Elton John said Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” was one of the two records that completely changed his life. The other was by another 1950s rock ‘n’ roll singer. John also revealed what he thought about Elvis’ looks. He had a similar reaction to Elvis that he had to Marilyn Monroe.
Elvis Presley’s ‘Hound Dog’ was 1 of the 1st songs Elton John’s mom bought that he loved
During a 1973 interview with Rolling Stone, John was asked if his musical career began with his band Bluesology. “Actually it all started when I became old enough to listen to records, because my mother and father collected records and the first records I ever heard were Kay Starr and Billy May and Tennessee Ernie Ford and Les Paul and Mary Ford and Guy Mitchell,” he said. I grew up in that era. I was three or four when I first started listening to records like that.
Elvis Presley’s ‘Hound Dog’ was 1 of the 1st songs Elton John’s mom bought that he loved
During a 1973 interview with Rolling Stone, John was asked if his musical career began with his band Bluesology. “Actually it all started when I became old enough to listen to records, because my mother and father collected records and the first records I ever heard were Kay Starr and Billy May and Tennessee Ernie Ford and Les Paul and Mary Ford and Guy Mitchell,” he said. I grew up in that era. I was three or four when I first started listening to records like that.
- 11/14/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Tragedy struck the McCartney family during the summer of 1955. Paul’s mother finally sought treatment for the lump in her breast and was diagnosed with breast cancer. She didn’t live long after that. Here’s who Paul McCartney’s mother was and how she died.
Paul and Mike McCartney | Keystone/Getty Images Paul McCartney’s mother, Mary Patricia Mohin
McCartney’s mother’s name was Mary Patricia Mohin. She was “a good Irish Catholic girl who was a trained nurse and midwife,” according to the Beatles biography The Love You Make by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. She married the Beatle’s father, James McCartney, in 1941 when he was 39 and she was 32. Almost immediately after the wedding, Patricia became pregnant with Paul. When it came time to give birth to her son, Patricia received VIP treatment at Walton General Hospital because she used to be the head nurse in the maternity ward.
Paul and Mike McCartney | Keystone/Getty Images Paul McCartney’s mother, Mary Patricia Mohin
McCartney’s mother’s name was Mary Patricia Mohin. She was “a good Irish Catholic girl who was a trained nurse and midwife,” according to the Beatles biography The Love You Make by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. She married the Beatle’s father, James McCartney, in 1941 when he was 39 and she was 32. Almost immediately after the wedding, Patricia became pregnant with Paul. When it came time to give birth to her son, Patricia received VIP treatment at Walton General Hospital because she used to be the head nurse in the maternity ward.
- 5/8/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
You know what you’re getting with Ringo Starr. As a musician, he proved to be a groundbreaking drummer and one of the best to ever hit the skins in a rock ‘n’ roll band. As a person, Ringo’s sharp and funny but deeply emotional, as he revealed when Paul McCartney threatened him in 1970. He’s also self-aware. Ringo’s reaction to having his drumming deleted from a Yusuf / Cat Stevens album says everything about The Beatles drummer’s personality.
Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr | Michael Putland/Getty Images Ringo Starr resented Cat Stevens ‘wiping him off’ a record but then understood the reason
Ringo hardly slowed down when The Beatles broke up. He released four solo albums by 1974 and played on George Harrison, John Lennon, Stephen Stills, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and Harry Nilsson in the early part of the decade.
His output, both his own albums and playing on others’ records,...
Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr | Michael Putland/Getty Images Ringo Starr resented Cat Stevens ‘wiping him off’ a record but then understood the reason
Ringo hardly slowed down when The Beatles broke up. He released four solo albums by 1974 and played on George Harrison, John Lennon, Stephen Stills, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and Harry Nilsson in the early part of the decade.
His output, both his own albums and playing on others’ records,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Stephen Hendry said he was fined by snooker bosses after pulling out of events due to his appearance on The Masked Singer.
The seven-time world champion, 54, was revealed as the character Rubbish on the ITV celebrity singing show on Saturday.
Asked by the Pa news agency what he told people he was doing while keeping his identity a secret, the former world number one said: “I do have wildcards to play in some snooker events and I actually pulled out of a couple of events and got fined by the Wpbsa (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) for doing it.
“And I couldn’t tell them why because this recording was going on and I couldn’t obviously say why I pulled out… I just said ‘Look, I can’t play the tournament’.
“So, yeah, it was, very, very, very strange… you’re dying to tell people what you’re doing but you can’t.
The seven-time world champion, 54, was revealed as the character Rubbish on the ITV celebrity singing show on Saturday.
Asked by the Pa news agency what he told people he was doing while keeping his identity a secret, the former world number one said: “I do have wildcards to play in some snooker events and I actually pulled out of a couple of events and got fined by the Wpbsa (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) for doing it.
“And I couldn’t tell them why because this recording was going on and I couldn’t obviously say why I pulled out… I just said ‘Look, I can’t play the tournament’.
“So, yeah, it was, very, very, very strange… you’re dying to tell people what you’re doing but you can’t.
- 1/23/2023
- by Charlotte McLaughlin
- The Independent - TV
When the Beatles started work on their masterpiece Revolver, in April 1966, they knew they were after the sound of the future. And they got there on the very first day of the sessions, with the wildly experimental buzz of “Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1).” The psychedelic outtake was released on Friday and it’s a taste of the new Super Deluxe Edition of Revolver, which arrives on October 28. The new edition tells the story of how the Beatles took their gigantic creative leap into the unknown. As producer Giles Martin says,...
- 9/30/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
In one of the key scenes from Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film “Almost Famous,” an aspiring rock star played by Billy Crudup stands on a rooftop in Topeka, Kansas, throws out his arms and shouts, “I am a golden god!” As an expression of stoned rock-star hubris, it’s perfect – but it’s also based on a real rock star, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, who apparently made that proclamation from the top of the Continental Hyatt House in Los Angeles sometime back in the late 1960s or early ’70s.
Plant’s exclamation pretty much sums up Led Zeppelin, the subjects of Bernard MacMahon’s “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” which premiered on Saturday at the Venice Film Festival. They were true rock gods from a time when the music of the ’60s was splintering, fragmenting and in need of a new breed of gods – and they knew it, gloried in it and made light of it,...
Plant’s exclamation pretty much sums up Led Zeppelin, the subjects of Bernard MacMahon’s “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” which premiered on Saturday at the Venice Film Festival. They were true rock gods from a time when the music of the ’60s was splintering, fragmenting and in need of a new breed of gods – and they knew it, gloried in it and made light of it,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
For a band that’s now thought of as the Beatles of heavy metal, not to mention one of the four or five greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time, Led Zeppelin got shockingly little critical respect back in the day. You could say that sort of thing happens a lot — in music (just look at the reverence with which Abba are now regarded; in their heyday they were often dismissed as facile creators of pop jingles) or in movies. But in the case of Led Zeppelin, there’s something uniquely telling about the vast chasm between the way they were viewed by their fans and by the gatekeepers of respectability in rock. And that helps to explain why Zep, 50 years on, still sound so raw and explosive and primal and volcanic.
What you hear in their music, as incandescent as a lot of it can be, is a quality that might be described,...
What you hear in their music, as incandescent as a lot of it can be, is a quality that might be described,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
A 15-minute interview with Pete Townshend is a near-impossibility. Not only is he one of the most eloquent and thoughtful figures in rock history, but he’s also one of the most loquacious. And even though we said that we’d limit this conversation — tied to the new deluxe edition of The Who Sell Out — to 15 minutes, per a request from one of his representatives, Townshend’s answer to our first question after a few icebreakers clocked in at seven minutes and eight seconds.
There was so much more we...
There was so much more we...
- 4/16/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
"Judy" is the Brit-produced biographical drama feature, following the life of singer, actress 'Judy Garland' circa 1969, starring Renée Zellweger, directed by Rupert Goold, adapting the 'Tony'-nominated West End and Broadway play "End of the Rainbow" by Peter Quilter:
"...'Judy Garland', the child star who played 'Dorothy' from "The Wizard Of Oz', who became alcohol and drug-addicted throughout her long career, arrives in London, UK in 1969 for a five-week run of sell-out concerts..."
Cast also includes Darci Shaw as young 'Judy Garland', Rufus Sewell as 'Sidney Luft', Michael Gambon as 'Bernard Delfont', Finn Wittrock as 'Mickey Deans', Jessie Buckley as 'Rosalyn Wilder', Bella Ramsey as 'Lorna Luft', Royce Pierreson as 'Burt', Arthur McBain as 'Askith', John Dagleish as 'Lonnie Donegan', Gemma-Leah Devereux as 'Liza Minnelli' and David Rubin as 'Noel'.
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"...'Judy Garland', the child star who played 'Dorothy' from "The Wizard Of Oz', who became alcohol and drug-addicted throughout her long career, arrives in London, UK in 1969 for a five-week run of sell-out concerts..."
Cast also includes Darci Shaw as young 'Judy Garland', Rufus Sewell as 'Sidney Luft', Michael Gambon as 'Bernard Delfont', Finn Wittrock as 'Mickey Deans', Jessie Buckley as 'Rosalyn Wilder', Bella Ramsey as 'Lorna Luft', Royce Pierreson as 'Burt', Arthur McBain as 'Askith', John Dagleish as 'Lonnie Donegan', Gemma-Leah Devereux as 'Liza Minnelli' and David Rubin as 'Noel'.
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- 1/20/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Ringo Starr is about to get into a bathtub with Dave Grohl, and he seems a little skeptical. “Is this some sort of bullshit?” the former Beatle says. But he steps in anyway. Soon the pair are chatting comfortably; as Grohl discusses the Foo Fighters’ recent tour, Starr hands him a rubber ducky, and instructs him to make a heart symbol with his hands to complement his own omnipresent peace sign.
Grohl and Starr have known each other since 2013, when Grohl spoke at a release party for Starr’s first photography book.
Grohl and Starr have known each other since 2013, when Grohl spoke at a release party for Starr’s first photography book.
- 10/30/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
"Judy" is the new Brit biographical drama feature, following the life of singer, actress 'Judy Garland' circa 1969, directed by Rupert Goold, adapting the 'Tony'-nominated West End and Broadway play "End of the Rainbow" by Peter Quilter, starring Oscar winner Renée Zellweger, opening theatrically September 27, 2019:
"...'Judy Garland', the child star who played 'Dorothy' from "The Wizard Of Oz', who became alcohol and drug-addicted throughout her long career, arrives in London, UK in 1969 for a five-week run of sell-out concerts..."
Cast also includes Darci Shaw as young 'Judy Garland', Rufus Sewell as 'Sidney Luft', Michael Gambon as 'Bernard Delfont', Finn Wittrock as 'Mickey Deans', Jessie Buckley as 'Rosalyn Wilder', Bella Ramsey as 'Lorna Luft', Royce Pierreson as 'Burt', Arthur McBain as 'Askith', John Dagleish as 'Lonnie Donegan', Gemma-Leah Devereux as 'Liza Minnelli' and David Rubin as 'Noel'.
"...'Judy Garland', the child star who played 'Dorothy' from "The Wizard Of Oz', who became alcohol and drug-addicted throughout her long career, arrives in London, UK in 1969 for a five-week run of sell-out concerts..."
Cast also includes Darci Shaw as young 'Judy Garland', Rufus Sewell as 'Sidney Luft', Michael Gambon as 'Bernard Delfont', Finn Wittrock as 'Mickey Deans', Jessie Buckley as 'Rosalyn Wilder', Bella Ramsey as 'Lorna Luft', Royce Pierreson as 'Burt', Arthur McBain as 'Askith', John Dagleish as 'Lonnie Donegan', Gemma-Leah Devereux as 'Liza Minnelli' and David Rubin as 'Noel'.
- 7/8/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The Coen brothers' new film about a 1960s folk singer in Greenwich Village is a reminder of how authenticity became the rod that folk music made for its own back
The new film by the Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis, evokes Greenwich Village at the beginning of the American folk boom. The date is February 1961. Metropolitan young Americans sit in smoky clubs listening reverently to music that they believe is purer, more honest and more heartfelt and therefore more elevating than the commercial mainstream of Sinatra, Buddy Holly and Doris Day. Folk music is still mainly a process of discovery and renewal rather than invention; singers tend to see themselves as curators of tradition. Lines such as: "Here's a song I first heard Leadbelly sing," remain the staple fare of introductions in a form that awaits the great singer-songwriter. Bob Dylan has just arrived in town but is still a...
The new film by the Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis, evokes Greenwich Village at the beginning of the American folk boom. The date is February 1961. Metropolitan young Americans sit in smoky clubs listening reverently to music that they believe is purer, more honest and more heartfelt and therefore more elevating than the commercial mainstream of Sinatra, Buddy Holly and Doris Day. Folk music is still mainly a process of discovery and renewal rather than invention; singers tend to see themselves as curators of tradition. Lines such as: "Here's a song I first heard Leadbelly sing," remain the staple fare of introductions in a form that awaits the great singer-songwriter. Bob Dylan has just arrived in town but is still a...
- 1/18/2014
- by Ian Jack
- The Guardian - Film News
Ricky D, Simon Howell and Josh Spiegel sit down to discuss one of Sound On Sight’s most anticipated films of 2013, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave – and joining them is former co-host, Julian Carrington. After an hour long heated debate, the crew takes a few minutes to review J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost, a tense adventure drama about a man (Robert Redford) who must fight for survival after being lost at sea.
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Lonnie Donegan – “Pick a Bale of Cotton”
Hans Zimmer – “Solomon”
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- 11/7/2013
- by Sound On Sight Podcast
- SoundOnSight
The Wurzels musician Reg Quantrill has died, aged 77. Quantrill was one of the last surviving original members of the Somerset folk band, who were known for their self-described 'Scrumpy & Western' style of music. The band were best known for their 1970s hits 'I Am a Cider Drinker' and 'Combine Harvester'. Reg Quantrill played the banjo and guitar for the band until 1974, when he left months before the death of original leader Adge Cutler. He was known for being the butt of several on-stage jokes made by Cutler and other members of the band. He also performed as a jazz musician, and was a close friend of skiffle performer Lonnie Donegan and clarinet player Acker Bilk. Quantrill later turned to acting, and had appeared on Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (more)...
- 6/12/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin; The Greatest Movie Ever Sold; A Useful Life; In Time; Jack Goes Boating
Whatever happens at the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood tonight, you can be sure of one thing: there won't be any statuettes handed out to the very best film of the year. While the board-sweeping success of a near-silent B&W beauty is a reason to be cheerful, not even the rule-breaking brilliance of Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist can outshine the excellence of my favourite film of 2011, which saw the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay making a triumphant return to our screens after a nine-year absence. Welcome back!
Superbly adapted (by screenwriters Ramsay and Rory Kinnear) from Lionel Shriver's supposedly unfilmable bestseller, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, Artificial Eye, 15) inhabits a painterly netherworld pitched somewhere between the subtle hues of European psychodrama and the bolder strokes of populist paedophobic horror.
Whatever happens at the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood tonight, you can be sure of one thing: there won't be any statuettes handed out to the very best film of the year. While the board-sweeping success of a near-silent B&W beauty is a reason to be cheerful, not even the rule-breaking brilliance of Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist can outshine the excellence of my favourite film of 2011, which saw the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay making a triumphant return to our screens after a nine-year absence. Welcome back!
Superbly adapted (by screenwriters Ramsay and Rory Kinnear) from Lionel Shriver's supposedly unfilmable bestseller, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, Artificial Eye, 15) inhabits a painterly netherworld pitched somewhere between the subtle hues of European psychodrama and the bolder strokes of populist paedophobic horror.
- 2/26/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
'The worst thing anyone ever wrote? "Julie Walters obviously thinks she's got good legs." That was painful'
What got you started?
I just had a desire to entertain from a very early age. When I was really teeny, I used to pull the curtains across the bay window and come out, play my plastic ukulele, and pretend to be Elvis Presley or Lonnie Donegan.
Who or what have you sacrificed for your art?
My health. I didn't realise how stressful acting is until I did [the BBC film] A Short Stay in Switzerland. There was a collage of my character having all these health tests. A real nurse was doing them, and she said: "Ooh, your blood pressure's really high." It was because she had taken it during filming.
Has fame been difficult to cope with?
It would be churlish to say it has, but it has its problems. It's odd for kids.
What got you started?
I just had a desire to entertain from a very early age. When I was really teeny, I used to pull the curtains across the bay window and come out, play my plastic ukulele, and pretend to be Elvis Presley or Lonnie Donegan.
Who or what have you sacrificed for your art?
My health. I didn't realise how stressful acting is until I did [the BBC film] A Short Stay in Switzerland. There was a collage of my character having all these health tests. A real nurse was doing them, and she said: "Ooh, your blood pressure's really high." It was because she had taken it during filming.
Has fame been difficult to cope with?
It would be churlish to say it has, but it has its problems. It's odd for kids.
- 11/1/2011
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
Sound design can be a filmmaker’s secret weapon. Psycho (1960) and Dirty Dancing (1987) aside, moviegoers are often hard pressed to remember the popular songs played in a film, let alone what a film itself sounded like. Yet in these layered, dense aural textures, every footstep and cigarette burn is meticulously tuned. Though it may never climb to the level of conscious analysis, this can have a deep psychological and emotional effect–particularly if the audience is treated to the top tier acoustics and audio systems of the theaters at the Cannes Film Festival.
The sound work and soundtrack in director Lynne Ramsay‘s Morvern Callar (2002) helped the film amass a cult following in the years following its release. They come together in one of that film’s most revelatory sequences: The Mamas and the Papas‘s “Dedicated To the One I Love” subtly shifts from sounding expansive and loud to...
The sound work and soundtrack in director Lynne Ramsay‘s Morvern Callar (2002) helped the film amass a cult following in the years following its release. They come together in one of that film’s most revelatory sequences: The Mamas and the Papas‘s “Dedicated To the One I Love” subtly shifts from sounding expansive and loud to...
- 5/17/2011
- by Livia Bloom
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The festival has famously neglected the talents of female directors, but this year four are vying for the top prize, including Lynne Ramsay, whose dazzling interpretation of Lionel Shriver's novel We Need to Talk About Kevin is tipped for glory
Oone of the 15 golden rules of Cannes president Gilles Jacob, as set out in his new memoir Citizen Cannes, is: Never forget that a beautiful woman's face is the reason cinema exists.
A reflection of cinema itself, the festival has always been in the thrall of beautiful women: Faye Dunaway adorns this year's striking festival poster, slinked as she is in a mid-length black dress around the digits 64, while Marilyn Monroe in a sparkly playsuit is poster girl for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
However adoring of on-screen beauty, Cannes has notoriously neglected female talent behind the camera, the Australian Jane Campion being the only Palme d'Or winner, for The Piano,...
Oone of the 15 golden rules of Cannes president Gilles Jacob, as set out in his new memoir Citizen Cannes, is: Never forget that a beautiful woman's face is the reason cinema exists.
A reflection of cinema itself, the festival has always been in the thrall of beautiful women: Faye Dunaway adorns this year's striking festival poster, slinked as she is in a mid-length black dress around the digits 64, while Marilyn Monroe in a sparkly playsuit is poster girl for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
However adoring of on-screen beauty, Cannes has notoriously neglected female talent behind the camera, the Australian Jane Campion being the only Palme d'Or winner, for The Piano,...
- 5/14/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
David Letterman continued to mock Jay Leno Tuesday night, imagining the promo NBC is already running to promote his return to The Tonight Show (watch it after the jump), and reacting to Leno's Monday night "State of the Network" speech. "Lord knows I got my own problems, really, I got my own problems.... but I just can't help myself," Letterman said, explaining his decision to keep engaging in the latest late-night war. His first point: " said that we should not blame Conan for what's going on.... And I said to myself, No one is blaming Conan." His second point: Leno...
- 1/20/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Van Morrison has said that The Beatles's influence on the history of music is overstated. According to The New Yorker, the Irish singer-songwriter made the comment when someone in the city described skiffle legend Lonnie Donegan as one of a number of "pre-Beatles rock and roll" artists. He is quoted as saying: "That's a cliché. I don’t think 'pre-Beatles' means anything, because there was stuff before them. "Over here, you have a different slant. You measure things in terms of The Beatles. We don't (more)...
- 3/5/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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