Music News LIVE: 25 July

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Marni Nixon, known by many as Hollywood's "invisible voice", has died aged 86.

Marni dubbed the singing voices for Deborah Kerr in The King and I and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady among others.

She also sang the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.

She died of breast cancer on Sunday, NPR and The New York Times confirmed.

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As the universe loses its collective mind chasing Pokemon monsters down the street, the music world is not immune from the craze... 

After snaps of Justin Bieber playing the game in Central Park surfaced last week, Rihanna warned fans off playing it at her show at the weekend and a Beyonce gig-goer was called out on social media after being caught playing it within spitting distance of Queen Bey herself, Nathan Sykes is the latest star to be touched by Pokemon Go. 

The singer, formerly of The Wanted, posted a video of himself turning the theme tune to the TV series into a piano ballad - just in case you're among the millions who are into that kind of thing...

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BBC 6 Music DJ Craig Charles hosted a special programme at the weekend, dedicated to celebrating Amy Winehouse's music on the fifth anniversary of her death. 

The show looked back at the exclusive BBC sessions she recorded, as well as the tracks that have been posthumously released since her death on 23 July 2011 at the age of 27. 

Craig also shared his memories of when he met and interviewed Amy, and was joined by her school friend Juliette Ashby. You can listen again to the show online now. 

Fans and friends paid tribute to the star on Twitter, including her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield and singers inspired by Amy such as Jessie J and Katy B.

In keeping with the movie theme of today's Music News LIVE page, country star and Mr Nicole Kidman - Keith Urban - was joined on stage in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Divergent and Fantastic Four actor Miles Teller.

The unlikely bro's sang a cover of Temptations classic My Girl live at the show on Saturday night.

Miles may have learned to play drums for his part as a fledgling jazz drummer in Whiplash but he didn't learn to sing. Or dance.

As is the new way of doing things, Katy Perry has shared a 26-second clip teasing her latest music video for new track Rise.

It's the theme for US broadcaster NBC's Olympics coverage from Rio this summer. 

The dramatic video sees her dragging a pink heart shaped parachute through the desert...

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...and ends with what looks like a scene from Jaws...

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You can actually hear the whole song on the video which the broadcaster put together ahead of the Rio games.

Nearly two weeks after he collapsed backstage during a concert in Brooklyn, New York, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry rejoined supergroup the Hollywood Vampires on tour in California over the weekend.

Perry - pictured on stage with bandmate Johnny Depp above and the rest of the band below - had missed five concerts plus a charity performance after dealing with a serious bout of "dehydration and exhaustion". 

The group's Raise the Dead tour ends in Paso Robles, California, tonight. 

Perry will rejoin his Aerosmith bandmates for a month-long tour of Latin America in two months time. 

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Lazarus, the musical written by David Bowie and Irish playwright Enda Walsh, is heading to London after a sold-out run in New York. 

The UK production - which will also star Dexter's Michael C Hall, Michael Esper and Sophia Anne Caruso (pictured below with Hall) - will be staged at the King's Cross Theatre from 25 October - 22 January 2017. 

Directed by Ivo van Hove, Lazarus is Inspired by the book The Man Who Fell To Earth and Bowie's own appearance in the cult 1976 film of the same name.

It stars Hall as Thomas Newton, a man who is trapped on earth unable to die, "his head soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love".  

Critics had a mixed reaction when it opened in New York late last year, with some finding it "weird". 

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Lewis 'Lewie' Steinberg, the original bass player in soul band Booker T. & the MG's has died aged 82 of cancer.

The musician played on their classic 1962 instrumental Green Onions.

His death was confirmed by the The Stax Museum.

Steinberg played alongside keyboardist Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper and drummer Al Jackson from 1962 to 1965.

He also played with the likes of Otis Redding and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

He received a lifetime achievement award from the Grammys in 2007.

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After last year’s Ten Pieces Prom, which featured school children from around the UK, the weekend saw secondary-school pupils descending on the Royal Albert Hall for their own Prom.

The culmination of the Ten Pieces II project – which has taken classical music into schools  – combined live performance with video animations showcasing teenagers' creative responses to pieces including Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. 

You can watch the Prom - also featuring the skills of DJ Mr Switch (pictured below) in Gabriel Prokofiev’s Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra - on the iPlayer or listen back to the Radio 3 broadcast.

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It's been three months since we first told you about Drake's new album Views.

It has now spent 11 (non-consecutive) weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200 albums chart.

That's the most chart-topping weeks since Taylor Swift’s 1989, which ended its run on its 11th week in 2015.

The last album to lead for more than 11 weeks was the Frozen movie soundtrack, which notched up 13 weeks in 2014.

In the UK he's also looking for a record, having spent 15 straight weeks at number one with hit single One Dance.   

The Canadian rapper has equaled Wet Wet Wet's 15 weeks for Love Is All Around in 1994 and is just a week off the 16 weeks achieved by Bryan Adams track (Everything I Do) I Do It For You in 1991.

In the UK album chart, former BBC Sound of 2012 winner Michael Kiwanuka overcame anxiety over his songs to claim his first number one with Love & Hate.

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How is this for magnificent timing?

Minutes after the curtain call at this weekend's opening night of Motown: The Musical on Broadway, the cast were told by producers that the show was ending its return early.

Nearly four months early to be precise.

The show, which tells the story of Berry Gordy's iconic record label, was expected to run until 13 November but following lacklustre box-office sales, their final bow will be on 31 July.

The musical's told from the perspective of Gordy (pictured top), who wrote the story.  

Actor's Chester Gregory and Allion Semmes, who play Gordy and Diana Ross respectively, both tweeted their disappointment.

The show originally played 775 performances between 2013-15 and had returned following a successful stint in London.

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Before you worry we're being unnecessarily rude about Thom Yorke, it's exactly the reaction the Radiohead frontman was hoping we'd have to his special "bedtime mix" which he recorded for Radio 1. 

Yorke's playlist of "tunes to fall asleep to" was compiled for Phil Taggart's show and features a solo version of the Radiohead song Bloom as well as tracks by Laurie Spiegel, Luke Abbott and James Holden. 

You can listen again on the iPlayer now, but it's probably safest to bookmark it for bedtime... 

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Up to 30 people were arrested at a Guns N' Roses concert in New Jersey, according to local reports.

Police told New Jersey 105.1 radio that at least 11 people were arrested for trying to buy drugs at the show at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Saturday.

Other offences included disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer.

The band have been on tour since reuniting at the Coachella festival (pictured above) earlier in the year.

They were playing two nights at the venue to crowds of about 55,000 people.

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In other musical casting news (scroll down for Rihanna's new acting gig) - Sia has been given her own character in My Little Pony: The Movie. 

She'll voice Songbird Serenade, who seems to have taken a lot of style inspiration from Sia's own striking look (she can't see out of her hair either), as well as contributing two original songs to the soundtrack...

Sia joins a stellar voice cast including Broadway actress Kristen Chenoweth, Liev Schreiber, Taye Diggs, Emily Blunt and Uzo Aduba. The movie's due out in Autumn 2017.

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Twenty years after the release of their debut album, Ash are to receive a special award in their native Northern Ireland.

The Oh Yeah Legend Award will be presented to the band followed by a live performance at the Mandela Hall in Belfast on 11 November.

The award recognises the contribution of an artist or industry figure from Northern Ireland.

Formed in 1992, the band - led by singer Tim Wheeler - have recorded two UK chart topping albums and 18 Top 40 singles. 

Charlotte Dryden of the Oh Yeah Music Centre said: “Ash have played a major part in the story of Northern Irish music and in the story of Oh Yeah too. Our centre is named after the very song which features on their debut album, 1977. 

"How brilliant to finally honour and celebrate the band with an Oh Yeah Legend Award." 

Previous recipients include The Divine Comedy, Therapy? and The Undertones.

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Former Jane's Addiction singer and founder of the Lollapalloza music festival Perry Farrell has bemoaned the impact electronic dance music has had on his own event.

"I hate EDM. I want to vomit it out of my nostrils," Farrell - whose band is among the festival's headliners - told the Chicago Tribune.

"I can't stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic. I sometimes cringe at my own festival."

Lollapalooza, which is being held next weekend in Chicago, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Farrell, however, concedes that to ban EDM, "you'd have to do away with pop," adding "if you want to do a festival you can't do away with pop."

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Some exciting casting news to catch up on from Comic Con in Las Vegas over the weekend - as Rihanna's been added to the cast of Bates Motel for what will be its fifth and final season. 

Producers played a video of Rihanna announcing the news (with a mild swear word) that she would play Marion Crane. 

"Hello Comic-Con it's your girl Riri... I'm about to check into the Bates Motel very soon," she said.

"Guess what else? Guess who's playing Marion?"

The series is a modern-day prequel to classic Hitchcock movie Psycho, which sees the character of Marion Crane brutally murdered in the infamous shower scene set at Bates Motel.  

Producers said: "We heard Rihanna was a fan of the show, and we were huge fans of hers, so it was the perfect collision of creativity and fate.

They added: "We wanted her to very much be her own character and we felt in order to do that we needed to find someone who was very, very special to play Marion.”

Bates Motel is shown on Universal TV and Netflix in the UK - the fifth series starts production this autumn and is due to air next year. 

Hello and welcome to a brand new week on Music News LIVE. We hope you're feeling as refreshed and ready to go as we are as we've got heaps coming up for you, from news on Rihanna, Sia and Guns N'Roses to the latest from the BBC Proms - join us!

If you missed any of last week's coverage, catch up on Friday's page for all the big new music releases from the likes of Justin Bieber, Regina Spektor and Gorgon City featuring Wyclef, or you use the handy column on the right to check out the rest of the week's Music news. 

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