Music News LIVE: 29 September

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Rihanna has unveiled a new clothing line at Paris Fashion Week. 

The singer wore a long, floor-length pale pink trenchcoat and matching trousers - accessorised with a lace fan.

Reviews say the collection is "a perfectly digestible effort of graphic-street-athleisure wear" - so expect to see someone sweating in one of these creations on a treadmill (or more likely a school run or even in a club) near you soon.

Check out more photos of the collection.

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It's worked for Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, N.W.A. and Hank Williams - and now Roy Orbison is to have his life portrayed on the big screen.

The surviving family of the iconic singer of songs like Pretty Woman and Only the Lonely have given their blessing to The Big O: Roy Orbison - which apparently makes it the first estate-authorised movie biopic. 

Ray Gideon & Bruce Evans have been set to write the script and Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison Jr, and Wesley Orbison will be exec producers.

Those are the surviving children of the singer, who have overseen their father’s legacy since the death of the singer’s widow, Barbara Orbison, in 2011. 

The movie will be able to use virtually all of Orbison’s songs and recordings.

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Before there was BBC Radio 3, there was the Third programme. 

Launched in 1946 as a precurser to its more modern equivalent, which launched in 1970, the station featured spoken word, dramas and jazz music as well as music by classical and contemporary composers.

The Third Programme launched on 29 September at exactly 18:00 BST and Radio 3 is celebrating with a host of on-air programming and a fortnight broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at the Southbank Centre in London.

The public are being invited to take part in free yoga sessions to classical music and watch a live radio drama being created, and there will be performances from the likes of Sir Willard White, Alex Mendham & his Orchestra and Carlos Acosta.

BBC Radio 3 has also appointed an embedded composer who will be creating pieces for the station for 70 days.

Read an interview with Matthew Kaner.

You can also get in the party spirit with this fun quiz: Are these things older or younger than BBC Radio 3?

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Not one for the fainthearted, a series of nude drawings of Iggy Pop have been turned into a book and art exhibition.

Earlier this year, Iggy posed for British artist Jeremy Deller's life drawing class in New York, where 21 artists drew the singer.

The results now form the basis of an exhibition in New York, Iggy Pop Life Class, which runs from 4 November - 26 March. A book of the same name is also available.  

In March, Iggy told Entertainment Weekly: "This [class] wasn't about my winkie or anything. It's just a documentation of what's left of me. It's not the sort of thing I'm going to start doing as a weekend job." 

You can see some of the rather beautiful drawings, but here is a NUDITY WARNING!!, here.

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When your frontmen are the eminetly photographable and always quotable Pete Doherty and Carl Barat, then you can hardly blame The Libertines bassist John Hassall for branching out on his own for a bit.

John and his new band The April Rainers are about to release their debut album, Wheels To Idyl, on 25 November. 

The album is apparently about a "psychedelic train journey".

John adds: "Much of the album is about travelling to the country to see my Granny as a child. 

"It might not be a very rock’n’roll subject matter, but I reckon you can still make good pop songs out of it."     

Well, why not?

You might love him in Sherlock, but what about Benedict Cumberbatch's vocal skills?

The Oscar-nominated actor joined David Gilmour on stage at the Royal Albert Hall in London last night to perform a classic track by Gilmour's old band Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb.

Gilmour was playing the third show of a five-night residency when Cumberbatch took to the stage for the track, originally sung by Roger Waters on the band's 1979 album The Wall.

The actor follows in the footsteps of the likes of David Bowie, who performed the song during Gilmour's gig at the same venue in 2006.

Luckily for us Cumberbatch was captured on camera...

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The Weeknd has shared the video for his new Daft Punk collaboration Starboy, the title track from his forthcoming album. 

As with the un-clean, non-radio friendly version of the track available to buy and stream, it's full of big old swears, so we can't share it here. 

You can watch it on YouTube, but only click on the link if you aren't offended by that sort of language. 

The promo sees the Canadian singer's new self (with a new haircut) kidnap his former self (with his old signature hairstyle) before going on the rampage.

The Starboy video received a best video nomination for the MTV EMAs earlier this week, before it was even released.   

The Weeknd's also due to share a second new track from the album tomorrow called False Alarm...

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Not sure those chaps over at Vogue have a functioning calendar as George Michael's anthemic Freedom 90' was released in 1990, which - to our thinking - makes it 26 years old.

Nevertheless, they have revamped its famous moody video (below), directed by David Fincher no less, which saw star models such as Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista mouth the words to the song.

The new version, which can be viewed on Vogue's website features the next generation of mega supermodels including Adriana Lima, Joan Smalls, Anna Ewers and Irina Shayk.

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Whether you were lucky enough to make it along to Kate Bush's 2014, 22-show residency at London's Hammersmith Apollo or not, the singer's just announced the ultimate souvenir - a new triple live album. 

Before the Dawn will be released on 25 November, with each CD marking a different section of the concert. 

Act One features a seven-song set including Hounds Of Love and Running Up That Hill, with Act Two featuring songs off side two of Bush's 1985 album Hounds Of Love, known as The Ninth Wave, including spoken word track The Astronomer's Call. The third and final act includes songs from side two of Bush's 2005 album Aerial, known as A Sky of Honey, including Tawny Moon - a new song sung by Bush's son Bertie McIntosh, which gets its first official release. 

The album also includes Never Be Mine, a song which didn't make it into the concerts but is thought to have been recorded during rehearsals.

That lot should keep fans busy for some time, which is good as Bush said those shows would be her last live performances "for a little while", and let's not forget her only other tour took place in 1979.

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He's been on production duties for the likes of Bruno Mars, Adele, Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, as well as winning a Brit for his own music, but Mark Ronson reckons Lady Gaga's new album is "one of the best" he's ever worked on. 

He's been overseeing Gaga's fifth record Joanne, which is due out on 21 October.

"She blew my mind right away with the potential of the stuff we were working on," Ronson told Newsbeat.

"I really think it's definitely one of the best albums, song for song, I've ever been a part of."

He also talked about the "family of rotating cast members" they collaborated with on the album including Beck, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, Father John Misty and Florence Welch - who recorded a duet with Gaga.

"Recording her vocal and watching them write that song together really didn't feel much like work," he said.

"It really was a pretty wonderful experience."

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Sir Cliff Richard says "a cloud lifted" when he was informed he would not be prosecuted over claims of historical sex offences.

"It's not been the best two years of my life but it's all gone," he told Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2.

"Even though I knew it couldn't go anywhere [because] these things never happened, there is always the fear and the embarrassment of being talked about in those terms."

An investigation against the singer was dropped on 16 June on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

He was never arrested or charged, and always maintained his innocence.

Sir Cliff was speaking to BBC Radio 2 after announcing the release of a new album, Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll, which will feature a duet with Elvis Presley.

Recorded in Nashville, it is Sir Cliff's 45th studio album, and his 101st overall, and comprises new versions of classic rock tracks like Wake Up Little Susie, Rave On and his own debut single, Move It.

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In his own inimitable way, former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has creaked open the door an inch on a possible band reunion.

Speaking to the Metro newspaper ahead of Friday's release of Supersonic, a new documentary about the band's rise to fame, Liam said: "As long as you're still breathing, there's always a chance. Obviously I'd like to do it 'cos there's (insert swearword here) all else do to."

Liam also expressed some sadness that he and warring brother Noel Gallagher still don't see eye to eye and and suggested: "I guess it would be nice to put it all to bed for me mam's sake.

"I miss hanging out with my brother... It's stupid and childish and we should know better but we don't."

However, in the same breath, Liam repeated his regular surreal insult - calling Noel a "potato" (see below) because "he looks like one".

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Metallica have been discussing their new album, Hardwired … to Self-Destruct, in an exclusive interview with BBC 6 Music. 

The 12-track record - eight years in the making - stretches to nearly 80 minutes and includes a tribute to Motorhead legend Lemmy on the song Murder One.

"We're still up there, man," frontman James Hetfield told Matt Everitt.

"As far as our look and our health, we're doing our best. We got gray hair but we've earned this stuff."

Drummer Lars Ulrich explained how the band still manage to summon up so much aggression...

Quote Message: The old cliche is 'turn it up to 11'. I guess we turn it up to 12 or 13. But as I get a little older, I realise there's a slight element of getting into character. You're up on stage, you're in the moment, you're with your bandmates - and you turn into a little rock gnome or something. I'm not quite like that at 7:15 in the morning when I'm trying to get kid number three to finish his fruit bowl.

The old cliche is 'turn it up to 11'. I guess we turn it up to 12 or 13. But as I get a little older, I realise there's a slight element of getting into character. You're up on stage, you're in the moment, you're with your bandmates - and you turn into a little rock gnome or something. I'm not quite like that at 7:15 in the morning when I'm trying to get kid number three to finish his fruit bowl.

Read the full interview or listen to Matt's chat with Ulrich below, who explained why the album sees Metallica at its leanest, maybe ever...  

There are more clips on the 6 Music website and you can listen to all of the interviews during the full breakfast show programme (they were played out during the music news at around 40 minutes past each hour).

The band featuring former Spiders From Mars drummer Woody Woodmansey and David Bowie's longtime producer Tony Visconti have added a second date to perform The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars in full.

Holy Holy also include Heaven 17 singer Glenn Gregory. The first gig in Hull, the home town of two of the original Spiders From Mars, has sold out after being announced last week.

The shows at Hull City Hall will be the first time Bowie's 1972 album has been performed in full live and will be among the highlights of Hull's year as UK City of Culture.

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Yesterday we shared our music reporter Mark Savage's take on Britney Spears' first UK show in five years, and today we can bring you Britney's own view on proceedings. 

Speaking to Radio 1's Scott Mills yesterday, she reviewed her Tuesday night performance at the Apple Music Festival, confirming she was in fact totally jet-lagged during her show.  

“I was a little spacey, because I was kind of out of it," she admitted. 

She also explained why she chickened out of doing a back walkover in the middle of her track Touch Of My Hand...  

Quote Message: I have a part in the show I just started doing. When I was younger, I could do backflips. Now I’m older, of course… I put a back walkover in my show. I can still do a back walkover. After last night, I freaked out. I put my hands up, and there was a new guy there. Usually, I have a signature guy who helps me with it for the past three years. It was a new guy. It was his first time to touch my back, and I couldn’t do it… I should have felt more confident, but I didn’t. I didn’t do it because I was scared!

I have a part in the show I just started doing. When I was younger, I could do backflips. Now I’m older, of course… I put a back walkover in my show. I can still do a back walkover. After last night, I freaked out. I put my hands up, and there was a new guy there. Usually, I have a signature guy who helps me with it for the past three years. It was a new guy. It was his first time to touch my back, and I couldn’t do it… I should have felt more confident, but I didn’t. I didn’t do it because I was scared!

She also talked about “accidentally” punching people in the face, during the middle of her eight costume changes and being "a beautiful mess right now"...

Listen to the clip below...

You can also read Radio 1's round-up or listen to the full interview to hear her discuss Bake Off, how the London fans compare to those at her show in Vegas and why she's "a boring old mum" now.

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The Jam bassist Bruce Foxton is to perform alongside musicians including Mani, Badly Drawn Boy and Paul Weller's backing band at a special concert celebrating the legendary band.

The show at Liverpool Echo Arena on 5 October marks the close of The Young Idea, an exhibition about the group, at the city's Cunard Building.

The gig is being organsied by Paul Weller's sister Nicky, who co-curated the exhibition, and will also feature The Farm, Haircut 100's Nick Heyward and former Inspiral Carpets frontman Tom Hingley.

But Nicky has dashed suggestions that it might be a good occasion for her brother to get back with Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler...

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When Sir Tom Jones was rather unceremoniously dumped as a judge on The Voice by the BBC, he accused the corporation of "sub-standard behaviour".

Well it's all water under the bridge now as he is set to return to the singing contest, albeit now on ITV next year.

The Welsh warbler will be joined in the big red chairs by long-serving judge Will.i.am, Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson and Bush frontman, and former Mr Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale.

Sir Tom said: "I had some great times on the show and I can't wait to again discover and help some brand new talent. And of course be back with my pal Will.i.am."

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Years & Years have debuted the video for their first new track in a year, Meteorite, which features on the soundtrack to Bridget Jones's Baby. 

Anyone who's seen the band live will know that frontman Olly Alexander loves to dance and his moves take centre stage in the promo.

He spins, vogues and cuts shapes in a disco-ready silver sequin combo of backless top and matching culottes, flanked by a host of backing dancers.

"It's an honour to follow in the footsteps of some of my heroes (Britney, Beyoncé etc.) and be decked out in tens of thousands of dazzling crystals!" said the singer.

Inspiration for your party wardrobe and your next dance off...

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Welcome to a brand new day on Music News LIVE - where we'll be getting you up to speed on a whole host of musical happenings, from the new Years & Years video to The Voice UK's next set of judges and Benedict Cumberbatch showing off his vocal skills with a Pink Floyd number. 

We've also got news on Britney, The Weeknd, Tom Petty, Liam Gallagher and an exclusive chat with Metallica.

Catch up on yesterday's round-up for news on the likes of Craig David, Jay Z, The Pretenders, Banks, Justin Timberlake and Garth Brooks to name a few.