We Love NYC concert: Music history before Central Park was washed out

Toyah Willcox has covered Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith‘s ‘Because The Night’ for her husband Robert Fripp as their YouTube series continues – watch the performance below.The cover is the fourth instalment of their Love Letters offshoot of the Sunday Lockdown Lunch series, with the couple’s usual lockdown covers videos having to be put on hold after Fripp headed back out on tour with King Crimson.So far in the Love Letters series, Willcox has covered Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’, Divinyls’ ‘I

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JAY B has officially released his debut solo EP ‘SOMO:FUME’, along with a music video for the title track ‘B.T.W’.The GOT7 singer’s six-track project features rapper and H1GHR MUSIC co-founder Jay Park on ‘B.T.W’, which was produced by hitmaker Cha Cha Malone.

LL Cool J was joined by a number of guests on-stage during his live set at We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert over the weekend.Taking place last Saturday (August 21), the rapper performed a number of hits from his back catalogue, including his ’90s track ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’.

French Montana, Maluma and so many more stars are stepping out for the We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert!

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, Music“We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert,” the Central Park concert scheduled to be headlined by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Patti Smith and others, originally was intended to celebrate all that is unique and glorious about the city that 8 million people call home.

After a two-hour-plus delay due to thunderstorms on Saturday night, music mega-producer Clive Davis’ star-studded “We Love NYC Homecoming Concert” in Central Park was canceled.A rainstorm that came as Hurricane Henri moved up the East Coast cut short a concert that was expected to last about five hours — just as Barry Manilow was on stage singing “Can’t Smile Without You.”The roughly 22,000 attendees were asked to exit Central Park and seek shelter — but the storms continued before organizers

coronavirus was cut short because of severe weather as Hurricane Henri approached.Officials asked concert-goers to leave the park during Barry Manilow’s set amid the threat of lightning. New York City police on Saturday night told concertgoers via Twitter to “calmly move to the nearest exits and proceed to areas outside of the park.

Consequence reports that many of the artists on the bill – including Journey, LL Cool J, Santana and Barry Manilow – were able to perform as scheduled, however the event was shut down before any of the headliners took the stage.Those set to close out the event included Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello and The Killers.An announcement was made instructing punters to seek shelter, with screens reading: “Due to approaching severe weather, all persons should move quickly and

“Homecoming” concert at Central Park was abruptly halted in the middle of Barry Manilow’s performance Saturday evening — as lightning storms tied to approaching Hurricane Henri descended on the Big Apple.Concertgoers were told at 7:37 p.m.

New York’s months-in-planning post-Covid-shutdown “Homecoming” concert in Central Park, airing live on CNN, was abruptly halted mid-show this evening – mid-song, in fact – after lightning and rain broke out in the area.

Chris Willman Music Writer“We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert,” the Clive Davis-programmed concert in Central Park, was called off just past its halfway point Saturday due to lightning strikes occurring within a 10-mile radius of the Great Lawn.Barry Manilow was mid-medley at 8:37 p.m. — with more than two hours left to go in the five-hour concert — when he was interrupted by an announcer saying: “Attention.

“September.”On Friday, the Grammy-winning group released their new single “You Want My Love” — a Babyface-produced update of 1975’s “Can’t Hide Love.” The good times continue on Saturday, when the band will be part of the star-studded lineup at We Love NYC: the Homecoming Concert in Central Park.Here, lead singer Philip Bailey, 70, and bassist Verdine White, 70, share what playing Central Park means to them, how their Verzuz with the Isley Brothers went viral, and which element best symbolizes

coronavirus.Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Jennifer Hudson, Carlos Santana, LL Cool J and Andrea Bocelli are among the performers at what is being billed as the “Homecoming Concert."Saturday's event comes after a series of hip-hop concerts in the last week at outdoor venues around the city.Despite the joyful intention, the concert is taking place when there are worries about the contagious delta variant of COVID-19.New York City over the past week has averaged just under 2,000 new cases of

Jennifer Hudson would love to star in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of “Hercules”.

Jennifer Hudson has pitched herself for the upcoming Hercules live-action remake.A re-do of the classic Disney animation has been in the works for a number of years, with Avengers: Endgame‘s the Russo brothers on board to produce.While casting has not yet been announced, Respect star Hudson has put herself forward for the role of head Muse Calliope, revealing she played the role on a Disney cruise ship before she found fame.“Y’all listen close – all my Dreamgirls cast members, this is a fun