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Project Angel Food has lined up a list of performers including Annie Lennox, Kristin Chenoweth and Kelly Clarkson for a telethon this Saturday, with Eric McCormack, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jessica Holmes hosting. Lead With Love: Project Angel Food Emergency Telethon will air from 7 PM to 9 PM PT on KTLA 5 in Los Angeles…

With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World: Together at Home concert from their respective homes on different sides of the country. But, even with a joint "overwhelming gratitude" appearance by former First…

UPDATED: After two videos of celebrities from Britain and around the world sending thanks to the UK’s National Health Service workers, a third has been tweeted out featuring a cadre of fresh names including Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Billie Eilish, Gary Barlow, Simon Cowell, Stephen Fry, Andrew Garfield…

Elton John is stepping up once again in the battle against coronavirus. The Rocket Man singer announced Saturday that his Elton John Aids Foundation has launched a $1 million COVID-19 emergency fund to protect individuals with HIV. “For almost 30 years my foundation has prioritized the most vulnerable people to HIV…

John Lennon once warned us that we can so easily be "benefited to death" if we're not discerning. However, just 18 days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic, the first major star-studded benefit to help those hurt by the health crisis landed tonight with the lo-fi but big hearted Fox…

2nd UPDATE SUNDAY: Lady Gaga is the latest music superstar to join Fox Presents The iHeart Living Room Concert for America, the hourlong benefit concert hosted by Elton John, which airs tonight, March 29, at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. Other last-minute additions to the special include Ellen DeGeneres, The Masked Singer‘s…

Elton John and Foo Fighters are among the latest superstar acts to postpone tour dates as the world struggles to contain the coronavirus. As Sir Elton rocks through his three-year, 300-date Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, he has put off shows from March 26-May 2, stretching from Indianapolis to Detroit and including…

Tonight’s 92nd Oscars had no shortage of stellar musical performances. Billie Eilish performed a poignant cover of the Beatles’ Yesterday during the In Memoriam segment, accompanied by her brother and producer Finneas O'Connell. Janelle Monáe opened the show in a high-energy original number with featured dancers and…

UPDATED with video Did anyone really think Hollywood wouldn’t choose a song called "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" as the year’s best? The song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin from the film Rocketman won the Oscar for Best Original Song, beating out four songs from Toy Story 4, Breakthrough, Frozen 2 and Harriet. “Being…

Music is a growing presence at film's biggest night, and this year seems to have a larger piece of the broadcast than ever before. Beyond the Academy Awards’ traditional Best Original Song presentations, this year's Oscars have a few "special" performances, highlighted by Billie Eilish, fresh off her Grammy majors…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.  Well, it is all just about over but the counting, and in fact, I would guess PriceWaterhouse accountants have even finished that at this point. What that means is two numbers crunchers out of everyone in the whole world are now looking at every…

UPDATED with video from speech: The massively prolific songwriting tandem of melody-man Elton John and lyrics-master  Bernie Taupin won the honor for the best original song  in a 2019 feature film for “I’m Gonna Love Me Again” from the classic rock biopic hit Rocketman. “It’s a 52-year-old marriage,” Taupin said of…