Taylor Swift takes 4 MTV Europe Music awards, as host Rita Ora honours Liam Payne

Taylor Swift takes 4 MTV Europe Music awards, as host Rita Ora honours Liam Payne

Taylor Swift came out on top at the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards, walking away with best artist, best US act, best live act and best video for “Fortnight (featuring Post Malone)”. Swift, who is currently finishing up her Eras tour, thanked the fans for the prizes via video message. The show in Manchester in … Read more

The monkey gangs turning this Thai city into a real-life Planet of the Apes, writes DAVID JONES

The monkey gangs turning this Thai city into a real-life Planet of the Apes, writes DAVID JONES

The mob begin to move in on me the moment I stray into their ‘hood’ (an abandoned cinema that they’ve commandeered and trashed) and in seconds they have me surrounded. The boss, a big guy with whiskers and a well-fed belly, fixes me with a menacing stare, then sends one of his young molls to … Read more

Go with the flow, she advises Asian visitors to New Zealand – as she did in affair with David Bowie after video shoot

Go with the flow, she advises Asian visitors to New Zealand – as she did in affair with David Bowie after video shoot

Ching has agreed to talk to me about Bowie and that video. But first we are in travel mode. Ching and David Bowie in a still from the video for Bowie’s China Girl. They portrayed an affair on screen, and had one off screen. The sometime model, actress and now hospitality doyenne has some firm … Read more

Taiwan’s forgotten disco era and the singers who made it big with covers of Abba, New Order and David Bowie

Taiwan’s forgotten disco era and the singers who made it big with covers of Abba, New Order and David Bowie

But Kao copied much more than just New Order. On just a single album from 1980, its cover emblazoned with the English word “disco”, he produced Chinese versions of Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana”, Anita Ward’s “Ring My Bell”, Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, Blondie’s “Call Me” and Boney M.’s “Gotta Go Home”. In all, … Read more