Leave it to LCD Soundsystem's producer/frontman James Murphy to pen a holiday song about the depressing side of the season. "If your world is feeling small/ There's no one on the phone/ You feel close enough to call," he sings, tapping into that seasona...
It would be an understatement to say that Laura Branigan's estate was not happy when Trump played the late singer's signature song "Gloria" at his rally ahead of the shocking riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. "It's absolutely appalling to hear 'Gloria' being played in the...
Gloria Estefan was born in Havana, Cuba on September 1, 1957. Her family fled to the United States during the Cuban Revolution when she was just a toddler. Raised primarily in Miami, Florida, Estefan's early life was marked by hardship as her father battled multiple scleros...
In the song, Mitchell sings about a one-night stand between the narrator (presumably herself, based on clues in the song) and a farmhand she dubs “Coyote.” Executive assistant to the stars Chris O'Dell alleged in her 2009 autobiography that the subject of the song is none other than...
The other main entertainment at the Kinoscope orgy is Lady Fay Zhu, who sings a racy cabaret song called “My Girl’s Pussy” while clad in an androgynous tuxedo, an homage to both Marlene Dietrich’s homosexually suggestive performance in the 1930 film “Morocco” and a 1932 portrait of ...
The follow-up to “Goodbye Cruel World” was a Carole King-Gerry Goffin song, “Her Royal Majesty,” which reached No. 6. Then came “Conscience,” a Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil composition that went to No. 11. Darren still sings “Gidget” today in his live performances, but not his run...
Raised by his mother Gloria Marie James in their hometown, he showed prodigious talent for basketball from an early age. His high school career at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School was marked by numerous accolades and widespread media attention which set him up as one of the most promising ...
Gaga added that the song made it "clear how explicitly twisted my thinking was at the time. If I could go back and have a talk with my younger self I'd tell her to go through the therapy I have since then, so that I could understand the confused post-traumatic state that...
Aretha Franklin sings during the finale of “Aretha Franklin: Duets,” an AIDS benefit concert in New York on April 28, 1993. Others onstage include Smokey Robinson, Gloria Estefan, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Raitt, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. ...
he's recorded it with Queen Latifah and a couple of years later with Gloria Estefan and who knows who else. (A few years back, I was in a Starbucks with my daughter and she picked up that week's Bennett all-star duets CD at the counter and mused offhandedly, "Tony Bennett's reall...