Loofah," "Sex," "Hip-Hop" and "Tracks," all of which were chosen by audience members.

Imagine Dragons performed "Enemy" with Dreamville's JID.

A tribute of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" was performed by Pink in honor of Olivia Newton-John.

Lil Baby performed a medley of his tracks "In a Minute" and "California Breeze" from his latest album It's Only Me.

Yola performed "Break the Bough."

Dove Cameron hit the stage after her win and performed "Boyfriend."

Stevie Wonder and Charlie Puth perform tribute to Lionel Richie, referred to as a "musical tennis match of Lionel Richie copyrights," which included "Three Times a Lady," "Easy (Like Sunday Morning)," "All Night Long," "Say You, Say Me," "Brick House" and "Jesus Is Love." They ended the event with a star-studded performance of "We Are the World" with Ari Lennox, Muni Long, Melissa Etheridge, Jimmie Allen, Yola, Smokey Robinson and more.

BROADCAST AUDIO

Dove Cameron acceots Artist of the year award

• "Wow. Thank you so much. This is so meaningful to me. I want to start by saying that every award that I ever win will always first and foremost be dedicated to the queer community at large. You guys have carved out such a space for me to be myself and to write music about it, and I've never felt safer or more loved and more supported, and I hope I can give you some semblance of that same feeling in my music. On the heels of what happened in Colorado Springs, I want to remind everyone how important queer visibility is and how important our community is. And I want to direct your attention to organizations like Glad and the Trevor project. I want to remind you that you are made absolutely right and you are so loved and so held, and I want to thank you for supporting me. Thank you for holding the space. I'm holding it for you too. Thanks, guys. Cheers and applause" 1:00 OC...too thanks guys Cheers and applause

Machine Gun Kelly accepts favorite rock artist of the year award

• "Thank you to the fans who got me here. And I love you. I just want to say I'm petitioning for larger mic stands next time. This suit is really uncomfortable to pee in. Speaking of uncomfortable, there have been some people in the rock community who called me a tourist, but they're wrong. I'm a rocket man. I -- we weren't born on the moon, but we looked at it and we were curious, and we went there supposedly. And these last two rock albums to me were me going to the moon." :42 OC....to the moon Cheers and applause

​​Dan and Shay accept Favorite Country Duo or Group

• "Dan: I think this mic stand is a pretty good height for me. I think it's pretty solid. Oh my goodness. My heart is pounding right now. I just want to thank all of you guys. First of all, thank you to the fans. This is a fan-voted award. We country not be up here -- y'all give it up for yourselves one time. We are so grateful to get to make country music. We are proud to represent our community here in L.A. This is unbelievable. I got to give a shoutout to my wife and boys watching at home. This is where daddy was. This is why I'm not home for early thanksgiving but I love you Ash or Ams, momma I love you. Shay: I'm so glad to make music with you. This is a dream come true to stand on this stage with you and accept this award. Thank you to our team: Lisa ray, Kurstin, Amber, Mikey, here tonight and to the fans, we - couldn't do this without you. Thank you so much for voting. You change our lives every single day. Love y'all. Thank you. Cheers and applause" :47 OC...y'all thank you Cheers and applause

Taylor Swift accepts award for Favorite pop Album for Red (Taylor's Version)

• "Wow. This album is a rerecorded album, and I cannot tell you how much my rerecorded albums mean to me, but I never expected or assumed that they would mean anything to you. So I can't thank you enough for caring about this album that I'm so proud of. I have some people who made this happen who I really want to thank. Chris row who coproduced this album with me, hours and hours and hours in the studio recreating red, an album I love so much. I want to thank all the artists who featured on the vault tracks, Chris Stapleton, Phoebe Bridgers. I want to thank my live touring band who played on this album, and I want to take a moment -- there was a music video that I did that I was really happy about, so I want to say thank you to Sadie sink and Dylan Obrian, I also want to take a moment to thank someone who directed the other music video, I bet you think about me, my beautiful, brilliant friend, my director Blake lively. And Mike teller and his beautiful wife Kelly teller for being in the music video. I love you guys for making this a possibilty for me and to the fans, I cannot thank you enough. This is so special. Thank you. Cheers and applause" 1:45 OC...special thank you Cheers and applause

Anitta accepts award for Favorite Female Latin Artist

• "Hello, everyone. Thank you so much! Oh, I want to say first of all, thank you so much for all my fans. Second, you guys are amazing. Without this, without you guys and my whole country of Brazil, I wouldn't be here today. It's the first time for a Brazilian here winning, so -- cheers and applause Second I want to say thank you to my team and my family and thank you for myself that I worked so hard too. And also, this award is to all the other nominees that I love so much, and Becky G, my friend, I love her so much and she deserves everything, and all the other nominees, rosalia, everyone else, there are no winners if there are no other people running this path with us and making a great amazing job. Thank you! Cheers and applause" 1:05 OC...job thank you Cheers and applause

Maneskin accepts award for Favorite rock song for "Beggin"

• "Thank you. Thank you very much. This is very nice. I'm going to do like MGK. Thank you. First of all, I want to say that for us as Italians, we have not -- cheers and applause Yeah. Shotout. We have not been told many, many times that one day we were going to be sitting next to some of the greatest artists in the world. For us, this has a double meaning. It's amazing for us. We are still kind of figuring it out. It's very surprising for us, and we never expected to win this category against this huge, huge, huge artists. So thank you once again. Thank you very much. Have a great night. Applause" :56 OC...a great night Applause

Taylor Swift accepts award for Favorite Music Video

• "This short film was ten years in the making, and the only reason I got to write and direct the short film is because you the fans chose the song all too well. You chose it. No one at a record label chose it. You picked it. You said that is the song that matters to us, and it just so happens that it was the song that mattered the most to me. So, I'm very happy we agreed on that. So the people who helped me make this, I really want to say, l will say this forever, Sadie sink and Dylan Obrian, thank you so much for trusting me as a director with your immense, incredible talent. Thank you to my D.P, Marina Yang, I want to say thank you to my producer Sal germane, my production designer Ethan Tobman, my editor Ted guard and the entire crew that worked with us on this. I'm so proud of it. I'm so happy you like it too. This is so special and wonderful and -- ahh, thank you. Thank you for this. Cheers and applause" 1:12 OC...you for this Cheers and applause

Taylor Swift accepts award for Artist of the Year

• "You know, in the past few years, I have released more music than I did in the entire decade preceding that, and I really feel like that's down to the fact that you, the fans, made it clear that you wanted to hear lots of music that I would make. You encouraged me. And so, I found that the more music I made and the more music I put out, the happier I was. The more I just kept that channel open and just kept creating, kept making things, and the more that happened, the more you guys were like, yeah, keep doing it. And the happier I was, so I have the fans to thank, essentially, for my happiness and -- cheers and applause -- And I love you more than I can say. I cannot express how unbelievable it is to me that I still get to do this and that you still care, so thank you underlined with 13 exclamation points. I don't know what to say. I love you. Cheers and applause" 1:23 OC...I love you Cheers and applause

Lionel Richie accepts Icon Award

• "I want to thank my kids and the mothers of my kids for keeping my kids together. Very important. And then of course there's the people along the way. Friends who have supported. Bruce, my manager, who is absolutely a dream manager. Lisa, who is actually more of the adult in the room because she has to deal with me. I'm the kid. I'm the child. But what I want to say and take this time to do is to talk to the young superstars. God has given you a light. That light is special. That light is only given to a few. When you hear the word hip, it means today. When you hear the word inspiring, it means forever. If you get a chance to have that light on you, understand what god has in store. He is not trying to tell you that your car looks great, your clothes look great. He's trying -- he/she, mother, God is trying to tell you that you are chosen to inspire. Take this opportunity. That light is on you. Inspire. God bless you all. Thank you very much. Cheers and applause" 1:49 OC...you very much Cheers and applause

Adele is adding two New Year's Eve weekend shows to her Weekends With Adele residency on Friday December 30th, and Saturday December 31st.

The global superstar's highly anticipated Weekends With Adele residency kicked off Friday (November 18th) night at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace.

According to TMZ, the singer broke down in tears several times during the night, telling the crowd, "I'm so scared and nervous, but I am so happy. I don't know what I was thinking putting piano ballads at the top of the set ... hopefully over time my nerves will disappear. I would also really like to thank Caesar's because there have been a lot of rumors and they never once asked any questions, they've been amazing."

Adele's residency was originally set to begin in January but was postponed for nearly a year.

Ticketmaster may have more than a bunch of angry Swifties to deal with following the trouble with ticket sales for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

Sources told The New York Times Friday (November 18th) the Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the owner of Ticketmaster. The investigation is focused on whether Live Nation Entertainment has abused its power over thel ive music industry.

Additionally, Attorneys General in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Nevada have all announced on social media that they will be looking into the company to ensure that anti-trust and consumer protections laws are being upheld.

The "Antihero" singer, herself, is also upset with the company and issued a statement on her Instagram Stories that said, "It's really difficult for me to trust an outside entity with these relationships and loyalties, and excruciating for me to just watch mistakes happen with no recourse."

Coming on Friday (November 25th) is Elvis Costello & The Imposters' surprise new studio set, The Boy Named If (Alive at Memphis Magnetic). The album is a companion to this year's The Boy Named If collection, which has just snagged a Grammy nom for Best Rock Album. The new set features Costello and the band tackling favorites by Paul McCartney & Wings, Nick Lowe, the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Rolling Stones, among others.

The set was recorded live-in-the-studio during tour rehearsals October 2021 and May 2022 at Memphis Magnetic and captures what Costello says are: "Some of our favorite songs while negotiating with any tricky angles in our new tunes."

Elvis Costello told us he was a Byrds die-hard from day one: "The band itself, the Byrds, were the band that I'd followed and like, a lot of people, I suppose you might say they were an American vocal group that answered the Beatles in some ways. And then they became, like, a psychedelic group, almost in a way -- the 5D album -- and by the time they got to the Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, that was quite a shock. But there was nothing tongue-in-cheek about it. It was clear that a song like 'Hickory Wind' was very sincere."

The tracklisting to The Boy Named If (Alive at Memphis Magnetic) is:

"Magnificent Hurt" (Costello)
"Truth Drug" (Nick Lowe)
"Penelope Halfpenny" (Costello)
"So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star" (McGuinn/Hillman)
"What If I Can't Give You Anything But Love?" (Costello)
"The Boy Named If" (Costello)
"Let Me Roll It" (Paul McCartney/Linda McCartney)
"Every Day I Write The Book" (Costello)
"Out Of Time" (Jagger/Richards)
"Here, There And Everywhere" (McCartney)
"Magnificent Hurt" - remix (Costello/chelmico)

Elvis Costello & The Imposters will next perform on December 2nd in Austin at ACL Live at The Moody Theater. Costello and friends will be salute his 1985 classic, King Of America.

Yesterday (November 20th), Kanye West returned to Twitter after he was banned due to tweets he made about Jewish people last month. Kanye tweeted, "Testing Testing Seeing if my Twitter is unblocked." He later tweeted, "Shalom :)."

In other news, Kano, the company behind the Stem Player used to release Donda 2 has terminated their relationship with the rapper.

According to The Los Angeles Times, Alex Klein, the co-founder and CEO of Kano said in a statement, "I asked Kanye not to take the path he's on. We've told him that we're unable to work together while he's putting out racial conspiracy theories. There's no deal in place."

It was 35 years ago today (November 21st, 1987) that Billy Idol's cover of Tommy James & The Shondell's classic "Mony Mony" hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. Idol's version placed two spots higher than the 1968 original, topping the charts for a single week.

Billy Idol had originally recorded a studio version of "Mony Mony" for his 1981 solo debut, Don't Stop. The '87 live hit version of the tune was recorded on the road while promoting his Vital Idol album and marks Idol's sole chart-topper to date.

Amazingly, "Mony Mony" knocked another Tommy James remake out of the Number One spot, after teen sensation Tiffany brought 1967's "I Think We're Alone Now" to Number One for two weeks. Again, the '80s were better to the Shondells than the '60s, with the original version having stalled at Number Four.

When we caught up to Tommy James he explained that despite the constant changing trends in pop music, a great song is a great song. In fact, he says he was just as surprised as everyone when remakes of two of the Shondells' biggest hits ended up topping the charts back-to-back during the height of MTV. "I was sitting on an airplane as a matter of fact and I see 'Mony Mony' by Billy Idol and Tiffany with 'I Think We're Alone Now' hit the charts the same week -- and I couldn't believe it, they're like. . . they went together right up the charts and then finally they ended up fighting it out for Number One -- and both went Number One! I mean, y'know, it was a wild year." :

JUNG KOOK DEBUTS 'DREAMERS' AT WORLD CUP: Jung Kook has dropped a new single as part of the 2022 FIFA World Cup soundtrack. The BTS singer debuted his newest track, "Dreamers" during the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 World Cup in Quatar. On Sunday (November 20th). According to his label, BigHit Music, the video will be released Tuesday (November 22nd) on FIFA's official YouTube Channel.

ARIANA GRANDE SHOWS OFF NEW BLONDE HAIR: Ariana Grande is showing off her new blonde ‘do in a perfume ad. The 29-year-old singer can be seen rocking wavy pigtails on Instagram, where she introduced the December 1st launch of her line's new Mod Vanilla and Mod Blush fragrance duo. Grande recently ditched her dark hair for her upcoming role as Glinda in the Wicked movie.

POST MALONE DROPS $500K ON PINKY RING: Post Malone has dropped half a million dollars on a new pinky ring. TMZ reports that the rapper just picked up the latest addition to his jewelry collection – with 23 carats worth of diamonds – from Angel City Jewelers. According to an Instagram post from the shop, the "rockstar" ring features a five-carat emerald cut center stone at its center.

Ken Mansfield, the former U.S. manager of the Beatles' Apple Records, died on November 17th at age 85. Mansfield, who promoted the "Fab Four" on Capitol prior to being among the first on the Apple team, had worked with such legends as the Beach Boys, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Judy Garland, and many others before joining the group's personal label.

Starting with "Hey Jude," Mansfield played a crucial role in promoting both the Beatles' music, as well as other Apple acts such as Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Jackie Lomax, and Badfinger.

In 2018, Mansfield published his second memoir on his time with working with the Beatles, titled The Roof: The Beatles' Final Concert.

Mansfield left Apple for MGM when John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr appointed Allen Klein as the Beatles' manager in the spring of 1969 against Paul McCartney's wishes.

After his time with the Beatles, Mansfield worked in various capacities -- including record production -- for a number of artists, including Andy Williams, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Ray Stevens, Jimmy Buffett, Don Ho, the Everly Brothers, Nick Gilder, Paul Anka, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and David Cassidy, among many, many others. In 1992 while working as an exec at the BMG subsidiary Private Music, he was instrumental in signing Ringo Starr for his first new album in a decade, the 1992 comeback, Time Takes Time.

While discussing his mid-'60s promo days at Capitol Records, Mansfield told us that the Beatles were so massive that they not only blocked acts from other labels from hitting the top spots on the album and single charts -- but even artists from the Beatles' own label: "They were always mad. Think about it -- we had legitimate Number One records with other artists on our label; but they couldn't go to Number One (because of the Beatles' dominance), they could only go to Number Two. 'I had a Number One record' (or) 'I had a Number Two record' -- which one sounds. . . y'know, there's just that difference. So, we constantly had this problem. Y'know, it went further than just the airplay and the charts -- it also went with the pressing plants. Here, an artist has a record out, a Beatles record comes out, it just stopped our pressing plants. All we could do is press Beatle records."

Along with an eyewitness account of the Beatles performing live for the final time as a unit, in his memoir, The Roof, Mansfield gave a personal account of what made the early months of the group's Apple Records so unique and groundbreaking: "I wanted to encapsulate the beginning of Apple and in and odd way, phase out the ending without defining the ending of Apple. Apple ended, basically, kind of after the roof. Y'know, that was kind of the beginning of the end. I didn't want it to be a bunch of facts, and a bunch of statistics; I just wanted people to see that it was real people. It was just this special place and I wanted to encapsulate that time period, I'm not trying to talk about all the time before the Beatles' stuff and the different albums -- or anything. I just wanted to talk about Apple and then, the day of the roof was, like, the beginning of the end for me."

Ken Mansfield told us it was a testament to the Beatles that they ended up with such a loyal staff: "I felt so honored to be invited inside their world and privileged, that a bunch of us had agreed that we would never write about our time with the Beatles. It's not because the Beatles said, 'Lookit, you're gonna be inside, you're gonna see some stuff, you're gonna know some stuff, we wanna be free to do. . . So you're gonna have to agree not to write or talk about it.' It was just something, we felt so privileged, we had so much respect. I have to tell you man, they treated me so good and so kind."

Jack White covered Nirvana's 1993's "Heart Shaped Box" during his November 16th concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ultimate-Guitar.com posted video clips of White performing the In Utero favorite while on the road promoting his recent companion albums, Fear Of The Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive.

"Heart Shaped Box" was the lead single from Nirvana's final studio album, In Utero. The song topped Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.

Although he has not spoken about specific artists in the past, Jack White has never been afraid to share his opinions, as when he commented on the state of rock music itself a few years back: "It's changed definitions over the years, y'know? Now it's sort of an energy drink, isn't it? So it's become an iconic sort of T-shirt at Target or something like that. I think that it's gonna be redefined again in the next 10 years. In more of the '60s and '70s, it was such a mystery and untouchable-ness to it. And now like in the age of sort of reality television, so many things are accessible that it's changing."

Jack White performs tonight (November 21st) in Christchurch, New Zealand at Christchurch Town Hall.

His next North American show is set for December 3rd at Fort Lauderdale's Audacy Beach Festival.

In an all new Audible original podcast called Origins, Billie Eilish shared some details about her life. The 20 year old says that she has "never ever, ever, ever" thought of herself as a singer. The seven-time Grammy award winner said, "I have always thought of myself as a dancer, which is a really weird but very stupid thing to say when I am known as a singer."

When she was only 14, Eilish was forced to stop dancing as a result of a hip injury and she still struggles with movement on stage. She says singing brings her the most joy in her life, but dancing was something she really dreamed of doing.

TL;DR:

• She says, singing brings her the most joy in her life, but dancing was something she really dreamed of doing.

KANYE WEST RENOVATIONS ON HIS $57 MALIBU MANSION PUT ON PAUSE

Reports say that renovations on Kanye West's $57 million Malibu mansion has been put on pause. According to RadarOnline, Ye purchased the home last September for $57 million. A source said that renovations on the rapper's home will stay on hold while he works out his finances.

The source added, "His house near Kim's also needs renovating, and he wanted a change of scenery after months at Soho Warehouse Downtown."

ATL JACOB CLAIMS HE HASN'T BEEN PAID FOR WORK ON 'DONDA 2'

In other news, producer ATL Jacob has revealed that he has yet to be paid for work on Ye's eleventh album DONDA 2. In an interview with VLAD TV, ATL Jacob said that he contributed to at least three tracks on the album.

DONDA 2 is only available on Kanye West's Stem Player device, which ATL Jacob says is comprised of unfinished demos and that Ye doesn't actually own the Stem Player. If the music is made available to the general public before ATL Jacob receives what he's owed, then he might be filing his own lawsuit against Ye.

JEWISH CEMETERY IN ILLINOIS VANDALIZED WITH SWASTIKAS AND 'KANYE WAS RITE' MESSAGES

Meanwhile, according to Page Six, dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in suburban Chicago were vandalized earlier this week with anti-semitic hate, including swastikas and "Kanye was right" messages.

Lil Nas X has been touring in Europe over the past few weeks. And after his show in Brussels, Belgium, he decided to share a bit more of himself with his fans and took his clothes off.

He posted a series of sultry selfies from the bath, posing nude and showing off his abs. He was wearing nothing but bubbles.

TL;DR:

• Lil Nas X posted photos wearing nothing but bubbles.

Doja Cat says that her confidence in making music videos comes from things she learned from Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, and Bebe Rexha.

In the past, when she did on camera work, she didn't like watching the screen so she never checked to see what she looked like. And then later, would be disappointed in the final product.

All that changed while shooting videos with music veterans. She noticed how they were particular about it and would approve or disapprove throughout the day. In an interview Doja said, "That's the smartest thing to do!"

Her story was part of a series called Origins and is assessable through Audible.

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Machine Gun Kelly says that when he first heard that he was nominated for a Grammy this week, it gave him closure. In 2021, he vented his frustration with the Academy because he thought he had been snubbed and looked over. He was so irritated, he posted "wtf is wrong with the Grammys."

Explaining how much receiving the nomination means to him now, he told Entertainment Tonight that he was keeping the envelope that his nomination was read from. Adding, "I'm a hoarder, so this is going to stay in my house forever."

Along with being nominated for Best Rock Album for Mainstream Sellout, MGK will also perform at the awards show in February.

TL;DR:

• In 2021, he vented his frustration with the Academy because he thought he had been snubbed and looked over.
• Along with being nominated for Best Rock Album for Mainstream Sellout, MGK will also perform at the awards show in February.

Harry Styles was hit in the eye when someone in his audience threw Skittles at his face. It was all caught on camera during his Los Angeles concert on Monday (11-14). He was hit so hard that he physically recoiled and covered his face, but kept right on performing. Later, he even joked about possibly wearing an eyepatch.

Thankfully, Styles wasn't severely injured and later his backing bandmate, Pauli The PSM shared an update on Instagram confirming that his eye was okay. Pauli wrote: "But do me a favor, don't throw no more Skittles on stage."

TL;DR:

• Harry Styles was hit in the eye when someone in his audience threw Skittles at his face.
• He was hit so hard that he physically recoiled and covered his face, but kept right on performing.

Three-time Grammy winner Lizzo announced that she's coming back through the United States and Canada next year for a second leg of her Special Tour.

It all kicks off April 21, in Knoxville, Tennessee and includes 17 cities such as Montreal, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Diego. Latto will join her as special opening act.

Ticket sales will begin Friday (Nov. 18) on Lizzo's website.

TL;DR:

• Ticket sales will begin Friday (Nov. 18) on Lizzo's website.
• Lizzo announced that she's coming back through the United States and Canada next year for 17 more concerts.