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...and that's home...

We're off. Phew that was a lot to catch up on.

If you scroll down, there is a round-up of the action at Coachella, new music from Royal Blood, Lana Del Rey and TLC, plus news of Ed Sheeran becoming a desert island castaway.

All that and details of Gaga's Facetime with Prince William and Harry Styles' solo debut (and wicked Mick Jagger impression) on SNL.

We'll leave you with this tell-all interview the floppy-haired pop fop has done with American mag Rolling Stone about his boyband past, new direction and relationships...

...Taylor Swift fans are going to want to read this.

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Two London lads go head to head in the Late Late Show host's Drop the Mic battle.

With verbal digs about Star Wars, Girls, Coachella, Matt Damon and... erm... Graham Norton - who comes out on top?

Watch to find out.

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After news of the early general election broke today, it seems the #votestormzy campaign is picking up pace once again.

And has some high profile backers.

Read more about the election announcement.

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Like Lady Gaga (scroll down), another fellow female performer Feist has admitted to having battled with depression.

In a candid interview with US website Pitchfork, the singer-songwriter discusses her troubles with "finding the past in the present" and "chasing a kind of sublime austerity" on her new record.

Her fifth studio album and first in six years Pleasure comes out on 28 April.

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What were you doing exactly a decade ago today?

Probably rushing out to buy the Arctic Monkeys eagerly-awaited follow-up album Favourite Worst Nightmare weren't you?

No? 

Top marks for not trying then...

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Janet Jackson's husband Wissam Al Mana has posted a heartfelt letter on his own website , externalamid reports the two are now estranged.

According to US magazine Billboard, a spokesperson for the singer did not confirm that the couple, who recently became parents to a baby boy, Eissa Al Mana, have split.

The letter, entitled 'Love', reads:

"I love you so much, inshallah we will be together in the Great Forever x."

Meanwhile Janet has posted the first pic of her with the wee bairn "after nap time"

No clarification on whose nap it was.

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David Bowie's old pal and keyboardist Rick Wakeman gave a first-ever radio play to an alternative version of Dave's cult classic Kooks last night on his Key to Keys Radio 2 show.

Rick played on both the original of the track, recorded for 1971 album Hunky Dory, as well as the newly-surfaced version which you can hear below for the first time just over 37 minutes in.

The new cut is taken off the new rarity record BOWPROMO1, which will be released on limited edition vinyl for Record Store Day, external on Saturday.

Get there early for that one.

Welsh singer Casi was one of the young artists picked to play for the BBC Introducing showcase, external at this year's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

If that was too far away to even attempt to try and get tickets for, then she is also playing the Great Escape, external festival in Brighton next month. 

As a little taster, here she is live in session with Huw Stephens at the BBC's Maida Vale studios.

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Numerous opioid painkillers were found at US singer Prince's home shortly after his death last year, unsealed court documents have shown.

Some of the pills discovered at Prince's Paisley Park estate in Minnesota had prescriptions in the name of his friend and bodyguard.

But the documents do not offer evidence about the source of the drug fentanyl that killed the singer on 21 April 2016.

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Veteran rockers Queen, (well half of them - Brian May and Roger Taylor) have announced 24 live shows in the UK and Ireland, featuring their regular vocalist Adam Lambert.

The tour will apparently showcase a "spectacular new stage production".

It kicks off in Dublin on 25 November with a show in Belfast in Northern Ireland the following day.

There will be further dates in Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, and two London shows at the O2.

It's their first UK tour in three years though they did appear at the closing night of the Isle of Wight Festival last year.

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TLC have shared their first new track in fifteen years ahead of their new album.

Way Back sees the girls - T-Boz and Chili - reminisce about the #goodoledays and even namechecks Prince and Marvin Gaye, James Brown and Michael J (we assume they mean Jordan).

Sadly, we can't embed the track here because there are a couple of swearwords, and rather surprisingly neither one of them is uttered by guest vocalist Snoop Dogg.

You can hear it and watch a lyric video on their YouTube page.

The as-yet-untitled crowdfunded album is due out on 30 June.

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Earlier, we told you about the UK's newest number one solo debut artist and his appearance on Saturday Night Live (scroll back down to watch the video). 

Well you have been getting in touch with your thoughts on his impersonation of 1977 Sir Mick, to whom he is so often compared.

We should say that these tweets might, MIGHT, have come from 1D fans...

Thought so.

Mind you. We only have it on Kim's word that it's actually Kanye inside the costume.

It was nice of him to pop over and spread some Easter cheer at another pal's house too...

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Brighton rockers Royal Blood have made their triumphant return with their new track Lights Out.

It was featured on Mistajam's show last week and fellow Radio 1 DJ Daniel P Carter made it his Rockest Record at the weekend.

It's taken from their new album How Did We Get So Dark? which is out on 16 June.

This is the perfect time to risk your promotion by turning the volume up LOUD.

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Musical legend and all-round lovely man Stevie Wonder has written an emotional tribute to songwriter Sylvia Moy who died at the weekend aged 78.

Moy co-wrote some of his most famous songs like Uptight (Everything's Alright), external, My Cherie Amour and I Was Made to Love Her.

"How do you stop loving the ones you loved for a lifetime - you don't! 

"Sylvia Moy has made it possible to enrich my world of songs with some of the greatest lyrics," he told Rolling Stone. 

"But, not only that, she, through her participation and our co-writing those songs, helped me become a far better writer of lyrics."

Stevie helped induct Moy into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.

"Maybe someday in eternity, at its given time and space, we will write together again. I love you, Sylvia."

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Fresh from her own weekend of partying at Coachella, moody songstress Lana Del Rey had a moment of clarity in the Californian forest when she considered "dancing whilst watching tensions with North Korea mount".

She was so overcome, thinking about the "tightrope between being vigilantly observant of everything going on in the world and also having enough space and time to appreciate God's good earth in the way it was intended to be appreciated" that she wrote a song.

There's a slight swear word in the middle so we can't bring it you here but you can find it on her Insta'.

Question is...if Lana Del Rey sings in a forest and nobody is around to capture it on a smart phone, does she make a sound?

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Well, Ed Sheeran may have lost last week's big chart battle with Harry Styles (scroll down) but don't feel too sorry for him as he's still number one in the album charts.

The multi-millionaire stadium busker is now set to consolidate his growing legendary status by appearing on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, when it returns for its new series next month.

You know the drill by now...eight tracks...one item (why does nobody ever choose a portable record player?).

Ed will be castaway on Sunday 7 May at 11:15am. But if you can't wait until then for your Ed fix then he's on Later With Jools Holland tonight on BBC Two from 22:00 BST.

The singer has also been praised this week for serenading a terminally ill girl in Ireland.

Aidan Priestley says the singer sang Little Bird to his 15-year-old sister Triona over the phone, as she lay in her hospital bed in Dublin.

Triona, who had cystic fibrosis, died moments after the phone call.

Ed had heard about Triona's situation after a social media campaign, #SongForTri, caught his eye.

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It was a series of highs and lows for the thousands of sun-worshiping festival goers at Coachella in the Calfornian desert at the weekend.

Headliners Radiohead had to abandon the stage twice due to numerous technical problems.

"I'd love to tell you a joke, lighten the mood, something like that. But this is Radiohead..." joked singer Thom Yorke.

Fair point.

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When the event organisers did manage to finally get the issues sorted, the band pulled a few classics out of the bag.

Elsewhere Bono's new pal Kendrick Lamar co-headlined and he was on fire (quite literally according to the picture below).

Prince William's new famous friend (scroll down) Lady Gaga stepped in for pregnant Beyonce as the other main attraction.

And she made a typically-understated arrival.

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There was a lot of love for composer Hans Zimmer too, who blew minds by performing the soundtrack to Inception live.

And the UK's very own Glass Animals.

There are loads more performance videos, external for you to enjoy at the festival's YouTube channel.

There's a special mention to the man who nicked 100 smartphones, external but was identified and caught after their owners all used an app to locate their missing handsets.

Power to the people.

And of course as this is Coachella there were celebrity selfies. Lots of selfies...

And, in the interest of balance, here's an amusing takedown of the event. 

"It's Coachella, and "anybody who's anybody" has headed out, iPhone in hand, to the biggest, most important, dullest festival, external on God's green earth."

All great empires eventually crumble...

...and on Friday Ed Sheeran's 13 (unlucky for some) week dominion over the singles chart came to a crashing end after Harry Styles debut solo single Sign of the Times replaced it at the first time of asking.

Never underestimate the power of One Direction fans.

Here he is performing the track live on Saturday Night Live in the US. They've even put the karaoke-stylee lyrics up for you to sing along.

Host Jimmy Fallon and co even got the Dunkirk star to showcase his new-found acting skills in a special edition of Celebrity Family Feud.

It's often said that Harry looks like a certain Rolling Stone...but does he have the moves like Jagger too?

Make your own mind up below.

First up today...everybody's talking about it, from Kensington Palace to Hollywood.

We are of course talking about the stigma surrounding mental health issues.

Prince William and Lady Gaga have been doing their bit to "normalise" the subject during a friendly FaceTime phone call from London to LA.

Luckily for us all there were cameras on hand to film the chat as part of the Heads Together #oktosay, external film series.

Watch above as Gaga opens up about her own struggles with depression during the conversation, which comes just a day after William's brother Prince Harry revealed he had sought counselling after spending nearly 20 years not thinking about the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Gaga told the Duke of Cambridge that she believed people with mental health challenges were "not hiding anymore" and he agreed, adding that it was okay "to feel normal about mental health - it's the same as physical health".

The pair also appear to arrange a meet to discuss the matter further in person for when Lady G is next in the UK on tour in October.

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The meeting of the Prince and the pop queen has clearly meant a lot to many people online.