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RARE PHOTOS: Elvis - The Real Truth

"He said he did these big gigs to make money, but what he enjoyed best was playing in churches and castles with his missus." Russ Ballard's wild tales of Ritchie Blackmore, The Beatles, Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne and more

Go-to songwriter, solo artist and former Argent guitarist/singer Russ Ballard hung out with The Beatles, is mates with Roger Daltrey and heard Elvis stories from Robert Plant

Louder

"I said, 'God, you’ve nicked all my things.' He said, ‘Yeah, I know, man. I know. It's like a homage to you’”: David Bowie admitted that he stole the Stones' sound on one classic song, says Mick Jagger

Jagger also recalls the time that John Lennon talked him about of meeting Elvis

MusicRadar

Conman ‘Fat Leonard’ who swindled the Navy and fled US says ‘it wasn’t rocket science’

‘Fat’ Leonard Francis is seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump for his involvement in a decades-long U.S. Navy bribery and fraud scandal

The Independent UK

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Why Australia is not the high-taxing country that many people think

Claims that Australia is highly taxed are exaggerated.

The Canberra Times

Donald Trump claims he’s bigger than Elvis after even more artists pull out of Freedom 250 concerts

"You're the Devil in disguise"... Donald Trump is considering holding an "America is back rally" instead of a series of concerts after the majority of artists planned for the Freedom 250 gigs have withdrawn from the "Freedom 250" shows. Trump even claims that he's bigger than Elvis.

Euronews

Trump MAGA Festival Chaos: POTUS Compares Himself to Elvis After Artists Quit

Donald Trump has offered to headline the Freedom 250 concert after multiple artists pulled out, shifting a planned nonpartisan July 4 show into a de facto MAGA rally.

International Business Times UK

'Third Rate Artists' Slammed by Trump as He Threatens to Replace Cancelled Acts with Himself at National Mall

Donald Trump criticises artists withdrawing from the Freedom 250 concert series, considering himself as a replacement headliner amid political tensions and event controversies.

International Business Times UK

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“It’s gonna be so tasteful what we’re doing. This isn’t just like hooking up an image of my dad to ChatGPT”: Jack Osbourne claims that their plans for an AI Ozzy won’t be “lame”

But it is what he would have wanted?

MusicRadar

Chewing gum and ash-filled cookie jars: Inside the world of extreme pop fandoms

'Holy Pop!' takes visitors inside the bizarre and beautiful world of obsessive fans.

Euronews

Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar will be ‘so tasteful’, Jack Osbourne says after fan backlash

Lifesize avatar of former Black Sabbath frontman will be created by tech companies Hyperreal and Proto Hologram

The Guardian - AU

"We're going to take it all around the world. People can talk to him and he will talk back." Jack and Sharon Osbourne are preparing a future in which Ozzy will live on digitally

Get ready for Ozzy 2.0

Metal Hammer

75 years of Fender Telecaster – an all-star country line-up, a mega jam, and one legendary guitar

The Fender Telecaster has some of the world’s biggest artists as fans, but what has made the guitar such a success? And can it survive in a world of AI?

Please stop making music biopics. We need a break from this tired genre that is essentially expensive karaoke

With the release of Michael and not one but four Beatles feature films under way, I am once again calling for a moratorium on these films (with one exception)

The Guardian - AU

Priscilla Presley says Lisa Marie’s death has ‘separated’ Elvis’ family

Only child of music legend Elvis died in 2023 from complications of a weight loss surgery she had undergone years before

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Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC review – fascinating star-studded concert film

Footage from John Lennon’s only full-length performances after the Beatles – at Madison Square Garden, for charity, with the Plastic Ono Band – has been edited and restored

AAP

'Elvis of birds': clue found in hunt for elusive parrot

Researchers are racing against time to find and protect a critically endangered parrot after a decade-long search led to audio of the rare bird's call.

What Hi-Fi?

Pro-Ject's special edition, lightning bolt-shaped AC/DC Turntable shoots to thrill – and leaves us thunderstruck

We speak to CEO Heinz Lichtenegger about the design and engineering behind the Artist Collection series

The Independent UK

'New king of Las Vegas' is celebrated with Strip parade

Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars was honored with a parade in his honor and a street named after him near the Park MGM in Las Vegas

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Tom’s Guide

5 top new movies to stream this week on Netflix, HBO Max, Peacock and more (April 7-13)

This week's slate of new streaming movies has been confirmed, and I'm rounding up the top picks on Netflix, HBO Max, Peacock and more.

MusicRadar

“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society

The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style

The Conversation

Alpha males, Harry Styles, and going mad with desire: what to watch in April

This month’s streaming slate is packed with bold, conversation-starting TV, from an expose of the toxic manosphere, to a Netflix comedy featuring a very horny Rachel Weisz. If you’re feeling nostalgic, there’s even an old classic from French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda. So settle in and get watching!

Louder

"It was like something from Mad Max, with all the fires and steaming bodies." Meet the rock'n'roll Forrest Gump, who turned down Jimi Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, and was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend

As Ten Years After release an expanded version of their Ssssh album, founding bassist Leo Lyons recalls a live packed with rock'n'roll flashpoints

The Independent UK

Is my cockapoo a nut job because of me – or is it the breed?

LET’S UNPACK THAT : A new Royal Veterinary College study has found designer crossbreeds are more hectic than their purebred counterparts. Lydia Spencer-Elliott investigates whether her dog’s cheeky behaviour could be down to biology

MusicRadar

“He says, ‘Well, I've got it here,’ and he plays it. He gets Austin to sing it with him, so Austin and Sir Paul are doing an Elvis duet”: Uh-huh? Baz Luhrmann says that Paul McCartney convinced Austin Butler to sing an Elvis song with him on a train

They both had a ticket to ride, presumably (but we don't care)

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Baz Luhrmann is hard at work on Jehanne d'Arc movie

Elvis director Baz Luhrmann has revealed how he is slowly piecing together his much-anticipated historical epic Jehanne d'Arc.

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