The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has sent a 74-year-old song, Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, flying into the UK charts, figures showed. The song from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was top of Amazon’s most downloaded chart on Wednesday after a social media campaign to promote the upbeat track as a way for detractors to “celebrate” the death of Britain’s most divisive postwar leader.
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Anticipation high for Psy’s new single
The world is waiting with bated breath for the follow-up to last year’s hit Gangnam Style. But with Psy’s latest single set to be released this week, the K-Pop star is starting to feel the pressure
TV selection development arrested
Big Day Out returning to Auckland
The Big Day Out is returning in 2014 after promoters decided not to run the music festival this year. Promoter Campbell Smith said today in a statement there was no denying the public missed having the event.
Westaway shrugs off death threats
Not even death threats on social media can dampen Nic Westaway’s enthusiasm for playing Home And Away newcomer Kyle Braxton. “It was kind of playful,” says the 24 year old, brushing off the hate messages he received from some of the show’s fans after his character kidnapped half-brother Casey (Lincoln Younes) and kept him tied up in the Australian outback.
Surviving Apocalypse Z
It’s the year 2013 and New Zealand is in the grip of the zombie virus.
Lohan: Rehab is a blessing
Lindsay Lohan believes her upcoming trip to rehab is “a blessing, not a curse”. The 26-year-old actress is required to check into a stay facility for 90 days of treatment by May 2 to meet the conditions of her plea deal in her reckless driving case.
The making of Marvel’s Iron Man 3
Come behind the scenes of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 and see stars like Robert Downey Jr, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall and Gwyneth Paltrow talk about their characters in the upcoming movie.
Trailer: Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium
The first trailer from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s new political sci fi thriller Elysium has been released. It takes us to the year 2154, where just two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
A right Rotten performance
Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has lived up to his Johnny Rotten stage name, with a horror performance on an Australian TV show including misogynist comments and a Nazi salute. What started as a perfectly ordinary TV interview between the ageing rocker and the gang from Ten’s nightly news and entertainment panel show, The Project, quickly turned ugly.