Though they may have been a bit on the early side, even the Royal wedding party were getting involved in World Cup fever...

2016 BBC Young Musician award-winner Sheku should've put a bet on really...

Anyway, we're going home (no pun intended) but scroll down for honorary Brit' Justin Timberlake lending his support to the England team at a London gig, Janet Jackson speaking publicly about her late dad and 'great man' Joe Jackson and Justin Bieber confirming his wedding plans.

Plus reports former X Factor contestant Louis Tomlinson is to become a judge on the new series and our Newbie Tuesday act is another Donny lad with a very different vibe.

See you tomorrow, or as today's Live Lounger, Christine and the Queens, might say - A demain.

Which you can watch above if you're into beautiful people looking melancholy at beautiful parties with other beautiful people in a beautiful house in beautiful southern California.

BBC 6 Music

Whitney, a new film by Oscar and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Kevin McDonald about the megastar Whitney Houston, has just been released in UK cinemas.

MacDonald's previous credits include Marley, Touching The Void and The Last King of Scotland.

Emmy-nominated producer Lisa Erspamer, alongside Whitney's family estate and her sister-in-law Patricia Houston were involved and spoke to 6 Music's Georgie Rogers about seeing too many inaccurate interpretations of Whitney's life and career on screen.

Patricia said: "To tell her story you have to know her story.

Billboard magazine

The New Jersey house where The Boss lived for seven years as a kid has been sold for $255,000 (£192,000).

As the Asbury Park Press, external reports - via Billboard - the house at 39 Institute Street in Freehold, where the Springsteens lived from 1955 to 1962, went up for sale for $269,900 in November.

Now that it's sold, that's surely got a visit in an episode of Carpool Karaoke written all over it.

We're just sorry that it wasn't actually on E Street or at least Thunder Road.

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Music News LIVE reporter

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The road from Johannesburg to Doncaster is not exactly a well-travelled one.

But for South African-born singer Skinny Pelembe that is how his musical odyssey began.

"We moved when I was about two or three due to apartheid," he says in a thick South Yorkshire accent.

"Having a mixed race couple [his mum and dad] wasn’t really popping back then!

"So we moved to England and occasionally back to Mozambique, where my family is from."

He adds: "I asked my dad why Doncaster? He hated the town - and he never gave me an answer."

While the mystery of Donny remains, one thing that is quite apparent is Skinny's skill for selecting the best sonic ingredients from UK/US and African culture in order to cook up something entirely new.

"I try not to box myself in."

Having received love from BBC Music Introducing and subsequent airplay from stations as varied as Radio 1, 1Xtra and 6 Music - with tracks like Seven Year Curse (above) and I'll Be on Your Mind (below) - it seems that others can't box him in either and there's a sense of freedom in Skinny's music that perhaps stems from having fled such oppression in his early life.

The artist, who is now based in London, admits to having been on the receiving end of racist abuse in the past but brushes it off with the cool ease of one of his beats.

"I guess you’re gonna experience it at some point if you're any colour but more likely if you're brown.

"It's one of those things that hopefully we can change.

Skinny was selected, alongside the likes of Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Whyte Horses, Pip Blom and Virginia Wing to perform at the "amazing" 6 Music Recommends night at the recent Great Escape festival.

The last time he was down in Brighton was for a very different artistic endeavour, a break dancing conference when he was just seven-years-old.

"This is nearly as cool!" he jokes, before explaining the sad end to his B-Boy career.

"I didn’t pack it in, it packed itself in... I've got incredibly creaky knees, it's not working in that scene.

"There's absolutely no chance you’ll see any moves in upcoming videos, unless I get a great choreographer!"

He didn't listen back to the 6 Music live show in order to preserve it as "perfect" in his own head. But he does keep his ear to the ground for any other music he can find, revealing an unusual primary source of inspiration.

"Streaming is why we sound the way that we do – that and skateboard videos.

"If you skated when you were young, you're gonna know so many different styles of music.

"I was listening to Van Halen this morning on a video, I’d never listen to Van Halen otherwise."

Having already achieved his goal of appearing on a Brownswood, external Bubblers compilation - mixtape produced by his label, Skinny - who plays Latitude, external festival this weekend - says he's now set on "making the music that I want to hear."

And if Tony Hawk or anyone else were to call in the meantime with a song request or commission? Well, he'll skate over that bridge when he comes to it.

"I try not to think about that too much, everything that seems to be happening is magic and dope and it just comes as it comes."

A new record of collaborations "with some of my best mates" is out this summer, followed by a maiden UK Tour in September.

Read Newbie Tuesday #34: Aeris Roves from The Drifters to Frank Ocean

As well as performing one of her latest tracks, Girlfriend, Christine performed a beautiful cover of Maroon 5 and SZA's What Lovers Do in the Radio 1 Live Lounge.

You can hear a snippet and above and it's fair to say people were rather impressed.

We're pretty sure Pan enjoyed it too...

We should have the full video in Wednesday's MNL.

BBC 6 Music

"Kick out the jams...!!!!"

We can't even finish that sentence but rock fans will already know one of the best ever (and most profane) opening lines to a song.

Wayne Kramer of punk veterans MC5 has been speaking to 6 Music about the 50th anniversary of one of the hardest blues-rock albums of all time, predating bands like The Ramones, The Clash and The Sex Pistols.

"Most bands didn't have the FBI surveilling their phones or the Detroit police harassing them, we had extraordinary pressure."

Listen above.

Following in the footsteps of Beyonce and Janelle Monae, Years & Years have shared a 15 minute sci-fi film called Palo Santo to accompany their new album of the same name.

Starring singer Olly Alexander, Thai actor Vithaya Pansringarm - who starred opposite Ryan Gosling in Only God Forgives - and narrator Dame Judi Dench, there is also a cameo from Ben Whishaw.

Check it out above, but don't let your boss catch you as it is quarter of an hour long.

But then again, it is lunchtime...

The Bedfordshire soulman cracked out one of his favourite songs on Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley's show on Monday.

Check out his performance of Amy Winehouse's You Know I'm No Good above as well as his single Barbed Wire.

He spoke about his love of his hometown Bedford saying "there's a big sense of pride there and I'm doing it for them".

The Hollywood Reporter

Joe Jackson died of cancer last month, now his famous daughter took the time during her set at New Orleans’ Essence Festival to pay tribute to him.

“Without his drive, his strength, we wouldn’t have this success,” she told the crowd, of her massively successful musical family, which included megastar brother Michael.

“We’re a black family that came from Gary, Indiana, and we broke all kinds of records around the globe.

"That’s truth.”

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One Direction-cum-solo star Louis Tomlinson is reportedly set to become the fourth judge on the show where it all began for him.

According to the The Daily Mirror,, external Louis will sit alongside Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field, as well as his old boss Simon Cowell.

The Doncaster singer, of course, kicked off his own career on the show, with 1D finishing third in 2010.

The fresh-faced boyband released their debut single, What Makes You Beautiful the following year, which went to number one.

Oh where does the time go?

Louis previously helped Simon at the judges' houses a few years back but looks set to return in a bigger role for the coming new series.

Auditions start next week at London's Wembley Arena - we're working on an act already.

Ahead of her boys in bleu, who are in action in tonight's World Cup semi-final against Belgium, the French pop sensation will be in the R1 Live Lounge.

Tune in from midday, like the match tonight, you won't want to miss this we bet.

The Foo Fighters frontman has given a wide ranging interview to CBS and spoke about his bandmate's death at the age of 27

"When most people think about Nirvana, they think of a song or video but to me it was a really personal experience with some friends, that went from sleeping on the floor to being number one" said Dave.

"I couldn't even listen to the radio because it broke my heart just to hear music."

Watch above from about five minutes in.

OK, this is getting silly now.

Justin Timberlake has officially thrown his support behind England's World Cup campaign.

Who would have predicted that three weeks ago?

The American singer was playing chief cheerleader for Gareth Southgate's team last night at the London leg of his Man of the Woods tour.

"Somebody told me the first time that I came here I became an honorary Brit so...

"It's. Coming. Home!"

He then went on to praise England's goalscoring Harrys - Kane and Maguire - using his best mockney accent.

Hear it with your own Britney Spears above.

BBC Radio 1

Last night after we left you, Who Want The Smoke, was selected by Annie Mac as the hottest record in the world right now.

For the track, US rapper Yachty enlisted the help of the hip hop game's biggest power couple, Cardi B & Offset from Migos.

In it, Cardi declares that she be "the King of New York" - and who are we to argue?

Check it out above.

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Last week, we reported the sad news that musician Richard Swift, a touring member of The Black Keys and former member of The Shins had died at the age of 41.

Now, his family and management have confirmed the cause of his death in a statement on his Facebook page, external.

“Yes, Richard Swift suffered from alcohol addiction, and it’s ultimately what took his life,” they said.

"Richard had checked himself into rehab for multiple stays over the past two years, but his body gave out before he could overcome the disease. He was diagnosed with hepatitis and liver and kidney distress in June."

Swift is survived by his wife Shealynn and their three children Madison, Adrian & Kennedy.

His family added he was planning to release new music which they “hope to share” soon.

Rumours were rife yesterday after JB's parents appeared to confirm it online but now we have it from the horse's mouth.

Well his Instagram account, actually.

The 24-year-old Canadian posted the above picture of him snuggling up to new fiancee Hailey Baldwin, alongside a caption praising her to the high heavens.

He wrote: "Was gonna wait a while to say anything but word travels fast, listen plain and simple Hailey I am soooo in love with everything about you! So committed to spending my life getting to know every single part of you loving you patiently and kindly.

Adding: "WERE GONNA BE BETTER AT 70 BABY HERE WE GO! “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains FAVOR from the Lord!” This is the year of favor!!!!"

Justin has 101m followers on Instagram.

The days of whispering sweet nothings in your lover's ear are over.

Three Lions looks set to go to number one after a massive spike in streams and downloads over the weekend.

The song has taken a 30% lead over its nearest rival, George Ezra's Shotgun, the Official Charts Company said.

Originally recorded for the Euro '96 tournament, Three Lions was written by The Lightning Seeds and comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.

Its famous "football's coming home" chant has been resurrected as England have progressed through the World Cup (you may have heard it uttered once or twice of late).

At his own expense, even George has urged people to get behind the track.

The song re-entered the top 40 last Friday, but its popularity surged further after England beat Sweden on Saturday to reach the semi-finals. In the 24 hours after the match, Three Lions topped the iTunes download chart and was streamed 701,000 times on Spotify alone.

In total, it has accumulated 24,000 downloads and 2.6 million audio streams since last Friday.

That combination is enough to put the song in pole position in the midweek chart update, with two other football anthems also on course to reappear in the top 40 - Fat Les's Vindaloo at 28 and New Order's World In Motion at 34.

You can expect to hear Three Lions belted out by England fans at least once more, tomorrow night when England play Croatia in the semi-final.

Even certain modern music playing devices are starting to believe...

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Hello everyone and welcome back.

In last night's government re-shuffle we were handed the unofficial joint post of minister for Music News LIVE.

Coming up today:

• Justin Bieber confirms his engagement
• Louis Tomlinson reportedly set to become an X Factor judge

• Bruce Springsteen's childhood New Jersey home gets sold
• Years & Years release a short film

• Janet Jackson speaks publicly about her late father Joe Jackson for the first time
• A Newbie Tuesday act from Doncaster via Johannesburg

We hope we can serve you all well.