The previously-announced Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, will begin production this year with filmmaker Antoine Fuqua attached to direct, Variety reports. In a statement, Fuqua spoke about taking on the project and his deep love for “combining film and music,” considering some of the first films he made were music videos. …
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Eight years after a Michael Jackson fan sued Sony and the singer’s estate over posthumous recordings the label released that were allegedly sung by an impersonator, the lawsuit has finally been settled. In 2014, Jackson fan Vera Serova filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony Music, the Jackson estate, and producers …
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Beyoncé‘s 2006 single “Deja Vu,” from her second solo album, B-Day, topped Rolling Stone‘s recent list of the 70 greatest Beyoncé songs — released to celebrate her seventh solo album, Renaissance. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, legendary R&B producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins — who’s collaborated with …
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Kool & the Gang, one of the world’s greatest living groove-based bands, have been playing more than 100 shows a year for longer than Robert “Kool” Bell cares to remember. He was already adjusting to the unfamiliar sensation of a long stint at home in 2020 when tragedy struck — …
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The Jacksons’ late-Seventies albums — recorded between the time they ditched the Jackson 5 moniker and Michael Jackson became solo superstar — will get a reappraisal in February in the form of expanded releases. The group’s The Jacksons (1976), Goin’ Places (1977), and Destiny (1978) will arrive digitally on February …
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