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    Kenny Loggins demands removal of Trump’s AI-generated video using “Danger Zone”

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    Kenny Loggins performs at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 30, 2023. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)
    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Kenny Loggins is objecting to the use of his music in a social media post showing an artificial intelligence-generated video of President Donald Trump dumping excrement from a fighter jet on last weekend’s “No Kings” protests.

    The video, posted Saturday night on the Republican president’s Truth Social platform, was accompanied by Loggins’ song “Danger Zone,” which appears on the soundtrack of the blockbuster 1986 Tom Cruise fighter pilot movie “Top Gun.” Loggins, in a statement Monday on his website, said he was not asked for permission and called for the video to be removed.

    “I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us,” Loggins wrote. “Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic.”

    As of Tuesday morning, the video remained on Truth Social. Numerous musicians, including Adele and Bruce Springsteen, have objected over the past decade to Trump’s use of their material at campaign rallies and elsewhere.

    Representatives for Loggins responded to The Associated Press’ request for additional comment Tuesday by reissuing his statement from the day before. The White House responded to a request for comment with a still from “Top Gun” with the caption “I FEEL THE NEED FOR SPEED,” paraphrasing one of the film’s famous lines.

    Trump has used music on AI videos at other times, including Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” on a post in early October about Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought.

    Large crowds turned out around the country Saturday for the latest round of “No Kings” rallies, at which participants denounced what they see as the authoritarian policies of the president. Trump on Sunday dismissed the rallies as a “joke” and told reporters, “I’m no king.”

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    Sir Anthony Hopkins on his debut album: “My first love is music”

    Wednesday, August 12, 2026

    It may be hard to believe, but even Sir Anthony Hopkins doubts himself sometimes.

    "There's a part of me which says, 'you didn't write that,'" he recalls of composing his debut album, "Life Is a Dream." "What's it called? Impostor syndrome."

    Thankfully, it did not stop him from finishing the collection of 12 compositions he crafted over six decades.

    Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and recorded at London's Alexandra Palace in April, it will be released by Decca Records on Aug. 21.

    "My first love, or vocation really, is music," said the 88-year-old actor. "That sounds very official, but I was raised with a lot of music (of the) postwar years, and it influenced me. And I started playing the piano when I was quite young."

    He picked up the instrument at 4 and began composing years later, writing his first piece, a waltz, in 1960. He was 22 at the time.

    "I find more freedom with music," he says, compared to acting, which he labels "a discipline, you have to know your stuff. But music for me is a freewheeling kind of art form."

    And he's had his fair share of experience. Prior to the release of "Life Is a Dream," Hopkins had composed scores for a number of films.

    "The opening of 'Shadowlands' is my first adventure in composing music," he said, referring to the 1993 film he starred in as "The Chronicles of Narnia" author C.S. Lewis. Then he became the principal composer on a few other movies that he also starred in and directed, including 1996's "August" and 2007's "Slipstream." 2020's "Elyse."

    Hopkins' childhood informed "Life Is A Dream"
    "It's about my childhood," he says of the album, which shares its title with the Pedro Calderón de la Barca play.... Read More

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