Going under the knife is not compulsory
but being sculpted as the perfect lookalike sure helps in
Britain's burgeoning tribute band business.
Get an Elvis nose job,...
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Sacha Baron Cohen will not be taking on the role of Freddie Mercury in a big-screen adaptation of his life, it has been announced.
Last week, it was reported the comedian...
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Sacha Baron Cohen will play Freddie Mercury in a big screen adaptation of Freddie Mercury's life, it has been claimed.
The Borat and Ali G comedian has apparently been...
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Mika Penniman, the Beirut-born singer
who stormed the charts in adopted home Britain with his single
"Grace Kelly," is learning fast that overnight success can
quickly fade...
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Queen guitarist Brian May has had with it with a crazy little
thing called MySpace. As for the late Freddie Mercury: He was here, he
was queer and Zanzibar still can't get...
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A Muslim leader has criticized plans to honor late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury with a huge beach party this weekend.
Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, violated Islam...
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A huge beach party to honor late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury must be stopped because the Zanzibar-born rock star was gay, a Muslim leader said Thursday.
Mercury, who...
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Devo, "Devo 2.0" (Disney Sound)
I had an uncontrollable urge to trash "Devo 2.0" until I remembered that it's aimed at kids aged 5 to 13, and not their parents.
Although...
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The people have spoken: Paul Wall is the new chart champ.
The Houston rapper helped push Kanye West's latest to number one by
guesting on the Late Registration track...
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Nothing will stop Queen from hailing the real champions.
After having to postpone a planned open-air concert in London's Hyde
Park following last Thursday's deadly...
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Destiny's Child and Linkin Park have been added to the lineup for the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia on July 2.
The additions were announced Thursday, one day after...
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Twenty years later, it is still considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll concerts of all time. During Live Aid, top musicians played simultaneous shows in London and...
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If you're a child of the '80s, chances are Erasure provided the synthesized soundtrack to your angst-ridden adolescence.
Their songs about love and heartbreak can be...
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Former President Nelson Mandela on Friday welcomed stars including actor Will Smith and singers Annie Lennox and India.arie to South Africa for his second concert to raise...
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Former President Nelson Mandela on Friday welcomed stars including actor Will Smith and singers Annie Lennox and India.arie to South Africa for his second concert to raise...
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In the 25-year history of the Brit
awards, Prince ranks as the only winner that dared not speak
his name.
For the small but perfectly formed American rock star never
won...
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Queen has decided the show must go on.
Heeding
its own advice, the superstar British rock band is planning to tour next
year--the first time the band has gone on the...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Hollywood Records will on Nov. 9
unveil the first commercial release of Queen's 1982 concert at
London's Milton Keynes Bowl, originally broadcast on British
television and...
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Procol Harum's 1967 classic "A Whiter
Shade of Pale" has been named as the most-played record of the
past 70 years in the United Kingdom, according to British
performing...
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Flamboyant British metal band the
Darkness moved closer to realizing the holy grail of British
rock -- "cracking America" -- when their debut album went gold
in the United...
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He wasn't called Moon the Loon for nothing.
The late Who drummer Keith Moon , famed for trashing drum kits, cars and hotel rooms, topped a list of the "100 most insane...
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Organizers of the Nelson
Mandela-inspired "46664" AIDS -awareness and fundraising
campaign are claiming the biggest TV and radio audience for any
single music...
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SEATTLE (AP) Between drumming for Pearl Jam and raising two young children, Matt Cameron doesn't have much time for moonlighting.
But Cameron has found some time...
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Late Queen vocalist and avid philatelist Freddie Mercury will join a host of other British celebrities gracing their own postage stamps in the United Kingdom next...
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