Elvis Presley's first record sold for $300,000 (£187,500) as part of an auction to mark his 80th birthday on Thursday (08Jan15). Presley recorded the ballad My Happiness at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee in 1953 when he was an 18-year-old budding musician. He paid $4 (£2.50) for the session and then took the acetate disc to his friend Ed Leek and left it at his house. The single, donated by […]
AC/DC, Drake, Steely Dan and Ryan Adams have joined the lineup for this spring's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The two-weekend event is to take place April 10-12 and 17-19 in Indio, Calif. Also expected to take the stage during the festival are Florence + the Machine, Interpol, David Guetta, Belle and Sebastian, and Bad Religion, as well as dozens of other music acts. Source: upi.com
Among the world’s exclusive concert tickets, this might be the ultimate. A show by rock legend Bob Dylan, with an audience of just one person. Dylan and his band on Sunday afternoon performed at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music to just one lucky fan: Swedish television personality Fredrik Wikingsson, who is working on a film series about how solitary individuals experience events designed for large crowds. Wikingsson, a self-described huge fan […]
One Direction and 5 Seconds Of Summer were the big winners of the 2014 MTV EMA, with both groups of lads taking home three EMAs at the Glasgow show. Ariana Grande and Katy Perry also did pretty well for themselves, winning two EMAs apiece. Check out the full list of 2014 MTV EMA winners below: Best Song Ariana Grande (Problem ft Iggy Azalea) Best Pop One Direction Best Female Ariana Grande […]
With Tony Braunagel, Eric Burdon's producer and drumer, at Terravibe Park
