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“She stormed away from the room and went up to the hotel room and just wrote the words in their entirety.” How a sleazy record company man inspired Heart’s classic feminist anthem Barracuda

  • Heart's record label Mushroom Records published a sexually exploitative advertisement featuring the Wilson sisters in 1976, violating their trust
  • The band experienced frustration with their label's financial mismanagement and inadequate industry support
  • Ann Wilson channeled her anger over the exploitation into writing 'Barracuda,' which became a rock feminist anthem

Heart's 1977 hit Barracuda was written as a direct response to sleazy treatment by their record label, Mushroom Records, which ran an advertisement implying singer Ann Wilson and guitarist Nancy Wilson were lovers rather than sisters. The ad, styled as a National Enquirer parody with a suggestively cropped…

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Silent Hill: Townfall promises to “massively subvert” your expectations, and it’s left me painfully excited

  • Silent Hill: Townfall previewed by Eurogamer, covering its opening hours
  • Developers say the game will subvert familiar series expectations
  • Set in a fictional Scottish coastal town, St Amelia, with new mysteries

Silent Hill: Townfall's developers have given press an extended hands-on preview of the upcoming survival horror instalment, promising that while it echoes familiar series themes, it will "massively subvert" player expectations. Eurogamer's writer played through the opening four to five hours, describing high anticipation given the strong reception…

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DAN HODGES: The young women helping Burnham to win the TikTok battle with Reform

  • Young influencers are boosting PM Andy Burnham's social media profile over Reform UK
  • Reform's online output has narrowed to defending Farage's Clacton seat
  • Reform faces a growing online challenge from Rupert Lowe's Restore party

Young social media activists are helping newly installed Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham outperform Nigel Farage's Reform UK in the online battle for political attention, according to Daily Mail columnist Dan Hodges. A team of influencers, including 19-year-old Ellen Stewart, produce slick, meme-driven content promoting Burnham and his…

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Family of a young man, 22, fatally stabbed on NSW Central Coast share heartbreaking message

  • Zane Robson, 22, fatally stabbed on NSW Central Coast
  • Incident occurred in the Gosford area
  • Family have shared a heartbreaking tribute message

A 22-year-old man named Zane Robson has died after being fatally stabbed on the New South Wales Central Coast, near Gosford. His grieving family has since shared an emotional tribute following his death, though further details of the incident, including the circumstances surrounding the attack, were not available…

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Japan in a ‘race against time’ to rescue people trapped beneath rubble after quake

  • 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits Kyushu, Japan
  • At least 13 killed, others still missing
  • Thousands displaced; rescuers race to find survivors

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck the Japanese island of Kyushu, killing at least 13 people, leaving others missing and displacing thousands from their homes. Rescue teams are engaged in what has been described as a "race against time" to reach people still trapped beneath rubble, with officials…

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‘I thought I would die’: Survivors describe the shock and horror of powerful Japan earthquake

  • 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits Kumamoto, Japan, killing at least 13
  • Dozens feared trapped under collapsed Aeon shopping mall
  • Officials warn of aftershocks; 4,600 personnel deployed in rescue effort

A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan late on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and leaving dozens more feared trapped beneath a collapsed Aeon shopping mall in Kumamoto city. Survivors described scenes of terror as buildings shook violently, with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warning…

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Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams

  • Review of Konrad Wolf's 1980 East German drama Solo Sunny
  • Follows singer Sunny's bid to escape a drab touring gang show
  • Captures melancholy ambition against the backdrop of GDR life

This review looks back at Solo Sunny, Konrad Wolf's 1980 East German drama about a would-be pop singer trying to break free from a drab touring gang show and pursue a solo career. Wolf, a state-sanctioned GDR film-maker whose brother Markus was a senior Stasi official, captures the…

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Take the plunge! A deep dive into New York and other great American cities – in pictures

  • Dulwich Picture Gallery hosts major US photography exhibition until 4 October
  • Show features over 100 works spanning a century of American urban life
  • Photographers include Steichen, Leiter, Winogrand, Hujar, Levitt and Lepkoff

The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is hosting Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography, an exhibition running until 4 October that brings together more than 100 landmark images by some of the 20th century's most influential photographers. The show traces how rapid urban growth in…

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Rescuers search for the missing after Japan earthquake as death toll rises to 13

  • Magnitude 7.1 quake hits Kumamoto, Japan; death toll reaches 13
  • Rescuers race to save people trapped at a mall and factory
  • Tens of thousands without power or gas; 9,000+ evacuated to shelters

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu on 29 July 2026, killing at least 13 people and leaving others missing or trapped under rubble. Soldiers and emergency workers are racing to reach survivors at a collapsed shopping mall and a paper factory,…

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Englishman, Scotsman, Northern Irishman and Welshman race is no joke

  • GB relay gold medallists now rivals in Commonwealth 200m freestyle
  • Guy, McMillan, Scott and Richards represent England, NI, Scotland, Wales
  • Richards has three medals but no gold yet; heat set for Wednesday

Four Team GB swimming team-mates who won 4x200m freestyle relay gold together at last year's World Aquatics Championships in Singapore will now race against each other in the individual 200m freestyle at the Commonwealth Games. England's James Guy, Northern Ireland's Jack McMillan, Scotland's Duncan Scott and Wales' Matt…

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