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Irish Times
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
The Music Quiz: Where are the brackets placed in this U2 song title?
Gerard Crosbie is better known by which stage name? Gerard Way James Arthur Gerry Cinnamon Gerry Rafferty Written in the key of A♭ major, which Queen song features 'dramatic intervalic contrasts, ranging from F2 in the harmonies to A♭2 to a C5 in full voice up to an A♭5 in falsetto in the lead vocals'? Somebody to Love Bohemian Rhapsody Killer Queen Brighton Rock On Christy Moore's 2009 album, Listen, which Pink Floyd song does he cover? See Emily Play Comfortably Numb Money Shine On You Crazy Diamond Which UK hip-hop act has composed the soundtrack to the forthcoming horror film, 28 Years Later? Plan B Loyle Carner Little Simz Young Fathers Brad Mehldau's forthcoming album, Ride Into the Sun, is a tribute to which US singer-songwriter? Warren Zevon Elliott Smith Janis Joplin Frank Zappa Where are the brackets placed in this U2 song? Pride (In the Name of Love) (Pride) In the Name of Love Pride In the Name (of Love) Pride (In the Name) of Love Made in Sheffield, Tony Christie's 2008 album of songs by Sheffield-based songwriters, features the MOR crooner covering which Human League track? Human Louise Open Your Heart One Man In My Heart Which is a Warpaint song named after a famous blues/jazz singer? Sarah Vaughan Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday Peggy Lee Anar, the title of the 2011 debut solo album by Czech-Icelandic songwriter/musician Markéta Irglová, is the Persian word for which fruit? Pomegranate Pineapple Peach Pear How many tears did ? and the Mysterians sing about in 1966? 93 94 95 96 From which song on Lou Reed's 1973 album, Berlin, did Mike Scott choose the name of his band The Waterboys? Men of Good Fortune How Do You Think It Feels The Kids Caroline Says II
New York Times
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
15 Surprising Show-Tune Covers for Broadway's Big Night
By Scott Heller Dear listeners, This is Scott Heller, the former theater editor (now I'm on The New York Times Book Review). With the Tony Awards this Sunday, I'm serving up show tunes to Amplifier readers — but not the usual fare. There are no deathless standards here, like Judy Collins singing 'Send in the Clowns' or anything from Barbra Streisand's 'Broadway Album.' And if you're the kind of person who saves your Playbills, you've already listened to the Pet Shop Boys version of 'Losing My Mind' — a lot. Rather, I'm hoping this edition of The Amplifier is full of surprising covers, and covers of show tunes you may not know as theater songs in the first place. I've mostly stayed away from pop albums designed to market the shows themselves, though I couldn't resist opening with one, from well before 'Hamilton' got into that game. And, alas, one of my favorites — Jill Sobule's 'Sunrise, Sunset,' recorded for the 'Fiddler' tribute compilation 'Knitting on the Roof' — doesn't seem to be streamable. But you can find it on her website. Laden with happiness and tears, Scott Who knew? This delightful curiosity comes from a 1968 Motown album on which the trio performed 11 songs from 'Funny Girl,' a tie-in released just as the movie version reached theaters. Take away the ugly duckling story line and the Brooklynese and it doesn't exactly add up. But who cares when greeted with brash horns, sunny vocals and a group cheer after the unforgettable rhyme, 'When a girl's incidentals / are no bigger than two lentils.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
ABC News
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
'A different type of president': TIME magazine's creative director on the tricky task of covering Trump
It's been said that the cover of TIME magazine is the most important real estate in journalism. For more than 100 years, the publication's covers have helped to encapsulate the news into one arresting image every week. Using the now-iconic red border, the covers can be shocking, controversial and always thought-provoking. DW Pine, the magazine's creative director, has been the man responsible for bringing these covers to the world since 2001. He has put some of the world's most recognisable faces on TIME's front page, including Steve Jobs, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama and Pope Francis. Pine, who has overseen more than 1,000 of TIME's covers, told ABC News Breakfast the incumbent US President Donald Trump has created a unique challenge for the magazine. "We have an interesting relationship with him," he said. "He has famously said that he only likes about 25 per cent of the TIME covers, so from where I sit I think that's actually pretty good." Pine says the magazine is approaching Trump's second term differently to his first. "The first term… we had never seen anybody like him in the United States as the president, at least not in modern day. So we presented the visuals the same way. Lots of scandals, lots of chaos." Pine's favourite Trump cover is the magazine's 'Nothing to See Here' publication from February 27, 2017, just after he was first inaugurated. It portrays Trump subsumed in a thunderstorm in the middle of the Oval Office. "What's great about this cover, is that it's a perfect place for a TIME cover to be," Pine says. "If you're an opponent of the president, you look at that and see all the chaos he's created. And if you're a supporter of his, you see how resolute he is sitting behind the Resolute desk as all the chaos rains around him." Pine also worked with artist Edel Rodriguez to produce the August 22, 2016 cover, titled 'Meltdown', which attracted worldwide attention. "We did eight different covers that was just this single orange and yellow take. We used that quite a bit throughout. It's a tricky balance because you have to treat it with respect. "I actually looked back at some of the old covers and how we treated presidents over the last 100 years and made sure that we were still in keeping with treating the office with respect, even though he was probably the most and still is a different type of president for the United States." Under Pine, TIME also ran its 'Aisha' cover on August 9, 2010, which depicts an 18-year-old woman from Afghanistan, whose nose was cut off by the Taliban. Pine says it was a "very important" image for the magazine. "It's really, really difficult to look at," he told News Breakfast. "She was trying to flee abusive in-laws. The story wasn't really being told at that time. "The editor-in-chief, Rick Stengel, at the time went to child psychologists to make sure what we were doing was okay, that when kids saw this image they were going to be okay with it. "It was important for us to put that on there, even though the visual was very difficult to look at." DW Pine first joined TIME in 1998 as design director before becoming creative director in 2010, overseeing a staff of art directors, designers and researchers. He says each morning starts with a staff meeting where the day's biggest news stories and current events are discussed. Those meetings inform who, or what, will grace the magazine's cover each week. Pine says picking a cover is a weekly challenge that he loves, and one which ultimately helps readers "crystallise this complicated world we're living in". "You get together and figure out what's the important news of the day. And from there, the editor-in-chief and some others decide who is the person. "We tell a lot of stories through people. We found that their lives and experiences are a great way to be able to tell the complicated stories of today and be able to create a really visual storytelling that's what is important for a TIME cover." Pine says the magazine's bold covers are even more important today than when TIME was founded in 1923, calling it a "dream job". "I think people nowadays are really in need of a trusted news source," he says. "I get to work with some of the world's best artists and photographers to help us fill this canvas every single week. "That teamwork, that collaboration process… it really makes it fun to do." DW Pine will be speaking about his career and creative process at Vivid Sydney on May 29.
RNZ News
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Nashville Babylon: Saturday 24 May 2025
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Bob Dylan, 1963 Photo: supplied This week's Nashville Babylon celebrates Bob Dylan's 84th birthday with a selection of cover versions of his finest work from the likes of Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, Esther Phillips, Bryan Ferry, RL Burnside and Willie Nelson. Music played: Artist: Mavis Staples & Levon Helm Track: Gotta Serve Somebody Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Carry Me Home Label: Anti Artist: Bob Dylan Track: Highway 61 Revisited Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Highway 61 Revisited Label: Columbia Artist: Bryan Ferry Track: Simple Twist Of Fate Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Dylanesque Label: Virgin Artist: Esther Phillips Track: Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You Composer: Bob Dylan Album: The Roulette Sides Label: Warner Artist: RL Burnside Track: Everything Is Broken Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Tangled Up In Blues Label: House Of Blues Artist: Solomon Burke Track: The Mighty Quinn Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Proud Mary Label: Sundazed Artist: Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard Track: Don't Think Twice It's Alright Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Django and Jimmie Label: Legacy Artist: Them Track:It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Them Again Label: Decca Artist: Emma Swift Track: Queen Jane Approximately Composer: Dylan Artist: Blonde On The Tracks Label: Tiny Ghost Records Artist: The Brothers and Sisters Track: All Along The Watchtower Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Dylan's Gospel Label: Ode Artist: Bob Dylan Track: Like A Rolling Stone Composer: Bob Dylan Album: Highway 61 Revisited Label: Columbia Artist: The Noveltones Track: Left Bank Two Composer: Wayne Hill Album: Left Bank Two Label: De Wolfe Music
Irish Times
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
The Music Quiz: US duo Twenty One Pilots covered which Damien Rice song?
By which name is Amethyst Amelia Kelly better known? Alicia Keys Iggy Azalea Pink Grimes Complete the title of English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Hayden Thorpe's 2021 album, Moondust for My _______? Ruby Emerald Pearl Diamond The title of which Charles Dickens novel is also the name of a song on the 1976 Kiss album, Destroyer? Bleak House Great Expectations Hard Times Our Mutual Friend US rock/electro/rap duo Twenty One Pilots covered which Damien Rice song? The Blower's Daughter Cannonball Volcano 9 Crimes Willie Nelson's latest album, Oh What a Beautiful World, features new interpretations of 12 songs written or co-written by which well-known country singer and songwriter? Rosanne Cash Kris Kristofferson Rodney Crowell Dolly Parton In 2012, Swedish doom metal/rock band Ghost released a cover of which song by ABBA? Knowing Me Knowing You Thank You for the Music Move On I'm a Marionette In M Night Shyamalan's 2024 movie, Trap, what is the name of the fictional pop singer that the main character Cooper (Josh Hartnett) brings his teenage daughter to see in concert? Lady Craving Baby Raven Baby Maven Lady Raven In the West End musical adaptation of the 1995 movie Clueless, which UK songwriter provides new songs? KT Tunstall Paloma Faith Pixie Lott Sophie Ellis-Baxtor In Ulster Television's 1994 Rockin' in the North series, Therapy? covered which famous Northern Irish song? Gloria by Them Alternative Ulster by Stiff Little Fingers The Days of Pearly Spencer by David McWilliams Moondance by Van Morrison Which album was the first winner of Canada's Polaris Music Prize? Broken Social Scene, by Broken Social Scene Twin Cinema, by The New Pornographers He Poos Clouds, by Final Fantasy Live It Out, by Metric
