Nedra Talley Ross, who was the last surviving member of the ’60s hitmaking girl group The Ronettes, has died, a statement released on the trio’s social media accounts confirmed Sunday (April 26). She was 80.

Her cause of death has not been reported.

“It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Nedra Talley Ross’ passing. She was a light to those who knew and loved her,” read the statement, which was posted on the official Ronettes page on Facebook.

“As a founding member of The Ronettes, along with her beloved cousins Ronnie and Estelle, Nedra’s voice, style and spirit helped define a sound that would change music,” the message continued. “Her contribution to the group’s story and their defining influence will live forever. Rest peacefully dear Nedra. Thanks for the magic.”

With Ronnie Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector) and Estelle Bennett, she formed The Ronettes and recorded songs that would live on as classic pop staples, including the group’s influential 1963 hit “Be My Baby.”

Nedra, born in 1945, was cousins with Ronnie and Estelle, who were sisters; growing up in New York City, they sang together with other family members from a young age, and formed a family act they first called the Darling Sisters. They’d rebrand as Ronnie and the Relatives before ultimately becoming the trio known as The Ronettes.

Together they auditioned for Philles Records and legendary producer Phil Spector in 1963, after establishing their performance style at live gigs in the city but seeing little success with their earliest records released through Colpix Records.

With Philles, “Be My Baby” — co-written by Phil with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and led by Ronnie’s signature vocal — became The Ronettes’ breakthrough single, peaking at No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 1963. “Be My Baby” remains their highest-charting song.

Among The Ronettes’ discography are the singles “Baby I Love You,” which reached No. 24 on the Hot 100 in 1963, and “Walking in the Rain,” which peaked at No. 23 in 1964. They released just one full-length album, 1964’s Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes.

The single that would land The Ronettes their second-highest chart position was a recording of the Christmas standard “Sleigh Ride,” climbing up the Hot 100 all the way to No. 8 — though not until 2023, 60 years after its original 1963 release on Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift for You compilation.

The Ronettes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (with an introduction by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards) at the March 12, 2007 ceremony, where they performed three songs, including “Be My Baby,” to a standing ovation from the crowd. (Nedra and Ronnie performed without Estelle, who was present to accept the honor but not well enough to sing.)

“They could sing all their way right through a wall of sound,” Richards said as The Ronettes were inducted into the Rock Hall. “They didn’t need anything. They touched my heart right there and then and they touch it still.”

Estelle Bennett died in 2009, and Ronnie Spector died in 2022. Both passed away after battling cancer.

Beyond her years with The Ronettes, Talley Ross recorded as a solo artist, releasing a contemporary Christian album titled Full Circle in 1978. The set was produced by her late husband, Scott Ross, whom she married in 1967.

El Último de la Fila returned to the stage for the first time in 30 years on Saturday night (April 25). The iconic rock band kicked off their reunion tour at Marenostrum Fuengirola, an open-air venue on the southern coast of Spain by the Mediterranean, at the foot of Sohail Castle.

At 10:00 p.m. sharp, the screens lit up with visuals inspired by 1980s video games, featuring an animated cootie-catcher as an introduction. Then, a brief blackout led to the band’s entrance.

The show opened with “Huesos” by Los Burros, the band in which Manolo García and Quimi Portet first collaborated before forming El Último de la Fila in 1985. Backed by a large band and two drummers, García appeared with a scarf in hand, while Portet stood beside him with his guitar, as if no time had passed.

The last time they performed together was on March 22, 1996, at the Palau d’Esports de Granollers in Barcelona. Two years later, on January 13, 1998, they announced their separation in a press release citing “musical fatigue.”

This reunion is not a one-off gesture. Over the years, the two have continued to work together in the studio, maintaining a relationship that never fully broke. In an interview with Billboard Español in the days leading up to the tour’s launch, Portet explained how the comeback came to life: “The definitive conversation was, oddly enough, a casual chat after a meal. After that conversation, everything came together very easily and naturally,” he said.

Tickets for Fuengirola sold out in just four hours when they went on sale in 2025. During the show, songs like “Insurrección,” “Aviones Plateados” and “Como un Burro Amarrado en la Puerta del Baile” were sung by a multigenerational audience that couldn’t hide their emotions — with many moved to tears. The show lasted about two-and-a-half hours, featuring a setlist that spanned various stages of the band’s career.

Formed in Barcelona in 1985 by García and Portet after their time with Los Rápidos and Los Burros, El Último de la Fila crafted a sound that defied categorization. Their music blended rock, pop and flamenco roots, but above all, it delivered songs that stayed with listeners. Over time, their repertoire became part of the collective memory of Spain and Latin America.

The current tour includes stops in nine Spanish cities between April and July, with performances in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao and Valencia, among others. Additional dates were added after an overwhelming response from fans, bringing the total to 12 so far.

Before wrapping up Saturday’s concert, García addressed the crowd: “Thank you all for being here… it’s a pleasure to reconnect. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” And in closing, he left the audience with a memorable phrase: “Forgive the immodesty, but these songs are eternal.” After bidding farewell, the band returned for a surprising final song: the mariachi classic “El Rey” by Mexican composer José Alfredo Jiménez, performed in a rock style infused with their unique touch.

So far, the band has no other plans beyond this reunion tour. “The challenge of performing these dozen concerts is serious enough to focus all our energy on them,” García told Billboard Español.

SNL UK broadcast Foo Fighters‘ first live performance of material from their just-released Your Favorite Toy album on Saturday night (April 25).

The band played the high-energy “Caught in the Echo,” which is the opening number and first single from their twelfth studio album, on the new English offshoot of Saturday Night Live.

Foo Fighters returned for their second performance slot of the night with the earnest “Child Actor,” a track on the second half of their new record that has Grohl ruminating on growing up in a very public way. (Though he was in his early 20s when Nirvana broke through in the beginning of the ’90s, he applies the metaphor of childhood fame here: “I was a child actor, a face on a wall/ Holding my breath as I wait for the curtain to fall/ Was it good enough?/ Was it ever good enough?/ Anything, be the person that you want,” he sings, later pleading on repeat, “Turn the cameras off, turn the cameras off.”)

The April 25 episode of SNL UK was hosted by actress Nicola Coughlan, whose monologue featured a cameo from Grohl in a bit that had her gallivanting backstage with special guest Jimmy Fallon.

Fallon nudged the starstruck host to approach the Foo Fighters frontman and ask him to be her best friend. “We’re live. He has to say yes,” Fallon pointed out.

Your Favorite Toy is the followup to Foo Fighters’ 2023 album, But Here We Are, which cracked the top 10 of the Billboard 200 upon release (landing at No. 8). The rockers hit the road on tour beginning April 28 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Watch Foo Fighters perform “Caught in the Echo” and “Child Actor” live in the videos below.

Ella Langley continues to rule the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 2), as Dandelion spends a second week top the list. The set earned 106,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 23 (down 37%), according to Luminate. The album premiered atop the tally a week ago with 169,000 units.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, TOMORROW X TOGETHER debuts in the top three with the 7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns, while Justin Bieber’s SWAG returns to the top five and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack gets a Record Store Day-assisted boost back into the top 10.

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Of Dandelion’s 106,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 97,000 (down 24%, equaling 99.41 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a second week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 7,000 (down 81%; it falls 1-15 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 33%).

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 I’m the Problem is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with 84,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%).

TOMORROW X TOGETHER claims its eighth top 10-charted album, as 7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns debuts at No. 3. The set starts with 69,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 67,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.67 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise the remaining sum. The album’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than 20 CD variants, all containing collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters, with some items randomized.

BTS’ chart-topping ARIRANG descends 3-4 on the Billboard 200 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned (down 21%). Justin Bieber’s SWAG rises 7-5 with 61,000 units (up 42%) as the set continues to benefit from the singer’s headlining performances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival April 11 and 18.

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls 5-6 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%). The chart-topping KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack returns to the top 10, climbing 16-7, after two new vinyl variants of the album were released via independent record stores for Record Store Day (April 18). In the latest tracking week, the soundtrack earned 46,000 equivalent album units (up 46%), largely owed to album sales (19,000 sold, a gain of 444%).

A trio of former No. 1s rounds out the latest top 10: Don Toliver’s OCTANE falls 4-8 (42,000 equivalent album units earned, down 12%), Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS descends 6-9 (41,000, down 5%) and Wallen’s One Thing at a Time dips 9-10 (40,000, down 1%).

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Madonna continues to tease her upcoming Confessions II album.

In the early hours of Saturday morning (April 25), the Queen of Pop made a surprise appearance at the invite-only Club Confessions Los Angeles party at The Abbey in West Hollywood, where she previewed two new songs from the follow-up to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor.

As the clock neared 1 a.m., the 67-year-old pop superstar appeared in the DJ booth alongside Stuart Price, the producer behind both Confessions albums.

“Hello, children, mutha is here to save you,” Madonna told the star-studded crowd, according to Variety. “Are you ready to dance for me? Come on meet me on the dance floor. Alright, let’s go gays, come on! Don’t let me down, gays.”

Sporting a pink bustier, Madonna previewed previously unheard tracks “Love Sensation” and “Freedom,” along with the recently released banger “I Feel So Free” and 2005’s “Hung Up.”

The singer’s Confessions II album is slated to arrive July 3 through Warner Records. It marks her first album since 2019’s Madame X and serves as a sequel to the Billboard 200 No. 1 album Confessions on a Dance Floor.

Elsewhere during her set, Madonna shouted, “Don’t wait. Take it. Don’t wait. Take it. Take your freedom! Put your hands up! Put your hands up!” She also urged partygoers to “put your phones down” and be present in the music, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Saturday’s party also featured DJ sets by Romy and Mez Monty, and doubled as a birthday celebration for Abbey owner Tristan Schukraft.

The star-studded guest list reportedly included Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon, her boyfriend Akeem Morris, Cara Delevingne, Tom Daley, Tori Spelling, Lily Allen, Sky Ferreira, Addison Rae, Kali Uchis, Julia Fox, Lola Young, and Vivian Jenna Wilson.

RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Willam, Trinity the Tuck, Morgan McMichaels, Gottmik and Symone were also spotted in the crowd, along with TikTok creator Harry Daniels.

Check out more fan-captured footage from the party here and here.