Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbot – N.K-Pop album review | Music | Entertainment
At his best, Paul Heaton writes barbed pop songs that reflect real life, musical kitchen-sink dramas about everyday folk tormented by fate. People like the narrator of I Ain’t Going Nowhere This Year who has “a fag on my break, a pint for my lunch, a job that I’d leave and a boss I’d then punch”. The cheery country pop of the music sits More...
Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ voted top break-up song, study finds | Music | Entertainment
A study of 2,000 adults, who have been in a long-term relationship and gone through at least one break-up, revealed that listening to music is their preferred coping mechanism following a split. And despite More...
Elvis Presley’s death affected singer so much he didn’t speak for a week | Music | Entertainment
When Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, the music industry went into shock and then mourning. The King of Rock and Roll revolutionised music in the early 1950s and continued to pave the way for the artists More...
‘Had me in tears’ Fans react to pics of Heath Ledger, Paul Walker as they would be now | Music | Entertainment
They are some of popular entertainment’s most enduring icons. Part of their eternal appeal lies in the sudden and shocking way they died way ahead of their time. Yet, it is also undeniable that they already More...
What Elvis Presley would have named his son with Priscilla Presley | Music | Entertainment
Elvis Presley casually proposed to Priscilla Presley (Beaulieu, at the time) on Christmas Eve in 1966. Five months later, on May 1, 1967, they flew out in the dead of night on Frank Sinatra‘s private jet More...
Virginia Bocelli sings Over The Rainbow and gives dad Andrea on UK tour | Music | Entertainment
She’s barely in double digits, but this young girl already has her own Instagram account and is currently on a world tour with her father. Not watching from the side stage, but actually taking her share More...
George Harrison gave ‘unthinkable’ order to Paul McCartney for iconic track | Music | Entertainment
George Harrison‘s songwriting was often overlooked by The Beatles‘ principal composers John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Even so, he penned some incredible tracks for the band, including “While More...
The Beatles’ spiteful arguments were ‘calmed’ by Ringo Starr’s honesty | Music | Entertainment
The Beatles may have split up in 1970 after many growing personal feuds and arguments permeated through their lives, but they were not always like that. In the early 1960s, the Fab Four were a tight-knit unit More...
Michael Jackson’s ex-wife in tears over failing to ‘save’ star | Music | Entertainment
Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009. The autopsy held on the star’s body determined that he died from a cardiac arrest, caused by an overdose of drugs and painkillers he was taking. His personal physician, More...
Priscilla Presley ‘refused’ to visit Elvis Presley in Hollywood – then he had an affair | Music | Entertainment
Elvis Presley first met Priscilla Presley (Beaulieu at the time) in 1958 while he was stationed in Friedberg, Germany. The star had been drafted into the US Army and, before long, struck up a relationship with More...
