6 d. ago ITV I'm A Celebrity fans say same thing as Ant and Dec address 'jumpscare' glitch

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! viewers were left stunned as the show returned from an ad break with a glitch that saw the theme song's drum play on a loop at a very loud volume

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1 week ago The truth behind Bohemian Rhapsody – from why Freddie Mercury was scared of playing song live & what lyrics really mean

ONCE voted the greatest rock song of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody entered the charts 50 years ago this month – and became a huge No1.  The six-minute track — which has sold more than 6million ­copies worldwide — climbed to top spot in the charts and stayed there for nine weeks while Queen were on the road...

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1 week ago Kanye West could be charged with racism and morality offenses in Brazil if he plays Hitler song

The São Paulo State Prosecutor's Office received a complaint about the Through the Wire rapper ahead of his show in the city.

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1 week ago AC/DC review – a thrilling show stuffed with classics and your eardrums will never be the same

Melbourne Cricket Ground, then touring AustraliaIn the band’s ‘ancestral homeland’, Accadacca’s first Australian concert in a decade shows Angus Young is still a frenzied force to be reckoned withOn Wednesday afternoon, 374 bagpipers gathered in Melbourne’s Federation Square to play AC/DC’s It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock’n’Roll), setting a new world record just up the road from where Bon Scott and the band famously played the song on the back of a flatbed truck riding up Swanston Street 50 years before.It’s the one hit AC/DC no longer plays live, retired out of respect to Scott after his death in 1980. But you barely notice it is missing when their live shows are this stuffed with classics: an audible thrill ripples through the 80,000 punters in Melbourne Cricket Ground when AC/DC opens with If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It) then tears straight into Back in Black. Who else could play such a huge hit so early in a show? But Accadacca can, in what is essentially a great...

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2 w. ago Radiohead fans ‘incredibly excited’ for band’s first live show in seven years

Crowds gather outside Movistar Arena in Madrid for first concert of European tour that sold out in minutesAn hour or so before the sun rose over Madrid, Francesco Puddu staked out a prime spot in front of the city’s hulking Movistar Arena. He was among the first Radiohead fans to arrive at the venue, buzzing with expectations for the British band’s first live show in seven years, kicking off a 20-date European tour.“I’m incredibly excited. Like, I don’t think it’s real,” said the 27-year-old, who had travelled from Italy. “It’s been so long that even if they play the same song 20 times in a row, I’ll be happy.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Foster cat hated being around rescuer until they played song that changed it all

A woman revealed her foster cat was struggling to warm up to her until she played a very specific tune that changed everything – and the sweet moment has melted hearts

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3 w. ago 'My foster cat hates being around me but 1 song changed everything'

A woman who is fostering an old cat said the animal 'hated' being around her and would feel anxious whenever she was in the room - until she started playing one specific song

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4 w. ago American protest is getting more playful. That doesn’t mean we’re not serious | Cas Holman

Play makes us more agile and resilient. Bring on the frog costumes and naked cyclistsWhen Donald Trump declared Portland, Oregon, “a hellhole” overtaken by “the Radical Left’s reign of terror”, Portlanders took to the streets not as an angry mob, but as frogs. They showed up in inflatable costumes by the dozens. Clowns came out dancing. Naked cyclists rode among unicycles, chiming bike bells and honking rubber horns. A band of gray-haired banjo players incited not a riot but a folk-song singalong. It seemed that the more absurd the accusation, the sillier the response.As the attacks on democracy and mischaracterizations of millions of Americans become more extreme, the reasons for outrage grow. Reading the news is infuriating. But while anger can temporarily mobilize us, it is exhausting and disempowering in the long term. Constant rage doesn’t feel good to most of us. As we buckle into this new normal of uncertainty, I’m glad to see we’re showing up with creativity, humor, music, a...

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last month ‘The best song to play at a party is the one that gets people to leave’: Sananda Maitreya’s honest playlist

Stevie Wonder rocked the singer’s 10-year-old world and he’s secretly a huge fan of the Carpenters. But what novelty song did he drunkenly sing in karaoke in Japan?The first song I fell in love withI Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You by the Beatles are like my villain origin story. I was two years old and have no conscious memory of life before that. I can remember walking around our little apartment in East Orange, New Jersey, singing those songs.The first album I bought I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian conservative family. Remember Footloose? It was exactly like that. No dancing, no movies, no records. My aunt bought me Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants and I fell in love with Send One Your Love. Continue reading...

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