Music News LIVE: 23 June

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Seven months after it was released, Adele's record-busting 25 is to be made available on Spotify.

When it was released in November, it could only be bought physically or downloaded.

She said in an interview last year: "It's a bit disposable, streaming".

She told Time magazine: "I believe music should be an event.

"I know that streaming music is the future, but it's not the only way to consume music."

No word yet on whether it will be available on any other streaming services.

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Well he does say that he is $50m in debt, maybe that is why Kanye West is charging fans $25 a pop to watch his new music video at an event in Los Angeles.

The "exclusive premiere event" for his track Famous - it's the one with the controversial Taylor Swift lyrics - will take place on Friday at 18:00 PST (that is 03:00 BST on Saturday to you and me).

Luckily it will also be live-streamed on Tidal for both subscribers and non-subscribers.

The Mystery Jets have picked Adele as the must-watch act at this year's Glastonbury.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, the London band - who are playing the festival for the third time - said Adele's set would be something to relive with their grandkids...

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Wayne Jackson, whose trumpet helped the Memphis Horns shape the sound of some of the most iconic records of the 60s and 70s has died aged 74, according to Billboard.

Jackson, along with saxophonist Andrew Love, played on tracks including Otis Redding's Dock of the Bay, Aretha Franklin's Respect, Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline, Elvis Presley's Suspicious Minds and Al Green's Let's Stay Together.

The pair were awarded the Grammy lifetime achievement award in February 2012, only the second instrumental backup group in history to receive the honour at the time.

Jackson's wife, Amy, said her husband died of congestive heart failure on Tuesday night.

"He led an incredible life and he left an amazing music legacy," she said.

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Singer Patti Smith might be touring with her band at the moment (and playing British Summertime festival in Hyde Park next week) but she's also busy juggling multiple writing projects - from a companion piece to her hit memoir Just Kids to a TV series based on the original. 

"It would be much easier if I only had one vocation," Patti explains. 

"But since I was young I considered myself a writer. Everything that I do sort of grows from my writing. Recording [debut album] Horses evolved from performing poetry. 

"I try to integrate everything and put the same effort into everything I do, but writing is the one thing I do every day. I don't tour every day, I don't take photographs every day but I do write everyday."

She's currently working on the follow-up to Just Kids - which detailed the singer's relationship with artist and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1970s New York - which "will be more music based". 

"I needed a respite from writing in that time period... but now I feel well able to go back again and to write a sort of companion," she told the BBC. 

She's been revisiting that time a lot, as Just Kids is also being made into a TV mini series, with "wonderful"  Penny Dreadful and Skyfall scriptwriter John Logan.

"[John's] spectrum for writing is broad, and he's intelligent, he's sympathetic, he knows [our] work quite well - so we have a very amiable relationship, and we don't have any ego problems or personal conflicts, we both want the same thing, for the script to be as good as it can be, so it's a happy situation."

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Two words often come to mind when Glastonbury is mentioned. Mud and music.

The latter doesn't start properly until Friday, but there's already plenty of the former.

Much of the site is covered in mud. But as most festival-goers come prepared for all eventualities, it's not causing many problems.

It takes a little longer to move around the festival grounds, but as the main stages aren't yet open, people aren't feeling the need to rush between the different areas.

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Taylor Swift and Sir Paul McCartney are among the artists calling on the US government to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

They say sites like YouTube are exploiting the law which serves to protect websites from getting sued when someone uploads a song or video without permission.

The artists are pressing to use an ongoing review of copyright law to tilt the rules in the artists' favour.

But are they barking up the wrong tree?

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Robbie Williams could rejoin Take That to mark their 25th anniversary. 

The band told The Sun: "We've been in touch with Jason and we've been in touch with Robbie. 

"Jason is in his place where he is now and he's not got any ­intention at the moment to be back in the band. Whereas Robbie — we've been talking to Robbie about it, and it might be that if we do a 25th anniversary album, that we do some co-writing or some extra tracks on that."

Robbie rejoined the band in 2010 for the recording of their Progress album and a 35-date tour. 

My how it's changed....

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Chariots of Fire, Cats, Reilly: Ace of Spies - just a few of the films, musicals and TV shows to have benefited from the involvement of conductor and composer Harry Rabinowitz.

We'll wager, then, the London Symphony Orchestra will not be alone in expressing sadness at the news that he has died in France at the age of 100.

The LSO, as it happens, had been planning a tribute evening to the veteran music man, to take place at the Barbican in London in November.

The orchestra has since tweeted that it will be getting in touch with ticket holders shortly.

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Drake has reportedly cancelled meet and greets during his upcoming Summer Sixteen tour.

The Canadian rapper's decision is down to ''scheduling reasons'' according to People.

Justin Bieber recently called an end to meet and greets saying they made him "unhappy" while Christina Grimmie, a former contestant on The Voice was shot dead at a recent signing in Florida,

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Soul singer Gregory Porter has lent his dulcet tones to a new charity track released for World Refugee Day.

He has teamed up with Academy award-winning rapper and actor Common and have collaborated on the song Running.

Proceeds from the song will go to Refugees International, Human Rights First and the International Rescue Committee.

"I am grateful to lend my voice to these courageous survivors. I hope everyone downloads the song so we can raise desperately needed money to help these families and let them know we have nothing but love for them,” said Porter.

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Good news for those at Glastonbury - the wood chippings have arrived...

Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie may have missed out on the band's on-stage reunion at the Royal Albert Hall in London last month, but she has teased some new music with a short promo on her Instagram page.

"Sick / Hungry / Starving", she sings in the short series of fastcut images.

It also appears to confirm Double Dutchess as the title of her forthcoming album, the follow-up to her 2006 solo debut The Dutchess.   

With conditions already pretty muddy at Glastonbury, Other Stage headliners Disclosure say they are mentally prepared for the worst.

They dropped into Radio One this morning to speak to Nick Grimshaw about their preparations...

On Thursday's show - AlunaGeorge, who play the John Peel stage, were also concerned about appropriate footwear..

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Bastille are one of the many bands playing at Glastonbury this weekend.

They're due on the Other Stage at the festival on Friday night.

Ahead of their performance, they have released the surreal new music video for their latest track Good Grief - it's the one that has some audio clips of Kelly LeBrock from the film Weird Science.

Shot in Madrid, it features masked ladies on rollerskates with shotguns, a drumming teddy bear and features a few brief moments of nudity.

You have been warned.

Portishead have paid tribute to the late MP Jo Cox in a new cover version of the classic Abba track SOS.

As you would have expected, the feelgood disco factor of the song is replaced by something altogether darker, with sparse ominous synths and Beth Gibbons' bruised vocals.

The video ends with a quote: "We have far more in common than which divides us" from the Labour MP, who was shot dead last week.

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Beyonce has gone all mean and moody in the video for her track Sorry from her Lemonade album.

The black and white promo features tennis player Serena Williams doing some serious grinding.

Sadly we can't embed it here because of some bad language but if you're feeling brave enough you can watch it here.

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Sir Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese's music business drama Vinyl is cancelled by HBO after one season.

That was despite an amazing soundtrack and cameos from the likes of Robert Plant, the Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Gram Parsons, Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley (well lookalikes anyway...)

Set in the 1970s, the series told of a charismatic record executive trying to revive his struggling label.

The US network said it was "not an easy decision" and had "enormous respect" for its creators and cast.

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