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Two months after the death of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys legend was laid to rest at Los Angeles’ Westwood Memorial Park.

His daughter Carnie Wilson, singer of the Nineties trio Wilson Phillips, wrote a heartfelt post on Instagram about her father’s burial. “Today we laid my Daddy to rest,” she said. “It was incredibly difficult to see that happen, but at the same time it gave more closure and more of a feeling of restful peace. The last eight weeks have been extremely challenging and like nothing I’ve ever experienced.

Among Paul McCartney’s high-profile musical collaborations in the 1980s, “Ebony and Ivory” is considered by many the worst. But its three minutes and 45 seconds pale in comparison to the excruciating 86 it takes to watch Jim Hosking’s 2025 film of the same name.

From the writer-director of the cult horror film “The Greasy Strangler,” “Ebony and Ivory” parodies the events that led to the legendary 1982 team-up between McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Yet even by the loose standards of cultural satire or even looser, of outsider art, this two-hander about McCartney and Wonder butting heads in a cabin on the Mull of Kintyre ahead of recording the chart-topping song is brutally unwatchable, an Adult Swim short film stretched, either via desperation or willful obliviousness, to feature length.

Sky Elobar and Gil Gex, stars of Hosking’s previous films, play the British and American artists. After Stevie (Gex) arrives by rowboat from across the Atlantic Ocean,...

I just watched an animated movie called Boys Go to Jupiter that was so weird and eccentric, I’m not sure I was in the right headspace to truly appreciate the experience until days later. Then came Ebony and Ivory, a film that might as well have “Nothing can prepare you” as its tagline, because I walked out of the screening asking myself, “What did we just watch?”

No, Ebony and Ivory is not a Hunter S. Thompson fever dream; it is a new film from writer/director Jim Hosking that cannot be labeled or quantified. Sure, “gonzo” seems like an appropriate term. Unhinged may be another. Though I am starting to think batsh*t crazy is more like it.

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Dolly Parton has suffered a lot of loss this year. Her husband passed away in March. Well-respected musician Ozzy Osbourne and wrestler Hulk Hogan died within days of each other last month. They both had unexpected connections to the country singer.

Despite the losses, Dolly keeps on trucking. Fans have known her as an icon for decades. Now she is officially one in the Guinness Book of World Records. Keep reading for all the details on the singer’s latest huge honor.

Dolly Parton Opens Bar In Nashville

Opening a bar in Nashville is a rite of passage at this point. Country singers Luke Bryan, Morgan Wallen, Jason Aldean, and Garth Brooks are just a few who lent their name to bars in the city’s popular Broadway area.

We can’t forget the ladies of country music. Lainey Wilson and Miranda Lambert also have bars in the Nashville hot spot.

Charlotte Lawrence loves a good, gut-wrenching, sad song. When she sits down with Rolling Stone at Lollapalooza, it’s just minutes after she wrapped up her set, which was complete with a number of her own songs that fall into that category.

“Ophelia,” the record Lawrence co-wrote with Gracie Abrams, didn’t make it into her set, but reflects that precise feeling. “She feels like family to me at this point,” says Lawrence, who has been friends with Abrams since they were children. “And besides the fact that she’s literally the nicest,...

A show about Elvis as a secret agent from "Archer" writer Mike Arnold and singer-screenwriter John Eddie sounds wild enough to become a hit — or, at the least, a cult favorite. Sadly, "Agent Elvis" wasn't given long enough to become either, as Netflix canceled the zany enterprise after its first season. That is, the streamer axed the animated series several months after season 1 was made available, which might seem odd, but 2023 was a tumultuous year that claimed many a show too soon.

The cancellation of "Agent Elvis" was perhaps one of the biggest disappointments, if only because the show had so much promise and hype prior to its debut. The series' trailer promised an outlandish romp featuring Matthew McConaughey as a secret agent version of The King, while early footage from "Agent Elvis" similarly teased a stylish animated show that /Film's Rafael Motamayor described as "striking," noting that "Elvis has never looked better.

From the man who brought you The Greasy Strangler and An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn comes Ebony & Ivory, a motion picture that can only be described as Not At All True But Definitely Loosely Based On Real People. As distributor Drafthouse Films describes it, Jim Hosking’s film is about “two musical legends gather[ing] at a Scottish Cottage on The Mull of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a global Number One smash hit single.”

These two musical legends are Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (played by Sky Elobar and Gil Gex respectively), and the potential collaboration is… you guessed it, the single “Ebony & Ivory” (which is actually only one of two collabs the duo made together). Throughout the film, Jim Hosking imagines a completely facetious history of the weekend that led to McCartney and Wonder writing the...

The Billboard 200 albums chart measures the top releases during the weekly tracking period every Friday through Thursday. While it used to be determined strictly by record sales, the ever-changing landscape of music consumption led Billboard to update its methodology for the 21st century.

In 2014, Billboard started considering multiple metrics of music success, including online streams and individual track sales, in addition to the traditional album sales that previously made up the entirety of the Billboard 200's chart determinations. An album sale currently counts as one album unit. Sales of 10 individual tracks also counts as one unit. But an artist needs 3,750 ad-supported streams or 1,250 paid subscription streams to equal one unit. Then in 2020 Billboard began counting music videos on platforms like YouTube.

The Beatles hold the record for the most No. 1 albums with 19; they also have the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with 20. But Beatles alumnus Paul McCartney has...

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As the gentlemen of Spinal Tap surely know, it can take a while to find your back to the stage. In the case of their long-awaited sequel, it's been more than 40 years since Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer starred as "one of England's loudest bands."

But that wait will soon be over.

Hot off a rerelease earlier this month, the band is gearing up for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. After the first trailer last week, details about a new album have surfaced, including a host of special guests featured on it.

For everything you need to know about Spinal Tap II, as well as the first images, rock read on!

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The End Continues brings the core trio of McKean, Guest, and Shearer back together as David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls, respectively. Also returning from This Is Spinal Tap is Fran Drescher...

We now have our first look at the new music video for the single “Stonehenge” from the upcoming sequel to the beloved rock mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap. Bleecker Street had recently unveiled the trailer to Spinal Tap II: The End Continues last week at ComicCon. The film has Rob Reiner returning as director and documentarian, Marty Di Bergi, along with Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer returning as Spinal Tap. The film is also written by the four stars. Rob Reiner, Michele Reiner and Matthew George are the credited producers on the film. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues will try not to get lost on its way to theaters on September 12.

One of the draws to this new entry is the cameos from figures of the music world. Some of the predominantly big names will include Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney and Questlove. The former is included...

Heavy metal legends Spinal Tap have teamed up with Elton John for a re-recording of the band’s classic cut “Stonehenge,” released on Thursday via Interscope Records.

The band also released a music video for the single, confirming the song will appear on The End Continues, the forthcoming album for the mockumentary Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, out on Sept. 12 to coincide with the movie’s theatrical run.

The 13-track set includes nine brand new songs and four reinvented favorites, featuring guests Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, and Trisha Yearwood.

A new trailer for the movie, featuring a musical clip of “Stonehenge,” premiered last week at San Diego’s Comic-Con 2025 after Rob Reiner and Paul Feig’s panel “Directors On Directing.” Watch the trailer below.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues picks up 41 years after the release of 1984’s groundbreaking This Is Spinal Tap, when now estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins,...

Spinal Tap have re-recorded their classic song “Stonehenge” with the legendary Elton John for the upcoming sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, as well as an accompanying companion album, titled The End Continues. Both the film and the album will arrive on September 12th.

“Stonehenge” was one of the highlights in the original 1984 movie, This Is Spinal Tap, as made famous in the hilarious scene in which the band plays onstage alongside an 18-inch Stonehenge prop instead of an 18-foot one.

The music video (and likely full scene from the sequel) shows Spinal Tap finally playing in front of that 18-foot Stonehenge they originally desired, as they are joined by Elton on piano and vocals.

The album The End Continues will also feature guest spots from Paul McCartney on “Cups and Cakes,” and married couple Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood on “Big Bottom,” as well as a second appearance...

It turns out that the real problem with Spinal Tap’s “Stonehenge” wasn’t just that tiny onstage prop — the song was also missing some assistance from a living rock monument. A just-released new version of the track, featuring Elton John on vocals, is the first single from the fictional metal gods’ new album,The End Continues. The collection, due Sept. 12, will accompany the long-delayed sequel to 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which hits theaters the same day.

The album, available to preorder now,...

On July 7, the Beatlesdrummer celebrated his 85th birthday in his Los Angeles home with family and very famous friends such as Joe Walsh from The Eagles,Jackson Browne, Lucius, and, of course, his wife of over 40 years, Bond girl Barbara Bach. They even FaceTimed another Beatles legend, Paul McCartney, who sent his love from a distance. Starr was all smiles as he watched his friends' live performances at the semi-public event, including performances of his Beatles classics, "Yellow Submarine," "Octopus's Garden," and, of course, "With A Little Help From My Friends." But what fans watching (and probably many of the attendees) didn't know is that the Beatle had a secret announcement planned.

Ringo Starr Announces New Album After 85th Birthday Celebration

As fans might have heard, McCartney recently announced a North American tour, and much like his fellow Beatle, Ringo Starr is not slowing down. A few weeks after his birthday,...

Sherwood Schwartz earned his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by dreaming up two sitcoms that ran forever in syndication, inspiring decades’ worth of spin-offs, reboots and TV movies. But those two mega-successful creations — Gilligan’s Island and Brady Bunch — existed in two separate Nick at Nite universes, never crossing paths into a single sitcom reality.

At least, not until 2007. When the quasi-crossover finally happened, it was thanks to Schwartz’s genius at milking cash out of new iterations of old hits. In addition to Saturday morning cartoons like Gilligan’s Planet, TV movies like The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island and a reality show called The Real Gilligan’s Island, Schwartz collaborated with his son Lloyd, daughter Hope and son-in-law Laurence Juber (former guitarist with Paul McCartney and Wings!) on the stage show, Gilligan’s Island: The Musical.

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King Charles and Ozzy Osbourne shared an unlikely bond that many people were unaware of. Ozzy passed away on Tuesday, July 22, at the age of 76.

His family surrounded him. The musician died after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He died only weeks after performing his final show with his band, Black Sabbath.

Ozzy Performed At The Late Queen’s Golden Jubilee Concert

The Black Sabbath singer, famous for heavy metal tunes like “Crazy Train” and “Paranoid,” shared a surprising connection to the royal family.

Known to his fans as “The Prince of Darkness,” he is infamous for not only his head-banging tunes, but also his heavy drinking, use of illicit drugs, and biting the head off a bat during a live performance in 1982.

Ozzy had a surprising connection to the royal family. One of his first royal encounters took place at the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace.

The first trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is finally here, giving a proper look at the highly anticipated sequel to This Is Spinal Tap. Screen Rant is at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, and while all kinds of exciting news is coming out of the convention each day, one of the most notable drops for comedy fans is the trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

After years of development, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues' first trailer finally shows the band back together. The trailer sees Rob Reiner's fictional documentarian Marty Dibergi reunite with the band, catching up years after they have broken up. The three members of Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest's Nigel Tufnel, Michael McKean's David St. Hubbins, and Harry Shearer's Derek Smalls, all make appearances.

The Spinal Tap II: The End Continues trailer also shows off some major cameos, such as Paul McCartney,...

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“Everything I’ve done, and everything I’ve lived through, has somehow found its way into my music,” Billy Joel says in the trailer for And So It Goes, the new two-part documentary streaming on HBO, with the second half airing today on July 25.

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That long-dreaded awaited Spinal Tap reunion wouldn’t be happening with the generous funding of C. Montgomery Burns.

As director Rob Reiner tells it, he and his This Is Spinal Tap collaborators Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer had long ago abandoned the idea of making a sequel to their seminal 1984 mockumentary. But thanks to a series of fortunate events — including the deep pockets of one of the stars — the quartet is back with Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

Speaking at Collider’s Directors on Directing panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, Reiner explained why it took four decades for the “Stonehenge” purveyors to dial it back up to 11 one more time.

Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest in Spinal Tap II: The End ContinuesBleecker Street/Spinal Tap LLC

“We made the [first] film 41 years ago, and everybody would come up to say, 'You’ve got to do a sequel,...

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Heavy metal legends Spinal Tap are officially returning with Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the highly anticipated sequel to Rob Reiner’s '80s mockumentary about the fictional rock band whose members constantly disagree with each other. Now, we finally got our first trailer for the long-awaited sequel, which is set to be released in theaters next September 12, and will feature the return of classic cast members, as well as some notable new additions. The old metal gods may be back, but the question remains: Are they now big enough to get the Stonehenge stage prop they deserve? Check out the first trailer below...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues features the return of the classic cast. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Fran Drescher, who will be reprising their roles from the 1984 mockumentary. Rob Reiner is directing and also appearing in front of the camera again to...

Mockumentary sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is out in September, and the full trailer has emerged as a reminder.

Update 25th July 2025: Belated mockumentary sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues now – finally – has a full trailer. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are back in their wigs (now greyer) as the hapless veteran rock band, now reuniting for one last gig.

Just as importantly, director Rob Reiner is also back in front of the camera as documentarian Marty Dibergi, who catches up with the ageing rockers as they stumble back out of obscurity in an age of social media and branded merchandise.

Few are likely to expect The End Continues to reach the classic heights of the 1984 original, but that’s partly because so few comedies have. Here’s hoping it’s a fitting send-off for the writers of such rock standards as Stone Henge,...

After more than 40 years of clamoring, fans have finally gotten a glimpse at the return of some mock rock legends in the trailer for “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.”

The trailer for the “This Is Spinal Tap” sequel features the reunion of the iconic band from Rob Reiner’s 1984 directorial debut. Reiner returns to direct, write and star in the long-awaited sequel to his original music mockumentary. Joining him as actors and writers are Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer — all of whom starred in and co-wrote the original film.

In the new trailer, Reiner returns as Martin “Marty” Di Bergi, a fictional documentarian who “directed” the original documentary about the band Spinal Tap’s 1982 tour for their album “Smell the Glove.” Since the events of the first movie, the members have all gone their separate ways. Footage shows David St. Hubbins (McKean) playing in a mariachi band,...

"What comes after 11? We're about to find out."...

They’re back! The first official trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues has dropped, and we see the lads from the legendary British rock band reunite for one last gig.

In the clip, we see filmmaker Marty Dibergi catch people up with what’s happened to Spinal Tap since his first film, This Is Spinal Tap. We then see the central Tap trio of Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) all looking their age and leading rather sedentary lives, in stark comparison to their past lives as stadium rock gods. The trailer then shows us efforts by the band to reunite for one last hurrah, including their efforts to recruit a drummer suicidal enough to play the gig, their merchandising efforts and whether one (or two) of them dying on stage would help boost publicity for the gig and cement their legacy.

“Nigel, David and Derek haven’t seen the film,” Rob Reiner said Thursday before unveiling the first trailer for his mockumentary sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues during Collider’s Directors on Director panel at Comic-Con.

Spinal Tap II has Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) and Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls) back as legendary heavy metal band Spinal Tap. The film follows England’s loudest and most punctual band as they reunite after a 15-year hiatus for one final concert. Also featured in the sequel will be be cameos from Elton John, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, as well as appearances from Paul Shaffer, Fran Drescher, Don Lake, John Michael Higgins, Nina Conti, Griffin Matthews, Kerry Godliman and Chris Addison.

Reiner said the sequel came together after Shearer got the rights back. “They hadn’t played for 15 years. There’s some bad blood, what...

The highly anticipated sequel to 1984’s seminal comedy sees the band reunite for a farewell show with appearances from Elton John, Questlove and Paul McCartney

The first trailer for the long-awaited sequel to This Is Spinal Tap has been released, showcasing the venerable rockers’ supposed last hurrah in a film called Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

Spinal Tap II reunites Nigel Tufnel, David St Hubbins and Derek Smalls as they get together for a final concert, more than 40 years after the 1984 mockumentary that made their name. In between, Spinal Tap released the album Break Like the Wind in 1992, appeared on The Simpsons, played the Live Earth charity concert in 2007 and Glastonbury in 2009.

Like a big bottom, Spinal Tap has dropped at the San Diego Comic Con. With that – as promised – comes the first trailer for their much-anticipated return: Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

A lot has happened in the 40+ years since Marty Di Bergi documented the ill-fated heavy metal band: David St. Hubbins has joined a mariachi band, Derek Smalls is selling cryptocurrency and Nigel Tufnel is selling cheese, only picking up his axe for pub gigs. But it’s time for one more show…They just need yet another drummer.

It’s the perfect setup to get the band back together, and the trailer for Spinal Tap II looks to follow through not just on story but also the humor that made the original 1984 mockumentary such a classic. Add to that cameos from the likes of Questlove, Elton John and Paul McCartney – who declares that the band’s 1970 single “Big...

Spinal Tap reunite for one last concert in the latest trailer for the classic rock mockumentary’s upcoming sequel.

The preview for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues opens up with highlights from the Rob Reiner’s 1984 film before Reiner himself — as documentarian Marty Di Bergi — reveals the purpose of the 40-years-later documentary: To celebrate Spinal Tap’s legacy by bringing together Michael McKean’s David St. Hubbins, Christopher Guest’s Nigel Tufnel, and Harry Shearer’s Derek Smalls (and whatever fearless drummer they can recruit) for a final gig in New Orleans.

All the way back in 1984, the world was introduced to the rock sensation known as Spinal Tap. As fictional documentarian Marty Di Bergi, real-life filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner toured around the country with the fake British rock band comprised of David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls, as well as a revolving door of drummers who kept encountering unfortunate circumstances, forcing them to leave the band. Sure, this is a mockumentary, but as one of the first films of its kind, the comedy managed to trick a lot of people into thinking that Spinal Tap was a real band.

Followed by Marty and his guerrilla film crew, Spinal Tap quickly discovered the challenges of being aging rockers in the modern world, dealt with stuffy record executives, and endured sparsely attended promotional events. They even lost Nigel Tufnel from the band for a short while.

But that's all in the past,...

It's time to turn things up to eleven once again. And locate a new drummer. At Collider's Directors on Directing panel at San Diego Comic-Con, hosted by Steve Weintraub and featuring Rob Reiner and Paul Feig, we had the opportunity to debut the official trailer for Reiner's much-anticipated mockumentary sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Picking up 41 years after the legendary first film tracked one of England's loudest bands in their quest for rock glory, the follow-up revisits David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) now that the estranged bandmates have gone on with their lives. However, everyone's forced back together, along with the documentary's director Martin Di Bergi (Reiner), for one final concert to cement their legacy as gods in the wide pantheon of rock 'n' roll.

The trailer opens with an introduction from Di Bergi, who has returned...

The first trailer from the long-awaited sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, has arrived, offering a preview of the star-studded guests who join legendary mock-rockers Spinal Tap in the movie. Unfortunately, the band is still searching for a drummer. Watch the full clip below.

Opening 41 years after the original mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the trailer begins with director Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner) taking us back to highlights from the first film, including the notorious “These go to 11” amplifier scene with Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest). A clip of the band performing “Big Bottom” cuts to Di Bergi talking to Paul McCartney in the present day, who refers to a song lyric about “pink torpedo” as “literature, really.”

It goes on to reveal what the members of Spinal Tap are doing today, with David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) performing with a mariachi band, Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) hawking cryptocurrency,...

The first trailer from the long-awaited sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, has arrived, offering a preview of the star-studded guests who join legendary mock-rockers Spinal Tap in the movie. Unfortunately, the band is still searching for a drummer. Watch the full clip below.

Opening 41 years after the original mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the trailer begins with director Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner) taking us back to highlights from the first film, including the notorious “These go to 11” amplifier scene with Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest). A clip of the band performing “Big Bottom” cuts to Di Bergi talking to Paul McCartney in the present day, who refers to a song lyric about “pink torpedo” as “literature, really.”

It goes on to reveal what the members of Spinal Tap are doing today, with David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) performing with a mariachi band, Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) hawking cryptocurrency,...

Spinal Tap is tapping back into the music scene, 40 years later. The highly-anticipated sequel “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” reunites director Rob Reiner with stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer for a revival of the beloved mockumentary about a faux band.

The official synopsis reads: “Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary ‘This Is Spinal Tap,’ the now estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls are forced to reunite for one final concert. ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ also marks the resurrection of documentarian Marty Di Bergi (Reiner), who once again tries to capture his favorite metal gods as they contemplate mortality — and the hope that their 12th drummer doesn’t join them in The Great Beyond. Joined by music royalty Paul McCartney and Elton John, Spinal Tap wrestles with their checkered past to put on a concert that they hope...

Ozzy Osbourne was the trailblazing frontman of Black Sabbath, who pioneered the heavy metal genre. Unfortunately, the artist has passed away at the age of 76, just weeks after his last concert in Birmingham (via BBC). Following the emotional farewell, fans are asking if Osbourne is the next in line for an insightful documentary.

With HBO’s Billy Joel: And So It Goes setting the bar for rockumentaries, it seems like there’s a renewed push to give the Prince of Darkness a tribute he deserves. Osbourne’s documentary should match the precedent set by Joel’s, and with the project already underway, everyone’s hoping for the best.

Ozzy Osbourne Needs a Documentary Like Billy Joel’s A still from Billy Joel: And So It Goes | Credits: HBO

Billy Joel: And So It Goes is a documentary that proves even the most private stars like him can open up if the story is told right.

Sir Paul McCartney has announced a 2025 North American tour, marking his first run of shows across the US and Canada in three years (get tickets here).

The 20-date outing officially kicks off on September 29th with McCartney’s first-ever concert in Palm Desert, California. From there, he’ll play gigs in cities including Las Vegas, Denver, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Columbus, Buffalo, and Montreal, before wrapping up the trek with two nights at Chicago’s United Center on November 24th and 25th. Along with making his live debut in Palm Desert, the itinerary also sees McCartney playing his first-ever concert in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 7th. Update: McCartney has added an October 25th concert in San Antonio.

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We now have our first look at the upcoming sequel to the beloved rock mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap. Bleecker Street has just unveiled the images to Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which has Rob Reiner returning as director and documentarian, along with Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer returning as Spinal Tap. The film is also written by the four stars. Rob Reiner, Michele Reiner and Matthew George are the credited producers on the film. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues will try to not get lost on its way to theaters on September 12.

The trailer is due to premiere at Comic-Con tomorrow and will be available online not long after, so stay tuned!

The official description reads,

Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the now estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls are forced to reunite for one final concert.

Country icon Dolly Parton became a rock star after releasing an album of covers a few years ago. One diehard fan of metal created an Ozzy Osbourne-inspired rendition of “Jolene.”

Music Fans Mourn Heavy Metal Icon Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne is known as The Prince of Darkness. He famously bit the head off a live bat during a concert in the early 1980s. But fans of the singer got to see another side of the singer when he and his family started in a reality TV show. The Osbournes aired from 2002 until 2005 on MTV. Ozzy’s constant call for his wife Sharon Osbourne became a part of pop culture.

Ozzy Osbourne/Credit: YouTube

Before his solo career, he was a founding member of Black Sabbath. He was fired from the band in 1979 but recently reunited with them for one final show. Viewers of the MTV series always felt something was off with Ozzy Osbourne.

It’s been more than four decades since the original, groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap hit screens. Now fans are getting their first glimpse of Rob Reiner’s anticipated sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

Forty-one years after their comedic debut, estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) are forced to reunite for what promises to be one final, epic concert. The sequel also marks the return of documentarian Marty Dibergi (Reiner), who once again attempts to capture the metal gods as they confront their own mortality and the ever-present fear that their 12th drummer might just join the ranks of their predecessors in The Great Beyond.

(L-r) Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest Bleecker Street Authorized Spinal Tap LLC

Adding to the star-studded chaos, music legends Paul McCartney and Elton John are set to appear as Spinal Tap...

This September marks the arrival of the long-awaited sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Ahead of its release, a trio of first-look photos has been revealed.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues stars original cast members Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer reprising their iconic roles as Spinal Tap band members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Small. The sequel finds the “now estranged bandmates” are “forced to reunite for one final concert.”

Rob Reiner also reprises his role as documentarian Martin “Marty” Dibergi (in addition to serving as the actual film’s director). Rounding out the sequel’s cast are all-star cameos from music legends Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, and Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, plus Paul Shaffer, Fran Drescher, Don Lake, John Michael Higgins, Nina Conti, Griffin Matthews, Kerry Godliman, and Chris Addison.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues will be released in theaters nationwide on September 12th.

Exclusive: “We have always said we want to do New York Post on the outside, New York Times on the inside.”

That is the company vision laid down by Susannah Price, the head of documentary producer Sandpaper Films, which has explored recent subjects including Taylor Swift, Andrew Tate and Karen Read. Last week, its Netflix feature A Deadly American Marriage was named the streamer’s most-watched unscripted movie of 2025 so far with 32.3 million views.

Price and her Sandpaper co-founder Henry Singer were speaking to Deadline as the Channel 4 documentary on global superstar Swift was announced. From the day of Sandpaper’s launch five years back, Price and Singer said they would approach popular subjects with an investigative touch, hence the comparison to the two contrasting New York publications.

“We have a strand of smart documentaries about famous people that are analytical, truly independent, not made with the celebrity, and not biopics,...

Vince Calandra Sr., who as a longtime booker for CBS juggernaut The Ed Sullivan Show helped introduce The Beatles to America’s TV audience, has died. He was 91. According to a local mortuary’s obit, he died Saturday at his home in Woodland Hills, CA.

Calandra was just 23 when he landed a job on Sullivan’s talent showcase, which already had been a Sunday night staple for nearly a decade. Starting in the mailroom, he graduated to holding the cue cards and eventually to talent booker. At the dawn of the British Invasion of U.S. radio airwaves and record players, he was instrumental to bringing Liverpudlian upstarts John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to the Ed Sullivan Show stage, creating a landmark moment in TV and music history.

It was February 9, 1964, when The Beatles made the first of three appearances on the show within two weeks.

Gary Smith, the Emmy-Award-winning producer behind numerous television specials and live events, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90.

Born in 1935, Smith studied scenic design at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) before beginning his career as an art director at CBS in 1956. He made the leap to producer while working on “The Judy Garland Show” in 1963 and, two years later, produced NBC’s “Hullabaloo” a variety series that showcased early performances from The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel and Sonny & Cher.

Smith’s influence on music television blossomed throughout the 1960s, as he produced the first television specials for Paul McCartney and Bette Midler and the final television performances of Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby. Other musical acts that he’d produce specials for included Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Neil Diamond, Tony Bennett, Dolly Parton, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé, Woody Allen,...

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Gary Smith, the Emmy-winning television producer whose credits included six Tony Awards broadcasts, passed away on Saturday, July 18, in Los Angeles. He was 90 years old. Over his six-decade career, Gary Smith shaped the cultural landscape of American television as one half of the Smith-Hemion Production Team. He produced the first television specials for Paul McCartney and Bette Midler, and the final television performances of legends like Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby. His collaborations with Barbra Streisand led to many of her televised events. He also produced Baryshnikov on Broadway, which featured Mikhail Baryshnikov, along with guest stars like Liza Minnelli, performing songs from Broadway musicals such as Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof,...

Gary Smith, the eight-time Emmy winner who produced six Tony Awards broadcasts, four Emmy telecasts and TV specials for the likes of Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and Burt Bacharach, died Saturday in Los Angeles, a publicist announced. He was 90.

As one-half of the production team Smith-Hemion — formed with fellow producer Dwight Hemion in the early 1970s — Smith “brought artistry, innovation and elegance to an era of TV that celebrated variety, spectacle and unforgettable moments. From intimate musical performances to historic national celebrations, he left an indelible mark on audiences across generations.”

Smith produced the first TV specials for Paul McCartney (1973’s James Paul McCartney) and Bette Midler (1977’s Ol’ Red Hair Is Back) and guided the final TV performances of Presley (Elvis in Concert) and Bing Crosby (Merrie Olde Christmas), both in 1977.

He served as an executive producer of AFI Life Achievement Award tributes to Streisand and Tom Hanks, and...

Gary Smith, the prolific producer of awards shows and TV specials for such performers as Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Neil Diamond, Tony Bennett, Dolly Parton, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé, and many others, died Friday, July 18, in Los Angeles. He was 90.

His death was announced by a spokesperson for his family.

Nominated for 30 primetime Emmy Awards (and winner of eight), Smith was and business partner Dwight Hemion formed the production team Smith-Hemion Productions in the early 1960s and developed an approach that was noted for bringing artistry, innovation, and elegance to the world of variety and music specials. The partnership ended in 2001.

Smith produced the first television specials for Paul McCartney and Bette Midler, and the final television performances of Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby. His collaborations with Barbra Streisand led to many of her most iconic televised events, including her acclaimed 1973 special Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments.

The entertainment industry remains deep in mourning over the death of Robin Kaye, the longtime music supervisor for American Idol, who was found murdered along with her husband, Thomas Deluca, in their home in an apparent double homicide.

Kaye’s contemporaries are remembering her as a consummate professional who had a keen talent for working with creatives, and for her stewardship as an advocate in championing the music supervision profession as a whole.

“She was a fierce advocate of supervisors, she was a smooth, pragmatic and calming presence to all of us,” veteran producer and a founding member of the Guild of Music Supervisors Jonathan McHugh tells The Hollywood Reporter. “She was working with the Guild early, she produced our award show, she believed in the goal of helping improve the craft and make sure the bigger supervisors were helping the smaller ones.”

Jill Meyers, who spent over a decade...

His life and career may have met a significant downfall over the recent years, but Johnny Depp is very much back to turn the tables and mesmerize his audiences to the core – both with his exceptional acting chops as well as his impeccable charms. For one, he is all set to return to the screens with quite a few projects lined up.

Though he is renowned for his Jack Sparrow role in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, that very Disney saga left him alone during his messy divorce with Amber Heard. This had him pledging that he wouldn’t return to the lore, no matter what.

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But rumors have sprung up once again, with sources pulling fans’ hopes up about his return in the next installment of the film series. Of course, official...

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Paul McCartney played three historic shows at the Bowery Ballroom in February, his first time playing near New York in years. “I can’t believe we’re here doing this,” he told the crowd at the time. “But we are. We are here. Doing this.” Months later, fans are going to get another chance to see Sir Paul on the road for McCartney’s 2025 Got Back Tour this fall.