28 Established 1961 Lifestyle Gossip Sunday, January 14, 2018 Ed Sheeran hints he’ll do Ora throws shade at Jay-Z ‘what he wants’ on next record on new song Soul Survivor

d Sheeran has hinted that he could be self-indulgent ita Ora has channeled her frustration towards her former on his fourth record. The ‘Shape of You’ singer is record label boss Jay-Z into new song ‘Soul Survivor’. The Ealready reading his follow-up to last year’s record- ‘Anywhere’ singer has called out the Roc Nation label owner breaking LP ‘Divide’ and says he could probably “get R on the track, which features on her second studio LP - the follow- away” with releasing whatever he likes. He said: “I’m just up 2012’s ‘Ora’ - and anyone else who didn’t believe in her at the excited for the next album now. “It’s mad having three very start of her career. The 27-year-old pop star settled a bitter back-to-back that kind of have this much success. “It’s six-month legal battle with the label in June 2016. She was being mad now you can kind of get away with doing what you sued for $2.4 million by the ‘99 Problems’ rapper’s company want musically.” The 26-year-old star said that if he was because they believed she had breached the terms of her contract. to drop a “random” off-the-cuff record , he’d do a collec- However, the lawsuit was settled and the blonde beauty signed tion of “traditional folk” tracks. He told The Sun newspa- with Atlantic Records. Speaking about the track, she said: “It’s all per: “like Sir Rod Stewart that album of swing covers - based on what people stopped me from doing a few years ago to you can just do stuff like that and it wouldn’t surprise me. where I am now. “It’s almost like a rebirth of the new Rita. “It’s a “Or Lady Gaga doing that brilliant thing with Tony nice final goodbye to everyone who didn’t believe in me from the Bennett “I’m not saying I am doing a swing album. “If I start.” The ‘Body On Me’ hitmaker - who recently dropped a was gonna do a random one I’d do traditional folk songs. soundtrack for the ‘Fifty Shades Freed’ movie with Liam Payne “But I think that’s probably like, 10 years away.” called ‘For You’ - says that the record tells it like it is, and is not all Meanwhile, Ed recently revealed he wrote a James Bond doom and gloom. She told the Daily Star newspaper: “It tells a theme three years ago “just in case”. The ‘Castle on the consistent story. “I thought about it a lot and I just wanted people Hill’ hitmaker has never been approached to write a song to feel like they were on a journey with me, so I am really proud of for one of the iconic movies, but if bosses of the spy saga it. “This album is really calm and it has really calm messages, it just do ever knock at his door for help on the soundtrack, he’s is what it is.” Meanwhile, the former ‘X Factor’ judge has revealed all ready to go. He said: “With Bond, I’ve had a theme tune she has been receiving support from fellow Brit star Sam Smith. written for about three years, just in case!” And the flame- Speaking about the ‘Too Good At Goodbyes’ hitmaker’s words of haired star admitted his recent collaboration with Eminem, encouragement, she said: “I was speaking to Sam Smith the other ‘River’, was also something he had had ready for some day and he said to me, ‘You’ve got one of the best voices and I’m time. He said: “I just recently did a song with one of my so happy for you.’ “And It was nice to get that support from other all-time heroes, Eminem and when we did the song artists you know, them saying that we know you are in a really together I had already had this song. It’s the same with good, confidence music groove.” Bond. If ever I am called, I will be like, ‘Here you go.’

McGraw and Hill Diplo and Khalid Motorhead’s song hit with hit the studio ‘Fast’ Eddie iplo has been in the studio with rising star Khalid. copyright lawsuit The 39-year-old producer - who has worked with Clarke dies Dthe likes of Bruno Mars, No Doubt and Snoop Dogg - shared a photo of the pair hard at work “cooking” up a storm on his Twitter account on Thursday morning The otorhead co-founder ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke Major Lazer star captioned the photo of the pair: “Cooking has died. The 67-year-old rocker sadly with @thegreatkhalid (sic)” Khalid, 19, was among those Mpassed away “peacefully” after suffering nominated for this year’s BBC Music Sound of 2017 honor. from pneumonia, the two surviving members of The ‘Young Dumb & Broke’ hitmaker has been up for the group, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee, con- countless awards of the past year, and has already experi- firmed on Thursday. Revealing their devastation mented with EDM giants, after teaming up with DJ of losing another member of the ‘Ace of Spades’ Marshmello on ‘Silence’. Diplo is high-in-demand, one of metal group in a statement posted on the band’s his most recent projects was working with Camila Cabello official Facebook page, they wrote: “We are dev- on her debut solo record. He was oblivious to who Fifth astated to pass on the news we only just heard Harmony were when he started working with the ‘Havana’ ourselves earlier tonight...Edward Allan Clarke - hitmaker, which meant he had no preconceptions of the or as we all know and love him Fast Eddie Clarke Cuban beauty’s talent because he wasn’t familiar with the - passed away peacefully yesterday. Ted Carroll ‘Work from Home’ hitmakers until they’d met. However, he (who formed Chiswick Records) made the sad was blown away by her capabilities. Of working with the announcement via his FB page, having heard ‘Crying in the Club’ singer, he said: “We love Camila and from Doug Smith that Fast Eddie passed peace- she’s been working with us for a while, even before she left fully in hospital where he was being treated for Fifth Harmony, and I just thought she is dope. pneumonia... Fast Eddie...keep roaring, rockin’ and rollin’ up there as goddamit man, your Mot?rfamily would expect nothing less!!! RIP FAST EDDIE CLARKE 5th October 1950 - 10th January 2018 (sic)” Guitarist Phil has been left in a state of “shock” by the news, and hailed Eddie a “true rock ‘n’ roller”. He wrote: “JUST HEARD Arctic Monkeys THE SAD NEWS THAT FAST EDDIE CLARK HAS PASSED AWAY. SUCH A SHOCK, HE WILL 2018 tour date confirmed BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS ICONIC RIFFS AND WAS A TRUE ROCK N ROLLER. RIP EDDIE. (sic)” Drummer Mikkey had only seen rctic Monkeys have announced their first tour date of 2018. his friend recently and said he was in “great The ‘Do I Wanna Know’ rockers - who took a break in 2014 shape”. He said Eddie, frontman Lemmy - have been busy working on their sixth album and have A Kilmister, who died in December 2015 from now been confirmed to headline the Firefly Festival in the US in inoperable prostate cancer at the age of 70, and June. The band, fronted by Alex Turner, will join Eminem, The original drummer Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor - Killers and Kendrick Lamar on the bill at the festival in The who passed away a month before the singer - Woodlands of Delaware from June 14-17, which has been would be jamming away together in heaven. He announced on Twitter. But a video which fans believed revealed added: “OH MY GOD, THIS IS TERRIBLE further tour dates has been revealed to be fake. The cryptic clip NEWS, THE LAST OF THE THREE AMIGOS. I shared on Reddit, which has now been deleted, claimed to be from SAW EDDIE NOT TOO LONG AGO AND HE the band’s Instagram Story and sparked speculation the numbers WAS IN GREAT SHAPE. SO THIS IS A COM- revealed dates and geographic co-ordinates of upcoming gigs. PLETE SHOCK. ME AND EDDIE ALWAYS HIT Fans guessed the video’s clues teased performances at Mad Cool IT OFF GREAT. I WAS LOOKING FORWARD Festival, Primavera Sound, both in Spain, Rock Werchter in TO SEEING HIM IN THE UK THIS SUMMER Belgium, and even a surprise show in London this week. But WHEN WE COME AROUND WITH THE NME.com reports the video has been dismissed by official sources, SCORPS...NOW LEM AND PHILTHY CAN and more 2018 tour dates are expected to be announced over the JAM WITH EDDIE AGAIN, AND IF YOU LIS- coming week. Bassist Nick O’Malley recently confirmed the ‘Bet TEN CAREFULLY I’M SURE YOU’LL HEAR You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ hitmakers began recording THEM, SO WATCH OUT!!! MY THOUGHTS GO their new album in September for release this year. im McGraw and Faith Hill’s song which Ed OUT TO EDDIE’S FAMILY AND CLOSE Sheeran co-wrote has been hit with a copyright ONES. (sic)” Eddie kicked of his career per- Tlawsuit. ‘The Rest Of Our Life’, which was a huge forming in the blues band Zeus and came to hit around the world last year, could cost everyone meet Phil whilst refitting a houseboat, before involved $5 million in damages after Australian musi- joining the group in 1976. However, he decided cians Sean Carey and Beau Golden have alleged that Liam Gallagher compares to quit in 1982, and formed Fastway, who went the track is a rip off of their song ‘When I Found You’, onto to support the likes of AC/DC. which they penned for Jasmine Rae in 2014. Also listed in the legal documents are Ed’s co-writing team - Johnny McDaid, Steve Mac and Amy Wadge. himself to Elvis Presley According to The Hollywood Reporter, the suit states: “The copying is, in many instances, verbatim, note-for- iam Gallagher has compared his singing abil- note copying of original elements of the Song, and is ity to Elvis Presley. The 45-year-old singer obvious to the ordinary observer.” It will be the second Lhas drawn comparisons between his own time Ed faces lawyer, Richard Busch, who is represent- performances and those of the late music legend ing the pair. The chart-topping singer was sued by because he “makes something else” out of other songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington in people’s lyrics, and he also believes singer/song- June 2016, with the duo claiming Ed’s hit single writers like his brother Noel Gallagher and Paul ‘Photograph’ had a strikingly similar structure to their Weller have been “blinded” by his emergence as a track ‘Amazing’, which was released by Matt Cardle in solo star. He said: “There’s been a smoke bomb 2012. The songwriters argued in court that the tracks gone off, and everyone’s been blinded by what’s shared 39 identical notes, with similarities “instantly gone down and the smoke’s cleared and yours truly recognizable to the ordinary observer”. However, is in the middle going, ‘Come on, you ****s.’ “I papers were filed dismissing the case with prejudice, know for a fact that he [Noel] is not a frontman. I’m with a California federal court reportedly enforcing the not a songwriter. He’s not meant to be in the middle terms of the settlement. However, Busch had refused to of that stage. I’m meant to be center-stage and no comment on the precise terms of the agreement. Last one can touch me. “I’ve been singing other peo- year, Matt took to Twitter to clarify he was not ple’s lyrics my whole life and I own them. Once I involved in the lawsuit and to express his admiration get hold of them, I make them something else, like for Ed, saying the 26-year-old star was a musical Elvis.” Liam would love to perform shows where he “genius”. Matt, who was the UK ‘X Factor’ winner in sings the first three Oasis albums, ‘Definitely 2010, wrote: “Please read news articles closely. This is Maybe’, ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’ and not my lawsuit. I think Ed Sheeran is a genius and 100 ‘Be Here Now’, in full because that is what the percent deserves all his success.” Meanwhile, in 2015, group’s fans want to hear. Speaking in this month’s Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to Q magazine - which is on sale on Tuesday - he pay $7.3 million in copyright infringement due to simi- added: “Screw the rest. No one cares after that. “I larities between their number one single ‘Blurred Lines’ want to give people what they want and I want to and Gaye’s ‘Got To Give It Up’. give me what I want.”