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to the ones who do end up getting tickets

PLEASE CHERISH THEM AND BE NICE TO EVERYONE ELSE AT YOUR SHOW AND DON’T BE RUDE OR CREEPY TO HARRY OK

shaymooney: Last night was a TIME. @dansmyers @niallhoran @nickjonas

Why are we always stuck running from the bullet?

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FROM THE SET: JIMMY FALLON AND HARRY STYLES

Sign of the Times - Harry Styles

Harry Styles' Biggest 'Sign of the Times' Influences: From Bowie to Pink Floyd & Coldplay

Harry Styles’ first single, “Sign of the Times,” dropped on Friday (Apr. 7) and it’s a mind-bender that rakes in influences from Pink Floyd and David Bowie to Spacehog, Coldplay, the Beatles, Eric Carmen and Prince. It was hard to know what to expect from “the cute one,” whose vocals in One Direction were sometimes overlooked because of his long, luxurious hair and celebrity dating profile. But Styles swings for the fences on the nearly six-minute track, which serves as a kind of rock history lesson, folding in psychedelic soul, indie rock and spacey pop. Every artists is an accumulation of their influences, and in “Sign of the Times” they come fast and furious, as Styles appears to be both showing his range and making a clear effort to step boldly away from the manufactured, plastic pop of his past. Opening with a stately piano and some synth effects, the song immediately brings to mind an even slower version of Coldplay’s “The Scientist,” with a touch of the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” Opening with a stately piano and some synth effects, the song immediately brings to mind an even slower version of Coldplay’s “The Scientist,” with a touch of the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” The title, of course, with it’s refrain “it’s a sign of the times,” could be read as an allusion to Prince’s album of the same name, which was released 30 years to the day (Mar. 31) that the former 1D member announced the tune. Styles breaks into a falsetto on the second verse – or chorus, if you want to consider it as such – bringing to mind the plaintive stylings of Suede’s Brett Anderson, not to mention Spacehog’s Antony and Royston Langdon on their classic ‘90s alt-rock smash “In the Meantime.” But more than anything the sliding guitar and uplift of the chorus evoke Bowie’s “Life on Mars.” When the arrangement ramps up around the 1:24 mark and the strings swell and drums kick in as Styles puts a bit more drama into his voice, you might want to check out Eric Carmen’s classic mid-'70s weeper “All By Myself.” The bombast of the song as it motors through the third minute, with the slide guitars and strings mixing underneath Styles’ plea “we gotta get away from here,” also clearly evokes the over-the-top pomp of Oasis songs such as “Stop Crying Your Heart Out,” from 2002’s Heathen Chemistry. By the time the guitars start really swirling and Harry’s wailing “We got to get away/ We got to get away” near the song’s end you might get a whiff of Queen’s Freddie Mercury, or, perhaps the bluster of Foreigner’s classic 1984 ballad “I Want to Know What Love Is.” Source: Billboard

Harry out in London - April 7th, 2017.

Every shitty and every great day spent in this fandom was totally worth waiting for harry

It’s a busy month ahead for Harry as he begins to promote his upcoming single, Sign of the Times. To make sure that our followers have a good experience, we decided to put together these links to various livestreams and websites where you can listen to/watch Harry’s upcoming appearances.

1. BBC Radio 1, the Breakfast show on 7th April / 8AM-10AM BST:

2. z100, with Elvis Duran on 7th April / 6AM-10AM ET

3. 102.7 KIIS-FM, On Air with Ryan Seacrest on 7th April / 5AM-10AM PT

4. BBC Radio 2, with Dermot O’ Leary on 8th April / 8AM-10AM BST:

5. Key 103, with Darryl Morris on 10th April / 7PM-10PM BST:

6. Saturday Night Live on April 15th / 11.30PM ET:

7. The Graham Norton Show on April 21st / 11.35PM BST:

For VPN changes and more:

You can use this time zone converter to check when the programs will air in your country/city.

We will keep updating the post as we get more events to add!

So enjoy and dont forget to buy/stream Sign of the Times, starting from April 7th 2017!

Harry filming the music video for ‘Sign of the Times’

Harry Styles says his upcoming debut solo album is currently his favourite record to listen to.

The One Direction singer will release the record’s first track, Sign Of The Times, on Friday and said he wrote around 70 songs before narrowing them down, most of which were penned in Jamaica.

‘I just wanted to not be somewhere that I’d get distracted. It was 360 of writing, you’d go home for dinner, write at the house then go back to the studio. I liked being away from everything and doing it like that,’ Styles said on radio Breakfast 1.

‘I was with the guys who I was writing it with and we just wanted to make what we wanted to listen to and that has been the most fun part for me about making the whole album.

‘In the least weird way possible, it’s my favourite album to listen to at the moment.’

The musician said he had to put the album on hold after being cast in World War Two film, Dunkirk, which he thinks was good for the writing process.

‘For a while before, all I thought about it was stressing about what it was going to be. It gave me a chance to completely step away from it for a bit and have a real break,’ he said.

‘By the end of the movie, because we were swimming so much, I just wanted to write songs.’

‘I think we wrote about 70 songs. We did 50 songs and ideas in Jamaica and that’s including like little ideas … full songs, I say there are 30 songs probably.’

Quizzed on whether he had sought advice on cutting the songs down to an album, Styles revealed Ed Sheeran had offered his thoughts.

'I played him (Sheeran) a few songs after the album was finished. He didn’t say that he didn’t like any, but he did like one song that isn’t on the album,’ he said.

nicholasgrimshaw: hiiiii @harrystyles 👋🏼 on Friday you’ll hear what happened when we sat down for 2 hours for a massive chat. It was actually 3 but I guess an hour was crap and got cut. 😂 The song is beautiful. Exciting! See u Friday. ✌🏼

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