From Robert Smith to Freddie Mercury: the five musicians Paul Weller hates

From Robert Smith to Freddie Mercury: the five musicians Paul Weller hates

They say that tearing down your peers is one of the biggest signs of weakness. Still, this fact doesn’t stop certain musicians from feeling constantly obliged to share their opinions. Morrissey does it well, as does Paul Weller. However, while Morrissey’s negativity seems to come from an all-consuming need to prove his superiority, the root…

Stairway To Heaven’: The Led Zeppelin song Jimmy Page called “everlasting”

Stairway To Heaven’: The Led Zeppelin song Jimmy Page called “everlasting”

E.B. White once said, “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better, but the frog dies in the process.” In essence, if you look too much into something, you might understand it more, but the magic that initially got your attention dissolves. You could argue the same about Led Zeppelin, a…

Is a Freddie Mercury hologram show in the works?

Is a Freddie Mercury hologram show in the works?

A Freddie Mercury hologram show could be on the horizon. Mercury Songs Limited, which owns the late Queen frontman’s solo works, has filed to trademark his moniker for 3D and virtual reality. According to the filing, which has been obtained by The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column, it covers “immersive 3D virtual, augmented, and mixed reality…

Culture Re-View: How Freddie Mercury’s death changed AIDS perceptions

Culture Re-View: How Freddie Mercury’s death changed AIDS perceptions

On this day in 1991, Freddie Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia, a complication resulting from AIDS. At the time of his death, Mercury was the most famous person to succumb to the deadly disease. The impact of Mercury and his band Queen have been long discussed. Their influence on the glam-rock genre through cabaret-fuelled space-age…

London home Freddie Mercury bought in 1980 is for sale, minus his ‘exquisite clutter’

London home Freddie Mercury bought in 1980 is for sale, minus his ‘exquisite clutter’

LONDON (AP) — Freddie Mercury ’s sanctuary in London, where he lived the last decade of his life, is on sale for the first time in nearly half a century — minus his “exquisite clutter.” Garden Lodge, as the neo-Georgian brick home in the posh Kensington neighborhood is known, is for sale by Knight Frank…

10 Things You Might Not Know About Led Zeppelin’s ‘Houses of the Holy’

10 Things You Might Not Know About Led Zeppelin’s ‘Houses of the Holy’

Photo: Getty Images On March 28th, 1973, Led Zeppelin released their fifth studio album, Houses of the Holy. To celebrate the iconic record’s anniversary, here are ten things you might not know about it. 1. Houses of the Holy was mostly recorded using the Rolling Stones’ Mobile Recording Studio at a country estate in England….

Watch: A previously unreleased Freddie Mercury song and video, ‘Time Waits For No One.

Watch: A previously unreleased Freddie Mercury song and video, ‘Time Waits For No One.

Queen fans were taken by surprise, today, after the official Twitter handle of the late Freddie Mercury tweeted an unreleased track and video of the singer – Time Waits For No One. Originally a part of the soundtrack from the West End musical Time, which features lyrics by Dave Clark of Dave Clark Five and…