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Will Young has just been announced for the line-up of this year's Strictly Come Dancing. 

The singer - who's previously taken ballet lessons and performed in Cabaret the musical - said: “As a fan of Strictly for years, I have always imagined myself on the show, but the timing has not been right... until now!"

Will joins politician Ed Balls who was announced yesterday, with more announcements coming soon, and teased fans with a series of cryptic tweets earlier. 

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A second mention for Empire today (scroll down to read about star Taraji P Henson's forthcoming cameo in The Simpsons) - Mariah Carey is to be guest star in the new series. 

The 46-year-old R&B diva will appear in an October episode of the Fox TV show about a family-run hip hop business, playing a superstar singer named Kitty.

So not too much of a stretch...

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"It's got nothing to do with Star Wars," insist Jagwar Ma about their latest single OB1, which they played live on Lauren Laverne's 6 Music show yesterday.

The track is taken from the Australian psychedelic rock band's upcoming album Every Now & Then which is out in October and you can now watch their performance below.

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A new musical based on the life of American civil rights activist Rosa Parks is in development in London, called Rosa. 

Workshops are currently underway with plans to stage it on both sides of the Atlantic, according to Playbill. 

Rosa will tell the true life story of Park's "journey from quiet seamstress to the mother of the civil rights movement". 

She made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama on 1 December 1955.  

You can sign up for news of the musical on the website. 

First of all - this is very, very short. A snippet if you will.

But it is, nevertheless, a clip of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean making her musical debut on Instagram, singing a cover of the Jimmy Eat World track The Middle.

She appears to have inherited her parents' talents.

"I know your father is very proud of this as am I baby," Love wrote when she re-posted the short video. 

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We all know Bart Simpson can (sort-of) rap - remember hit 1990 single Do the Bartman? - but now The Simpsons is getting an hour-long hip-hop themed special episode. 

The cartoon's first ever hour-long instalment - entitled The Great Phatsby - will feature Empire actress Taraji P Henson, who plays Cookie Lyon in the hit US show.

The hip-hop-themed homage to classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby will air in the US in the new year.  

Exec producer Matt Selman told EW: 

Quote Message: This was just going to be a regular episode, but the table read went so well, in a fit of passion and excitement and ambition and excess, we decided to supersize it. And we haven't done a huge amount of stories in the world of hip-hop and rap culture, so we just went for it.

This was just going to be a regular episode, but the table read went so well, in a fit of passion and excitement and ambition and excess, we decided to supersize it. And we haven't done a huge amount of stories in the world of hip-hop and rap culture, so we just went for it.

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The episode follows an unlikely friendship that blossoms and ultimately turns sour between megalomaniac power plant boss Mr Burns and a charismatic rap mogul named Jay G.

“Part 1 of the show I would subtitle as The Betrayal, and part 2 I would subtitle as The Revenge,” adds Selman.

“It’s kind of like a two-part rap album.”

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Cate Blanchett undergoes a slightly unsettling transformation in the new Massive Attack video. 

It's for their single The Spoils featuring Hope Sandoval, one of three new track's the Bristol group recently shared on their mobile app Fantom. 

The study of Blanchett's face is directed by John Hillcoat, who's helmed post-apocalyptic drama The Road and Lawless.

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Padraig Duggan, one of the founding members of Irish folk band Clannad (pictured above, second from right), has died at the age of 67.

Taking their name from the Gaelic word for 'family', the band achieved mainstream success in the 1980s with the themes to TV shows Harry's Game and Robin of Sherwood.

Duggan, who played guitar and mandolin, died in a Dublin hospital on Tuesday morning.

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Eric Clapton, old Slowhand, one of the greatest musicians of all time, reportedly landed a 28-pound 45-inch long salmon on the Vatnsdalsá River last week, while on a fly-fishing trip to Iceland.

According to Men's Journal, Clapton had to run over half a mile along the river bank and spent two and a half hours reeling the monster fish in. 

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Whiting Room, The Bream of Eric Clapton, Cod-caine, Nobody Knows You When You're Lone-Ling - the list of Clapton fish puns is endless.

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Slaves have announced a last-minute London show tomorrow night, ahead of their performances at Reading and Leeds festivals later this month. 

The duo - who are currently gearing up for the release of their second album - will play Oxford Street's famous 100 Club on Wednesday night. 

Tickets are due to go on sale at 09:00 BST on Wednesday morning and it's not that big a venue, so fans will have to be quick. 

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A rapper, who has been charged over a fatal shooting ahead of a T.I. gig in New York in May, is suing the venue where it happened.

Roland 'Troy Ave' Collins has denied a role in the incident at Irving Plaza on 25 May which left several people injured and one man dead. 

He was charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon following the death of his bodyguard, Ronald McPhatter. 

The rapper - who was also injured in the leg - filed the suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday, citing "negligence" on behalf of Irving Plaza and is seeking unspecified damages as well as legal fees.

His lawyer Scott Leemon said: "The venue had a duty to protect Troy, as an invited performer, and they failed him miserably."

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Danish popstars Lukas Graham have cancelled a string of tour dates in Australia and Japan because singer Lukas Forchhammer is suffering from "extreme exhaustion".

The affected shows are in Melbourne, Sydney and Tokyo.

Earlier this year, their single 7 Years spent five consecutive weeks at the top of the UK chart, becoming the longest-running number-one single by a Danish act.

The group’s self-titled third album also topped the UK chart. 

Lukas Graham’s tour is set to continue on 10 November in Vancouver, Canada.

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...you guessed it - Philadelphia! Coldplay's Chris Martin took on the Bruce Springsteen classic, from the Tom Hanks movie of the same name, as the band's world tour hit the US city. 

He performed an acoustic version of the Oscar-winning track, the latest cover the band have performed on the road. 

Martin previously sang Prince's Sometimes It Snows in April with Lianne La Havas, David Bowie's Heroes and Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode from Back to the Future with its star Michael J Fox. 

Martin revealed on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden earlier this year that Springsteen was one of the artists he looked up to and did a spot on impression. 

And he's not the only artist giving Springsteen some love this week - Arcade Fire covered Born in the USA over the weekend at a gig in Canada. 

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Record shop-turned-indie record label Rough Trade is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a series of shows at venues across London.

The gigs begin at the Barbican on 22 October, with an evening of collaborations including John Grant and electronic trio Wrangler and Scritti Politti with Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor.

There will also be gigs at the Rough Trade East record shop in Brick Lane, the Shacklewell Arms and Islington Assembly Hall.

Rough Trade began life as a shop, opened by Geoff Travis in West London, in February 1976.

As a label, it was home to bands including The Libertines and Antony and the Johnsons.   

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Thanks to the latest technology, music fans can now get even closer to actually watching how their favourite bands put together an album.

Chvrches have invited supporters into their studio for a 360° tour sharing behind-the-scenes footage from their latest album Every Open Eye. 

The studio tour features an interactive walk through their studio, unseen session footage featuring singer Lauren Mayberry (pictured above), and - for the real music spods - a detailed look at their recording equipment.

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The soundtrack to David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks is being reissued for the first time.The new vinyl release will feature the work of composer Angelo Badalamenti - who has worked with Lynch on films including Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.

Badalamenti won a Grammy in 1990 for best pop instrumental performance for his theme to Twin Peaks. 

The new album will be released on 10 August. A new series of the cult show, about the hunt for a teenage girl's killer, is currently in production. 

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On yesterday's Music News LIVE, we told you how Drake's album chart reign was ended by DJ Khaled.

But Billboard have picked out an interesting fact from the singles chart, topped by Sia’s Cheap Thrills featuring Sean Paul.

Kanye West raps on ScHoolboy Q's track That Part, which moved up the chart from 42 to 40.  

It marks his 40th top 40 hit, passing Michael Jackson on 39, and makes Kanye number ten in the list of male artists with the most top 40 hits.  

1. 80, Elvis Presley
2. 69, Lil Wayne
3. 57, Elton John
4. 53, Drake
5. 46, Stevie Wonder
6. 45, Jay Z
7. 44, James Brown
8. 42, Chris Brown
9. 41, Marvin Gaye
10. 40, Kanye West

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For many of us, messaging on WhatsApp can be a bit of a distraction, but for M.I.A. and Zayn Malik, it was instrumental in penning their new collaboration. 

M.I.A.'s revealed the former One Direction star is one of the featured artists on her forthcoming new album AIM, due out on 9 September.

She told EW on the phone from India that her friendship with Zayn began when she considered writing songs for his debut solo album, but she's now got him singing on a track called Freedun: 

Quote Message: That’s the song we mastered yesterday. We’ve just been going back and forth on, you know, WhatsApp. We have the same publishers and they wanted me to demo some songs for Zayn. Before I started writing properly my own stuff [for AIM], I was thinking maybe I’ll write for other people instead. I really wanted to write a song for Zayn… We had a couple people in common, and that’s how it came about. I didn’t really approach him for my own record until later on. First, I thought I wanted to try writing a song for him.

That’s the song we mastered yesterday. We’ve just been going back and forth on, you know, WhatsApp. We have the same publishers and they wanted me to demo some songs for Zayn. Before I started writing properly my own stuff [for AIM], I was thinking maybe I’ll write for other people instead. I really wanted to write a song for Zayn… We had a couple people in common, and that’s how it came about. I didn’t really approach him for my own record until later on. First, I thought I wanted to try writing a song for him.

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Classic Brazillian track The Girl from Ipanema has seen a huge surge in popularity since taking centre stage during the Olympics opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Friday - where it was played as supermodel Gisele took the stage. 

Spotify says the song was streamed more than 40,000 times the next day - a 1,200% rise for the track, which was typically streamed about 3,000 times a day before the Olympics. 

Written in 1964 by composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and poet Vinicius De Moraes, it became a huge hit and helped the craze for Bossa Nova sweep the world.   

Helo Pinheiro inspired the song as a 17-year-old regular on the Rio beaches, and is now a 71-year-old (very glamorous) grandmother, who was one of the torch bearers carrying the Olympic flame.

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You can find out how the song changed Pinheiro's life on BBC documentary The Girl From Ipanema: Brazil, Bossa Nova And The Beach which is on the iPlayer now.