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ARTIST Lineup
Hours 1 & 2
Adam Lambert
Andra Day
Black Coffee
Charlie Puth
Eason Chan
Hozier & Maren Morris
Hussain Al Jassmi
Jennifer Hudson
Jessie Reyez
Kesha
Lang Lang
Liam Payne
Lisa Mishra
Luis Fonsi
Milky Chance
Niall Horan
Picture This
Rita Ora
Sofi Tukker
The Killers
Vishal Mishra
Hours 3 & 4
Adam Lambert
Annie Lennox
Ben Platt
Cassper Nyovest
Christine And The Queens
Common
Delta Goodrem
Ellie Goulding
Finneas
Jack Johnson
Jacky Cheung
Jess Glynne
Jessie J
Juanes
Kesha
Michael Bublé
Rita Ora
Sebastián Yatra
Sheryl Crow
Sho Madjozi
Sofi Tukker
The Killers
Zucchero
Hours 5 & 6
Angèle
Annie Lennox
Ben Platt
Billy Ray Cyrus
Charlie Puth
Christine And The Queens
Common
Eason Chan
Ellie Goulding
Hozier
Jennifer Hudson
Jessie J
John Legend
Juanes
Lady Antebellum
Leslie Odom Jr.
Luis Fonsi
Niall Horan
Picture This
Sebastián Yatra
Sheryl Crow
SuperM
The latest attempt to brand Trump a Nazi has two American artists rolling over in their graves.
On Thursday, a New York Post reporter tweeted that President Donald Trump played the song "Edelweiss" at the White House. The New York Times's White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, suggested the song was a Nazi anthem, inspiring rightful backlash on Twitter. She seemed to stick with this false view, even after she was called out on it.
WNU Editor: This New York Times reporter probably never saw Sound of Music (talk about living in a bubble). She is probably thinking of this Nazi-themed show on TV where the song is used in the opening credits (see link here). On a side note .... I love the movie.
* Wham! singer, 53, died at his home in Goring, Oxfordshire this afternoon, his publicist announced
* Popstar Michael had previously fallen ill with pneumonia in 2011 and had battled substance abuse
* However, the medical circumstances around artist's death are yet to be released at this point
* Elton John has led the tributes to the star on social media and called him the 'kindest, most generous soul'
George Michael has died at his home in Oxfordshire.
The musician's publicist said that he had 'passed away peacefully' at his property in Goring at 1.42pm today.
Michael, 53, had previously battled drug addiction. However, the circumstances around his death are currently unknown.
Michael, who was set to release a documentary in 2017, rose to fame as a member of Wham!, known for their hits Club Tropicana and Last Christmas.
The singer - whose real name is Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou - sold more than 100 million albums throughout a career spanning almost four decades.
It’s been loud and bright right by the Kremlin walls, but Moscow’s military band festival is now over, leaving thousands of fans sad and desperate for next year’s round. RT’s 360 VR footage gives you a hint as to why this event is not to be missed.
For the whole week, Moscow’s main square was transformed into a historic stage for some of the world’s best military and classical music, which was performed live for an audience of thousands near the iconic Spasskaya Tower. Where better to listen to some of the grandest marches intertwined with pages from world history.
WNU Editor: I only learned a day before leaving Moscow that this festival was going to take place. Damn .... I would have stayed an extra week just to see this but both the GF and I had to return back to Canada. The above video is not great, but it gives you a sense on the audience and the theatrics that are involved in this Red Square celebration.
WNU Editor: Saw them in Ottawa about 20 years ago. My favourite song from the Eagles has always been Hotel California (see below). Their dress and image was simple .... because the focus was always on the music.
The Russian Army choristers are used to rave reviews for their renditions of pop classics such as “Get Lucky.” But a group of commandos took exception to their version of the new James Bond “Spectre” theme, it seems – and “abducted” them mid-song.
Five members of the Russian Army choir were hitting the high notes in their performance of Sam Smith’s “Writing's On The Wall,” the latest Bond theme hit, when they were suddenly “attacked” in a St. Petersburg shopping center.
WNU Editor: Growing up .... I preferred listening to American/British music (1960s - 1970s). Unfortunately .... in my home my father enjoyed listening to the Red Army choir sing .... and he put the speakers loud. Sighhhh .... it was not easy growing up.
B. B. King, whose world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89.
It was reported on Mr. King’s Web site that he died in his sleep.
Mr. King married country blues to big-city rhythms and created a sound instantly recognizable to millions: a stinging guitar with a shimmering vibrato, notes that coiled and leapt like an animal, and a voice that groaned and bent with the weight of lust, longing and lost love.
“I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions,” Mr. King said in his autobiography, “Blues All Around Me” (1996), written with David Ritz.
WNU Editor: I saw him at Place Des Arts in Montreal about 12 years ago. Front row seat .... I could see his sweat and his emotions up close .... a performance that I will never forget. And his duets with Eric Claption .... unbelievable. The music world is smaller today, but his music will live forever.
The Swingin' Blue Stars, (from left) Sandy Lewis, Nancy Cardoza, Cindy Merino and Cindy Shon, began singing to ease their anxiety after their sons were deployed to the war zone. (Photo by James Baka at Merx Studios)
Military Moms Sing Wartime Blues Away -- Voice of America
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A singing group that began as a way to help military moms cope with wartime anxiety is now bringing cheer to civilians and veterans.
The Swingin’ Blue Stars formed just after 9/11. Almost 12 years later, the group is still taking its show on the road.
Walking into a rehearsal of the Swingin’ Blue Stars feels like stumbling across a group of best friends. They meet about once a week in one of their living rooms in a San Francisco suburb. They push aside the furniture to face a big picture window. Sometimes they find themselves serenading neighbors.
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WNU Editor: The audio (and songs) to this story is below.
How effective the method is in sending the Taliban running for cover is difficult to tell, but local children certainly don't like it Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
US Special Forces Use Heavy Metal Music To Fight Taliban -- The Telegraph
US special forces have a novel weapon in the fight to expel Taliban from a desolate and war-weary farming community in southern Afghanistan – heavy metal music.
When insurgents open fire in Marjah, an armoured vehicle wired up to powerful speakers blasts out country, heavy metal and rock music so loudly it can be heard up to a mile away.
The playlist has been hand-selected to "---- off the Taliban", according to one US special forces officer.
My Comment: My head is just bursting at the seams thinking about this. Yes .... I am not a heavy metal fan, and if I was there I would be calling myself a victim of friendly fire.
Aditya Chakrabortty on the platoons' playlists on the Iraq frontline.
CJ Grisham and his friends used to love Eminem – especially his song, Go To Sleep. "We'd blare that and we'd all scream the lyrics." An all-American ritual – except that Grisham was a sergeant in the US offensive on Fallujah, and Eminem was his anthem for facing the Iraqis. As he puts it: "I'm going to have to shoot at someone today, so might as well get pumped up for it." And so his platoon would shriek along: "Go to sleep, bitch/Die, motherfucker, die/Time's up, bitch, close your eyes."
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