Music

Just who would decline a chance to work with Elvis Presley? It turns out Dolly Parton did way back in 1974 when she was embarking on a solo career. The 76-year-old has recounted how she was approached by The King’s ruthless manager Colonel Tom Parker. His client wanted to cover …

As a rich and famous rock star, Elvis Presley could do exactly what he wanted, no matter how strange some of his habits, including those around his food, became. The King was famous for his peanut butter and banana sandwiches, but his tastes all stemmed from his mother Gladys’ Southern …

The Beatles hired Best to be their drummer in 1960 while they were planning on taking a residency slot in Hamburg, Germany. McCartney first saw him playing in another band at Liverpool’s legendary Casbah Club and deemed him good enough to join the group. Two years later, on August 16, …

Rise Against have been yearning for this show years – as frontman Tim McIlrath told me earlier this month – and it showed. Their explosive arrival on O2 Academy Brixton’s stage with their hit Architects was but a taste of what they were about to deliver, barely showing off what …

Roger said: “We seem to work together better now than we did before. We’re fairly up and down characters, and we’re all very different. We have different tastes in many ways.” John Deacon confessed: “Of course, we fall out, we have patches where we don’t want to see each other.  …

After years apart, the iconic N-Dubz are finally back together. In recent weeks, the London-based trio have been playing sold-out shows at London’s O2 Arena, and now fans have their first chance to buy tickets to the band’s summer 2023 gigs later this week – but tickets are expected to …

After a two-year-long hiatus, Queen and Adam Lambert returned to touring with 36 dates across the UK and Europe. They kicked off in June by opening The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee concert, before a number of shows across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including a sold-out 10-night residency at London’s The …

Back in June, The Platinum Party at the Palace opened with a surprise video of Paddington Bear having tea with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. As Queen and Adam Lambert opened the concert on the Queen Victoria memorial outside the front of Buckingham Palace, the claps and stomps of We …

Britney Spears was only released from her conservatorship earlier this year, but she is already working on a comeback to her musical career. A new report says the 40-year-old is finally creating new music after being “approached” by the legendary pop master Elton John. The report says Britney is working …

The ‘big day’ top 40 playlist also included ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams, Toploader’s ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’, and ‘Mr Brightside’, by The Killers. ‘Single Ladies’, by Beyonce, and ‘One Love’, by Blue also featured. The research also found 59 percent love the cheesiness of a wedding playlist, and 21 percent …