New York, United States | AFP | A ferocious pianist with a madcap rubberband of a voice and bombastic stage personality, Little Richard, who died Saturday at 87, will go down in history as a key architect behind years of rock’s music world dominance. But though his pancake makeup and gaudy …
Read More »For some, Brexit means nailing your colours to a new flagpole
Madrid, Spain | AFP | For years, he criss-crossed the globe almost weekly, travelling on a British passport without a second thought, raising funds for international non-profit organisations and working for the likes of Elton John and Nelson Mandela. But when Britain voted to leave the European Union, something changed inside …
Read More »Elton John blasts Russian cuts of gay sex scenes in ‘Rocketman’
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Elton John has slammed the removal of gay sex scenes from the Russian version of the musical biopic of his life “Rocketman” as “cruelly unaccepting”. Film critics who watched a preview on Friday said the local distributor had censored some scenes for legal reasons. In …
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