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The Black Eyed
Peas tackle gun violence at schools and immigration in two new music videos for their song, “Big Love.”
The trio — it’s unclear if Fergie is still part of the group — released the videos Friday. They also announced proceeds from the song will benefit the student-led March for Our Lives organization, calling for stricter gun laws, and Families Belong Together, a protest against President Donald Trump’s policy of separating children from families after they are detained crossing the U.S. border illegally. In the video confronting gun violence at schools, group members will.i.am and Taboo — who portray a teacher and a gym coach — are shot by a gunman along with several students, while others run for safety. Apl.de.ap is a police officer in the clip. The second video focuses on border patrol officers stopping migrants from crossing the U.S. border. “Big Love,” which is reminiscent of the Black Eyed Peas’ 2003 hit “Where Is the Love,” will appear on the band’s new album, Masters of the Sun. It will be released Oct. 12 and is their first album since 2010’s The Beginning.
New Chris Cornell music is being released more than a year after his death. Cornell’s widow Vicky is behind the new album Chris Cornell, as well as a fourdisc box set. Both will be released Nov. 16. The first track from both projects is titled “When Bad Does Good.” Vicky Cornell said it came from her husband’s archives. The box set will contain 11 unreleased tracks. Both projects will include his solo work as well as music made with Audioslave, Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog. Vicky Cornell said the album is for his fans and she wanted to remind people of all different aspects of him — “the friend, husband and father, the risk taker and innovator, the poet and artist.” Cornell died in May 2017 at 52 and his death was ruled a suicide.
Singer Elton John and partner David Furnish have accepted an apology and undisclosed libel damages over a newspaper report that their dog severely injured a child while on a play date.
The pair brought the case against News
Group Newspapers, which owns The
Sun and Sun on Sunday, over a story in February that claimed the dog inflicted “Freddy Krueger-like injuries” — a reference to the violent character in the movie Nightmare on Elm Street. The couple were not at London’s High Court on Friday but their lawyer, Jenny Afia, said the allegation was false and that News Group Newspapers agreed to apologize and to pay “significant damages as well as to reimburse their legal costs.” News Group Newspapers’ solicitor, Jeffrey Smele, said the company “is pleased that the matter has been amicably resolved.”