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The 2024 Netflix music documentary The Greatest Night in Pop features behind-the-scenes footage and details of the historic "We Are The World" song's creation. Released back in 1985, "We Are The World" brought together the biggest names in the music industry from all types of genres, including pop, country, folk, rock, and more. The song was assembled by producers Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian and was originated by musician and activist Harry Belafonte and manager Ken Kragen.

The Greatest Night in Pop features new present-day interviews from Lionel Richie, who was a songwriter on "We Are The World" along with pop star Michael Jackson. Richie and Jackson had become acquaintances while their immensely successful music careers were just taking off as the lead singers of The Commodores and The Jackson Five, respectively. "We Are The World" remains to be one of the best-selling songs of all time, selling over 20 million physical copies during the mid-1980s.

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

Today we talk about Bruce Willis, one of our great American movie stars. A man with perfect angles and a perfectly imperfect hairline. The man who spoke up for Seagram’s Golden when nobody else would. It’s wet and it’s dry. Play that harmonica, Bruno!

Our guest today is the great Jen Johans, host of the Watch With Jen podcast. Our B-Sides include In Country, Mortal Thoughts, Disney’s The Kid, and Richard Donner’s final film, 16 Blocks.

We discuss Willis’ early career, his propensity to try new things, and the sad and unfair dismissal of Hudson Hawk. We examine how his acting chops evolved throughout a very turbulent ‘90s decade, culminating in an...

Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, died Saturday at the age of 74, her publicist announced.

The Grammy winner passed away while she was with family members, publicist Roger Neal said in a statement. A cause of death was not immediately revealed.

“While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we are comforted in knowing she is now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace. She was the one that kept all of us close and together for so long,” her sister Ruth, brothers Aaron and Fritz and granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer said in the statement.

Anita Pointer’s only daughter, Jada Pointer, died in 2003.

Anita, Ruth, Bonnie and June Pointer, born the daughters of a minister, grew up singing in their father’s church in Oakland, California.

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Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died aged 74.

Pointer died on Saturday (31 December) surrounded by family at home in Beverly Hills, her publicist Roger Neal said.

The singer was one of four sisters who founded the Grammy-winning pop and R&b group. The Pointer Sisters found success in the Seventies and Eighties.

Their hits include “I’m So Excited”, “Fire”, “Jump (For My Love)” and 1974’s “Fairytale”. The latter was covered by Elvis Presley in 1975.

Pointer’s family issued a statement, reading: “While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we are comforted in knowing she is now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June and Bonnie are at peace.

“She was the one that kept all of us close and together for so long. Her love of our family will live on in each of us.”

Anita’s death follows two years after her sister...

Exclusive: We’ll be seeing a slew of music industry icons and visionaries portrayed in the upcoming second season of American Soul, the Don Cornelius-infused period drama, set for premiere on Bet in 2020.

American Soul takes an unflinching look at the entrepreneur, his Soul Train dancers, crew and musicians in an unforgiving Hollywood in the 1970’s – how they work, play, rise and fall against the backdrop of Soul Train — “the hippest trip in America” and one of the most predominant television shows for African American culture.

Inspired by the personal trials and professional successes of a young, ambitious and troubled impressario Cornelius, season two of the period drama picks up two years later in 1975. As Don, played by Sinqua Walls, becomes a rising star, he continues to manage an assortment of spectacular talent that comes to his show, a shaky family life, personal health and perhaps most importantly, his own ego.

VHS tapes now have a weird sort of stodgy magical aura. Long ago, they were standard. With the arrival of DVD, they were behind the curve. Then they were totally outdated and unworkable. But now they’re so old they’re like mystic electromagnetic tablets from a lost age.

“Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project” is Matt Wolf’s documentary about a lifelong African-American resident of Philadelphia, Marion Stokes (born in 1929), who starting in the late 1970s developed an obsession with making home recordings of TV news coverage. For 30 years, she kept 3 to 8 VCRs going round the clock, 24 hours a day, taping multiple channels. She retained every tape, cataloguing and storing it, creating a running diary of television news coverage, from network to CNN to the cable channels that followed. Those tapes became her purpose and her lifeblood, maybe her identity.

What drove the obsession? That, of course, is the subject — the essential mystery — of “Recorder.

June Pointer, the youngest of The Pointer Sisters, lost her battle with cancer on Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 52. According to a statement, the singer died surrounded by her sisters, Ruth and Anita, and her brothers, Aaron and Fritz. Pointer had been hospitalized in Santa Monica, California since February. June and her three sisters scored a number of hits in the late 1970s and 1980s after growing up singing in the choir of an Oakland, California church where their parents were ministers. After singing back-up vocals for acts like Taj Mahal and Boz Scaggs, the family group went it alone and released a self-titled debut album in 1973. They went on to pick up a Grammy Award in 1974 for Best Country Vocal ("Fairytale"), but they really found their niche in the post-disco world, recording smooth tunes like "Slow Hand" and dance floor fillers such as "I'm So Excited." June Pointer left the group in the mid-1980s after tasting solo success with her solo debut album Baby Sister in 1983. She also sang back-up to Bruce Willis on the actor's 1987 "Respect Yourself" hit.

The youngest member of seventies singing troupe The Pointer Sisters, June Pointer Whitmore has been arrested in Los Angeles and charged with cocaine possession. The 50-year-old was arrested with two other people outside her sister Bonnie's Hollywood apartment - and subsequently charged with one count of cocaine possession, as well as possessing an "illegal smoking device". Whitmore was released on bail, but could face a maximum three year prison sentence if found guilty. She has not performed with the group for three years. The two remaining members of the original line-up, Anita Pointer and Ruth Pointer now perform as a trio with Ruth's daughter, Issa.