Prince Harry, Elton John, and several other prominent British figures have been given the green light to continue with their legal case against the publisher of the Daily Mail. A judge made the ruling after Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) attempted to have the cases thrown out in London’s high court. …
Read More »Elton John Holds Bernie Taupin Closer With Hall of Fame Speech
When Elton John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1994, he called Bernie Taupin onstage and handed him the award. “Without him, the journey would not have been possible,” John said at the time. “I kind of feel like cheating standing …
Read More »Missy Elliott, Rage Against the Machine Storm the Rock Hall at Wild Brooklyn Ceremony
It was a few minutes past midnight when Missy Elliott stepped up to the podium at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and cemented her place in history as the first female hip-hop artist to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She’d spent the past four hours witnessing speeches and performances …
Read More »Cidny Bullens Sang on 'Grease' and With Elton John. Transitioning Helped Him Find His Voice
In his home office in Nashville, Cidny Bullens glances at a photo perched behind him: a young, pouty-faced 28-year-old in a Superman T-shirt, cradling an electric guitar. “I look at me as a different person,” says Bullens, who now sports short hair and a wisp of a mustache. “I don’t …
Read More »'The Masked Singer' Unmasks a Trailblazing LGBT Icon and Sports Legend
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. On the fifth episode of The Masked Singer Season 10, a tennis legend was unmasked. Disguised as a suited Royal Hen, the former world No. 1 tennis player Billie Jean King lost in a final smackdown against …
Read More »Bernie Taupin on His Seventies Visit to the Playboy Mansion: 'What a Dump'
For the past five decades, the incredible story of Elton John and Bernie Taupin‘s partnership has been told largely by Elton. That’s finally changing on September 12 with the release of Taupin’s memoir Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me. It’s a non-traditional work that leaps through time, focusing on the …
Read More »Elton John 'In Good Health' After Brief Hospitalization Following Fall at Home
Elton John was briefly hospitalized “as a precautionary measure” following a fall at his home in Nice, France Sunday, Aug. 27. John, 76, was reportedly treated for minor injuries at the orthopedic department and spent the night at a hospital in nearby Monaco. In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, …
Read More »The Bonkers Tale of the Stolen Flying Burrito Brothers Suit — And How It Was Finally Found
The shows were over, but for Phil Kaufman, the headache was just beginning. Then the road manager for the Flying Burrito Brothers, one of the bands credited with finding the common ground between rock & roll and honky-tonk country, Kaufman had just returned home to Los Angeles, after some Burrito-related …
Read More »Elton John, David Furnish Testify in Kevin Spacey's Sexual Assault Trial
Kevin Spacey’s defense team called Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, as witnesses as they tried to discredit the story of one accuser, whose allegation includes an incident that supposedly occurred on the way to John and Furnish’s annual summer gala. One of Spacey’s four accusers has said that, …
Read More »Watch Coldplay Cover Backstreet Boys' 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)' in Gothenburg
On the second Gothenburg stop of their current Music of the Spheres tour, Coldplay surprised fans with a pared down version of the Backstreet Boys’ 1997 hit “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).” As seen in a video of the performance, Chris Martin sang the hook with the entire stadium accompanying him. The …
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