Phil Collins ‘”In the Air Tonight” is officially a hit single 39 years after its release, thanks to a twin from Gary, Indiana whose spontaneous reaction to the unexpected drum break in Collins’ ballad has caused it to be possibly the most meme -d song of August 2020. “In the …
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Ray Dorset, singer, songwriter I still had a day job at a lab when the melody for In the Summertime entered my head. The lyric took 10 minutes to write. When I was young, my family always went to Hayling Island, Hampshire, for vacations; big business with about 20 of …
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The founder and CEO of the US social media and social networking service Facebook Mark Zuckerberg reacts upon his arrival for a meeting with the European Commission Vice President in charge of Securities and Transparency, in Brussels, on February 17, 2020. (Photo from Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO …
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The Spice Girls and Pussycat Dolls would be nothing without Go-Go’s. Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, they were a women’s band who, for just seven years, wrote and performed some of the most memorable songs of the 1980s: “We Got the Beat”, “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation ” …
Read More »Garth Brooks withdraws from CMA main prize due to tweet
Garth Brooks retired from Artist of the Year career at this year’s Country Music Association Awards and it’s all due to a tweet. The country music superstar announced Wednesday in a virtual press conference that a tweet caused him to make a magnanimous decision. “There’s a tweet there that really …
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