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Time of India
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Bruce Springsteen in Donald Trump's crosshairs? President delivers chilling warning, says ‘We'll see how it goes for him' after his return from European tour
Donald Trump lambasted Singer Bruce Springsteen, labelling him 'overrated' and an 'obnoxious jerk' after the rocker aired his damning opinion of the Trump led United States government while on tour. On May 14 in Manchester, England, at the Etihad Stadium Bruce Springsteen started his 2025 Europe tour. At the concert, he spoke about Donald Trump's government. He said it was 'corrupt, not good at its job, and doing things that go against the country.' As per the reports, Springsteen said the America I love is being run by people who are corrupt, don't know what they're doing, and are hurting the country. He asked people to 'rise against authoritarianism and let freedom ring' 'the power of art, music, and rock 'n' roll is important during dangerous times, according to the reports. Springsteen performed 29 songs at the show. It started with 'Land of Hope and Dreams' and ended with a Bob Dylan cover, 'Chimes of Freedom', which he hadn't performed since 1988. He added a snippet of 'People Get Ready' at the end of the opening song. He performed 'Rainmaker' live for the first time ever, and dedicated it to Donald Trump, calling him 'our dear leader.' Songs like, Death to My Hometown, Lonesome Day, My Love Will Not Let You Down, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The Promised Land, Hungry Heart, My Hometown, Youngstown', and many more. Live Events The additional performance songs were, Born in the U.S.A., Born to Run, Bobby Jean, Dancing in the Dark, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, and Chimes of Freedom. After this concert, Trump responded angrily on his social media app Truth Social on Friday. Trump called Springsteen 'highly overrated,' 'not a talented guy,' and a 'pushy, obnoxious JERK.' Trump also said, 'This dried out 'prune' of a rocker ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country.' Trump brought up Joe Biden, calling him 'Sleepy Joe' and said Springsteen is 'dumb as a rock.' Trump added, 'We'll all see how it goes for him,' suggesting there might be consequences when Springsteen returns to the U.S. Trump also made comments attacking Taylor Swift. The American Federation of Musicians released a statement defending Bruce and Taylor. According to the reports, The American Federation of Musicians said, 'Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift are not just brilliant musicians, they are role models and inspirations to millions. He added. 'musicians have the right to freedom of expression.' In 2025, at Monmouth University's Pollak Theatre at the American Music Honors, Springsteen performed and shared the stage with Smokey Robinson, Tom Morello, and John Fogerty. The Songs sang at that event were, This Land Is Your Land, Fortunate Son, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out. Springsteen will be performing again in Manchester on May 17 and 20. His tour and comments are happening while everyone is talking about the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Trump is headlines as usual and involved in politics again. FAQs Q1. What did Bruce Springsteen say about Trump? He called Trump's government corrupt and not good at its job to the country. Q2. What was Trump's response to Bruce Springsteen? Trump got angry at Springsteen and criticized him during his concert. Economic Times WhatsApp channel )
The Guardian
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Jerry Butler, soul hitmaker and Illinois politician, dies aged 85
Jerry Butler, the US singer and songwriter who had a string of 1960s pop and soul hits before a long career in Illinois politics, has died aged 85. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Butler died at home on Thursday. He had been living with Parkinson's disease. Born to a poor family in Mississippi and then raised in Chicago, Butler originally trained to be a chef – 'Jerry could cook like somebody's mama,' Smokey Robinson later said – but became an influential and versatile musician who came of age as soul music evolved out of doo-wop and mid-century pop. He brought his gospel music background to bear on one of his earliest songs, For Your Precious Love – named as one of the 500 greatest of all time by Rolling Stone in 2004 – which he wrote and then performed with his group Jerry Butler and the Impressions, taking it to No 11 in the US charts in 1958. The group also featured Butler's childhood friend Curtis Mayfield, who fronted them after Butler left for a solo career – they found further success with songs such as People Get Ready. But the Butler-Mayfield collaboration continued, with Mayfield writing or co-writing a number of solo Butler songs, including He Will Break Your Heart, a No 7 hit in 1960. Butler also co-wrote other hits, such as Otis Redding's I've Been Loving You Too Long. Butler also found success with his takes on a series of pop standards, including Moon River and Make It Easy on Yourself, but his biggest hit of all was self-penned: Only the Strong Survive, which reached No 4 in 1969. It was co-written with powerhouse Philadelphia duo Gamble and Huff, and together they scored a number of other hits. He earned the nickname 'Iceman' for his cool, collected demeanour on stage: 'I came through a period when the Isley Brothers were jumping off the stage, and James Brown was sliding across the floor. But I am just a standup singer,' he said. A cover of He Will Break Your Heart became a US No 1 hit for Tony Orlando and Dawn in 1975, under the title He Don't Love You (Like I Love You). But his own musical success waned in that decade, and he ended up focusing on a beer distribution company he'd founded in 1973. Come the 1980s, he decided to move into politics, and in 1986 was elected to the Board of Commissioners in Cook County, Illinois – it acts as the legislature for the area, and oversees courts, prisons, healthcare and more. He held a position on the 17-strong board until his retirement in 2018. He was made a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as a member of the Impressions, and his sizeable songbook was also later sampled by hip-hop artists including Snoop Dogg and Missy Elliott.
New York Times
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Susan Alcorn, Voyager on Pedal Steel Guitar, Dies at 71
Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with the country music roadhouse, into the avant-garde, died on Friday in Baltimore. She was 71. Her husband, David Lobato, said the cause of death, in a hospital, had not been determined. A rare female virtuoso on an instrument long dominated by men, Ms. Alcorn erased boundaries for pedal steel guitar — a console-style electric guitar played face up, with pedals and knee levers to alter pitch, often used to create a forlorn, wailing twang. That made it a key instrument in country music. As hinted at by the title of her 2006 album, 'And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar,' Ms. Alcorn steered the instrument into uncharted territory. Over the course of a career in which she mined and refigured countless genres, she released more than 20 albums, either as a solo artist or in collaboration with boundary-pushing musicians like the guitarist and banjo player Eugene Chadbourne, the saxophonist Caroline Kraabel and the guitarist Mary Halvorson. Her album 'Curandera,' released in 2003, featured cosmic interpretations of the Curtis Mayfield composition 'People Get Ready' and Messiaen's 'O Sacrum Convivium.' Her 2023 album, 'Canto,' was inspired by her travels in Chile, where she became entranced with nueva canción, a left-leaning folk music that had been repressed by the dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. Still, the sound was all her own. As the experimental music journal Signal to Noise once noted, Ms. Alcorn's 'pedal steel tones stretch, float and dance in the air, and on the ears, expressing something that's worlds beyond words, yet able to communicate on the deepest level.' Despite its experimental nature, her work did cross over into the mainstream at times. Her 2020 album, 'Pedernal,' recorded with a quintet — the title refers to a mesa in New Mexico that Georgia O'Keeffe frequently painted — was named one of the 10 best jazz albums of that year by Giovanni Russonello of The New York Times. The Times also included a track from the album, 'Northeast Rising Sun,' in a roundup of that year's notable songs. But Ms. Alcorn was striving for something deeper than popular acclaim. 'To me, music is a form of communication on a very deep level,' she said in a 2015 interview with Guitar Moderne magazine. 'It includes — but goes beyond — colors, shapes, emotions and memory.' Ms. Alcorn was born on April 4, 1953, in Allentown, Pa., the eldest of three children of James Alcorn, a salesman, and Mary (Auer) Alcorn, a philanthropic event coordinator who had played piano with the Cleveland Orchestra. She took up guitar when she was about 12, developing an affinity for the slide guitar work of bluesmen like Son House and Muddy Waters. While studying political science and history at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., she was intrigued when she saw a pedal steel player perform at a nightclub. 'I remember that wondrously magical metallic sound and the way the shining steel bar seemed to float over the top of the instrument,' she recalled in an autobiographical essay on her website. 'I was hooked.' She took up the instrument and, after graduating in 1976, started gigging with Western swing and country bands, first in Chicago and later in Houston, where she moved with her first husband in the early 1980s. 'For pedal steel you pretty much have to study country to get the technique,' she said in a 2020 interview with the British music magazine The Wire. While she never lost her affection for country, Ms. Alcorn started to expand her musical horizons — developing, in her words, a 'fascination with the mysteries of sound and the vast musical possibilities of dissonance' — and began writing and performing more experimental material. Her musical sensibility further evolved in 1990, when she was introduced to 'deep listening,' a philosophy developed by the experimental composer Pauline Oliveros, a future collaborator. The concept was 'a way of listening,' she wrote, 'in which all notes, harmony, melodies, composition, people, and space were approached from within and without.' Ms. Alcorn released her first solo album, 'Uma,' in 2000. In a review in Texas Monthly magazine, John Morthland noted that she 'doesn't ignore the melancholy mood that her instrument brings to country, but applies elements of world music, jazz, avant-classical and New Age to create sounds that defy classification.' In addition to her husband, she is survived by her daughters, Rose and Hannah Alcorn, and a grandson. She lived in Baltimore. While The Times in 2022 credited her with helping to open the door for others to innovate on the pedal steel guitar, Ms. Alcorn showed little interest in fame. 'I try not to think about whether I have much of an audience or a following,' she told Guitar Moderne.' 'I try to keep making music, try to say something with it, and then, like a message in a bottle, cast it into the sea and hope somehow somewhere it will reach someone and affect that person in a positive way.'
FACT
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- FACT
The FACT UAE Weekend Guide: 9 to 11 February
While we await the impending Valentine's Day onslaught, we recommend brunches, cultural activities, and concerts this weekend. Get ready to enter House of Hype, Dubai's most electrifying entertainment destination at Chinatown Dubai Mall. A fusion of fashion, gaming, entertainment, and culinary experiences, this immersive Wonderverse offers 18 unique worlds, 50 gaming experiences, 55 content creator stages, live performances, 14 shops, and six dining spots—all designed for trendsetters, foodies, and thrill-seekers alike. Tickets from AED 149. GO: Visit for reservations and more information. The sun is shining, and the weather is sweet at Barasti Beach. The brilliant beach club is hosting Bob Marley's Birthday Festival, which takes place on the Jamaican singer's birthday and looks back at his legacy. The line-up includes reggae artists, DJs, and The Wailers. The group includes the bassist Aston 'Familyman' Barrett and the remaining members of Bob Marley and The Wailers, who will hopefully perform People Get Ready and One Love. His hit songs include Buffalo Soldier, Get Up, Stand Up, No Woman, No Cry , and Sun is Shining . GO: Visit for tickets and more information. If you're looking for a dose of culture, head to the Ras Al Khaimah Art Festival. Now in its 13th edition, it runs until 28 February at Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village. The event, which explores the theme of memory, brings together 200 local and international artists. Workshops are available and cover arts, culture and crafts. The workshops include Painting Past Memories, Colouring Black and White Photographs, and Stop Motion Animation. Film screenings are also taking place indoors and outdoors. GO: Visit for more information. Shaw Lash from LILA Molina is taking over The Farmers Market at Alserkal Avenue this weekend, and she's bringing her friends. Having already collaborated with Chef AJ from Al Naqa Lao Kebab and Chef Rita from Maisan15, this weekend is the turn of Chef Milan Jurkovic from 21grams Urban Balkan Bistro. The two FACT award-winning restaurants will join forces to create a one-of-a-kind taco, cooked over a wood-fired grill and utilising as many seasonal and local ingredients as possible. GO: Visit @lilamolino on Instagram for more information. Nick Carter, one-fifth of the Backstreet Boys and a celebrated artist, is heading to Dubai this February. As part of his Who Am I tour, Carter will perform at Bla Bla Dubai's The Tent, serenading fans with his popular hits. This concert gives fans a rare chance to see Carter take the stage solo in an intimate venue. GO: Visit for reservations and more information. Helipad Dubai teams up with Factory People and Nuit de Folie for HOT MESS Sunsets—a new monthly music series blending sunset vibes with high-energy DJ sets. Kicking off the series is the electrifying DJ Saliah, known for her high-energy Boiler Room set and a fusion of electronic music with Middle Eastern influences. AED 350 (VIP deck), AED 500 per person (front row) and AED 600 (right and left DJ booth). GO: Follow @ on Instagram for more information. Veo Fitness continues its expansion across Dubai with the launch of a new branch in Arabian Ranches 2, bringing state-of-the-art facilities, expert-led classes, and a vibrant, community-focused atmosphere. Open daily, the new gym features a fully equipped training area, an outdoor workout space, a swimming pool, a dedicated post-workout recovery zone, and premium padel and tennis courts. Members can push their limits with high-energy classes like HIIT and Cycling or unwind with holistic sessions such as Yoga, Sound Healing, and Pilates. GO: Visit for more information. Known for its brilliant burgers, BEAU is transforming fast food into a luxurious experience in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The restaurant's new Chicken Nuggets Caviar Box featuring crispy chicken and Oscietra Caviar is taking social media by storm. The dish is priced at AED 320. GO: Follow @beaurestaurants on Instagram for more information. The 9th of February is not only World Pizza Day, but it's also the birthday of Michele Johnson, co-founder of the FACT award-winning Pitfire Pizza. To celebrate, Michele is sharing her favourite pizza, The Palm, by giving away a free slice with every AED 100+ delivery order. This Dubai classic features an olive oil base, air-dried beef, rosemary, sweet dates, creamy gorgonzola, and a balsamic glaze finish. Available for delivery only while stocks last. GO: Visit for more information.
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Express Tribune
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Internet praises 80-year-old Rod Stewart's performance at FireAid benefit concert
Rod Stewart, the 80-year-old music legend, received widespread praise for his electrifying performance at the FireAid benefit concert in Los Angeles on January 30, 2025. Fans were left in awe not only by his musical talent but also by his seemingly ageless appearance and boundless energy. Taking the stage at the Intuit Dome, Stewart performed his timeless classics, including his 1988 hit Forever Young , while donning a zebra-print shirt. His performance sparked a flood of reactions from fans on social media, with many commenting that he looked and performed as if he were decades younger. One enthusiastic fan wrote, "Rod Stewart is f cking 80 years old, dude. Thought he is 40." Others echoed similar sentiments, with one person tweeting, "An 80-year-old Rod Stewart is giving better live performances in 2025 than 90% of young artists in this era, today." An 80-year old Rod Stewart is giving better live performances in 2025 than 90% of young artistes in this era, today. It's a damn shame! This is music! — 365 DAYS OF ALBUMS (@lifeaseverest) The FireAid concert, which aimed to raise funds for victims of the recent LA fires, featured a star-studded lineup, but it was Stewart's performance that truly captivated the audience. Throughout his set, which included hits like Maggie May and People Get Ready , fans marveled at how the legendary rock star defied age. "80 is the new 60," one fan declared, while another exclaimed, "I can't believe he's 80!" Killed it 80 is the new 60 — ChristenRCarter (@CRussellCarter) I can't believe he's 80. — Mike Alexander (@tvschlub) Stewart himself opened up about his connection to California, explaining that he had lived in the state for over 50 years and experienced much of its history. He told FOX News , "I've spent so much time here, and that's why it's so important for me to be part of this event." Rod Stewart celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this month, and just weeks after his milestone, he was joined by longtime friend Ronnie Wood to celebrate with a surprise birthday party. Stewart has also been keeping busy with his music career, including an upcoming performance at the Glastonbury music festival in June 2025. As for his performance at FireAid, fans couldn't stop raving. One user on X (formerly Twitter) summed it up: "Between Rod and the backup dancers, we are all being transported back to the 80s." Stewart's performance is a reminder that true talent only grows with age, and despite being in his eighth decade, the iconic rocker continues to captivate audiences with his unmatched energy and stage presence.
