Lyndsey Parker

After a terrible accident, Elijah McCormick flatlined nine times, had 10 surgeries, and was hospitalized for 79 days... but he finally made it to his ‘Idol’ audition.

Blake mentioned this was his final season so often, new coach Niall Horan speculated it was a PR stunt and “fake retirement” — until NBC pays him “more money to come back next year!”

“Every time we sold a copy of ‘Blue Monday,’ we were losing 10p,” says Hook of the new wave classic that came out 40 years ago. “I suppose it really seals its place in history as a mythical being for that reason.”

“There were no instructions. But I didn’t need instructions,” says Basil, who long before “Mickey” was the choreographer and “girl with the red dress on” for Presley’s film ‘Viva Las Vegas.’

Sawayama, who plays Elton’s Oscar party this Sunday, recalls a controversy that led not only to a friendship and duet with the rock legend, but to sweeping reform of several awards shows in her country.

Robin Thicke and Nicole Scherzinger immediately recognized this two-time Grammy-winner’s “velvety” “sexy,” and “iconic” howl.

“I just felt this absolutely wasn’t right,” says director Steve Barron. “What do they mean, it ‘isn’t their audience’? Obviously, I was filled with suspicion about the real motives behind the nonacceptance of the video.”

“I just felt this absolutely wasn’t right,” says director Steve Barron. “What do they mean, it ‘isn’t their audience’? Obviously, I was filled with suspicion about the real motives behind the nonacceptance of the video.”

If you had lined up all the singers that we’ve heard so far and then said, ‘Pick which one is hearing-impaired,’ you would be the probably the last one that I would say,” said Blake Shelton. “That vocal was just incredible!”

“U2 started with utter earnestness, and discovered irony along the way. And Dave Letterman started as an utterly ironic person, and discovered sincerity along the way,” director Morgan Neville says of the two journeys in his unique rockumentary, of ‘A Sort of Homecoming.’