Liam Payne’s death was a ‘wake-up call’ for former One Direction members: report

Liam Payne’s death was a ‘wake-up call’ for former One Direction members: report

Two months after Liam Payne’s tragic death at 31, his former One Direction bandmates — including Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — are now reevaluating their bond. “[Liam’s death] was a wake-up call for all of them. Prior, they kept in touch sporadically but didn’t have close friendships at all,” a source told Us Weekly on Wednesday. The … Read more

UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint while getting coffee in California on first day of US tour: ‘Get down!’

UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint while getting coffee in California on first day of US tour: ‘Get down!’

British rock band Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight on Monday when they had stopped for coffee in California on the first day of their US tour. The band — consisting of frontman Alex Rice, guitarists Rob Knaggs and Henry Young, bassist Oli Dewdney, drummer Al Greenwood, and keyboardist Ben Mack — … Read more

My Chemical Romance breaks silence after former drummer Bob Bryar’s death at 44

My Chemical Romance breaks silence after former drummer Bob Bryar’s death at 44

My Chemical Romance spoke out after former drummer Bob Bryar died at 44 years old. “The band asks for your patience and understanding as they process the news of Bob’s passing,” a spokesperson for the band said in a statement to Variety on Sunday. The Post has reached out to a rep for the rock group. … Read more

Life of Agony singer detransitioning after curing his ‘gender dysphoria’: ‘Living in my divine male self’

Life of Agony singer detransitioning after curing his ‘gender dysphoria’: ‘Living in my divine male self’

The lead singer of the rock band Life of Agony is detransitioning more than a decade after coming out as transgender. Mina Caputo, 50, revealed he will be living life as a male again, citing his gender dysphoria “has been cured” and announcing he has already started the process. “Surgery has been booked to remove my fake … Read more

Exclusive | Creed’s Scott Stapp is taking it ‘Higher’ again on his band’s reunion tour: ‘It’s a full-circle moment’

Exclusive | Creed’s Scott Stapp is taking it ‘Higher’ again on his band’s reunion tour: ‘It’s a full-circle moment’

When Creed last headlined New York’s Madison Square Garden in 2000, the rockers were on a major roll after releasing their 1999 blockbuster “Human Clay.” But playing the big daddy of all arenas, frontman Scott Stapp was in a different kind of fatherly feels. “I brought my son Jagger out, and I’ll never forget bringing … Read more

Help! How The Beatles escaped to Harlem as ‘prisoners’ of Beatlemania in their US invasion 60 years ago

Help! How The Beatles escaped to Harlem as ‘prisoners’ of Beatlemania in their US invasion 60 years ago

Love them, they did. When The Beatles launched their US invasion in 1964 — complete with their historic debut appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” — the mop-topped Brits were under siege by the screaming masses upon their arrival in New York.  “It was like being in the eye of a hurricane,” says John Lennon … Read more

How U2 turned a ‘Bomb’ into their last classic album 20 years ago: ‘We were very lucky’

How U2 turned a ‘Bomb’ into their last classic album 20 years ago: ‘We were very lucky’

They still hadn’t found what they were looking for. So a desperate U2 made a drastic U-turn on the way to making their last classic album, 2004’s “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” which dropped 20 years ago on Nov. 22, 2004 (Nov. 23 in the US). After months of working on the follow-up to … Read more

Liam Payne’s eerie 2010 tweet about his funeral goes viral after he’s laid to rest

Liam Payne’s eerie 2010 tweet about his funeral goes viral after he’s laid to rest

Fans are looking back at a heartbreaking message Liam Payne wrote online years prior to his tragic death at 31. “If I died would you come to ma funeral …?” he penned on X, formerly Twitter, in 2010. The tweet resurfaced a day after a private funeral was held for the late pop star on Wednesday. Liam … Read more

Christine McVie instantly had a ‘critical’ bond with Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac — but still ‘got jealous’

Christine McVie instantly had a ‘critical’ bond with Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac — but still ‘got jealous’

There was no breaking “The Chain” between Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac. Indeed, the two Fleetwood Mac songbirds forged an instant bond when Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the group alongside McVie, her then-husband John McVie and Mick Fleetwood in 1974. But first, Nicks had to pass a chemistry test with McVie … Read more

Colin Petersen, original Bee Gees drummer, dead at 78

Colin Petersen, original Bee Gees drummer, dead at 78

Original Bee Gees drummer Colin “Smiley” Petersen has died. He was 78. Petersen’s death was announced by the Best of the Bee Gees Facebook page on Monday. “It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of our dear friend Colin ‘Smiley’ Petersen,” the page wrote. Colin Petersen. “He enriched our lives and bound … Read more

Wish you were there: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour takes fans on a space odyssey at opening of MSG run

Wish you were there: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour takes fans on a space odyssey at opening of MSG run

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters are, in the immortal words of Taylor Swift, never ever getting back together. Gilmour recently made it clear that he would “absolutely not” perform with his rival former bandmate ever again, citing Waters’ controversial political views that have included inflammatory comments about Israel, Ukraine and the US. “I … Read more

Coldplay’s Chris Martin falls through trapdoor on stage during Melbourne performance: ‘Holy s–t’

Coldplay’s Chris Martin falls through trapdoor on stage during Melbourne performance: ‘Holy s–t’

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin suffered a nasty fall through a trapdoor during the band’s Australia concert Sunday. The “Paradise” hitmaker, 47, took a tumble while speaking to the 50,000-strong crowd at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium during their international “Music of the Spheres” world tour. In video footage shared on X, the 7-time Grammy winner was seen … Read more

How the Cure, back after 16 years, made the best rock album of 2024

How the Cure, back after 16 years, made the best rock album of 2024

Let’s face it: For most of 2024, for most of recent memory, rock music has been dead. But just as the Day of the Dead is upon us, the Cure has brought the genre back to life. The goth gods — who had been left for dead after not releasing a new studio LP since … Read more

Graham Nash reveals Stills, Nash & Young ‘will never play again’ as a band: ‘There’s no heart there’

Graham Nash reveals Stills, Nash & Young ‘will never play again’ as a band: ‘There’s no heart there’

Stills, Nash & Young fans, prepare yourselves for a sea of sadness. Graham Nash, 82, has revealed that Stills, Nash & Young “will never play again” as a band — and he attributes the reason to the death of David Crosby. “There’s no heart there,” Nash told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Wednesday. “David … Read more

Bruce Springsteen admits he’s only the ‘boss for 3 hours’ onstage — then wife Patti Scialfa takes over at home

Bruce Springsteen admits he’s only the ‘boss for 3 hours’ onstage — then wife Patti Scialfa takes over at home

Turns out there is some surrender for Bruce Springsteen. The singer 75, and his wife, Patti Scialfa, recently shared how their dynamic changes from performing onstage with the E Street Band to being at home with just one another. “I think the most difficult part of being married to Bruce Springsteen, and also being in … Read more

Iron Maiden pays tribute to original singer Paul Di’Anno in concert after his death: ‘An amazing voice’

Iron Maiden pays tribute to original singer Paul Di’Anno in concert after his death: ‘An amazing voice’

Iron Maiden sent a screaming shout-out to original lead singer Paul Di’Anno — who died at 66 Monday of undisclosed causes — in concert Tuesday night. The tribute to Di’Anno — who fronted the metal band on its first two albums, 1980’s “Iron Maiden” and 1981’s “Killers” — came during a show at Xcel Energy Center … Read more

Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno dead at 66

Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno dead at 66

Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno died at 66, his family announced on Monday. Paul Andrews, known by his stage name (Di’Anno), passed away at his home in Salisbury, Wiltshire.  Di’Anno was the lead vocalist for the band from 1978 to 1981. They completed two albums titled “Iron Maiden” in 1980 and “Killers” in 1981 … Read more

Exclusive | Kool & the Gang set for ‘Celebration’ at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction: ‘It’s gonna be a good time’

Exclusive | Kool & the Gang set for ‘Celebration’ at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction: ‘It’s gonna be a good time’

Kool & the Gang have provided the soundtrack to many a soirée — and sporting events — with “Celebration,” their 1980 party anthem that became their only No. 1 single. But it’s the R&B group that formed 60 years ago in 1964 that will be reveling in their own “good times” when they are inducted … Read more

‘Devastated’ Louis Tomlinson spotted with family at beach house one day after Liam Payne’s death: photos

‘Devastated’ Louis Tomlinson spotted with family at beach house one day after Liam Payne’s death: photos

Louis Tomlinson was spotted for the first time in Malibu, California, one day after Liam Payne’s tragic death at 31. On Thursday, Tomlinson, 32, was photographed at a luxury Airbnb during a family holiday. The singer sported a white t-shirt and sunglasses. Tomlinson appeared relaxed as he chatted with his pregnant sister, Lottie, and her … Read more

Zayn Malik speaks out after Liam Payne’s death: ‘I loved and respected you dearly’

Zayn Malik speaks out after Liam Payne’s death: ‘I loved and respected you dearly’

Zayn Malik has spoken out for the first time after Liam Payne’s tragic death at 31.   On Thursday, the singer, 31, shared a heartbreaking photo of himself and Payne appearing to cuddle while sleeping on a tour bus. “Love you bro,” he wrote, with a heart emoji. On a second slide, Malik continued, “Liam, I … Read more