Richard M. Sherman, ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Jungle Book’ composer, dies at 95

Anohni and the Johnsons played their first show in nine years in Athens last night (June 13) – read on to see the footage.READ MORE: Anohni – ‘My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross’ review: a sublime soul reinventionThe group last performed live in June 2015, the final show taking place in Hobart, Australia. That absence came to an end in the Greek capital’s Odeon of Herodes Atticus on Thursday with a show that took in material from across their career, as well as Anohni’s 2016 solo album ‘Hopelessness’.The group were introduced by the renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, and gave live debuts to a number of songs, including ‘It Must Change’, ‘Can’t’ and ‘Why Am I Alive Now?’Check out footage below:ANOHNI and the Johnsons @ Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Acropolis.

Catfish and the Bottlemen have announced a 10th anniversary edition of their classic debut album ‘The Balcony’.The Welsh indie-rockers will release their special reissue of ‘The Balcony’ on September 13. Their debut originally landed at Number 10 in the UK Charts, eventually going Platinum by 2016.Now, the 10th anniversary reissue will be available on a limited edition CD, cassette, and vinyl.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer “In the next 45 minutes, we’re about to hear Gus speak more than he has in the last 40 years,” Vito Schnabel, the art world scion who is increasingly turning his head toward Hollywood, told a crowd at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival last week. He was there to moderate a conversation with American heavyweight filmmaker Gus Van Sant, who just directed Schnabel (and a pack of actors barreling toward Emmy nominations) in “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” That history, of a glittery New York whose underbelly was found in the bedrooms and hallways of the ruling class, took a back seat to Van Sant’s impactful career.

“The French Connection,” has died. He was 87.His representative confirmed on Wednesday that he died of prostate cancer.“Tony Lo Bianco passed away last night at his horse farm in Maryland after a battle with prostate cancer,” the rep’s statement to Fox News read.

Thania Garcia The Recording Academy is working to expand its global efforts for artists in rapidly advancing spaces. The Academy announced Tuesday it has inked agreements with Ministries of Cultures and key stakeholders across the Middle East and Africa to collaborate on strengthening the Academy’s presence and services in these music regions.

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Alex Ritman In live-action filmmaking, a continuity error may be very annoying, but is usually straightforward to fix — simply reshoot the scene again. In the painstakingly slow world of stop-motion animation, where seconds of footage can take months to shoot, it can be something of a headache. So when Claude Barras realized that that he’d filmed several segments of his new film, “Savages,” with his lead character, the teen girl Keria, not carrying the rucksack she’d had on earlier in the story, he had a problem.

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Jon Burlingame The recent death of Walt Disney songwriting legend Richard M. Sherman appeared to have closed the book on the history of classic Disney tunes, as Sherman, 95, was the last link to many of them, from “Chim Chim Cher-ee” to “Winnie the Pooh” and “It’s a Small World.” But the recent discovery of previously unknown tape-recorded conversations between Sherman, his brother and songwriting partner Robert B. Sherman, and “Mary Poppins” creator P.L.

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Hunter Ingram After “The Morning Show” began its third season last fall, showrunner Charlotte Stoudt received a text message from “a very well-known anchor on a national news network” with some constructive criticism. This unnamed person had seen Episode 3, in which June Diane Raphael makes her debut as the anchor of Eagle News, a fictional conservative news network that is seen reporting on an internal scandal at UBA, the network that employs Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s characters. With a smile on her face, Raphael’s anchor reads incriminating emails sent by the UBA board president (Holland Taylor).

D:Ream have spoken to NME about their shocked reaction to their 1993 hit ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ returning to the charts after being played over Rishi Sunak announcing a general election in a downpour – and how it has led to them being asked to play Glastonbury 2024.Last Wednesday (May 22), as a drenched Sunak took to a podium outside 10 Downing Street to reveal the snap July 4 election date, in the background protester Steve Bray played the Northern Irish band’s Number One song which had long been associated with Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.The clip has since gone viral on social media platforms and entered the iTunes chart Top 10 within 24 hours.According to D:Ream singer Peter Cunnah, though, the political connotations of the song had become an albatross for the band over the New Labour years and beyond.“My first reaction was ‘not again, please let me move on’,” he told NME. “We all wanted that change in ’97, that sense of positivity.

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Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are the latest in a long line of young royals to have the added benefit of a live-in nanny. While the trio's parents, The Prince and Princess of Wales, are known for being very hands-on when it comes to their children, it's sensible for the couple to take on extra help which can alleviate the pressures that come with their hectic work schedules.

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Renowned American musician Richard M Sherman, best known for his work on Mary Poppins, has passed away at the age of 95 due to age-related illness.

Britain’s Got Talent's winners have often gone on to great things. Stars like Diversity, Collabro and Paul Potts are household names, 17 years since the talent competition first made its debut on our TV screens. But often the show's losers also experience huge success in their own right.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentRichard M. Sherman, two-time Oscar winner who collaborated with brother Robert B. Sherman on the songs for “Mary Poppins,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and the enduring Disneyland tune “It’s a Small World (After All),” died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills due to age-related illness.

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