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Britney Spears in Toxic

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It's Time To "Work B**ch:" New Britney Spears Pop-Up Experience Coming To L.A.

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The Zone will open in January 2020 to help all your pop star fantasies come true
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Oct 31, 2019 - 12:26 pm

Have you ever fantasied about showing off your best pop star dance moves in an airplane while rocking a futuristic flight attendant outfit? Do the lyrics to "Work B**ch" motivate you to push a little further towards your goals? Have you and your friends ever dressed up as different eras of Britney Spears for Halloween? Well, The Zone pop-up experience is for you!

Coming to Los Angeles in January 2020, the new Spears-themed interactive pop-up space will allow fans to step into of the most iconic moments in the Britney-verse, from a high school for her debut No. 1 hit "...Baby One More Time" to an airplane for "Toxic."

This recreation of planet Britney will exist as a 10-room experience over 30,000 square feet. The rooms will also include a Mars landing for "Oops...I Did it Again" and a big ol' circus to, obviously, revisit her 2009 album, Circus. This section will have a tightrope photo op, a real-life ringmaster, a tarot card reader to help you see your fierce future and the bike and ringmaster jacket Spears rocked on her "Circus" tour. 

There will also be a dedicated retail experience including five different merch collections from the GRAMMY-winning pop princess: "Britney Army," "Work B**ch," "The Zone Collection," "Britney B**ch" and "Pride Collection."

Read: Sir Babygirl On Her Brand Of Surrealist Pop, Covering Kesha & "Being A Little Elf Playing Flute In The F**kin' Forest"

The Zone was announced yesterday, and is slated to open "late January" in the La Brea area of L.A., on Fairfax Ave. and W 3rd St. It will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., six days a week. An end date has not been specified yet.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m. PST at britneythezone.com. Time to get to work and start practicing your dance moves.

Watch: It's Always Halloween For Daft Punk, KISS, CeeLo Green, Bootsy Collins & The Blue Man Group

Madonna

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Madonna Adds More Dates To Madame X U.S. Tour

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Due to high demand, the pop icon has added more dates in N.Y.C., Chicago and L.A., as well as dates in additional cities
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
May 20, 2019 - 2:37 pm

GRAMMY winner  Madonna has added 23 additional dates to her previously announced U.S. Madame X Tour. The announcement follows sold out shows for the intimate tour, which will launch in September and have the pop queen strutting through New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago.

The icon has added shows in four new cities: Las Vegas, Boston, Philadelphia and Miami. She has also added five new dates to her first stop at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in N.Y.C., as well as two aditional shows in Chicago and L.A. 

Following the 11-date run in L.A., she will now perform three shows at Boston's Boch Center Wang Theatre and The Met Philadelphia. The North American leg of the tour will wrap up in Miami on Dec. 19 with five nights at the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater.

Due to the intimate size of shows, fans were to request tickets via LiveNation that were distributed by a lottery system. Madonna's legacy fan club members were given priority access. Fans that did not receive or request tickets during the first batch of dates can now put in new ticket requests here, until Fri. May 24. 

The European leg of the Madame X Tour kicks off in January 2020 with dates currently set for Portugal, London and Paris only. Complete tour info can be found on Madonna's website.

Madonna will release Madame X, her 14th studio album, on June 14. She first announced the news on April 17, along with its catchy bilingual lead single "Medellín," featuring Latin GRAMMY winner Maluma. The Latin pop inspired bop is named after Colombia's capital city, where Maluma hails from. The pop star has since released three more singles from the LP, most recently "Future," featuring Migos' Quavo.

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Elton John on Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour

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Elton John Celebrated With Britain's Exclusive Highest Honor

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Olivia Newton-John, Roger Taylor of Queen, Billy Ocean and Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol are also among the artists on Britain's 2020 Honours List
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 30, 2019 - 5:00 pm

GRAMMY-winning music legend Elton John is being celebrated by his native Britain for his incomparable contributions to music, philanthropy and culture with the exclusive title of the Order of the Companions of Honor.

"I'm humbled and honoured to be among such highly esteemed company in receiving the Companion of Honour. 2019 has turned out to be a truly wonderful year for me and I feel extraordinarily blessed," the enduring "Rocket Man" wrote on Twitter.

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We are so thrilled and beyond proud of founder @EltonOfficial today as he is awarded the Companion of Honour for his remarkable services to music and charity.

Congratulations Elton on this wonderful and well-deserved recognition. https://t.co/05PDizJeDu

— Elton John AIDS Fdn (@ejaf) December 28, 2019

The news comes with the recently released 2020 Honours List, in which Queen Elizabeth celebrates 1,097 new rankings of dames and knights each year. GRAMMMY winners Olivia Newton-John and Billy Ocean, along with Roger Taylor of Queen, and Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol are also among the other musical artists on the list of high-level contributors to British society with several different ranks.

Watch: Elton John Discography: Icon Reflects On His Personal Favorite Albums

Australian-British singer/actress Newton-John "was made a dame for services to charity, cancer research and entertainment," as noted by The Guardian. Per Billboard, she is fighting breast cancer for the third time and has worked for years to support cancer research and funding with various philanthropic efforts, including the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne.

"I am extremely excited, honoured and grateful beyond words to be included with such an esteemed group of women who have received this distinguished award before me," the "Grease" star said via Billboard. "As a girl born in Cambridge, I am very proud of my British ancestry and so appreciative to be recognised in this way by the United Kingdom."

Other powerful names in entertainment, like Oscar-winning British film directors Steve McQueen ("12 Years A Slave," "Widows") and Sam Mendes ("American Beauty," "Skyfall"). But as the Guardian points out, the majority of the list (72% this year) are made up of names we are less familiar with, yet nevertheless have dedicated themselves to public service. Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of England's NHS, is one of these people, who has spent 31 years fighting for better public health funding.

According to BBC News, the honours list is published twice per year—during the New Year and on the Queen's birthday—and are informally approved by the Queen after nominees are approved by committees of "independent experts" divided by subject matter. "The system is overseen by the Cabinet Office Honours and Appointments Secretariat, and British nationals or citizens of the 15 Commonwealth realms can be nominated," BBC explains. Foreigners can receive honorary honours.

Read: 5 Ways Elton John Supports Philanthropic Causes

John was first knighted back in 1998—when he received his "Sir" title—and now joins a group of just 65 as a Companion of Honour. Fellow knighted GRAMMY winner Paul McCartney is also among this group, whose limit of 65 members at any given time includes the royal monarch himself.

He also received France's highest civilian honor, the Légion d'Honneur, earlier this year. The Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has organizations in both the U.K. and U.S., has raised over $400 million towards money to support HIV/AIDS research and prevention since 1992.

One of 2019's biggest music biopics, "Rocketman," highlighted the personal struggles of low self-esteem, toxic relationships and drug addiction John faced while bringing joy to many with his charismatic stage persona and groundbreaking blend of folk, pop and glam rock.

Kicking off in 2018, his massive farewell tour, appropriately titled Farewell Yellow Brick Road, has seen him bringing his joyful catalog of music to his countless fans around the world, with dates extending into 2020.

Giles Martin On 'Rocketman,' Elton John, Reinventing "Tiny Dancer" & More

Dua Lipa

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Dua Lipa Teases New Album, 'Future Nostalgia,' Announces 2020 Tour Dates

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The 2019 Best New Artist shared the first details of her highly anticipated sophomore LP by getting the album title tattooed on her arm
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Dec 3, 2019 - 1:37 pm

GRAMMY-winning dance-pop queen Dua Lipa is poised to bring us boldly into the new decade. On Dec. 1, the 2019 Best New Artist shared the first details of her highly anticipated sophomore LP by getting the album title, Future Nostalgia, tattooed on her arm and posting it on social media.

The "Electricity" artist followed up the album reveal with another exciting announcement: a 24-date European tour, which she will kick off on April 26 in Madrid. The Future Nostalgia EU Tour 2020 will see the Londoner playing massive venues across Europe, two nights at London's 20,000-capacity The 02 and Berlin's Mercedes-Benz Arena.

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— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) December 2, 2019

Lipa has not announced the release date for the new album yet, although her most recent bop, the vibrant nu-disco-tinged "Don't Start Now," was confirmed to be the lead single. She dropped the "boy bye" anthem on Halloween, followed by a fun new video (where you can peek that new tattoo!) the next day, Nov. 1.

She also spoke about the forthcoming project in a recent press release:

"What I wanted to do with this album was to break out of my comfort zone and challenge myself to make music that felt like it could sit alongside some of my favorite classic pop songs, whilst still feeling fresh and uniquely mine. I was inspired by so many artists on the new record from Gwen Stefani to Madonna to Moloko to Blondie and OutKast, to name just a few.

Because of the time that I'd spent on the road touring with my band I wanted Future Nostalgia to have a lot more of a live element, but mixed together with modern electronic production. My sound has naturally matured a bit as I've grown up but I wanted to keep the same pop sensibility as I had on the first record. I remember that I was on my way to a radio show in Las Vegas thinking about the direction for this new record and I realized that what I wanted to make was something that felt nostalgic but had something fresh and futuristic about it too."

Sounds like exactly what we need in pop music in 2020!

Last October, at her powerful acoustic performance and intimate conversation at the GRAMMY Museum, the "New Rules" singer noted the personal-feeling early albums of P!nk and Nelly Furtado, two of her childhood favorites, as points of reference for her 2017 self-titled debut album. We also caught up with her before the event to chat about working with Calvin Harris, who's on her collab wish list (Rosalía and Frank Ocean are two!), what the viral success of "New Rules" felt like for her and more.

Dua Lipa Talks Calvin Harris, "New Rules," & More

Tickets for the Future Nostalgia EU Tour go on sale this Friday, Dec. 6 at 9 a.m. local time, except for Spain, whose tickets will go on sale on Dec. 5 at 9 a.m.—more details can be found on dualipa.com.

Dua Lipa Wins Best New Artist | 2019 GRAMMYs

Ringo Starr

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Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band Announce 2020 Tour Dates

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The GRAMMY winner wraps up the 20-show trek on June 28 in Florida with a little help from his friends—including former All Starr Edgar Winter, who will open
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Nov 4, 2019 - 4:42 pm

Today, GRAMMY winner Ringo Starr revealed details for a 2020 tour with his All Starr Band. The former Beatles drummer kicks off the 20-show trek on May 29 in Rama, Ontario, for two nights at the Casino Rama, followed by three nights at the historic Beacon Theatre in New York City, on June 2, 3 and 5.

After the Big Apple, Starr and his All Starrs will play in Bangor, Maine, Boston and Gilford, N.H., on June 9, 10 and 11, respectively. Those three nights will feature GRAMMY-nominated folk greats The Avett Brothers as support. Former All Starr Edgar Winter will also open a few shows, helping close things out at the third-to-last and final shows; at St. Augustine, Fla., on June 26 and Clearwater, Fla., on June 28.

Additional opening acts have not yet been revealed. The tour announcement notes the current All Starr Band lineup is Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Gregg Rolie, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette and Hamish Stuart.

Related: Ringo Starr's Peace And Love Birthday Celebrations To Take Place At L.A.'s Capitol Records

The 2020 tour follows shortly after the release of the iconic drummer's 20th solo studio album, What's My Name, which he dropped on Oct. 25. The same update on his website adds the album was recorded and produced in his home studio and features many of his lifelong musical friends, including Winter, Hay and Lukather, as well as fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, among others.

This past weekend, on Nov. 2, Starr unveiled a shiny symbol of his life-long mantra of "Peace & Love" to live in Los Angeles County: an eight feet statute of a hand, in a peace sign, of course. The art piece he created and donated is now available for all to visit at the Beverly Hills Garden Park. He also celebrated the 50th anniversary of "Peace, Love & Music," a.k.a. Woodstock, with a special performance at the legendary festival's original home in Bethel Woods, N.Y.

Ticket on-sale dates for the 2020 tour have not been announced yet, but will likely be shared on Starr's website in the near future; click here for the complete tour dates.

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