HBO Max’s “It’s a Sin” offers American audiences a glimpse into the AIDS crisis as seen through British eyes.
Russell T Davies’ four-part series, which follows the residents of the Pink Palace in the early 1980s, is anchored in love, fear, grief and shame, and the
soundtrack of the stories are iconic needle drops from the era. Among them: Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon,” Wham’s “ Freedom,” Erasure’s “ Oh L’Amour,” Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” and the Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s a Sin.”
The initial idea was for the show to rely on score rather than commercial music. “It would be used for pivotal moments,” says music supervisor Iain Cooke. But the music for the series continued to evolve and grow that by the end, Cooke says, “we ended up with three and a half times that.”
With each episode having a multitude of cues,...
Russell T Davies’ four-part series, which follows the residents of the Pink Palace in the early 1980s, is anchored in love, fear, grief and shame, and the
soundtrack of the stories are iconic needle drops from the era. Among them: Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon,” Wham’s “ Freedom,” Erasure’s “ Oh L’Amour,” Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” and the Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s a Sin.”
The initial idea was for the show to rely on score rather than commercial music. “It would be used for pivotal moments,” says music supervisor Iain Cooke. But the music for the series continued to evolve and grow that by the end, Cooke says, “we ended up with three and a half times that.”
With each episode having a multitude of cues,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
On April 5th, 2020, music fans stuck in their homes and cruising the web for diversions were greeted with one of the most unusual sights in a season filled with them: King Crimson auteur Robert Fripp and his wife, singer and actress Toyah Willcox, both elegantly dressed and dancing to Bill Haley and the Comets’ early rock anthem “Rock Around the Clock.”
Filmed on Willcox’s iPhone in the kitchen of the couple’s home near Birmingham, England, the head-scratching clip launched one of the year’s least likely and most talked-about viral series.
Filmed on Willcox’s iPhone in the kitchen of the couple’s home near Birmingham, England, the head-scratching clip launched one of the year’s least likely and most talked-about viral series.
- 3/24/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and singer/actress Toyah Willcox continued their Sunday Lunch series with a cover of Mötley Crüe’s “Girls Girls Girls.”
Stationed as always in their kitchen, Fripp bashed out the 1987 hair metal classic on guitar while Willcox hammed it up with a fittingly wild vocal performance. Willcox also spent the video waving around a tennis racket and squeezed in some forehand practice as she bellowed, “But what I need to make me tight are/Girls, girls, girls /Long legs and burgundy lips.”
Fripp and Willcox...
Stationed as always in their kitchen, Fripp bashed out the 1987 hair metal classic on guitar while Willcox hammed it up with a fittingly wild vocal performance. Willcox also spent the video waving around a tennis racket and squeezed in some forehand practice as she bellowed, “But what I need to make me tight are/Girls, girls, girls /Long legs and burgundy lips.”
Fripp and Willcox...
- 3/15/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and singer/actress Toyah Willcox dropped a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and showed their support for Spears in her ongoing conservatorship fight.
The cover was part of the couple’s quarantine series, “Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch,” and found them ripping through Spears’ 2003 hit in what looked to be their kitchen. Fripp deftly recreated the lead synth riff of “Toxic” with some lightning-quick guitar playing, while Willcox delivered a delightfully over-the-top vocal performance.
In an explicit nod to Spears’ ongoing conservatorship battle, the...
The cover was part of the couple’s quarantine series, “Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch,” and found them ripping through Spears’ 2003 hit in what looked to be their kitchen. Fripp deftly recreated the lead synth riff of “Toxic” with some lightning-quick guitar playing, while Willcox delivered a delightfully over-the-top vocal performance.
In an explicit nod to Spears’ ongoing conservatorship battle, the...
- 3/8/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Since Broadway theaters went dark last March due to coronavirus precautions, fans of plays and musicals have been eager to experience their favorite shows and new works live onstage and in person. That still hasn’t become a reality — but many people are trying to keep the dream alive. Last year, Tony Award nominations were announced for the protracted season and some hoped there would be a virtual ceremony as well. That plan was also scrapped and voting for the 74th Annual Tony Awards will take place between March 1st and March 15th,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Break out the leg warmers because it’s ’80s Night on “Dancing with the Stars” and there’ll be a lot of… tangos?
Four of the top 12 couples are tasked with tangos this week, so prepare for lots of side steps. Kaitlyn Bristowe is one of the four, which is a good thing since, like Derek Hough pointed out last week, it’s been getting too same-y with her pretty but similar lyrical routines the past couple of weeks.
Two dances will make their season debuts: jazz, which is assigned to three couples, and contemporary, which Johnny Weir got. And if you’ve seen any of his figure skating routines, you know he will nail this. Also, it’s to “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” so this is going to be a moment.
Here are the Week 5 dances:
Monica Aldama and Val Chmerkovskiy: tango (“Tainted Love” by Soft Cell...
Four of the top 12 couples are tasked with tangos this week, so prepare for lots of side steps. Kaitlyn Bristowe is one of the four, which is a good thing since, like Derek Hough pointed out last week, it’s been getting too same-y with her pretty but similar lyrical routines the past couple of weeks.
Two dances will make their season debuts: jazz, which is assigned to three couples, and contemporary, which Johnny Weir got. And if you’ve seen any of his figure skating routines, you know he will nail this. Also, it’s to “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” so this is going to be a moment.
Here are the Week 5 dances:
Monica Aldama and Val Chmerkovskiy: tango (“Tainted Love” by Soft Cell...
- 10/11/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
When Pj Harvey started releasing records in the early Nineties, her raw lyrical depictions of sex and violence made people uncomfortable; it wasn’t often you heard a young, female artist (or a male one for that matter) sing something like “I’ll make it better/I’ll rub ’til it bleeds.” But Harvey wasn’t trying to play alt-rock Alice Cooper. She came about her strong stomach honestly, working as a teenage farm hand in England’s West Country. “I used to ‘ring’ all the lambs’ tails and testicles,...
- 7/30/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
“Stupid Love,” the lead single from Lady Gaga’s upcoming sixth full-length album, is dropping on Friday, February 28th at midnight Et, the star announced via social media — and, unsurprisingly, the fans are speculating.
One theory is that the album will be called Chromatica, as the word can be found on the single art. It doesn’t hurt that the word “chromatic” has both aural and visual definitions that are very Gaga-esque: “[Music] relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage...
One theory is that the album will be called Chromatica, as the word can be found on the single art. It doesn’t hurt that the word “chromatic” has both aural and visual definitions that are very Gaga-esque: “[Music] relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage...
- 2/25/2020
- by Samantha Hissong and Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Cute baby alert!
On Sunday, Kylie Jenner shared the first glimpse of Kim Kardashian West and husband Kanye West‘s newborn daughter Chicago West with the world — in a video the 20-year-old mother posted after announcing the birth of her own baby girl.
Near the end of the video, which Jenner sweetly titled “To Our Daughter,” Kardashian West sat by her younger sister while the Lip Kit mogul held Chicago.
“She looks completely different,” Jenner exclaimed. “She’s so little.”
Off-camera, Jenner’s Bff Jordyn Woods could be heard asking the reality star if she and her husband had decided...
On Sunday, Kylie Jenner shared the first glimpse of Kim Kardashian West and husband Kanye West‘s newborn daughter Chicago West with the world — in a video the 20-year-old mother posted after announcing the birth of her own baby girl.
Near the end of the video, which Jenner sweetly titled “To Our Daughter,” Kardashian West sat by her younger sister while the Lip Kit mogul held Chicago.
“She looks completely different,” Jenner exclaimed. “She’s so little.”
Off-camera, Jenner’s Bff Jordyn Woods could be heard asking the reality star if she and her husband had decided...
- 2/4/2018
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
She’s here!
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West‘s third child and second daughter has arrived via surrogate, Kardashian West shared via her website Tuesday.
The baby girl was born Monday, Jan. 15, at 12:47 a.m., weighing 7 lbs., 6 oz.
“Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,” Kardashian West wrote in a post titled “She’s Here!”
“We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care.”
The new addition makes...
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West‘s third child and second daughter has arrived via surrogate, Kardashian West shared via her website Tuesday.
The baby girl was born Monday, Jan. 15, at 12:47 a.m., weighing 7 lbs., 6 oz.
“Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,” Kardashian West wrote in a post titled “She’s Here!”
“We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care.”
The new addition makes...
- 1/16/2018
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
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