Rhett LeCompte replaced his face with the various celebrity performers from the 1985 charity music single We Are the World, courtesy of Face Swap Live. Astounding, and the vibrato on his mouth is dead perfect.
Listen To 3 Hours Of Joe Strummer’s “London Calling” BBC Radio Show
During the 1990s and early 2000s Joe Strummer, former lead singer for The Clash, did a radio show for the BBC using the name of the band’s third album, London Calling. Check out the shows to hear the best of his record collection ecompassing rock and roll, punk rock, reggae, world music and a few great moments of Joe talking.
You can also hear it at iTunes for free, so turn it up!
Series 1, Episode 1: August 31, 1998
Series 1, Episode 2: September 7, 1998
Series 1, Episode 3: September 14, 1998
Series 1, Episode 4: September 21, 1998
Series 2, Episode 1: January 9, 2000
Series 2, Episode 3: January 23, 2000
Watch A VERY Young David Bowie In This 1967 NBC News Report On Mods
A fashionable young David Bowie can be seen here – although for a split second – in this 1967 footage shot in one of London’s “mod” Carnaby Street boutiques for an NBC News report.
See The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Played On An 1834 Martin Guitar
Recorded on October 19, 2010 at the Martin Guitar Factory and Museum in Nazareth, PA, Major Martin Dude Dick Boak graciously allows Stevie Coyle to play the oldest Martin guitar in the Martin Guitar collection. Stevie – delirious – plays through bits of an original tune called “Saltflat Rhapsody” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
The MC5 Kick Out The Jams At Wayne State University, Detroit In 1970
The MC5 performing songs from 1969’s “Kick Out the Jams”, and their 1970 album “Back in The USA” at Wayne State University’s Tartar Field, July 19th, 1970.
Watch Pink Floyd’s New Video for ‘Grantchester Meadows’
Taken from Pink Floyd’s coming massive (27 discs!!!) box set The Early Years 1965 – 1972, Grantchester Meadows is a Roger Waters song, originally performed solo on the Ummagumma album, that celebrates the English countryside, as in other compositions such as Time. This special group performance, taped for the BBC, with acoustic guitars and vocals from Roger Waters and David Gilmour, plus additional piano from Richard Wright and taped songbirds, successfully evokes a summer’s day in Grantchester, a small village close to Cambridge, England. Grantchester’s famous former residents include the Edwardian poet Rupert Brooke, who moved there and subsequently wrote a poem of homesickness entitled ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’.
You Could Own Abbey Road Console Used By The Beatles
The EMI/Abbey Road Studios REDD.37 console is one of the world’s most famous studio desks, as it was used for various Beatles sessions from Meet The Beatles through Let It Be. Find out more about the history of this legendary console and how you can bring it home by clicking here.
Scientists name the greatest earworms and Queen recorded a LOT of them
When researchers at the University of St. Andrews began studying the science of earworms, they realized people really, really love Queen songs.
In case you already don’t have a few of their hits in your head by now, the group takes the No. 1 spot, “We Will Rock You.” That 1977 song’s News of the World other song, “We Are the Champions,” came in at No. 3, while 1975’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” finished at No. 6.
The list was compiled following a mathematical formula developed by the university’s School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies. And you thought you’d never need math in your life after high school.
An earworm required five key elements including rhythmic repetition, predictability, melodic potency, surprise and listener receptiveness, St. Andrews researcher Bede Williams said.
So, ready? And don’t blame me if you can’t get these songs out of your head.
University of St. Andrews Top 20 Earworms
1. Queen, “We Will Rock You”
2. Pharrell Williams, “Happy”
3. Queen, “We Are the Champions”
4. The Proclaimers, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
5. The Village People, “YMCA”
6. Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
7. Europe, “The Final Countdown”
8. Bon Jovi, “Livin’ on a Prayer”
9. Various artists, “Jingle Bells”
10. Baha Men, “Who Let the Dogs Out?”
11. Psy, “Gangnam Style”
12. Rick Astley, “Never Gonna Give You Up”
13. Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin’”
14. Mark Ronson, “Uptown Funk”
15. Taylor Swift, “Shake It Off”
16. Michael Jackson, “Beat It”
17. Kaiser Chiefs, “Ruby”
18. Cast of The Rocky Horror Show, “The Timewarp”
19. Meghan Trainor, “All About the Bass”
20. Culture Club, “Karma Chameleon”
Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino On The Power Of Being Yourself
One of your later songs, “Jealousy,” talks about dealing with criticism and how you’d rather take the high road rather than stoop down to their level. You’ve mentioned in previous interviews how that was difficult to deal with at first and how you’re still experiencing it, from sexist critics who focus on your appearance onstage to people who still dismiss your writing as “childish.” How do you deal with this now as opposed to then?
Bethany Cosentino: I think at the end of the day I always just try to be myself. I have this attitude that’s very unapologetic, an I-am-who-I-am kind of attitude. It’s not just in music. It’s been much of my day-to-day life. I think that the person that I am in interviews and on social media and on stage, and all of that, is very reflective of the person I am day-to-day.
I think when people attack either the depths of my lyrics, or that I post too many selfies, it’s just some stupid criticism. I try really hard to not take it incredibly personally, even though it can be difficult because my business really is personal. It’s me It’s very much like Best Coast, myself as a female frontwoman, and as a person that’s in the spotlight.
How does it feel to know that through your lyrics and social media presence, you are actually giving voice to fans that deal with similar anxieties that you share in your music? They see you as a mentor and someone to reach out to.
I think it’s been a really cool experience for me to be very vocal about things like exercise and just taking care of yourself and ways to channel your anxiety into other things. It was a very long journey for me, and I still am trying to it figure out. Exercise helps, but it doesn’t fix it. It doesn’t cure it. There are still days where I am incredibly anxious or incredibly stressed. I’ll take a break to exercise and when it’s over I’m like, “Okay, I still feel like shit.”
Bethany Cosentino: That’s my approach to life in general. You’re never going to feel 100%. You’re never going to feel 100% perfect, or that things around you are totally great and amazing. That’s what I say to young girls and also young boys, and just people in my own age demographic and younger and older. They’ll say, “I deal with anxiety. What do you use to help yours?” To say exercise, and then to have somebody come back a couple months later and write me on the internet or whatever and say, “I met you in San Antonio and you told me to try yoga or pilates for when I get anxious, and it’s really helping”—that’s really cool, because as I said, it’s been a journey for me as well, trying to figure out something that really helped me as best as it could.
It’s nice to know that people trust me and trust my advice, because there are still days where I feel like I’m trying to figure it out. For the most part, most days, I think life can be confusing. I think it’s good to be realistic about things and give realistic advice. Sometimes, people come back to me and tell me that it’s worked for them or that it’s helped them in time. It’s a nice thing to know, and it’s nice to know that you are not alone in the search of trying to figure out how to center your thoughts and your anxiety and all that. It’s kind of like this club for weird anxious people. [Laughs]. I feel like I’ve created it in a way.
Blind Man Draw Items Based On What He Thinks They Look Like
Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, responds to the popular request to draw various objects based on how he thinks they look including a cat, a car, and himself.