This 12 months’s favourite is Finland, and it is easy to see why. Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen’s “Liekinheitin” (or “Flamethrower”) checks each Eurovision field. It’s basically a duet between Parkkonen, 36, a Finnish pop star, and Lampenius, 56, a onetime violin prodigy, wherein Parkkonen sings about his passionate obsession for a girl who treats…
A hovering duet between a star violinist and a studly Finn. An electro observe sung by a person dressed as a cat. A disco track accused of sounding just like the soundtrack to a Mafioso marriage ceremony. All three are among the many favorites to win this yr’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday in Vienna,…
To the 1000’s of Londoners who go it every day, 3 Savile Row is simply one other townhouse. Yet to Beatles followers, it is a spot of pilgrimage: the previous headquarters of Apple Corps, the band’s report label; the place the place the band recorded their “Let It Be” album; and the positioning the place,…
The first time Peter Frampton tried to jot down songs along with his son, Julian, the escape ended his life. The bygone ’70s rock star had break up with Julian’s mom when the boy was 2, so their time collectively had been sporadic — brief journeys to Frampton’s Arizona dwelling, occasional stints on tour buses,…
Bruce Springsteen has at all times heralded the alchemy of his E Street Band, that 1+1=3, power-of-nature magic that occurs when these bar-band veterans be part of collectively on the finish of the Boss’s 4-rely. And after greater than 50 years, Springsteen and the band nonetheless ship that alchemy. The euphoric highs and solemn blues…
In her personal phrases: “She coming.” After Beyoncé dropped the cryptic two-word tease upfront of her newest tour, the phrase shortly turned certainly one of her followers’ favourite methods to specific their pleasure for her subsequent transfer. So when it was revealed that she was going to attend this 12 months’s Met Gala as an…
Britney Spears was charged on Thursday with driving beneath the affect of medicine and alcohol, a misdemeanor, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office mentioned. The legal grievance didn’t specify the kind of drug that prosecutors say Ms. Spears had, and a spokesperson for the district legal professional’s workplace wouldn’t present particulars. Ms. Spears is scheduled…
They got here in their sequined gloves and glossy loafers, their black fedoras and pink leather-based jackets. They danced in the aisles and sang the hits at the high of their lungs. They moonwalked, kicked their legs and leaned like easy criminals. They let bygones be bygones. Critics have largely savage “Michael,” the biopic of…
In December 2010, Oprah Winfrey invited Dominic and Connie Cascio and three of their 5 youngsters onto her discuss present to debate Michael Jackson. The pop star and Dominic, a supervisor of a Manhattan lodge the place Mr. Jackson usually stayed, had change into good buddies. For greater than twenty years, Mr. Jackson had eaten…
Did Jackson reside together with his dad and mom at their household dwelling, on Hayvenhurst Drive in the Encino part of Los Angeles, even after “Thriller” took off? Yes. Although Branca helped Jackson purchase a three-bedroom apartment in Encino in the early ’80s, the King of Pop couldn’t carry himself to depart his mom, so…
