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Ghost is back from the dead STAR HAS NEWFOUND HUNGER

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FANCY being in an Alice Cooper video? Well now you can because the rocker wants fans to share pictures or videos for his new single, Don’t Give Up.

He wants you holding a word from the lyrics to the project and explained: “I know these times are hard, but there is hope. I wrote a new song, Don’t Give Up.

“I want my minions to be a part of this special song.” Alice will pick the best ones to feature in the video which launches on May 15.

Visit Alice Cooper.com for full entry details and lyrics.

has found his love of music again – after two years running a café.

Disappoint­ed by the response to his previous album Dark Days And Canapes, Ghostpoet opened café Radio Margate after moving from London to the Kent coast.

He told me: “After my record, I was sick of music.

“I’d had seven years where I put in a lot of hard work with no guarantee of anything.

“I wanted to get just desserts for a hard day’s graft.”

Radio Margate was a coffee shop by day, a club venue at night and Ghostpoet also ran a community radio station on the premises. The twice-nominated last

Mercury Prize favourite explained: “There were joyful and hellish moments! I had to deal with blocked toilets, floods and fights.

“Getting up stupid early to serve coffee was nuts.”

Eventually, Ghostpoet – real name Obar Ejimiwe – got the itch to make music again, resulting in his brilliantl­y hypnotic new album I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep.

The singer admitted: “I was putting on gigs by people who had made no commercial impact at all, but still had so much passion for what they do. “That really inspired

MEGAN Thee Stallion has galloped into the Top 3 of the iTunes charts since Beyoncé hopped on board a new remix of her track Savage. The duo met on New Year’s Eve and Megan said: “I knew the song was coming out, but, it was still like, ‘Is it really gonna drop? Are we doing this for real, for real?’ “And I cried – like, I had to call my grandma.” me and reminded me I’ve actually done OK in music.

“On the album, the first song starts, ‘I’m alive,’ which is a statement of where I am now.”

I Grow Tired… is the first album since his debut which Ghostpoet produced himself, and he said it caused him grief.

He laughed: “One of the things I learned doing it myself was the importance of spreadshee­ts.

“Being creative is great, but I had to stay on top of what I’d been doing logistical­ly for every song.

“It would have been an absolute shambles if I hadn’t started getting organised.

“Those spreadshee­ts were brain taxing, but it was necessary s**t!”

DIXIE Chicks may have delayed their comeback LP but they still have something fans to “yeehaw” about.

The trio dropped lockdown treat Julianna Come Down this week, which is track nine from their upcoming LP, Gaslighter.

They said: “We hope it makes you feel empowered, smile and strut the f**k around like you’ve got nothing to lose.

“We will strut through this time together.”

NICOLE Scherzinge­r hasn’t forgotten her Hawaiian roots in lockdown.

The Pussycat Doll toasted her home’s national holiday Lei Day this week. She said: “Aloha to all frontline workers.”

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