50 Years Ago, Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’ Dominated the Grammys, and She Wasn’t Even There …

The 27-year-old mystery behind who murdered schoolboy Rikki Neave was finally ended in court today. A jury deliberated for 36 hours and 31 minutes to convict 41-year-old "fantastist" James Watson by a majority verdict of 10 to two following an 11-week trial at the Old Bailey.

Tupac Shakur was "hurt" by Jada Pinkett Smith years ago when the actress allegedly asked the rapper not to harm Will Smith once they started dating, according to a friend of the late musician. Pinkett Smith and the rapper, born Lesane Parish Crooks, met at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland in the late 1980s and became close friends. Pinkett Smith has previously said that the two were never romantic.

A boy has suffered serious injuries after a stabbing Sale. A dispute which lead to the attack began on the same street where a fatal knifing took place five years ago.

The X Factor in the UK, Harry, Zayn, Niall, Louis, and Liam went to the final episodes of the program, but they didn’t win.For some acts, that would be the end, but when it came to 1D, it was just the beginning.In 2011, the group dropped “What Makes You Beautiful,” which wasted no time in becoming a blockbuster single, the kind that spreads around the world like wildfire.A decade ago, in April 2012, it became the band’s first top 10 smash, the first of many. For the next half-decade or so, they continued to churn out family-friendly pop-rock smashes, and sold millions of albums with their five full-lengths, many of which hit No.

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari’s wish is finally coming true.

A father has been experiencing the “worst nightmare” of his life since his late son’s remains went missing three years ago.

Then and wow! Due Lipa stunned on the 2022 Grammys red carpet clad in a vintage Versace gown — in fact, she made it to the top of our best dressed list — but the singer wasn’t the first A-list star to rock the sexy frock.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAnyone who feels the Grammy Awards can be stodgy today might want to consider how far the show has come since the 1990s.Not only was it an utterly abysmal time for fashion — The hair! The shoulder pads! The big, stiff suits! — but the music industry was riding the CD boom, which took profits to hitherto-unimagined heights and made hubris balloon even faster: The titans of the industry thought, as they often do, “We have made it, we’ll just keep doing exactly the same thing over and over and the masses will give us more and more money!” The sounds of the future — hip-hop, alternative, heavy metal — got obligatory new categories as a patronizing pat on the head for “the youngsters” (as Ed Sullivan, the mainstream entertainment curator of the Boomer generation, used to call them). By the early 1990s, the Grammy voting body had become ever more out-of-touch, complacent, arrogant and, most of all, old.

This is wild.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTony Bennett, whose duets album with Lady Gaga is up for five Grammys, has confirmed that he will not be performing with her at the show on Sunday night. Gaga was announced as a performer this morning; the pair are up for two of the top categories, Record of the Year and Album of the Year, for the song “I Get a Kick Out of You” and the album it comes from, “Love for Sale.”Danny Bennett, Tony’s son and longtime manager, says in a statement to Variety:“Tony is beyond thrilled, particularly at the young age of 95, to once again be recognized along with his musical collaborator  and  dear friend Lady Gaga by the Recording Academy for their album ‘Love for Sale.’  To have the album nominated in six categories including Album of the Year and Record of the Year is an incredible honor.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentHappy Anniversary — well, sort of “happy” — to Sarah Paulson, since it’s exactly 25 years since Variety ran a review of her feature film debut, “Levitation.” In the indie, she plays a pregnant teenager. Critic Leonard Klady on April 14, 1997, said it was a grim saga with “a strong cast” who were “not ably supported by the script.”It’s not the most promising debut and the film was quickly forgotten, but Paulson continued to work.Like many New York actors, she worked on stage and made her TV debut in a 1994 “Law & Order” episode, about a year after her high school graduation.She continued to do theater, including Broadway’s 2005 “The Glass Menagerie” with Jessica Lange, and films, such as the Oscar winner “12 Years a Slave,” where she proved herself a team player by working hard to promote the movie, even though she had a relatively small role.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLady Gaga has joined the lineup for this year’s Grammy Awards, taking place Sunday night in Las Vegas, the Recording Academy and CBS announced this morning. The 12-time Grammy-winner is up for another five awards this year, including two of the top categories, Record of the Year and Album of the Year, for her duets with Tony Bennett on the song “I Get a Kick Out of You” and the album it comes from, “Love for Sale.”The album is the second collection of duets from the pair, who performed a song from the first, “Cheek to Cheek,” on the Grammys in 2014.