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That's all from us today but scroll back down to recapture that glowing Music News LIVE feeling once again with an impromptu busking session from Liam Payne, comedian Shappi Khorsandi on the healing power of music, the happy nuptials of Deadmau5 (and Mrs Mau5), health news from Willie Nelson and Nile Rogers and that man above, Dave Grohl who popped up in the crowd at a Metallica gig.

He always pops up in the most unexpected of places it seems.

We're watching you Dave. Always. Watching...

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Aston Merrygold is the latest contestant announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing.

The former JLS singer said:

We don't doubt you Aston.

So far, one celebrity has been revealed per day for the new series of the celebrity dancing competition which begins on BBC One in September.

Also in the lineup is Mollie King of The Saturdays-fame.

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News Just-in...

JB is claiming that a new track with Bloodpop will arrive on Thursday at noon.

We're led to believe that it's likely to be new single Can We Still Be Friends, which is produced by the same man who helped give him the number one hit Sorry.

Don't expect to see him perform this new one live anytime soon though as The Biebs is taking a break from the road in order to keep his "mind, heart and soul sustainable".

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Quite literally.

The singer/songwriter has today unveiled the video for new single Second Chance, starring Olympic Gold Medal-winning cyclist Elinor Barker.

The video centres on an elderly woman having flashbacks to her glory days as a cyclist, powering her way around a gruelling mountainous course in the Lake District.

The video was inspired by Lucy's chat with an elderly family member who was commenting on an old photograph of herself.

Lucy said it made her realise that she should: "Love myself for who I am and not wish to be anything different."

You must be yourself Lucy. Everyone else is already taken.

Check it below.

BBC 6 Music

Happy World Lizard Day everybody.

Maybe you're celebrating with a bit of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Or perhaps some of you older rockers have got the Lizard King himself, Jim Morrison and The Doors on.

Our Lizard Day treat for you though is Mark Burgess on the making of The Chameleons' (get it?) album Script of the Bridge.

Steve Lamacq revisited the band's 1983 debut as his Classic Album last week on 6 Music and you can listen again below.

...Dave Grohl."

Yep, Dave apparently eschewed the VIP area to watch one of his favourite bands from the moshpit at a gig in California last month.

The Foo Fighter even posed for fans with his best rock grimace, even though we know he aching to smile.

BBC Radio 1

Well you had better be...

Daniel P Carter had the exclusive first play of the brand new Neck Deep track ahead of the release of their third album; The Peace & The Panic.

In Bloom was named as Daniel P Carter's Rockest Record this weekend and you can check it above.

A rock tune called In Bloom, external you say?...

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Comedian Shappi Khorsandi has opened up to Maryanne Hobbes about the important role that music has played in her life and how she was physically unable to listen to any at all for two years following her divorce.

Shappi, a self-confessed Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and Erasure fan, told the 6 Music DJ that her painful life-changing experience in her mid 30's is "more common than you would imagine."

"After I went through my divorce...for two years I couldn't listen to any music, at all.

She added how the discovery of a certain track by Manchester band Elbow helped her to turn a corner in her emotional struggle.

"This is what I love about music. Just when you think you've got to an age were you've been through all your obsessive discovery of something new...

"I then heard Elbow's One Day Like This and that was the song - the clouds lifted...

"And I absolutely had a new teenage years of eating/consuming music I'd never heard before."

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We generally can't move for busking a-list musicians these days so you'll forgive us for not seeing One Directioner-turned-solo star Liam Payne at Oxford Circus this morning.

Liam was performing just a hop, a skip and a jump from MNL towers.

The singer was joined by DJ collaborator Zedd as he performed Get Low outside the tube station in central London.

Luckily for you, these fans (below) were on hand to catch the show...

Many congratulations to "Mr and Mrs Grill" from everyone at MNL.

Don't they scrub up well?

We do hope the Canadian DJ/Producer gave himself the night off and got a proper wedding DJ in to blast out a bit of Frank Sinatra, Lionel Ritchie and Dexy's Midnight Runners.

The shirt is out on this pic above, so we're guessing the tie went around the head shortly afterwards.

As you can see below it was a fairly standard affair.

Rolling Stone magazine

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US singer Bruno Mars told a Michigan crowd on Saturday night that has donated $1m to help the victims of the water crisis in nearby Flint.

An emergency was declared in January 2016 by then President Barack Obama, after thousands of the city's residents were exposed to lead in polluted drinking water pipes.

Bruno said in a statement: "I'm very thankful to the Michigan audience for joining me in supporting this cause.

"Ongoing challenges remain years later for Flint residents, and it's important that we don't forget our brothers and sisters affected by this disaster.

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Mars and Live Nation announced cash from the singer's Detroit-area show had been redirected to the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, external.

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BBC Radio 3

How's about this for the power of music...

Back at home they are viewed as cursed, bad luck and often banned from taking part in musical activities but now the Tanzania Albinism Collective are having their time to shine.

The band come from Africa’s largest inland island Ukerewe, which requires a four-hour boat ride across Lake Victoria and has the world’s largest population of people with albinism.

A few weeks back they performed at WOMAD festival and Radio 3's Kathryn Tickell met the group's producer Ian Brennan to find out how TAC is changing its members' lives.

Listen above.

Now watch Thereza from the band here perform their original track Happiness.

The prophetic lyrics to the track, sang in Swahili, say...

Far across the ocean we are making waves.

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US country music legend Willie Nelson was forced to curtail a gig at in Salt Lake City last night, citing altitude sickness.

Willie tweeted an apology to fans today, adding that that he's on the mend and "headed for lower ground".

For those who were denied hearing Willie in full, here's the comically-named Still Not Dead from his latest album Happy Sounds below.

Fifty years ago today, the governent outlawed so-called pirate radio stations broadcasting in the UK from international waters.

It effectively brought to an end the tale of Radio Caroline - the seabound station whose success bascially led to the BBC starting Radio 1.

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Tony Blackburn was there at the start for both stations and has been reflecting on the impact Caroline and its sisters stations had on popular culture.

Watch above.

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Nile Rodgers was forced to pull out of a gig in Toronto over the weekend after being taken to hospital.

Nile and his group Chic are on tour with Earth, Wind & Fire but the musician and producer was taken to hospital where, he tweeted, doctors "are taking great care" of him.

The reason for the hospital visit has not been disclosed but, performing at Glastonbury earlier this summer (above), Nile told the audience he had been given the all-clear from prostate cancer.

In response to one fan's best wishes, Nile said it was the first show he had missed in his five-decade spanning career, adding, "The Dr. caught me trying to sneak out..."

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It is not clear if Nile will be able to return to the stage in time for a show in Indianapolis, Indiana on Tuesday.

BBC Radio 2

Boy George, Erasure, Jason Donovan and Bananarama are among the artists announced to perform at a BBC Children in Need Rocks the 80s in London in October

The fundraising gig, at Wembley Arena in London, on 19 October, will also feature rockers Europe, Imagination, Katrina from Katrina & The Waves and OMD.

X Factor winner Louisa Johnson - who was born eight years after the 1980s ended - will also play.

Keren from Bananarama - who recently announced their first ever tour - called into the Radio 2 breakfast show earlier to speak to stand-in host Sara Cox - and talked about how rehearsals are going.

Listen above.

Martine McCutcheon is back and happier than ever.

The 41-year-old singer/actress, who released her comeback single Say I'm Not Alone, external last month, appeared on the BBC Breakfast sofa to speak about life after Eastenders and Love Actually.

She says she's happier now in her 40s than she ever was during the peak of her high-pressured pop career in the 90s.

Check it out above and see if you believe her. We think she might have her fingers crossed...

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Now this story may 'Peak' the interest of a few fans of David Lynch's serial drama.

Bowie's character FBI agent Phillip Jeffries appeared in a dream sequence in the latest episode of Twin Peaks on US television last night.

The footage of the late London singer was taken from his original appearance in the 1992 prequel film Fire Walk With Me.

Actor Harry Goaz, who played emotional Deputy Andy in the two original series, revealed that before his death last yearBowie was due to appear in the 2017 revival of the TV show.

Miley Cyrus said her hectic schedule kept her from performing and accepting an honour at the Teen Choice Awards in the US on Sunday night.

The singer was "beyond bummed" she couldn't make the show but had "created an unrealistic schedule for myself", she wrote in the above social media post.

Never one to miss a plus though, she went on to say a new single and video for Younger Now is due to be released on Friday.

So, every cloud...

On the night, Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Fifth Harmony and Harry Styles were among the winners.

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US pop sensation Taylor Swift won a key victory on Friday in her court battle with ex-radio DJ David Mueller, who she claims groped her at a 2013 concert.

Mr Mueller, 55, originally sued the pop star for $3m (£2.3m), saying she cost him his job but his claim was dismissed in a Denver court last week.

Many have criticised the above court art, arguing that the drawings look nothing like Taylor Swift - or joking that the artist must be a fan of her chart rival, Katy Perry.

With this in mind, BBC news have been taking a look into the misunderstood art of the courtroom sketch.

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