Tag: music
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Radio Show Bans ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ Over Claims It’s A Rape Song, English Teacher Explains Its Real Meaning
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. As we approach the festive season for another year, the controversy about the problematic Christmas classic ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ starts again. Well, this year one radio station took the song’s criticism one step further by banning it completely after countless listeners complained that the message behind the holiday song…
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Elton John Shares A Touching Story About Freddie Mercury’s Final Days
Following the release of the film Bohemian Rhapsody, a new wave of interest has flooded in about the band Queen and it’s lead singer, Freddie Mercury. The film has been criticised for glossing over a lot of the more difficult parts of Freddie’s life, including his untimely death to AIDS in 1991. His close friend,…
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Photos of Freddie Mercury with His Long-Time Love Jim Hutton Released to the Public
If you’ve watched the recent release of Bohemian Rhapsody, you probably wanted to learn more about Freddie’s partner Jim Hutton who Freddie met towards the end of the movie. Despite what the movie will tell you, Freddie and Jim actually met at a club in 1984 when he offered to buy Jim a drink, and…
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Photographer Imagines How Some Musicians Would Look Like If They Were Still Alive
Sachs Media Group recently partnered with photo restoration and manipulation company Phojoe to create a gallery of fallen musical legends as if they gracefully aged. We’re not sure why they did this as the results are, well, interesting. Scroll down below to check them out for yourself, and let us know what you think in…
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28 Trombonists Perform An Amazing Rendition of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Trombonist Christopher Bill gathered 27 of his talented peers to perform an amazing cover of the iconic Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody“. This brilliant performance took place at the 2018 International Trombone Festival. Scroll down to watch the entire video! [zombify_post]
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RIP Aretha Franklin: Celebrate Her Life With Her Most Powerful Early Performances
Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title “the Queen of Soul,” has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76. The news has brought tearful tributes from celebrities and fans; lengthy retrospectives of her almost sixty-year career will follow. In a life as rich, troubled, and glamorous…
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Eminem’s Sign Language Interpreter Absolutely Steals the Show at Firefly Concert
If you’ve been to a big concert recently, you may have witnessed the mesmerizing skills of Sign Language interpreters. Their skills are as enthralling as the performers on stage, and the latest viral video of one interpreter at an Eminem concert in particular is proof. The original video, uploaded to Facebook by Kate Fillingame, shows…
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Julie Gautier Performs Underwater Choreography in the World’s Deepest Pool
AMA is a recently released short film by deep sea diver and underwater filmmaker Julie Gautier. Performed in the world’s deepest pool near Venice, Italy, the film follows Gautier ‘dancing’ through several uninterrupted minutes of underwater choreography. She holds her breath as she uses controlled movements to twist and glide through the calm water, eventually rising up…
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Now You Can Stream David Bowie’s Complete Discography in a 19-Hour Playlist: From His Very First Recordings to His Last FOR FREE
We wish a had a better answer to the question “where were you when David Bowie died?” than, “sitting at my desk, staring dumbly at the computer screen.” While the ideal place to read every instant online tribute and RIP, it was hardly a memorable location to get the news that one of our era’s…
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Couple Mistakenly Buys Tickets for Bagpipe Band ‘Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ Instead of Red Hot Chili Peppers
Thinking that they’d gotten a really good price on tickets to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers, an unsuspecting Duncan Robb and his partner Sarah, who live in Chesterfield, Derbyshire UK, excitedly flew over to Belfast, Northern Ireland only to find out that they had not purchased tickets for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but…