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Guru's Weekly Buzz: June 12-18

Guru By Bangkok Post's weekly pick of the most exciting products, activities, food and travel to indulge in.

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"You don't get to the top without playing the game, and Des Rocs is playing it to gold medal-winning standards." Ambition and big-time dreams shine through on Des Roc's To Hell And Back

To Hell And Back is the third album from New Yorker Des Rocs, and the garage has been repurposed as a glitter-encrusted drag cave

Louder

“He didn’t write that many but if you think about it the ones he did were big, big hits”: How John Deacon’s genius for pop songwriting was kickstarted with the follow-up to Bohemian Rhapsody

Following up Bohemian Rhapsody is no easy task, but the retro sensibilities of You’re My Best Friend secured Queen another major hit. We take a look at the song's timeless charm

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Scary Movie’s Box Office Win Continues Hot Horror Summer, But That’s Not The Only Genre Highlight

Backrooms breaks another record, while Obsession crosses a major milestone.

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Alice Cooper warns AI will create 'fake rock stars'

Alice Cooper says AI is on the verge of manufacturing entire rock stars from thin air, but insists the technology can never replace real emotion.

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“The chorus wrote itself, the chords took me about 10-15 minutes and then Paul came up with the verses while he was waiting for a lift to a gig the next day!”: How one of the greatest rock anthems of all time was created in the wake of a nightmare show

“It was this gigantic sound,” says super-fan Joe Bonamassa

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Alice Cooper warns AI will create 'fake rock stars’ with 'no heart, no soul’

Alice Cooper says AI is on the verge of manufacturing entire rock stars from thin air - but insists the technology can never replace real emotion.

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“Dee’s blessing was important to me. I have such a reverence for him, he wrote all of these great songs”: Sebastian Bach was “like a kid on Christmas morning” when he was asked replace Dee Snider in Twisted Sister

Sebastian Bach and Twisted Sister‘s Jay Jay French speak exclusively to Classic Rock about filling Dee Snider’s boots

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"He stopped and said 'This is where the opera section comes in!' Then we went out to eat dinner." How Freddie Mercury's "fevered brain" conjured up Queen's greatest song

Queen's record company didn't want to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single, but history has proved them wrong several times

Louder

West Ham have been relegated from the Premier League - what comes next?

Hammers succumbed to relegation after a miserable campaign

Evening Standard

Rami Malek almost turned down The Man I Love role due to Bohemian Rhapsody similarities

Rami Malek nearly passed up on the chance to star in The Man I Love due to the comparisons between the character of Jimmy George and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, who he played in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Rami Malek compares new Cannes role to Freddie Mercury performance

Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek has returned to the Cannes spotlight with "The Man I Love". The latest film from indie director Ira Sachs is premiering on the Croisette alongside co-stars Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Tom Sturridge. The film sees Malek play a downtown New York performance artist during the…

France 24

Rami Malek explores art, love and death in Ira Sachs' Cannes entry 'The Man I Love'

In Ira Sachs’ 1980s-set drama “The Man I Love,” Rami Malek finds the most well-tailored role since his Oscar-winning turn in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

The Independent UK

Billy Joel does not want anything to do with the upcoming movie about him

‘Billy & Me’ will follow the inception of Joel’s career through the eyes of his former manager, Irwin Mazur

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Michael Reclaimed The Box Office Throne, But What Happened To Billie Eilish?

Where did your current favorite movie land?

The Independent UK

Royal Mint launches rainbow prism coins celebrating legendary rock band Pink Floyd

The band has joined David Bowie and Freddie Mercury in the Royal Mint’s ‘music legends’ series

Evening Standard

Pink Floyd rainbow prism effect coins launched by The Royal Mint

Pink Floyd join David Bowie, George Michael, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Paul McCartney and Freddie Mercury in The Royal Mint’s ‘music legends’ series.

Evening Standard

A night at the planetarium – Queen hits to be played during immersive dome show

The event, titled Queen Heaven, will take place at the National Space Centre in Leicester on May 29.

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You Are Here review: Danny Boyle’s postwar pop-culture tribute lets it all hang out

The director’s immersive Southbank Centre takeover has vim and ardour in spades, if not complete coherence

Evening Standard

Guns N’ Roses guitar fetches more than £230,000 at auction

A gold microphone presented to rock band Queen and used by frontman Freddie Mercury also sold for £151,200.

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"When I sing Twisted Sister music, I'm like a steamroller. I'ma beast. I'm out of control." Twisted Sister's Sebastian Bach and Jay Jay French on life after Dee Snider

Sebastian Bach and Jay Jay French are interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock, out today

The Guardian - UK

Michael is a highly selective version of the singer’s life, and that suits more people than you might think

It’s not just the money-making studio execs – fans, too, are often happy for the darker parts of a subject’s life to be ignored, says Guardian arts correspondent Nadia Khomami

The Guardian - UK

Bad movies, good business: how sanitised biopics became a Hollywood staple

As interest in the lives of celebrities has intensified, we have become acclimatised to them curating and mercilessly monetising their image

The Guardian - UK

From Michael to Back to Black, many authorised music biopics are becoming bland propaganda. Fans deserve more

Swerving the child abuse allegations, the new Michael Jackson film is yet another revisionist music movie in a long line. We know what’s in it for their subjects. What about the viewers?

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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Michael' - It's bad. It's really, really bad

The King of Pop is back... And whatever you think of him, you’ll wish he wasn’t.

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