By Jem Aswad
22.04.2020 - 20:45 / variety.com
By Jem Aswad
Senior Music Editor
As evidenced by many of the performers in last weekend’s “One World: Together at Home” benefit, the livestreamed-from-home concert concept is showing its limitations. The show saw Elton John performing from his driveway, complete with a basketball hoop in the background, and Paul McCartney singing straight into his iPhone, using the device’s vertical mode. More ambitiously, Rita Ora delivered a smartly edited (if clearly lip-synched) multi-angle video for “I
By Jem Aswad
BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge’s charity single has replaced Captain Tom Moore at number one.
By Jem Aswad
By Jem Aswad
Foo Fighters have praised an all-star cover of their song Times Like These, featuring more than 20 acts including Dua Lipa and Chris Martin, after it debuted on BBC Radio 1.
This was not the golden anniversary environmentalists had in mind for the 50th celebration of Earth Day (April 22).
Dua Lipa, Rita Ora, and Ellie Goulding are teaming up to perform a charity cover of the Foo Fighters’ Times Like These as part of a BBC radio special on Thursday (April 26, 2020).
Dua Lipa, Rita Ora, and Ellie Goulding are teaming up to perform a charity cover of the Foo Fighters’ Times Like These as part of a BBC radio special on Thursday.
Many classic albums are surrounded in juicy, front-page-of-the-Daily Mail drama. Then there's Paul McCartney's debut solo album, McCartney -- released 50 years ago on April 17, 1970 -- which is in a league of its own. To some, it's The Album That Ended The Beatles. But, as is so often characteristic of rock lore, much of that drama overshadows the musical artifact and its true lasting legacy.