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a day ago
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Deep-Dive Into the Colorful Life of Harry Styles With These Four Illustrated Children's Books on Amazon
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Harry Styles is and has always been a colorful figure. More from Billboard Pete Davidson Announces 2025 Australian Stand-Up Tour Before You Get Back to a Paul McCartney Show, Find The Beatles' Best T-Shirts, Coffee Mugs, Books & More Merch The Best Acoustic Guitars to Buy Online in 2025 From his teen heartthrob status in the boy band One Direction to successful solo work, the 'Watermelon Sugar' singer has managed to amass a large fanbase of people from all walks of life, including kids. That's no small feat, considering children seem to be the hardest demographic to please unless you're on stage performing 'Baby Shark.' If your kid is as obsessed with Styles as we are, then you're in for a treat. We've compiled a list of children's books available now on Amazon honoring the Grammy-winning singer. The best part? Each book is under $15. We've rounded up four options that are whimsically illustrated, depicting the artist's life in vibrant hues, accompanied by text that makes each story easy to digest for your little ones. Whether you've got a child who's a Styles superfan or simply a voracious reader, we're sure you'll find something you and your kids will love. Lullaby Legends: ABC of Harry Styles: A Rhyming Biography $11.95 Buy Now On Amazon A children's book by Susie Linn and illustrated by Aimee Wright. Lullaby Legends: ABC of Harry Styles: A Rhyming Biography helps your little ones learn all about Styles in an interactive rhyming fashion from A to Z. The illustrated book takes readers through his days on The X Factor to selling out stadiums solo, accompanied by whimsical illustrations by Aimee Wright. The book is available for $11.95, one of the more expensive options on our list. To give you a taste of what you'll be getting into when you buy this book, you've got passages such as, 'A is for Adore You, so tender and true, A love-filled tune, from Harry to you,' and 'C is for Concerts, where fans sing along, Filling arenas with his heartfelt songs.' What's not to love? Have You Heard of Harry Styles? $7.90 $10.99 28% off Buy Now On Amazon An interactive children's book. Have You Heard of Harry Styles? was thoughtfully illustrated by established illustrator Una Woods. The book currently retails for $7.90, 28% off its original price. Unlike our previous entry, this book is interactive, allowing kids to fiddle with each page through flaps and wheels that manipulate each illustration. With these interactive portions, readers can now get Styles ready for a show, play different instruments and get him dressed in some legendary looks. Harry Styles: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book Biographies) $5.99 Buy Now On Amazon An unauthorized biography about Harry Styles Little Golden Book Biographies has a slew of unauthorized biographies about artists and their whirlwind lives. They've covered everyone from Lady Gaga to BLACKPINK, offering young readers the opportunity to learn more about their favorite performers through easily digestible language and playful visuals. This biography, like the other entries on this list, takes us through Styles' life and accomplishments thus far. Paperback is $9.99, while Kindle and hardcover versions of the biography are both $5.99. An audiobook version will run you $0.99. This is one of the most affordable options on our list. Harry Styles: A Baby's First Biography (Tiny Idols) $7.99 Buy Now On Amazon An unauthorized biography with colorful illustrations. Written by J.D. Forester and illustrated by Sophie Beer, Harry Styles: A Baby's First Biography offers a whimsical telling of Styles' life and career. The illustrations Beer provides are more cartoonish rather than realistic, offering the biography a playful element. The book is currently available on Amazon for $7.99 on Kindle or as a physical copy.
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Take a Trip Through Taylor Swift's Eras With This ‘Where's Waldo' Inspired Fan-Made Puzzle Book
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. It's hard to keep up with Taylor Swift. More from Billboard Pete Davidson Announces 2025 Australian Stand-Up Tour Before You Get Back to a Paul McCartney Show, Find The Beatles' Best T-Shirts, Coffee Mugs, Books & More Merch The Best Acoustic Guitars to Buy Online in 2025 Whether she's selling out major tours around the globe or getting excited at football games watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce play, the 'Love Story' singer is constantly on the move. If you can't keep up with her in real life, this fan-made Where's Taylor? is a fun alternative. Published by Chartwell Books, the book parodies the musician's on-the-go lifestyle in a Where's Waldo style, offering fans young and old an interactive experience for just $10.99. Unofficial 'Where's Taylor?' Book $10.99 Buy Now On Amazon A fan-made Where's Waldo-esque puzzle book about Taylor Swift. The hardcover Swift-themed book can be purchased on Amazon, and makes a great gift for the die-hard Swiftie in your life. Through the book's colorful illustrations, readers are tasked with searching for the superstar in settings from New York City to Nashville, taking fans through all of her eras from Lover and Speak Now to Folklore. Throughout the scenes, the reader will also find special objects that Swifties will be very familiar with, including the star's iconic sparkly guitar, red heart sunglasses, her three cats, Karyn the cobra, the number 13 and so much more. While they're busy solving puzzles, readers will be treated to interesting anecdotes and facts about Swift's record-breaking career, so there will be learning and having fun doing it. Unofficial Taylor Swift Eras (The Sticker Version): 1,100 Stickers, 11 Eras, and More! $6.31 $9.99 37% off Buy Now On Amazon A book featuring 1,100 stickers inspired by Taylor Swift. While you're surfing Amazon for Swift-inspired books, you might also want to grab this unofficial sticker book, also inspired by the performer's many eras. Lucky for you, this sticker book is currently on sale on Amazon for just $6.31. That's 37% off the book's original price. The book features a whopping 1,100 stickers that reference Swift's 11 eras, along with nods to her personal life, like her status as a proud cat mom. If your laptop or notebooks are looking a little bare, spruce them up by slapping a few Swift-inspired stickers on them and decking them out in honor of your favorite singer. We can also see these stickers looking great on your favorite water bottle or on the bumper of your car. This sticker book allows you to freely jazz up any empty space you want with these stickers. The sticker book, like the aforementioned puzzle book, is chock-full of Easter eggs we're sure Swifties will love, including references to the ever-iconic Eras Tour friendship bracelets and fan-favorite lyrics. Whether you're a die-hard Swiftie or a lover of eclectic stickers, this one's for you.
Yahoo
a day ago
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Lady Gaga Fans Can Deck Out Their Laptops & Water Bottles With This $13 Sticker Book
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Getting ready to attend Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball? Why not prep for the occasion by decking out your belongings in Gaga-themed stickers? More from Billboard Pete Davidson Announces 2025 Australian Stand-Up Tour Before You Get Back to a Paul McCartney Show, Find The Beatles' Best T-Shirts, Coffee Mugs, Books & More Merch The Best Acoustic Guitars to Buy Online in 2025 Retailing for $12.99 on Amazon, this My Sticker Dress-Up: Going Gaga: The Unofficial Sticker Book for Little Monsters makes the perfect gift for Gaga stans of all ages wanting to imbue their life with a little flair. The book, illustrated by Louise Anglicas, follows up on the success of their 2024 release of My Sticker Dress-Up: Swifties, which sold over 250,000 copies. Readers are meant to use a shimmer stick to help a fan of the 'Judas' singer get ready for her concert. You're tasked with dressing characters with over 5 pages of reusable clothing and accessory stickers before they head to the show, allowing for endless hours of interactive fun. Outfits and accessories featured seem to pay homage to Gaga and her many eras, from Mayhem to The Fame Monster. My Sticker Dress-Up: Going Gaga: The Unofficial Sticker Book for Little Monsters $12.99 Buy Now On Amazon An unofficial Lady Gaga sticker book. Within the sticker book, you get over 400 reusable shimmer stickers plus a fold-out sticker closet to help users organize their stickers, along with a slew of unique outfits and accessories that can be used on multiple figures for endless creative possibilities. If your little ones aren't as obsessed with Gaga, there are plenty of other options to choose from: the My Sticker Dress-Up series also includes non-singer-themed sticker books available on Amazon, centering around classic childhood tropes like princesses, fairies and mermaids. If your child is more of a Swiftie, My Sticker Dress-Up: Swifties is also still available on Amazon for $10.38. The sticker book is 20% off its original price at the time of writing. My Sticker Dress-Up: Swifties: Fun and Creative Activity Book for Swifties of all ages with 500+ Reusable Stickers! $10.38 $12.99 20% off Buy Now On Amazon An unofficial Taylor Swift sticker book. Gaga's Mayhem Ball began on July 16 at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena. 'This is my first arena tour since 2018,' said Gaga in a statement following her announcement of the tour. 'There's something electric about a stadium, and I love every moment of those shows. But with The Mayhem Ball, I wanted to create a different kind of experience — something more intimate — closer, more connected — that lends itself to the live theatrical art I love to create.'
Mint
6 days ago
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- Mint
All you need is love: How John Lennon and Paul McCartney's songs with The Beatles reinvented male friendships
Rock critic Lester Bangs once famously called The Beatles 'the firstest with the mostest". A phrase that is patently true, even if Bangs used it ironically. The Beatles certainly were the first to a staggering number of new experiences within pop culture, not to mention re-writing or inventing new ways of composing, recording and delivering popular music. They were also the first in other, less apparent, if equally important ways, like growing up together within an intense maelstrom of public scrutiny, falling apart in a fog of recrimination and sorrow just when divorce became a real cultural phenomenon, and charting very individualistic lives in the aftermath, while very much remaining a 'Beatle". All this is fairly well known by now. What writer Ian Leslie's new book does is get to the heart of The Beatles—the friendship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs is one of the definitive portraits of the Lennon-McCartney partnership, and thus, one of the definitive portraits of the band. While previous biographies have focused on one or the other of John and Paul—clearly taking sides—Leslie goes in search of the duo's dynamic in the music that they wrote together, and then apart in their solo years. Reading the book, the first thing that strikes me is just how much our understanding of The Beatles has changed over the past decade or so. The myth of the band started forming almost as soon as they broke up in 1970, and the attention shifted immediately on what Lennon and McCartney would do as solo artists. In this respect, Lennon was out of the blocks in a flash, giving a series of unforgettable interviews to the likes of Rolling Stone magazine, where he proceeded to methodically deconstruct the band's aura, and especially that of the partnership that had defined the 1960s: between him and his friend Paul. 'I don't believe in Beatles! Just believe in me," he sang in God. No one realised at the time that they were buying a disingenuous story from a bitter lover, an anguished and angry version of the truth. As Leslie writes in the introduction, Lennon's edgy, take-no-prisoners and radical re-casting of The Beatles in general, and McCartney in particular, entranced the tastemakers of the day—young journalists, nearly all male, who's entire raison d'etre was to demolish cultural certainties. Thus did a compelling image form of radical, straight-talking rock'n'roller John, and the safe, baby-faced, straight-laced balladeer Paul. Lennon's assassination in 1980 only cemented the myth. It's only now, when the attention has shifted to The Beatles' music, away from The Beatles as celebrities, that a clearer understanding of the band and its two principal songwriters is beginning to emerge. And that is frankly much more riveting and revealing. Leslie understands the true underpinning of the Lennon-McCartney partnership: that of a remarkable friendship that began when they were in their teens, bonding over their shared trauma of losing their mothers, and a visceral love for rock'n'roll and other forms of Black American music. This only deepened as they lived through their most formative years together as cultural titans with a Midas touch, holding space for the other to flourish. The story of John and Paul is an examination of male friendship so radically new for the time that it changed culture. 'It's like you and me are lovers," says Lennon, while smiling bashfully and brushing away his hair, in a scene from Peter Jackson's Get Backdocumentary of The Beatles rehearsing and recording in 1969. He says this in response to McCartney suggesting that his and Lennon's new songs (Get Back, Two of Us, Oh Darling! and Don't Let Me Down) are in conversation with each other. 'It's like, after Get Back, 'we're on our way home". So, there's a story. There's another one: Don't Let Me Down, 'Oh Darling, I'll never let you down'," McCartney says. When Lennon suggests they may be lovers, McCartney says 'Yeah," and brushes his hair, mirroring Lennon. It is this conversation in song, which lasted from when the two met in 1958 to Lennon's death in 1980, that Leslie seizes on. And it's a fine conceit, since Lennon and McCartney are both on record saying that they prefer to communicate through their songs. 'Talking is the slowest form of communication anyway. Music is much better," Lennon once declared. As Leslie masterfully shows through his analysis of 43 songs, no matter what Lennon and McCartney may or may not have admitted to each other, they were constantly talking to each other through their songs. Whether it is in the way they constructed harmony vocals for If I Fell, referenced their joys as hitchhiking teenagers in Two of Us, elevated the other's song through lyrical contributions as in Getting Better or We Can Work it Out, or sang as if their two distinct voices belonged to the same person as in She Loves You, Lennon and McCartney's artistic collaboration was deeply rooted in the fact that they were friends who loved, understood and cared for each other. This bedrock of love in their partnership has always been an open secret, but in bringing it to the fore, the book shows very clearly just how The Beatles re-invented male friendships and its possibilities. Growing up in a conservative English Protestant society, where men were supposed to work hard, be tough, sexist, homophobic and suppress their feelings, each of the four strove to shed that patriarchal burden and fashion a different reality for themselves. None more so than Lennon and McCartney, who often exhibited all the flaws of fragile masculinity, only to turn around and point out to themselves and to their fans that it was wrong, and that men can do better. 'I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man, I was mean, but I'm changing my scene, and I'm doing the best that I can," they sing in Getting Better. They could change their scene because they had the empathy of each other to work with. They referenced their love for black girl groups like The Supremes and The Shirelles to craft songs like She Loves You, From Me To You or Thank You Girl. In their lyrical construction and musical arrangements, Lennon and McCartney essentially chatted with each other and with their women fans, as if they were all friends together, looking out for, consoling, hyping and loving each other. No wonder the male commentators of Beatlemania were disapproving of just how 'girly" The Beatles seemed, such 'pussies", as Cassius Clay labelled them. The Beatles are often credited with making androgyny in pop music cool, but what they really did was to show that men could be in touch with their feminine side, even to the extent of being queer coded, and that doing so was a source of strength. That men needn't be islands of self-pity and resentment, because they could always reach out to their friends, who would happily lift them up. They fumbled their way towards this realization in their personal lives, since they, as usual, were working without a blueprint. The fact that at a very foundational level, Lennon and McCartney were in love with each other is not lost on modern fans. Indeed, do a round of the countless Beatles pages on Instagram Reels and TikTok and you will find fans shipping the two, or stanning on just how cute the two are together. The teenage girls of Beatlemania probably sensed the same thing. And the ferocity with which Lennon lashed out at McCartney after the band's split, while McCartney suffered from serious depression and aimlessness, speaks to that love as well. When the initial pain faded and the sniping ceased, they were back to proclaiming their love for each other, this time from a distance. Lennon felt inspired in 1980 to return to recording music after hearing McCartney singing Coming Up on the radio ('You want a love to last forever, one that will never fade away, I wanna help you with your problem, stick around, I say, coming up"). He responded with the song (Just Like) Starting Over('Why don't we take off alone, take a trip somewhere far, far away. We'll be together, all alone again, like we used to in the early days"). Although Leslie doesn't write about it, this nearly romantic conversation between John and Paul continued all the way to the song Now and Then, released as the final Beatles record in 2023. Working off a Lennon demo from the late 1970s, the other three Beatles tried to complete it during the Anthology project in the mid-1990s. But the muddiness of the demo's sound led to the song being abandoned. Until 2022 that is, when it became possible to isolate Lennon's vocals from the demo using AI. Hearing the finished version, it's easy to see why McCartney was so obsessed with the song. In it, Lennon sings: 'Now and then, if we must start again. Well, we will know for sure that I will love you. Now and then, I miss you. Oh, now and then, I want you to be here for me, always to return to me." It's easy to imagine that Lennon is singing to McCartney, and in finishing the song, Paul is returning that love to John. McCartney repeatedly says in interviews these days that he regrets the fact that he never could say the words 'I love you" to Lennon, because, well masculinity. In Now and Then, he does so in song.
Daily Mirror
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Johnny Depp's surprising role in helping Noel Gallagher and appearance on Oasis album
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp struck up a bond with Noel Gallagher as he went on to help him work through his writers block and ended up playing on an Oasis track Noel and Liam Gallagher once called in Hollywood actor Johnny Depp to help on their tracks after getting stuck in a writers rut. At the peak of Oasis' fame, the brothers knew they had to keep pumping out tracks for their adoring fans. They had mega success with their first albums, Definitely Maybe in 1994 and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? the following year. Oasis certainly showed off their songwriting status with their first two albums, yet Noel struggled to see where to take the band with their third. He was never short of confidence, though, as Noel considered the band "bigger than f***ing God" having sold over 20million copies of their second album. By the late 1990s, the Gallagher brothers counted celebrities among their fans and so decided to call on them at a time in need. Noel had struck up a connection with Edward Scissorhands star Johnny in 1995 when they teamed up for a cover of The Beatles' Come Together. They formed part of one-off supergroup The Smokin' Mojo Filters alongside Paul McCartney and Paul Weller. It wasn't Johnny's first time recording music, however, as he had previously been signed to Geffen Records as a member of Rock City Angels. He had also appeared on Top of the Pops with the Pogues' Shane MacGowan, cementing Johnny's rock n roll status. Noel went on to ask Johnny to play guitar on Fade In-Out for their third album Be Here Now. "It's going to be weird how that's perceived, having a Hollywood star on the album," he admitted in 1997. Johnny recorded his part on the Oasis track in the Spring of 1996, and picked a stunning location to so do. Noel and his wife Meg Matthews headed to the Caribbean island of Mustique with Johnny and his then girlfriend, supermodel Kate Moss. However, they weren't there on a holiday and Noel had some serious work to get done as he suffered from writers block. "In London the phone was going all the time or there was someone knocking at the door or our kid comes round, 'Are we going out on the p*** or what?'" he told Q magazine. Get Oasis updates straight to your WhatsApp! As the hotly anticipated Oasis reunion tour grows closer, the Mirror has launched its very own Oasis WhatsApp community where you'll get all the latest news on the Gallagher brothers and all the information you'll need in the run up to the gigs. We'll send you the latest breaking updates and exclusives all directly to your phone. Users must download or already have WhatsApp on their phones to join in. All you have to do to join is click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! We may also send you stories from other titles across the Reach group. We will also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose Exit group. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. "Nailing a song together, finding the missing chord that gets it all flowing into one, that takes a lot of peace and quiet," Noel confessed. "The first part of [Fade In-Out] is from the Mustique demo with Johnny Depp playing slide guitar. "I like it because it's the first blues song I've ever done and Liam does the best singing I've ever heard from him." Explaining how the track came together, Noel continued: "The scream near the end was the last bit we did. "Me and Meg went back to Mustique over Christmas and I took the rough mix with me. It needed something and it was bugging me. Meg woke up one morning and there was I in bed beside her with the Walkman on, screaming. "She thought I'd gone into my drug psychotic phase. Oh, sorry, I'm just filling in a bit of the record." Noel seemed pleased Johnny was able to add his touch to the track and admitted he knew it would come as a surprise to fans. Oasis: What's Their Story? An unofficial celebration magazine on sale now! A few simple words on social media on August 27 in 2024 were enough to spark pandemonium among Oasis fans and were the catalyst for the most eagerly awaited UK gigs of all time. This special unofficial magazine, available to order here, marks the reunion and honours the band both now and down the years with our incredible archive of photos and interviews - and with exclusive reviews and photographs of their first show! "So I don't think 14-year-old girls will be skipping about to this one. 'Ere 'Shelle, wind that one on will yer!' Until they find out Johnny Depp's on it... If he hadn't been around, we'd have had to get some fat old geezer who'd be telling us about how he played with Clapton in '76 and took a slide solo that lasted for f**ing months." It wasn't the only time Johnny worked with Oasis, as he went on to play on lesser-known track Fade Away (Warchild Version). It also included a tambourine section from Kate Moss. There were reports of other collaborations between the music and acting stars, yet they never came to be officially released. viagogo and resale tickets Sites such as viagogo, Stubhub, and Vivid Seats allow fans to buy resale tickets from other fans. However, it is important to note that ticket conditions often prohibit resale after initial purchase. Those tickets may not be valid for admittance to gigs. Fans intending to buy tickets for live events through resale websites should check the ticket terms and conditions, to confirm whether resale is prohibited, before they buy. 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