Earlier this year the former Yardbirds and Rod Stewart collaborator died after contracting bacterial meningitis at the age of 78. Following the sad news, some of Jeff Beck’s friends and colleagues including Johnny Depp organised two Jeff Beck tribute concerts. The first took place last night and another is taking …
Read More »Oasis reunion Noel Gallagher blasts coward brother Liam | Music | Entertainment
It’s the reunion that apparently everybody and nobody wants. Lead singer Liam Gallagher previously publicly said rather brutally that an Oasis reunion wouldn’t even need his songwriter brother to be there: “We’d have to get someone to do Noel’s parts, which wouldn’t be hard.” The band broke up in 2009 …
Read More »John Lennon hid references to ‘escaping’ his marriage in Beatles song | Music | Entertainment
John Lennon wrote countless songs for The Beatles, but some of them had more thought than others. During the writing process for the band’s eighth studio album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Lennon penned such iconic tracks as With a Little Help from My Friends, Lucy in the Sky …
Read More »One Direction ‘reunite in comeback track’ – but two members aren’t involved | Music | Entertainment
1D fans, this is not a drill. Rumours of a One Direction reunion have continued bubbling up behind the scenes for months, and a new report claims it has all but happened with a new song. According to Birmingham Live, a source has information on Liam Payne’s next album which …
Read More »‘I’m crying’ Fans react to images of Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson if they’d lived | Music | Entertainment
Istanbul-based artist Alper Yesiltas posted a series of images, reimagining what some of our most iconic and loved stars who died too young might look like if they had not been taken from us. Freddie Mercury died on 24 November, 1991, but the new shot is a moving portrait of …
Read More »Elvis Presley had heartbreaking final words for Linda Thompson before death | Music | Entertainment
Elvis Presley first met Linda Thompson, the 22-year-old beauty queen, in 1972. The pair fell head-over-heels in love with one another and became inseparable over the course of their four-year relationship that followed. But things didn’t always seem to add up. And, before she knew it, the relationship began to …
Read More »Freddie Mercury’s explosive final tour opening shared by Queen | Music | Entertainment
This week’s episode of Queen The Greatest Live showcases the band’s iconic opening to their 1986 Magic Tour. This would be Freddie Mercury’s last set of live concerts with Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, before his HIV diagnosis and death from AIDS-related illness in 1991. Having given probably …
Read More »Andrea Bocelli thanks King for Coronation concert honour with touching post | Music | Entertainment
Earlier this month, Andrea Bocelli and his regular collaborator Sir Bryn Terfel performed the Coronation concert at Windsor Castle. The duo sang You’ll Never Walk Alone before King Charles III and an audience of 20,000. Sir Bryn had a busy weekend having already performed the Welsh song Kyrie eleison at …
Read More »Elvis Presley threw his food at the TV after what he was watching made him sick | Music | Entertainment
Elvis Presley’s cousin Danny Smith has posted more little-known facts about The King in one of his YouTube short videos. The King’s relative grew up at Graceland with Lisa Marie and witnessed some of the more eccentric aspects of his private life. For his first fact this time around, he …
Read More »‘Robbie Williams slept with every Spice Girl but me” – It’s definitely not Mel C | Music | Entertainment
Spice Girl Mel C has addressed their mid-1990s relationship in her new book, titled Who I Am, but admitted she hadn’t given him a heads-up about it. The singer said: “Nah, sod him! I’m not warning him about anything the way he’s behaved over the years. Like all of us, …
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