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Danny continued: “Where our bedroom was you had to walk through the living room to get to the kitchen. I woke up, of course, half asleep and I’m stumbling and I’m starving as I always was then. I’m walking out of the bedroom [into] the little hallway and start walking …

By the time 1964 rolled around, The Beatles were a worldwide phenomenon. They had reached fame beyond compare and started working on new creative projects to expand their worth. One of these projects was hitting the big screen in semi-fictional movies. Their first was A Hard Day’s Night, which arrived …

Elvis Presley fans were welcomed into the star’s life last year when Baz Luhrmann’s biopic, Elvis, hit cinemas. The movie showed off how the King of Rock and Roll rose to fame, how he eventually fell from grace, and ultimately died in his home, Graceland. His only child, Lisa Marie …

Back in 1985, Live Aid raised an estimated £150 million for famine relief thanks to Bob Geldof’s multi-venue benefit concerts with Freddie Mercury and Queen stealing the show at home in Wembley Stadium. Now a charity gig the scale of this is set to be put on this summer in …

Elvis Presley may have been a shy momma’s boy, but he also captured the rebellious spirit of the American youth in the late 1950s. His gyrating hips were cut by the cameras of The Ed Sullivan show as screaming girls lusted after the new sex symbol. In interviews, The King …

A primary school added UB40 to its curriculum – and pupils performed to the global reggae stars at a special assembly last week. Teachers at St Edward’s Catholic Primary School in Selly Park, Birmingham, tasked pupils with studying the band and its place in popular culture as part of lessons. They …

If you thought Decca records turning down the Beatles was a dumb move, at least it wasn’t on the grounds the Fab Four were “long-haired shnooks”. These were the words used by the producers of the James Bond franchise, as they rejected A Hard Day’s Night, the first film starring …

The extraordinary life and recording career of Dionne Warwick is celebrated tonight on BBC2 in the documentary Don’t Make Me Over, followed by 90 minutes of her greatest performances at the BBC. From her 1960’s breakthrough, she has always been regarded as songwriter Burt Bacharach’s muse and, perhaps also, the …

A-ha posed in London circa 1990. (Image: Getty) He was a bright, handsome boy who was also the one thing bullies hate most – different. Consequently, Morten Harket was punched, kicked, shoved, and insulted at school on an almost daily basis for three long years. “I was constantly beaten up, …

Following the death of Lisa Marie Presley in January, Riley Keough is now the eldest direct descendent of Elvis Presley. The King’s granddaughter has had a tough last few years having buried her brother, great-grandmother and mother. She and her half-sister twins Harper and Finley Lockwood have since inherited Graceland …