Well almost.

It's late enough for us to bid you farewell for another week.

Scroll back done for Rihanna talking about the end of her friendship with Drizzy, a Gaz Coombes 6 Music session, Anne Marie on touring with her pal Ed Sheeran and of course, the 5 Things We Learned This Week.

Plus new music from Jess Glynne, Manic Street Preachers, Charlie Puth, Shawn Mendes and Khalid and loads more.

Check out #SLFN tonight with performances from the likes of Kylie Minogue and The Streets (above) 19:30 BST. Be there or be a shape with four equal sides and angles.

It's also a bank holiday weekend, which means that we'll meet back here on Tuesday if that's okay with everyone?

Yeah? Good.

Right, let's have a little dance shall we?

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Axl, Slash and the band have put out a previously unreleased track as part of their new box-set edition re-issue of Appetite For Destruction.

Their 1987 debut album - yes, that really is 30 years ago - contained a few tracks you may have already heard, like Sweet Child o' Mine, Paradise City and Welcome to the Jungle.

Yeah, thought you might.

Shadow Of Your Love finds Slash on his finest finger-licking form and you can check it out below.

We wouldn't normally encourage it but seeing as it's Friday afternoon, air guitar is permitted on this occasion (and actually encouraged).

So much music, so little time.

For that reason, we've prepared a-bumper package of new tunes for your post-lunch slumber.

The first is from Norwegian singer-songwriter Dagny (above) singing about the feelings of new love in some pretty spectacular mountainous surroundings.

Next up we have the smooth sounds of Sounds Like Friday Night fave Charlie Puth and his lyric video for The Way I Am

I'm a tell 'em all that you could either hate me or love me / But that's just the way I am

I'm a tell you Charlie that here at MNL, we like your tune, but there is no such word as I'm a.

Finally in this trio of tunes, it's the return of US alt-rockers Jimmy Eat World, who have come back from the wilderness after two years, with not one but two new tracks.

Above you can watch the hand-made (get it?) video for Half Heart.

The other track is called Love Never.

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Sir Paul McCartney has paid tribute to his late mum and dad as the Queen made him a Companion of Honour for services to music.

It's one of the highest civic honours.

The 75-year-old Beatle was joined by wife Nancy Shevell at Buckingham Palace this morning.

"I see this as a huge honour for me and my family and I think of how proud my Liverpool mum and dad would have been to see this," he said.

You could say Sir Macca enjoyed a good day trip to the palace.

His former bandmate, Sir Ringo Starr received a knighthood earlier in the year.

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We've got five things, we count em...

Before we do here's some of the unlucky also-rans from this week that are worthy of one last mention

1. R Kelly slated the cancellation of one of his gigs over abuse 'rumours'.
2. Bob Dylan launched his own brand of whiskey.
3. Derby MC Eyez paid a musical tribute to PFA Footballer of the Year Mo Salah.
4. Janelle Monae explained her pansexuality and addressed the subsequent reaction

Ok, let's go...

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1) Miley Cyrus retracted a 10-year-old apology

The week kicked off with Miley Cyrus publicly taking back an apology she made as a 15-year-old, for sitting for a 'nude' shoot for celeb photographer Annie Leibovitz (pictured above).

She appeared in the artful black and white shot in 2008 for Vanity fair magazine, covered by a white sheet, but after facing criticism, said she was sorry - adding she was "so embarrassed" by the picture.

Taking to Twitter, the now-25-year-old singer and actress has now claimed "I'M NOT SORRY".

Good for you Miley, now bring on that Wrecking Ball...

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2) Boyzone are heading for the end zone

Ronan and the lads announced this week that their forthcoming seventh studio album and summer tour will be their last.

"We've had twenty-five amazing years and we promise you that this will be our biggest and best year yet," they wrote, in a statement of words to take your heart away.

Bandmate Shane Lynch added: "We're all very very excited about it.

"We know you guys have been so loyal for the last 25 years and you deserve one last BOOM from the Boyzone world."

We hope that doesn't hurt too much.

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3) 'Boredom, booze and legal battles' will feature in new Liam Gallagher feature film

Liam Gallagher: As It Was, will be directed by documentary-maker Charlie Lightening and tell the story of how the singer went from Oasis megastar to "living on the edge, ostracised lost in the musical wilderness of boredom, booze and bitter legal battles."

The feature will include his performances from One Love Manchester, Reading and Glastonbury festivals and the 45-year-old's emotional first ever performance as a solo rock 'n' roller at The Ritz.

The main man himself, who last year returned with a number one debut solo album; As You Were, put it: “As It Was is a documentary about my musical comeback.

Who knew that he'd one day end up with very his own catchphrase?

Liam also started working on his follow-up album in LA this week and in typically understated fashion declared it be sounding "biblical" already.

Amen to that.

4) For many, Kanye West is now public enemy number one

Just a normal week in the life of Kanye West.

He began by confirming his love of US President Donald Trump in a new track Ye VS the People,

That news went down like a trump in a lift among his musical friends and fans.

To continue the flatulent theme a second track; Lift Yourself Up, highlighted his new-found lyrical direction.

But all of that was kid's play compared to what was to come.

He then went into the TMZ newsroom and declared that hundreds of years of African-American slavery seemed like "a choice".

Will.i.am was not the only one left broken-hearted by the remarks.

The remarks that the rapper is now suddenly making as there's an album on the way shortly... if you catch our drift.

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Finally for this week...

5) Celine Dion shared the stage and screen with Deadpool

Not all superheroes wear suits. Some of them wear long ball gowns and sing.

Ashes, performed by the French-Canadian diva, is taken from the forthcoming sequel to the 2016 superhero movie.

We're not certain that's Ryan Reynolds in the suit to be honest but to give him the benefit of the doubt, we never knew he was such a talented mover.

And he really rocks those heels.

Enjoy above.

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The third of our retro Britpop legends trilogy today moves us on to the Manic Street Preachers and the latest new music video taken from their 13th album Resistance is Futile.

So - as it turns out - were their efforts to get to number one, as the record was narrowly kept of top spot by the apparently insurmountable soundtrack from The Greatest Showman.

We spoke to the Welsh rockers on the day of release and that exact situation was one of Nicky Wire's worst fears.

He'll have to simply shake it off as the band stop in on Wembley Arena tonight on their UK tour.

Check out the video below for Hold Me Like Heaven, which sees actress Sarah Sayuri reprise her role as a mysterious photographer.

Nicky (above) explains: “This track sprung from reading Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album by Phillip Larkin, and his poem Aubade as well.

"It was the last lyric written for the record and I knew it had to be special. It’s got one of my favourite ever lines, which is 'what is the future of the future/when memory fades and gets boarded up'.

"We’ve long been obsessed with writing something like Ashes to Ashes; I think this is the closest we’ll ever get”.

The Manics play the Belfast leg of the BBC's Biggest Weekend later this month.

We're used to seeing him sat down in a T-shirt playing his guitar but it seems Frank is capable of scrubbing up and having a wee jig about.

Check out the curious new video of him and friends dancing in front of an exotic looking fake background.

Little Changes is taken from his new album Be More Kind

Read more about the new album.

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As one of the three main DJs on Apple's radio station Beats 1, Julie Adenuga has become one of the most influential taste-makers in the UK.

She also happens to be the younger sister of grime stars Skepta and JME.

She's told our music reporter Mark Savage she has stopped listening to the hundreds of songs she gets sent every day, because she was losing her "natural connection to the music".

"I missed having actual moments with music," she said.

"I made a point of not looking for new music any more. I made a point of allowing it to find me."

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The Miami-based DJ and producer has just notched up his first billion views for one of his music videos on YouTube.

It's for his all-star collab I'm The One which featured Justin Bieber, Quavo and Chance the Rapper - which sadly we can't bring you here due to potentially offensive language.

He's been joined by Ed Sheeran, whose track Perfect also joins the billion views club.

Ed's an old hand though as his videos for Thinking Out Loud and Shape of You have both previously reached the milestone.

Good work fellas and well worth shouting about... not that DJK needs much encouragement in that department.

First Supergrass (well one of them anyway), now Suede.

It's like we've died and returned to 1997.

In support of their forthcoming eighth album, The Blue Hour, Suede have announced a series of European dates including one hometown gig at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.

Come on guys, there's plenty of beautiful ones elsewhere in the UK that would love to see you.

They'll be supported on tour by The Horrors.

Check out the details below or if you're not interested just put this post in your traaaaash.

Lets get cracking with some more new music now.

Singer-songwriters Shawn Mendes and Khalid have joined considerable forces to record the track Youth - appropriate as neither one of them has reached the age of 21 yet.

You can't take my youth away / This soul of mine will never break they sing in an almost mocking tone to anyone over the age of 30 (that includes us).

Damn them and their obvious talent.

Super' Ed kicks off the first of three nights in Cork tonight as he begins his tour of the British and Irish Isles.

He'll be joined by his mate and contender for this week's number one album Anne-Marie.

"We've been friends for ages," she told us.

"He just thought of me but that's typical of him, he's very supportive of everything I do, he believes in it so it was nice of him.

"Yeah, I can't wait, I'm nervous because the venues are massive but his fans are really welcoming.

"But the bigger stadiums freaks the hell out of me."

Last year, Ed famously headlined Glastonbury but Anne-Marie said that he shies away form offering any special tips for handling a massive audience.

"He doesn't like to, he likes to throw me in at the deep end because I think that's how he learned so he doesn't give much away.

"But I love that - he teaches me in the way that he is, I love to learn by watching and seeing how he is with fans and watching how little he has changed."

Watch Anne-Marie's performance on #SLFN last week for a taster of what to expect from her set and read about her new album.

BBC 6 Music

Gaz Coombes has been a busy bunny this week.

Today the former Supergrass singer appeared on the BBC Breakfast sofa after dropping his third solo album, World's Strongest Man.

Yesterday he spoke to us about how his first new music since the release of Mercury Prize-nominated last album Matador addressed issues like masculinity, ego and anxiety attacks.

And the day before that he popped in for a session with 6 Music DJ Lammo, which you can check out in full above.

Sunglasses and a hat in doors? Par for the course...

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Our second red head singer of the day has released her new single, I'll Be There, today.

The London singer, whose only album to date; I Cry When I Laugh, came out in 2015, has been teasing the release with a series of menacing videos of her on a horse and in an old car at a crossroads somewhere in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

We know have the full video above.

We hope she's on her way back soon though as she's due to be in Swansea in a few weeks, performing for you all at BBC's Biggest Weekend.

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Well what a week it's been for Kanye, professing his love for Donald Trump, saying slavery was a choice, sharing his 'poopity scoopity' song.

While it feels like he is now occupying the slot of public enemy number one, he has at least found a soulmate in the form of the Biebs - who has had his own run-ins with the media and public at large.

He apparently posted a message on Instagram which read: “Our job is to love, not to always agree!”

“Love you Kanye!,” he added.

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Magazine

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First up today Bad Girl Ri Ri is on the new cover of tastemakers Vogue, talking about beauty, bodies and boys.

One of the boys in question is a certain Torontonian rapper and former beau of Rihanna's; Drake.

"We don't have a friendship now but we're not enemies either," she told the fashion mag.

"It is what it is."

Drake was clearly still hung up on the singer, referencing one of her tracks in his own song Diplomatic Immunity, earlier this year;

“2010 was when Iost my Halo / 2017 I lost a J. Lo."

What a way to make two girls feel special, in one line.

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Remember when Rihanna twerked into Drake on stage during a rather raunchy display at the 2016 Brits?

Well, it seems the singer, who is now reportedly seeing Saudi businessman Hassan Jameel, has now moved on.

Now after reaching a landmark age in February, are Rihanna's wild thoughts starting to turn towards family matters other than just boys and work, work, work?

She asked:

Speculating on her potential pending motherhood, she added:

"I'm not gonna be able to take my eyes off my kid.

"I know that already about myself.

"They're going to have to force me to hire a nanny."

Barbadian Rihanna will release the follow-up to her 2016 album, Anti, this year, which is apparently inspired by another famous Caribbean singer; the late, great Bob Marley.

It's been produced by Supa Dups, who has previously worked with reggae dance hall acts Beenie Man and Sean Paul.

Vogue asked her therefore to name her Bob Marley reggae faves and here's what she plumped for;

“I’m gonna sound like a real tourist when I tell you my top Bob songs; Three Little Birds, No Woman, No Cry, and Redemption Song."

Can't argue with that.

Read more, external of the interview, which includes Rihanna talking about body image and of course plugging her many various products.

Quiz: Why is Rihanna a 'positive role model'?

The 2015 Glastonbury headliner spoke to Radio 1's Annie Mac about her memories of topping the bill, after Foo Fighters pulled out, her battle to kick the booze and how it shaped her new album High As Hope in June.

Watch her above as she told Annie about being "high on high fives" following her barnstorming Worthy Farm set.

"It's interesting because I think I never knew how to come down after a tour before, so I would just go on a massive bender.

"And I wasn't doing that so I just went straight back in the studio."

Flo has also released a new song in time for this week's New Music Friday and you can check out Hunger below as she sings about the universal appetite to be loved.

You can also check out part two, external of the interview.

Morning everybody and Happy Star Wars Day.

All that stands between us and another big fat bank holiday is an even bigger New Music Friday, including fresh cuts from Florence + the Machine, Jess Glynne being a big tease and a new album from Plan B.

Later on, we'll reveal 5 Things We've Learned after another fun-packed week in music.

While we get up and running, check out yesterday's MNL for news of new material from Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera and LSD and also Monday's page for Frank Turner on his plan to Make America Great Again on his new record, which is also out today.

Then come straight back here for some of the best quotes from Rihanna's big Vogue interview on her forthcoming reggae album and why no longer talks to Drake.

We see the force is strong in you guys this morning.

So started let's get shall we.