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Taylor Swift visits Sydney Zoo

Taylor Swift has visited Sydney Zoo ahead of her Eras Tour in Sydney.
Duration: 34 seconds

Fans wait for the Beatles during 1964 world tour

Masses of fans waited for the Beatles across Australia during their world tour in the height of Beatlemania.
Archival image of fans waiting for the Beatles in 1964
Duration: 35 seconds

It feels like Swift is the biggest thing to ever land in Sydney — but how does the Eras tour compare to other iconic acts?

Sixty years ago, people lost their minds as the Beatles landed in Sydney. Taylor Swift is the only artist to match the hysteria.
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Taylor Swift dines in Surry Hills while fans queue for merchandise

Taylor Swift fans have descended on Sydney's Olympic Park to purchase merchandise ahead of her Sydney shows. 
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Eras Tour Merch: Composite image of Taylor Swift showered by money and merchandise from her Eras tour
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Four Beatles, four biopics: How director Sam Mendes secured the rights to tell their stories

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are each set to get their very own film from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes.
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The Beatles at Abbey Road

Trial over handwritten lyrics to Hotel California set to begin

A criminal trial is set to open over the handwritten lyrics to the Eagles' legendary hit Hotel California.
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Four of the Eagles members with a signed guitar

Groovin the Moo is the latest casualty of a festival industry in crisis. What can be done?

Groovin the Moo's cancellation is just the latest blow to an industry facing a perfect storm of struggles. What can be done to save festivals like it?
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A crowd of young Groovin The Moo festival-goers raise their hands and cheer.

How much will Taylor Swift make from merchandise at her Sydney shows?

Fans are spending big at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, with $66 million expected to be spent on merchandise sales alone across the four Sydney concerts.
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analysis:How the Taylor Swift effect is changing sports fandom

As Taylor Swift takes over Australia in her Eras Tour, her presence in the NFL has brought more girls and women into the game, but it hasn't changed the harsh reality of the culture in many men's professional sports, writes Kasey Symons. 
A male NFL player engages hugs girlfriend inside a stadium, with cheering fans, cameras and confetti surrounding them

Australian artists caught in the crossfire between Universal Music's TikTok stoush

"What do small fish do?" Homegrown acts are raising questions (and finding loopholes) regarding Universal Music Group pulling their music from the world's biggest social media platform.
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Collage of Australian acts George Alice & Peach PRC against the TikTok logo with a banned sign across it

We unpack Zendaya and Anya's Dune looks and try to understand this Hemsworth's Met Gala role

All the (Taylor Swift-free) entertainment news you might have missed now the Eras tour frenzy has abated, from Beyoncé talking the legacy of Black hair to Eminem's new Stan documentary.
Zendaya, left, wears robotic couture and smizes with Anya, centre in a flowing white headpiece, and Chris, right, in a grey suit

analysis:Why the feeling of belonging is just as important as Taylor Swift's music

"It's a love story, baby just say yes." They're some of the lyrics to one of Taylor Swift's most famous songs and in Australia her fans are paying back the love in the most wholesome ways.
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A young woman with long blonde hair and wearing a sparkly silver bodysuit blows a kiss.

Superstar Taylor Swift lands in Sydney ahead of last leg of Eras shows

The world's biggest pop star, Taylor Swift, has made it to Sydney for the last leg of her Australian tour.
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Barbie win People's Choice Awards. Here are the key moments

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce win People's Choice Awards while Barbie gets the love it missed out on at the BAFTAs, Kylie Minogue performs and icons Adam Sandler and Lenny Kravitz give two vastly different speeches.
America Ferrera pictured from shoulders up, short bob, smiling

Swiftmania hits Sydney as superstar arrives in the Harbour City

Fans brace storms to catch a glimpse of global superstar Taylor Swift, as her private jet lands at Sydney Airport.
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When Jennifer Lopez dance-montages her way through three failed marriages, it's breathtaking

Jennifer Lopez reclaims her wild rollercoaster of a love life from our judgmental gaze in new musical This Is Me … Now.
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Jennifer Lopez wears a flower garland and carries a bouquet as she walks down an aisle surrounded by dances forming an arch.

The medical students helping cancer patients one note at a time

A group of Gold Coast medical students are performing as string quartet in an oncology ward to bring joy to people going through the darkest of times.
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'It hit me exactly where I needed to be': How middle-aged fans fell for Taylor Swift

Many of Taylor Swift's fans are over 45. What is it about her lovelorn ballads, kitchen bops and revenge anthems that appeal to middle-aged people?
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Taylor Swift against the backdrop of herself on screen 

Taylor Swift plays biggest show of her career in Melbourne

More than 96,000 people filled the MCG to watch Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour.  
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Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds

Fans say Groovin the Moo cancelled 'too soon' as fallout continues over cultural and economic loss

Groovin the Moo is a key event on Bunbury's social calendar, but the announcement that this year's event will be cancelled has disappointed local music fans and businesses alike.
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Large crowd of people at music festival

Taylor Swift kicks off Australian leg of Eras tour in Melbourne

The ABC's national music correspondent Zan Rowe was at the history making concert and provides a wrap of the evening.
Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds

Sparkles, sing-alongs and surprise tracks: Taylor Swift starts the Australian leg of her Eras tour with a bang

There is a hum in the air from the start, a feeling that everyone in the city is tilting their bodies slightly towards the MCG, just waiting for the moment when she will finally take the stage.
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Close up of Taylor Swift looking serious on stage in sparkly bodysuit

analysis:Why Taylor Swift can't shake the haters

The life realities that stir sympathy towards the manipulated Swans are exactly what enrage those who resent Swift: a pretty singer who owns all the decisions of her life and lives it as she pleases, writes Virginia Trioli.
Side by side photos of actress Chloe Sevigny in a blue shirt dress and Taylor Swift in a lilac frilled dress

From 150,000 visitors a year to over a million. How Afrofuture has turned Ghana into a cultural mecca

With the UN estimating that one in four people will be African by 2050, the annual Afrofuture festival is providing a glimpse into African music, fashion and culture and its influence on the world.
Three black people, a man and two women, arms around each other, wearing bright colours, happy

Aussie fans flock to the MCG to see Taylor Swift

After more than 600,000 tickets sold, and months of excitement, Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour finally kicks off in Melbourne at the MCG.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds

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