The Script co-founder and guitarist Mark Sheehan has died after a brief illness. He was 46.
The musician’s death was announced on Friday (14 April) by the Irish rock band from their official social media channels.
“Much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness,” the statement said.
“The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time.”
Last year, Sheehan missed the US leg of the group’s tour. At the time, The Script’s frontman Danny O’Donoghue told Sunday World that Sheehan’s leave was due to family commitments.
“It’s his story to tell, but yeah, I guess if I could paraphrase, his children needed a father and his wife needed a husband,” the singer and keyboardist said.
Formed in 2001 by Sheehan, O’Donoghue and drummer Glen Power, the three-piece indie-rock band released...
The musician’s death was announced on Friday (14 April) by the Irish rock band from their official social media channels.
“Much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness,” the statement said.
“The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time.”
Last year, Sheehan missed the US leg of the group’s tour. At the time, The Script’s frontman Danny O’Donoghue told Sunday World that Sheehan’s leave was due to family commitments.
“It’s his story to tell, but yeah, I guess if I could paraphrase, his children needed a father and his wife needed a husband,” the singer and keyboardist said.
Formed in 2001 by Sheehan, O’Donoghue and drummer Glen Power, the three-piece indie-rock band released...
- 4/14/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - Music
Chris Tucker has revealed he once had a private jet turn around from LA back to New York so he could meet Michael Jackson.
“I was in New York for two days waiting to meet Mj,” Tucker recalled.
He told GQ: “I took a private jet there. I said, well, I ain’t heard from him, I got to go.
“I took a private jet back to LA and as soon as I landed, I had a message: ‘Michael Jackson wants to meet you tomorrow morning.’ I was still on the plane. I went up to the captain and said, ‘I’ll pay you whatever you want to take me back to New York.’”
The comedian also revealed that he and Jackson later became close friends, and the singer encouraged him to take on more work in Hollywood.
“He used to always say, ‘Let’s make history,’” Tucker said.
“I was in New York for two days waiting to meet Mj,” Tucker recalled.
He told GQ: “I took a private jet there. I said, well, I ain’t heard from him, I got to go.
“I took a private jet back to LA and as soon as I landed, I had a message: ‘Michael Jackson wants to meet you tomorrow morning.’ I was still on the plane. I went up to the captain and said, ‘I’ll pay you whatever you want to take me back to New York.’”
The comedian also revealed that he and Jackson later became close friends, and the singer encouraged him to take on more work in Hollywood.
“He used to always say, ‘Let’s make history,’” Tucker said.
- 4/13/2023
- by Peony Hirwani
- The Independent - Music
Michelle Yeoh took her Oscars trophy with her to her father’s grave in Malaysia.
The visit was to mark Qing Ming, a major traditional festival observed by the Chinese community in several south Asian countries where people visit tombs of their ancestors and clean them and make food offerings.
At the 2023 Oscars, 60-year-old Yeoh took home the award for Best Actress for her leading role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
In doing so, she beat Cate Blanchett (Tár), Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans), Ana de Armas (Blonde) and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie), who were nominated in the category.
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is the beacon of hope and possibilities,” Yeoh said in her acceptance speech.
“This is proof to dream big and that dreams do come true.”
“Ladies, don’t tell anyone tell you, you are past your prime,...
The visit was to mark Qing Ming, a major traditional festival observed by the Chinese community in several south Asian countries where people visit tombs of their ancestors and clean them and make food offerings.
At the 2023 Oscars, 60-year-old Yeoh took home the award for Best Actress for her leading role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
In doing so, she beat Cate Blanchett (Tár), Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans), Ana de Armas (Blonde) and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie), who were nominated in the category.
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is the beacon of hope and possibilities,” Yeoh said in her acceptance speech.
“This is proof to dream big and that dreams do come true.”
“Ladies, don’t tell anyone tell you, you are past your prime,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Peony Hirwani
- The Independent - Film
Dub and reggae pioneer Jah Shaka has died, his family have confirmed.
Fans said the singer, producer and label owner also known as Zulu Warrior was “the greatest soundman that ever lived”.
Shaka was at the helm of sound system culture in London, releasing some of the scene’s most seminal records and spearheading the influential Jah Shaka Sound System, which he began operating and touring in the 1970s.
His precise age and cause of death have not been disclosed. He continued to perform and tour his system up to his death.
Shaka moved to London from Jamaica as a child in the late 1950s as part of the Windrush generation. In a 2014 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, he spoke about the importance of music to his contemporaries as they tried to settle in a new, and often hostile, place.
“When people left Africa for the Caribbean, all they could...
Fans said the singer, producer and label owner also known as Zulu Warrior was “the greatest soundman that ever lived”.
Shaka was at the helm of sound system culture in London, releasing some of the scene’s most seminal records and spearheading the influential Jah Shaka Sound System, which he began operating and touring in the 1970s.
His precise age and cause of death have not been disclosed. He continued to perform and tour his system up to his death.
Shaka moved to London from Jamaica as a child in the late 1950s as part of the Windrush generation. In a 2014 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, he spoke about the importance of music to his contemporaries as they tried to settle in a new, and often hostile, place.
“When people left Africa for the Caribbean, all they could...
- 4/12/2023
- by Liam James
- The Independent - Music
Franco Rosso's Babylon star Brinsley Forde with Ed Bahlman and Dennis Bovell at Bam: "Let's be honest, a film like that had never been done before. We had The Harder They Come, the films from Jamaica, but nothing from the UK." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music before the Us theatrical première of Babylon at BAMcinématek, Brinsley Forde spoke with me about the cast, which includes Trevor Laird, Brian Bovell, Archie Pool, Victor Romero Evans, Stefan Kalipha, Cosmo Laidlaw, Cynthia Powell, T. Bone Wilson, David N. Haynes, Mark Monero, Karl Howman, and Jah Shaka, and the film "presenting a life that the people who were in the movie, extras and all, were totally aware of."
Franco Rosso's powerful feature, with the camerawork of Chris Menges and a score by Dennis Bovell, takes you upfront into a world of survival that remains relevant today. Brinsley brings...
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music before the Us theatrical première of Babylon at BAMcinématek, Brinsley Forde spoke with me about the cast, which includes Trevor Laird, Brian Bovell, Archie Pool, Victor Romero Evans, Stefan Kalipha, Cosmo Laidlaw, Cynthia Powell, T. Bone Wilson, David N. Haynes, Mark Monero, Karl Howman, and Jah Shaka, and the film "presenting a life that the people who were in the movie, extras and all, were totally aware of."
Franco Rosso's powerful feature, with the camerawork of Chris Menges and a score by Dennis Bovell, takes you upfront into a world of survival that remains relevant today. Brinsley brings...
- 3/16/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Frank Rosso's Babylon (1980) is showing February 25 – March 26, 2019 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.Impressions of Franco Rosso’s Babylon (1980) extend past the boundaries of its 95-minute running time. Like the dub remixes its London characters’ lives revolve around, the movie plays with re-establishing identity and our experience of time. A narrative document of young, working class male Jamaican-British Londoners, Babylon doles out atmospheric city scenes of their place in the community: sons, brothers, boyfriends, small-time crooks, laborers, music lovers and producers. Privileging viewers with immersion into an insulated, under-documented immigrant community, the film provides a window into their daily lives. We are thrown into conversations and situations, intimately experiencing their patois their interactions with friends, their constant victimization by a dominantly racist white society, and the massive sound system parties they congregate to. A corrective to the British ignorance and fear of Jamaican immigrants, the film’s emphasis is on...
- 3/13/2019
- MUBI
There’s a scene in Babylon, the 1980 cult classic considered by many to be the great U.K. reggae movie, where a bunch of Brixton residents gather together in a rehearsal space. It’s the meeting place for their up-and-coming sound system, named Ital Lion; one of them has just procured a new dub from a shady record-store owner, who claims to have received the track “straight from the J.” (That’d be Jamaica.) The “harder than steel” tune is going to be their secret weapon when the Lion crew...
- 3/8/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
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