Cocooned with her big brother, Billie Eilish clearly feels safe: Her lyrics in Happier Than Ever are open-hearted and sharp-eyed By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 17:00 EDT, 7 August 2021 | Updated: 17:00 EDT, 7 August 2021 Billie Eilish … Read more
Travis Barker tweeted some romantic lyrics from The Smiths’ 1986 hit track There Is a Light That Never Goes Out seemingly about his new girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian. Out of all the songs to describe his significant other, the Blink-182 drummer selected a verse that described being by her side as a ‘heavenly way to die.’ ‘To die … Read more
Katy Perry consoled weeping contestant Hunter Metts after he forgot the lyrics to a song on Sunday’s Oscars episode of American Idol. She watched in dismay as Hunter, a 22-year-old software developer from Franklin, Tennessee, flubbed a line of the Oscar-winning song Falling Slowly from 2006’s Once. The nervous contestant, who’d practiced in front of … Read more
Taylor Swift the great philosopher: Headteacher says she should be viewed alongside Shakespeare and he uses her lyrics for inspiration in school assemblies The headteacher of Harris Westminster has praised Taylor Swift as a philosopher James Handscombe, 46, revealed he uses her pop songs as source of inspiration He often quotes her alongside Shakespeare, Yeats, Donne and … Read more
Leading headteacher praises Taylor Swift as a great philosopher and regularly uses her lyrics in school assemblies The headteacher of Harris Westminster has praised Taylor Swift as a philosopher James Handscombe, 46, revealed he uses her pop songs as source of inspiration He often quotes her alongside Shakespeare, Yeats, Donne and Samuel Beckett By Clare Mccarthy For … Read more
A Restless, Hungry Feeling: The Double Life Of Bob Dylan Vol 1: 1941-1966 Clinton Heylin … Read more
In August 1967, Stephen Bayley, a 15-year-old pupil at Quarry Bank in Liverpool, wrote a letter to the school’s most famous pupil, John Lennon. Young Stephen told John, who had left Quarry Bank ten years earlier, that his English teacher was in the habit of playing Beatles records in class, and encouraging the boys to … Read more
In August 1967, Stephen Bayley, a 15-year-old pupil at Quarry Bank in Liverpool, wrote a letter to the school’s most famous pupil, John Lennon. Young Stephen told John, who had left Quarry Bank ten years earlier, that his English teacher was in the habit of playing Beatles records in class, and encouraging the boys to … Read more
Sir Paul McCartney is set to release a new book titled The Lyrics, which will see him recount his life through the 154 songs he’s written. The Beatles icon, 78, will reflect on his life, from his boyhood to the present day, based on the compositions in the particular period of time. In previously unseen … Read more
Woody Allen has long-denied molesting his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child and he believes the idea to frame him came from the lyrics to a song titled ‘With my daddy in the attic’. The accusations against the Oscar-winning filmmaker have come to light again following the release of a HBO documentary this … Read more