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Forgotten artists from the past 60 years that never should have fallen off your playlist

Forgotten artists from the past 60 years that never should have fallen off your playlist

Classic music is still in high demand, with the likes of The Beatles, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and Elton John all featuring on people’s playlists decades after they recorded their first track. However, for every global success story, some bands and artists sadly fall by the wayside, despite their back catalogues still being perfect for a modern-day audience. Whether it’s songs on heartbreak or melodies that won’t exit your head, there’s no reason for some of these to have been forgotten. Scroll down for some of the artists that you need to rediscover now and get them added to your playlists ASAP! © Getty Images Van Morrison Northern Irish singer Van Morrison is a music institution, and has been in the business since the late 1950s, spanning genres like rock, blues, jazz, country and even blue-eyed soul. The singer has been an inspiration to some of the favourite artists of millennials and Gen Z, including the likes of Ed Sheeran and James Morrison. The star has even been cited as Twilight star Robert Pattinson’s musical …

Viral dancing seniors inspire Italy’s ageing population to get moving

Viral dancing seniors inspire Italy’s ageing population to get moving

Bopping to Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley in a Roman square, an elderly dancing duo has become a viral sensation in Italy – something they hope will inspire other seniors to take up a more active lifestyle. Retired dance teacher Pasquale Iannotta, 70, and his dancing partner Elisa Fava, 79, have won praise from Rome’s mayor and twisted and twirled on national TV since one of their street performances was shared online by a social media savvy tour operator last week. Watch moreDance Theatre of Harlem: The ballet revolution hits Paris “No one ever thought we could go viral like this,” Fava said on Wednesday, as the pair returned to Testaccio square, in the namesake historic working-class district of the Italian capital, for another spin. Their moves have struck a chord with many in Italy – whose population is the oldest in the European Union. The original clip posted by The Tour Guy gathered more than 370,000 likes and thousands of comments on Instagram, including from mayor Roberto Gualtieri, who complimented the “excellent dancers”, writing: “There’s so …

Life and Music: The Long and Winding Road

Life and Music: The Long and Winding Road

Some songs arrive like visitors. Others have been living inside us for years. We may not remember when they first entered. We may not have chosen them as favorites. They were not always the biggest hits, the songs everyone else seemed to be singing. Yet decades later, a few notes of the Beatles’ “Julia,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “Old Friends” or “The Boxer,” or the quiet opening of “Sunrise, Sunset” can stop us in our tracks. Why does this happen? At certain ages, we approach and listen to music for changing purposes. When we are young, a song may help us declare who we are—or who we hope to become. Giving language to rebellion, romance, loneliness, and possibility. Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” sounds different when the future is rushing toward us than it does when we have lived long enough to watch the world change again and again. Later, music becomes less like a flag and more like a window. Through music, we see people we once knew, rooms we once inhabited, children …

Inside Rod Stewart’s disastrous final tour after scrapping 19 concerts

Inside Rod Stewart’s disastrous final tour after scrapping 19 concerts

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Sir Rod Stewart has been forced to say goodbye to his American fans much earlier than expected on his One Last Time farewell tour – with the “Maggie May” singer cancelling the remainder of his US tour. The 81-year-old underwent heart surgery on Tuesday (11 August), cancelling two tour dates while announcing his need for an “unforeseen but minor medical procedure”. However, just a day later, Stewart said that his remaining 11 tour dates across the US and Mexico would also no longer take place. “I’m already feeling better and very much on the mend,” he wrote on Instagram. “I am deeply disappointed to miss these shows and sorry to let my fans down, but I look forward to getting back on stage and having a good time with you all again soon.” It has been a somewhat cursed tour for the British …

‘He Comes to Every Concert With Me’: Meeting the BTS ARMY Boyfriends Outside the Arirang Tour

‘He Comes to Every Concert With Me’: Meeting the BTS ARMY Boyfriends Outside the Arirang Tour

A horde of BTS fans flooded the mile-long pedestrian walkway connecting American Dream Mall to the parking lot of MetLife Stadium. It was Saturday afternoon, six hours before the seven-member supergroup took the stage for the first of two sold-out shows in East Rutherford—their first headlining shows at MetLife since 2019. And ARMY (the group’s highly dedicated and loyal global fanbase, whose name stands for Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth) had been waiting for this moment for years. Couples walked hand in hand wearing matching BTS apparel, some of which was emblazoned with the names of their bias (the K-pop term for “favorite member”). Their clear plastic bags—12” by 6” by 12” in accordance with MetLife policy—dripped with BTS-branded keychains and figurines, whose jangling foreshadowed the fanfare about to erupt on the big stage. I’d opted for a slightly more low-key outfit, but I was part of that crowd—and not just as a spectator. I am a card-carrying BTS ARMY boyfriend. I’d secured tickets to the MetLife show for me and my girlfriend because she …

Malcolm Todd on Forgetting to Wear a Shirt, Sagging, and Being a ‘Messy Man’

Malcolm Todd on Forgetting to Wear a Shirt, Sagging, and Being a ‘Messy Man’

Malcolm Todd has a habit of forgetting to wear a shirt, especially in his hometown of LA. “When I’m in California, I like to be pretty naked,” he says over Zoom, live from his bedroom. He’s broken habit for GQ today, though. Todd is wearing a T-shirt layered over his signature red necklace, which has its tiny guitar charm. Fans gave it to him a year ago right before a show, and he hasn’t taken it off since. Shirts are important for our conversation because Todd is starring in a new campaign for legendary clothier Gap alongside Obsession star Inde Navarrette. In the commercial, Todd puts his laid-back spin on Robyn’s iconic “Dancing on My Own,” reimagining the anthem through a distinctly West Coast slacker lens. The indie pop-R&B artist has an easygoing boyish charm reflected in his Oasis mod haircut and uniform of baggy jeans, tank tops, and flip-flops. Some might call him a soft boy. His breakthrough mixtape was, after all, titled Sweet Boy. Todd, however, has a different label for himself. “I’m …

Matthew Lillard fans defend actor after ‘petty’ confrontation at horror convention

Matthew Lillard fans defend actor after ‘petty’ confrontation at horror convention

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Fans are rallying around Matthew Lillard after a bitter former fan confronted him at a horror convention. The Scream actor, 56, was answering questions from fans at the Midsummer Scream event in Long Beach, California, over the weekend when a man came to the microphone and started an awkward dialogue with the movie star. Video from the event shared on social media showed the man telling Lillard, who helped him hold up the microphone, “I met you a few years ago.” The man proceeded to tell Lillard that when they previously met, he tried to tell him his theory about a connection between the hit 1996 slasher movie and the 1995 romance Mad Love — which Lillard appeared in — due to both films featuring Drew Barrymore as characters named Casey. He said that in response to his idea, Lillard responded at …

BTS’s V on His New Champion Campaign: ‘My Style Is Pretty Instinctive’

BTS’s V on His New Champion Campaign: ‘My Style Is Pretty Instinctive’

It’s been a good year to be BTS. After starting off 2026 with handwritten letters to some of their most devoted fans, confirming their imminent comeback, the biggest band in the world dropped Arirang, their feverishly anticipated fifth studio album, in March, entering the Billboard charts at No. 1 and handily setting a record for the highest sales week for a group in over a decade. Soon after, the band members embarked on their blockbuster Arirang world tour, playing to sold-out stadiums all over the world. And just two weeks ago, they once again dominated headlines, announcing that they won’t submit music to next year’s Grammys, following the Recording Academy’s controversial announcement that it would include an Asian pop music performance category. But despite a busy year for OT7, the members—RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook—have also managed to pursue their own projects, flaunting the distinctiveness that has always endeared fans to the group. Courtesy of Champion Today, V announces his global partnership with the iconic American sportswear brand Champion, in a …

Ivory Coast’s Biama boom: TikTok trend gets the nation’s youth dancing – Focus

Ivory Coast’s Biama boom: TikTok trend gets the nation’s youth dancing – Focus

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again Cover image: FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 10/08/2026 – 13:25 06:10 min From the show Reading time 1 min Born barely five years ago in Yopougon – the poorest, but also the liveliest area of Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan – Biama has got the whole of Ivorian youth dancing. Faster than coupé-décalé, this newer musical and choreographic genre borrows many of its codes. But unlike its older sibling, which is associated with trendy nightclubs, biama is danced in the streets and on social media, making it easily accessible to its young, working-class audience. Despite not having record companies behind them, the most prominent biamasseurs are enjoying significant success, racking up millions of views on TikTok and performing on tours across Europe and Africa. FRANCE 24’s Julia Guggenheim reports. Source link

Overmono review – irresistible dance duo swap club intimacy for well-earned spectacle | Dance music

Overmono review – irresistible dance duo swap club intimacy for well-earned spectacle | Dance music

In the age of shortform video supremacy, there has been a great deal of angst about the authentic club music experience being rendered a vapid spectacle. Stop expecting DJs to be social media stars, put your phones away on the dancefloor, close your eyes and lose yourself in the beats, goes the revanchist wisdom. It’s understandable, but worries about superstar DJs stomping on the face of the pure rave experience are almost 30 years old now. It is decades since the Prodigy, Chemicals, Orbital and Fatboy Slim lit up festival stages and the charts. And anyway, spectacles can be fun – and funny – and so can dance music. The grounds of Christopher Wren’s Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich – a Unesco World Heritage Site, no less – are an unarguably comical setting for Welsh duo Overmono’s biggest headline gig to date, and brothers Tom and Ed Russell are fit for the part, and the party, celebrating the release of their second album with lasers dancing on the baroque towers and colonnades. But even …