Music

When Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis movie was released last year, the soundtrack included a ton of Elvis Presley covers and reimagings by celebrity fans from Jack White to Stevie Nicks. There’s even a remix of Crawfish with Fever and now another has been released in the form of Toxic Las Vegas. …

Bowie said: “Look, hang on a minute, why don’t we write one of our own?” Freddie remembered: “We were fooling around and then just sort of jamming with tracks and suddenly we said ‘Why don’t we just see what we can do on the spur of the moment?’” Producer Reinhold …

It’s been quite the year for Elvis Presley fans with not only the 45th anniversary of his untimely death at just 42, but also the release of Baz Luhrmann’s big-screen biopic. In fact, Elvis star Austin Butler is odds on to win Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama at …

Nevertheless, Macca’s more recent words on The King while promoting McCartney III have been very positive, highlighting their meeting in 1965 and how All Shook Up still lifts his spirits. After their meeting, Nixon wrote a letter to Elvis on New Year’s Eve, thanking the star for visiting the White …

Ged Grimes, Charlie Burchill, Cherisse Osei, Gordy Goudie, Jim Kerr, Berenice Scott, Sarah Brown (Image: Dean Chalkley) They were playing a “tougher than tough” Glasgow venue called The Terminal One in the late summer of 1977. “We’d drunk as much cheap wine and taken as many pills as we could …

After divorcing Priscilla, Elvis Presley’s next major lover was former Miss Tennessee model Linda Thompson. The 22-year-old lived with The King at Graceland from 1972-76 and claims to have saved his life on a number of occasions. When Baz Luhrmann’s biopic was released last year, some fans were furious that …

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who resigned from the papacy in 2013 to be succeeded by Pope Francis, died on New Year’s Eve at 95. Aside from his devotion to Catholicism, the late religious leader was a lover of classical music and an accomplished pianist. His favourite composer was Mozart who …

Elvis Presley fans gather every January 8 to celebrate The King’s birthday outside Graceland and this year was especially special following the release of his biopic last year. The singer’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley adored Baz Luhrmann’s movie for finally portraying her father “right”, as she expressed at a …

With the January sales upon us, the seasonal soundtracks have disappeared from the shops. For most of us, it will be another 11 months before we’re once more subjected to the plaintive wailing of “Do they know it’s Christmas?” Band Aid’s 1984 hit single made it more difficult for the …

Tonight Rod Stewart will hit BBC 2 at 8pm in a feature that will show off some of the star’s biggest performances from throughout the years. While he has some legendary songs under his belt – such as Maggie May, Sailing and Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? to name a …