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Character Lore Below the Cut

Chuck

Age: 19

Operative Numbuh 4317 (Medical specialist)

Status: Decommisioned

Currently studying for Nursing school and volunteering at the Hero's Clinic under Dr. Kincaid

Levelheaded and good under pressure, it takes a lot to shake up Chuck

However, this all goes out the window in regards for people messing with his family, especially his little sisters

fluent in Japanese and English

Dating Zuri Lincoln

Sharol

Age: 16

formerly Operative Numbuh 4321 (Brawler Specialist)

Status: Decommisioned

Number 43 of the Gizmos, Defense men

Pet(s): Bradley Jr. Skunk, age >6 years old

Lei

age 12

Numbuh 340

Status: Actve, Diversionary Tactics Specialist

[milfjagger]

names of albums under cut!

betty: preacher's daughter (ethel cain); if you're feeling sinister (belle & sebastian); grace (jeff buckley); electra heart (marina)

archie: the freewheelin' bob dylan (bob dylan); so far... (crosby, stills, nash & young); darkness on the edge of town (bruce springsteen); bridge over troubled water (simon & garfunkel)

veronica: nina simone sings the blues (nina simone); new skin for the old ceremony (leonard cohen); ultraviolence (lana del rey); the doors (the doors)

jughead: horses (patti smith); pieces of a man (gil scott-heron); revolver (the beatles); loaded (the velvet underground)

cheryl: live through this (hole); heart shaped bed (nicole dollanganger); circus (britney spears); bella donna (stevie nicks)

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Reminder: Vote based on the song, not the artist or specific recording! The tracks referenced are the original artist, aside from a few rare cases where a cover is the most widely known.

Lyrics, videos, info, and notable covers under the cut. (Spotify playlist available in pinned post)

I Won't Say (I'm in Love)

Written By: Alan Menken & David Zippel

Artist: Susan Egan with Roz Ryan, Cheryl Freeman, Lillias White, Vanéese Y. Thomas & LaChanze for Hercules

Released: 1997

From the 1997 Disney movie Hercules, “I Won’t Say (I’m In Love)” is the movie’s featured love ballad. After a romantic date with Hercules, Meg expresses her conflicting emotions through song (with some back up from the Muses). Hurt before and technically working for Herc’s arch nemesis, this song demonstrates Meg’s reluctance to get into another relationship that (in her mind) can only end badly.

[MEG] If there's a prize for rotten judgment I guess I've already won that No man is worth the aggravation That's ancient history, been there, done that [MUSES, MEG] Who d'you think you're kiddin'? He's the earth and heaven to you Try to keep it hidden Honey, we can see right through you (Oh no) Girl, you can't conceal it We know how you feel and who you're thinkin' of [MEG] Oh No chance, no way I won't say it, no, no [MUSES] You swoon, you sigh Why deny it? Uh-oh [MEG] It's too cliché I won't say I'm in love [MUSES] Shoo-do, shoo-do, ooh [MEG, with MUSES] I thought my heart had learned its lesson It feels so good when you start out My head is screaming, "Get a grip, girl" "Unless you're dyin' to cry your heart out" Oh [MUSES, MEG] You keep on denying Who you are and how you're feeling Baby, we're not buying Hon, we saw you hit the ceiling (Oh no) Face it like a grown-up When ya gonna own up That you got, got, got it bad? [MEG] Whoa No chance, no way I won't say it, no, no [MUSES] Give up, give in Check the grin, you're in love [MEG] This scene won't play I won't say I'm in love [MUSES] You're doin' flips Read our lips, you're in love [MEG, MUSES] You're way off base (Shoo-do, shoo-do) I won't say it (She won't say it, no) Get off my case (Sha-da, sha-da) I won't say it [MUSES] Girl, don't be proud It's okay, you're in love [MEG] Oh At least, out loud I won't say I'm in love [MUSES] Shoo-do, shoo-do, shoo-do, shoo-do Sha-la-la-la-la-la, ah

God Only Knows

Written By: Brian Wilson & Tony Asher

Artist: The Beach Boys

Released: 1966

“God Only Knows” is a song by American rock band The Beach Boys. It is the eighth track on the group’s 11th studio album, Pet Sounds, and one of their most widely recognized songs. “God Only Knows” was composed and produced by Brian Wilson. Tony Asher helped Brian with the lyrics. Carl Wilson sang lead, and Bruce Johnston sang harmony vocals with Brian in the outro. The song broke new ground in many ways. It was one of the first commercial songs to use the word ‘God’ in its title. As producer, Brian Wilson used many unorthodox instruments, including the harpsichord and French horns that are heard in the song’s famous introduction. Although The Beatles engaged in a friendly rivalry with the Beach Boys based on mutual respect, Paul McCartney called this song the best song ever written.

[Verse 1: Carl Wilson] I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it [Refrain: Carl Wilson] God only knows what I'd be without you [Verse 2: Carl Wilson] If you should ever leave me Well, life would still go on, believe me The world could show nothing to me So what good would living do me? [Refrain: Carl Wilson] God only knows what I'd be without you [Interlude: Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson, and Bruce Johnston] Ooh, ooh Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Bow, buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow (Do, do, do, do) Buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow (Do, do, do, do, do, do) Buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow, buh-bow (Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do) [Refrain: Carl Wilson] God only knows what I'd be without you [Verse 3: Carl Wilson] If you should ever leave me Well, life would still go on, believe me The world could show nothing to me So what good would living do me? [Chorus: Carl Wilson] God only knows what I'd be without you [Outro: Carl Wilson with Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston] God only knows what I'd be without you God only knows what I'd be without you God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be) God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows) God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be) God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows) God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be) God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows) God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be) God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows) God only knows what I'd be without you (What I'd be) God only knows what I'd be without you (God only knows)

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Northumbria Playlist

Spotify playlist | 68 songs | 4h 10m

< all songs by Northern English artists highlighted in blue >

Sound Of The Underground, Girls Aloud

Jump, Girls Aloud

Love Machine, Girls Aloud

Biology, Girls Aloud

Something Kinda Oooh, Girls Aloud

Call The Shots, Girls Aloud

Can't Speak French, Girls Aloud

The Promise, Girls Aloud

Something New, Girls Aloud

Sweet Melody, Little Mix

Between Us, Little Mix

Shout Out To My Ex, Little Mix

Touch, Little Mix

Wings, Little Mix

Black Magic, Little Mix

Secret Love Song, Pt. II, Little Mix

Love Me Like You, Little Mix

Power (feat. Stormzy), Little Mix, Stormzy

No More Sad Songs (feat. Machine Gun Kelly), Little Mix, mgk

Up, The Saturdays

Ego, The Saturdays

What About Us, The Saturdays, Sean Paul

About You Now, Sugababes

Push The Button, Sugababes

Round Round, Sugababes

Wannabe, Spice Girls

Say You'll Be There, Spice Girls

Stop, Spice Girls

Who Do You Think You Are, Spice Girls

Ugly Heart, G.R.L

Waterfalls, TLC

Here Comes The Sun - Remastered, The Beatles

All You Need Is Love - Remastered, The Beatles

I Want To Hold Your Hand - Remastered, The Beatles

Hey Jude - Remastered, The Beatles

Best Song Ever, One Direction

What Makes You Beautiful, One Direction

Night Changes, One Direction

Story of My Life, One Direction

As It Was, Harry Styles

Adore You, Harry Styles

Don't Look Back In Anger, Oasis

Wonderwall, Oasis

Forget About Us, Perrie

Tears, Perrie

Angel Of My Dreams, JADE

Mine (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift

Cornelia Street, Taylor Swift

Lover, Taylor Swift

Promise This, Cheryl

Fight For This Love, Cheryl

Call My Name, Cheryl

Parachute, Cheryl

ceilings, Lizzy McAlpine

The Tide Is High - Radio Mix, Atomic Kitten

Whole Again, Atomic Kitten

Obviously, McFly

All About You, McFly

Let's Get Ready to Rhumble, PJ & Duncan

Levitating, Dua Lipa

New Rules, Dua Lipa

Rule The World - Radio Edit, Take That

Patience, Take That

Shine, Take That

Love Story (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift

Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift

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I made Spotify playlists for a couple of Sing characters that didn’t get one! (Song lists are under the cut) ↓

And I made a new Buster playlist! Since he has TWO playlists from the first and second movie, I combined them into one and added some showtunes, some upbeat jazzy stuff, and a few songs that gives off Buster vibes ♡ (sorry it’s so long, he had a lot of music! Mostly oldies but goodies ♪)

♘ Eddie Noodleman ♘

✿ Miss Crawly ✿

⭐︎ Buster Moon ⭐︎

EDDIE:

8TEEN (Khalid)

Moonshadow (Cat Stevens)

Let’s Go Surfing (The Drums)

Ukulele and Chill (Cody G)

Sunflower (Post Malone, Swae Lee)

Ventura Highway (Paco Versailles)

Love Your Days (Cherokee)

Swept Away (Vanilla)

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Wham!)

No Rain (Blind Melon)

California (from The O.C.)

Days Like These (Lakey Inspired)

Dream With You - Bosq Remix (Jeffrey Paradise)

Young Folks (Peter Bjorn and John)

Tropical Heartache (Poolside)

California Sunset (Poolside)

Weather (Ralph)

Inbetween Days (The Cure)

End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys)

Pink Sky (Bay Ledges)

Australia (The Shins)

Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Paul Simon)

Baroque Hoedown (Perrey and Kingsley)

MISS CRAWLY:

Lagoon (Havana Swim Club)

You Make Me Feel So Young (Frank Sinatra)

What A Little Moonlight Can Do (Billy Holiday, Teddy Wilson)

Chop Suey! (System Of A Down)

April Showers (Proleter)

Frenesi (Artie Shaw)

Come Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra)

When I’m Sixty Four (The Beatles)

Shooby Shooby Do Yah! (Mocean Worker, Steven Bernstein)

C’est Magnifique (Kay Starr)

Blinuet (Zoot Sims)

The Last Time I Saw Paris (Vaughn Monroe)

Them from New York, New York (Frank Sinatra)

Sweet Happy Life (Peggy Lee)

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles)

きらきらキラー (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu)

BUSTER MOON:

Flirty Cha Cha (The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra)

Safe And Sound (Capital Cities)

Don’t Rain On My Parade (Barbra Streisand)

There’s No Business Like Show Business (Harry Connick, Jr.)

Gimme Some Lovin’ (The Spencer David Group)

My Type (Saint Motel)

Walking On A Dream (Empire of the Sun)

The Showman (Little More Better) (U2)

Blinuet (Zoot Sims)

Come to Me (Koop, Yukimi Nagano)

Cake By The Ocean (DNCE)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Teddy Wilson)

Over and Over (Session Victim)

Soulful Strut (Horst Jankowski and his Studio Orchestra)

Dancing in the Moonlight (Toploader)

A Happy Song (Victory)

Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen)

Lovely Day (Bill Withers)

End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys)

Seasons of Love (Rent the Musical)

Times Are Hard for Dreamers (Amelie the Musical)

Keep Your Head Up (Andy Grammer)

Hang On Little Tomato (Pink Martini)

Smile (Nat King Cole)

When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) (Louis Armstrong)

My Song (Labi Siffre)

Wouldn’t It Be Nice (The Beach Boys)

Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra)

Faith (Stevie Wonder, Ariana Grande from Sing)

I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown & The Famous Flames)

The Wind (Cat Stevens)

Hallelujah (Tori Kelly from Sing)

I’m A Believer (The Monkees)

Faith (George Michael)

You’re All I’ve Got Tonight (The Cars)

Keep It Comin’ Love (KC & The Sunshine Band)

Happy (Pharrell Williams)

Sing (Ed Sheeran)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell)

Sing a Song (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Your Song (Elton John)

Golden Slumbers (The Beatles)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)

Listen to the Music (The Doobie Brothers)

I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers)

Saturday (Twenty One Pilots)

Someone In The Crowd (La La Land soundtrack)

The Blue Room (Zoot Sims Quartet)

Turandot, SC 91, Act III: Nessun Dorma! (Giacomo Puccini)

Viva La Vida (Coldplay)

You, Me, Here, Now (Dam Swindle)

Dancin’ - Krono Remix (Aaron Smith, Luvli, Krono)

Feel the Heat (Ghosts of Venice)

Flashing Lights (Kanye West)

Beautiful People (feat. Khalid) - NOTD Remix (Ed Sheeran, Khalid, NOTD)

Get Down Tonight (KC & The Sunshine Band)

Got To Be Realm(Cheryl Lynn)

Sing a Happy Song (The O’Jays)

Do You Believe in Magic? (The Lovin’ Spoonful)

You Can’t Stop the Music (The Kinks)

Can’t Stop The Feeling! (Justin Timberlake)

Don’t Dream It’s Over (Crowded House)

Take A Chance On Me (ABBA)

The Moonbounce (Koop)

Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) (Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars)

Off White Limousine (Client Liaison)

Old 45’s (Chromeo)

Pick Up The Pieces (Average White Band)

He’s The Greatest Dancer (Sister Sledge)

You’re The Top (Jeri Southern)

Let’s Go Crazy (Prince)

Daydream Believer (The Monkees)

Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)

It’s Gonna Be Good (Next To Normal the musical)

[groovycat18]

I got to episodes 6 and 7 last night but had no time to write my thoughts on them, so here they are now!

Episode 6 Dr. Teeth hugging Zoot so tightly is going to be the only Smooth Jazz content I get in this series, isn’t it? 

Always good to see Baby Animal, especially seeing him develop his interest in music. 

The band’s origin story was interesting, but I kind of wished they addressed the fact that Lips was a late addition to the band, cause the flashback with them painting the bus made it seem like he’d always been there. 

Also, interesting origin for how they got the Mayhem bus! Never put much thought into that before!

Also, is Teeth’s backstory that is revealed in this series going to affect “Everyone Matters”? No, cause I’m too fond of the fanon I developed or am borrowing for that story, but I do like the backstory they gave him in the show.

Episode 7: Again, how vast are Lips’ music connections?! He knows one of the Bangles (his “Walk like an Egyptian” dance was cute), he knows Paula Abdul (was he responsible for her being on Muppets Tonight?), and he knows Paul McCartney, and straight-up ignores his call when Nora decides they don’t need an actual Beatle for their documentary (which killed me XD). 

Zoot being unaware that certain celebrities are dead is pretty accurate, and I loved Morgan Freeman’s cameo. 

Ugh, please assure me Nora/JJ doesn’t happen! I’m on Team Moog!

Really, Peter Jackson? You do TRILOGIES? Where are Meet the Feebles 2 and 3 then??? 

Also, on the note of the Feebles, I’m surprised they were even referenced in this show, since their movie was beyond R-rated, and I’ve heard from somewhere that one of Henson’s kids (I think it was Cheryl) was disgusted by that movie and considered it an insult to her father’s legacy. 

Honestly, I’d like to know more of what happened when the Muppets met the Feebles. Why are two in witness protection and the rest in jail???

Gonna watch episodes 8 and 9 tonight!!!

[glennmillerorchestra]

i was tagged by the wonderful maddie @leonardcohenofficial to post the posters from my favorite new-to-me watches of the year!! (in purely aesthetic order)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948) sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950) deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970) i’m not there - todd haynes (2007) brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970) carol - todd haynes (2015) ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982) what’s up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972) the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

i'll tag @frogeye-pierce @thebuffalospringfeild @iwrotemrtambourineman and @juliebarnes!!!!

i only made it through half my goal of 100 new-to-me movies this year (life was. crazy) but the 52 i did watch will be under the cut!

edge of the city - martin ritt (1957)

the grand budapest hotel - wes anderson (2014)

licorice pizza - paul thomas anderson (2021)

dazed and confused - richard linklater (1993)

brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)

the tragedy of macbeth - joel coen (2021)

my own private idaho - gus van sant (1991)

my beautiful laundrette - stephen frears (1985)

dead reckoning - john cromwell (1947)

keep off my grass! - shelley berman (1975)

raising arizona - joel & ethan coen (1987)

top hat - mark sandrich (1935)

the man who fell to earth - nicolas roeg (1976)

chicago - rob marshall (2002)

the blues brothers - john landis (1980)

little miss sunshine - jonathon dayton & valerie faris (2006)

sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)

i'm not there - todd haynes (2007)

love & mercy - bill pohlad (2014)

walk hard - jake kasdan (2007)

mysterious skin - gregg akari (2004)

whip it - drew barrymore (2009)

sophie scholl: die letzten tage - marc rothemund (2005)

when harry met sally - rob reiner (1989)

the watermelon woman - cheryl dunye (1996)

shiva baby - emma seligman (2020)

juno - jason bateman (2007)

carol - todd haynes (2015)

what's up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)

the philadelphia story - george cukor (1946)

die fälscher - stefan ruzowitzky (2007)

but i'm a cheerleader - jamie babbit (1999)

the twilight saga: eclipse - david slade (2010) <- THIS WAS NOT MY CHOICE but it was technically new to me. i want to emphasize my friend forced me to watch this with her

velvet goldmine - todd haynes (1998)

magical mystery tour - bernard knowles & the beatles (1967)

the shape of water - guillermo del toro (2017)

all that heaven allows - douglas sirk (1955)

i was a male war bride - howard hawks (1949)

the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)

the breakfast club - john hughes (1985)

airplane! - jerry & david zucker & jim abrahams (1980)

maleficent - robert stromberg (2014) <- twilight friend pick lmfao

chi-raq - spike lee (2015)

a league of their own - penny marshall (1992)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)

pearl - ti west (2022)

get out - jordan peele (2017)

one cut of the dead - shinichiro ueda (2017)

deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)

the hours and times - christopher munch (1991) <- random number generator decided my gay john lennon fate with this one :/

glass onion - rian johnson (2022)

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Daily Express - March 17, 2005

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Can anyone ever replace Freddie?

By Cheryl Stonehouse

IT’S JUST short of 20 years since Queen left the building for the last time with the crowd still howling for more. They would have howled louder, no doubt, had they known that the British band that had garnered as huge a worldwide following as The Beatles or the Rolling Stones would never take the stage again. “We didn’t know at the time, of course, that it was the last live show but it was fantastic and I will remember it vividly,” says DJ and music author Jon Kutner, a long time Queen fan.

“I saw them live six times in all, the first time in 1976(8?), and then I was lucky enough to be at that last Wembley gig, so I never felt as though I had missed out once Freddie’s illness was announced and it was clear that they would never perform together again.”

But never is a short time in rock ‘n’ roll.

Exactly how short varies, usually in direct relation to the financial needs of those left behind after one or more key members of a fabulously successful combo have made their exit, regardless of whether that departure is caused by artistic differences or the not-to-be-ignored call of the Grim Reaper.

In the case of iconic Sixties rock band Free, whose lead singer Paul Rodgers has just won this year’s most (…) job in popular music as Queen’s new lead singer, “never” turned out to be about nine months after their first split.

That reunion was disastrous. Free’s fabulously talented Paul Kossoff was carried off by an overdose and so it was that, as an embryonic Queen supported Mott the Hoople at the New Oxford Theatre, Paul Rodgers was already collecting gold records with his second iconic band, Bad Company.

But for Queen, “never” has turned out to be the passing of a full 19 years. However, even for one of the most staggeringly well-heeled bands in the world, once possessed of the most irreplaceable lead singer in the world, the temptation to re-form has proved too much.

It’s not that guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor need the money. Queen have been one of the most successful British rock bands of all time and one of the few to comprehensively break into the American music scene.

They’ve certainly had their moments when it came to excess… stories of cocaine served on trays perched on the heads of dwarves at their legendary after gig parties persist — but they were also one of the few bands to take early control of their contracts and their fortunes and turn themselves into a company, using business law to protect their fabulous earnings from the depredation of the music industry’s hangers-on.

There has been no prodding of the unpaid tax bill or the dwindling nest-egg to push them into the desperate — and surely futile — hunt for a Freddie replacement. So once the HIV virus had robbed the band of Freddie Mercury in 1991, it reslly did seem as if never really would mean never.

Certainly John Deacon decided that there was no band without its outrageous and theatrical frontman, and he went home to his mansion on the outskirts of north London to be with wife Veronica and their six children.

WHEN Robbie Williams recorded We Are The Champions two years ago for the film A Knight’s Tale, he made no secret of his hope that he might be able to fill the patent-leather thigh-high boots left vacant by Freddie. Deacon, meanwhile, was in a rare public (…) about the idea: “No one could replace Freddie and certainly not him.”

Ever since Freddie’s death, Deacon has resolutely refused to join his more musically-active band-mates in any of their projects (although he has happily endorsed all their Queen related ventures) and only recently did he agree to take up his drumsticks just one more time for a recording of No One But You, Brian May’s tribute to Freddie.

And even though he has made no effort to maintain the fame that brought him fortune, he — like May and Taylor — remains a very rich man whose back account is constantly being replenished by Queen’s enduring popularity.

In the six years after Freddie’s death the earnings of Queen Productions Ltd in which all four members had had an equal share, topped more than £120m(?).

Even in the Queen-lull of the mid-Nineties, the company’s annual income topped £10m(?). And, once Brian May had asked Ben Elton to create a vaguely feasible plot that would make it possible to create a musical featuring Queen songs, the company’s earnings rocketed again, and We Will Rock You became a West End smash hit. In London alone, more than two million people have been to see the show since it opened two years ago — not to mention its popularity in Las Vegas, Australia and various European theatres.

YET the magic of the Queen brand is difficult to define. Even at the height of their fame, they were roundly and persistently rubbished by music critics who seemed disgusted, more than anything, by the theatricality that this bunch of ex-students, with their big hair and their clogs, had inflicted on rock music. Former art student Freddie was singled out for much of the blame.

“It was as though they couldn’t forgive him and, indeed, the rest of them for being rather bright — Brian May all but got a PhD in astrophysics before he decided to give all his attention to music — and also very musically talented,” says Queen biographer Jane Higgins.

“It’s rather ironic, given who Brian has now chosen as a worthy (…) to Freddie, that a lot of those critics hated the camp flamboyance of Queen because they were stuck in the (…) days of bands like Free.

“Keep it working class, keep it real — I think that was their attitude. All this stagecraft stuff that Queen were so good at, and which Brian May and Roger Taylor have recreated so successfully in the stage show, just tainted the industry.

“As time has proved, they were wrong. Who, except for a few old hippies like me, remembers who Paul Rodgers is, even though he does still have one of the most superb voices in the business.”

No publicist could have planned Queen’s career path. They did all the wrong things — or so professsional image-makers would have told them at the time. Never mind Ferddie’s dress-sense, which frequently dropped the jaws of producers on Top Of The Pops (but wowed the youngsters), or Brian May’s coiffure courtesy of Charles II’s hairdresser.

There was the widely soundtrack composed for Flash Gordon in 1980, a commission regarded at the time as cred-suicide for any self-respecting rock band and a source of (…) for drunks of a certain age today — but still a solid source of (…) for Queen enterprises. It topped the charts in the USA in all threee categories of rock, soul and disco and sold more than 45 million albums worldwide.

They wrote songs with fabulous (…) and ridiculous lyrics. Neither Taylor or May could explain what the words of Bohemian Rhapsody meant when Ben Elton was struggling to find a way to slot it into the stage show’s plot, snd yet the song remains one of the nations’s favourite tracks of all time. It has twice been a number one hit, the second time after Mercury’s death, re-released after it was featured in Mike Myers’’ Wayne’s World.

And there are hundreds of thousands of people who will tell you that no matter what anyone says the show-stopping performance of 1985’s Live Aid was Queen’s.

There was more jaw-dropping over Brian May’s relationship with Anita Dobson, at the time best known as Angie in EastEnders.

“We know his wardrobe is put together by stylish Swedes but how can any rock legend have his love-life scripted by soap opera and hold his head up high in a nightclub,” wrote one columnist at the time.

THEY remain an item having finally married a couple of years ago. “Any time I try to move away from her in even the smallest degree, my guts drop out,” says May. “It’s been (…) that since the first time I met her.”

And although Freddie’s sexuality was a taboo subject until the day before his death, when he announced that he had the Aids virus, it was not difficult to guess from his music and lifestyle that his love-life was, at the very least, flamboyant. But the power of his charisma made it possible for both gays and sporting types to share the anthem that is We Are The Champions.

No matter what Queen did, or how hard the (…) tried to knock them off their (…), the band were and are still adored by an utterly loyal fan base. It was only right, therefore, that the figure silhouetted against the sky atop Buckingham Palace, playing God Save The Queen on Stratocaster at the beginning of the ground-breaking 2002 Rock Jubilee Concert in the Palace gardens, should be none other than Brian May. Freddie should have been there, too. He would certainly have been invited.

So the group that still needs the record for pulling in the largest paying audience for a single band — 131,000 people at the Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo — has few concerns about whether the new line-up will be able to sell tickets.

The new tour will include all the major stadiums in Britain and more spectacular events abroad — they have been asked to play at Nelson Mandela’s concert for Aids charities being held in South Africa in memory of his son — and the new obligatory Hyde Park gig in July. Several dates are already sold out.

“I’m personally not very excited about it,” confesses Jon Kutner. “I was a huge fan and I’m really too young to be a true Paul Rodgers fan. But I talked to Brian and Roger about this comeback a couple of days ago and they are very (…) that Paul is not meant to be Freddie’s replacement.

“They see him as a (…) who had the talent and experience to carry that burden well enough to recapture a bit of that live performance excitement again.

“A lot of people will be very angry but I think they may be missing the point. As Brian says, Freddie himself would rather enjoy (…) people off — he’d probably say: ‘Gor for it.’”

[underthecitysky]

From Jesse Tedesci/ @jtedesci on twitter (x) 👈

(follow☝️ for lots of great, rare Beatles content)

Full text is under the cut..

Some things are just wrong like “a woman” coming daily to cook and clean after Mary died.

& I don’t think Jim was sitting in on the piano during their practice sessions (lol) but the headline here to me is.. is this a rare pic of toddler Paul??

Is it him? I mean it most likely is vs them faking it or mistaking it for the article, though those early teen mag articles often seem like a mix of fact and fiction. I guess I just haven’t seen a smiling photo from when he was this small so it doesn’t quite look like him to me.

It also made me lol that they talk about Paul getting into trouble for speeding and drop in "there was also a bit of trouble when when a girl claimed that Paul was the father of her illegitimate baby, and her father was hopping mad"

That escalated quickly lol 👀

As Paul said about Japan 1980 "a spot of bother"

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The Story Of A Beatle's EarlyDays

by Cheryl Hillman

Hitparader, July 1965

The little boy in the picture was born on the 18th of June, 1942. His name?

James Paul McCartney. Yes, the Paul McCartney, left-handed Beatle bass guitarist. Of course, when this photo was taken Paul didn't know a guitar from a violin and a beetle was a "creepie-crawlie." His mother died when he was very young, but his father brought him and his brother up. He was named after his father and took after him musically as well. Before ihe war Mr. McCartney had a jazz band, and many years later when the Beatles were starting he often sat in at the piano during practices. A woman would come in daily to clean and to make some of Paul's meals, but Paul's father did a great deal to make a family life for his motherless children.

Paul became involved in beat music at the time when the Shadows type of music was all the rage in England. All the groups here were trying like mad to imitate them. The groups spent hours practicing, trying to work out a Shadows-type stage routine. It seems crazy now, but anybody getting on an 86 bus in those days was liable to bump into young Paul McCartney taking his instruments down to the Cavern. Chances are, though, that nobody would look twice at the long-hair-ed youth sitting on the number 86 holding a guitar case.

He had met the other Beatles gradually. George was encountered at the Liverpool Institute High School. They were lively lads, but surprisingly they didn't stir the place up too much. They weren't exactly angels, though! Paul can dig back into his memory and remember sneaking into the toilets, or behind the air-raid shelters, for a quick smoke between les-sons. The institute is one of the best schools in England, and, as in many English schools, the school was divided Into "houses." Each pupil is placed in a “house" at the start of his life in a school and is supposed to support it during sporting events, etc. The Institute is divided into "houses" and Paul was in Danson House. It's difficult to think of Paul wearing a black and green school cap, isn't it?

Despite George's influence, Paul did well at school, even though playing in a beat group at night meant that most of his homework had to be done very early in the morning before school. Paul stayed on at school to study at Advanced level, and when he left he even had a certificate in English Literature at Advanced level, which is pretty good.

John Lennon got himself in the papers for fighting when he was drunk, but not to be outdone, Paul also got himself in the newspapers at one point. He got his driving license taken off him and was banned from driving for a year for speeding . There was also a bit of trouble when a girl claimed that Paul was the father of her illegitimate baby, and her father was hopping mad.

One New Year's Eve, during a Cavern "all nighter" (all night session) a young girl who was drunk was "dared" by Paul's brother) to go up to Paul and kiss him. Of course, she did so. She flung her arms round Paul as he was coming off stage, kissed him...and fainted. A little while later the Beatles were at the top of the Hit Parade. I don't know if Paul remembers the incident, but that girl certainly hasn't forgotten it. She's engaged now, but last week she said to me: “I was potty on Paul, then! It was gear kissing him". I bet it was. 

[womensharpoon]

More autobiography

...I've rambled here about my art series. I haven't written much more about my life, but there is so much more, so here I go again. I left off in my teens, circa 1965, wandering New York, sneaking off from my suburban New Jersey home to explore and wonder and wander. Finally I graduated high school. My mother scored me a job in Monticello, NJ, at Swinging Bridge Lodge. It was a fabulous summer, I had my first sex, my first love, my days were filled with waiting tables and learning how to water ski from beautiful boys who wanted into my pants, my nights bartending (I was only 17 but everyone ignored that). My hair pulled up, a fake braid down my back, strumming my guitar, sitting behind the bar, cigarette dangling from my lips, wailing out Buffy St Marie and Joan Baez, life was sweet. It was then, one glowing evening sitting on the back porch of the Marina Restaurant, listening to Phil and Fanny Hype, the owners, chatter from the kitchen, gazing out across the lake, I visualized myself in my 80's, looking back at a life filled with adventures, telling my tales, and I knew between now and then I had to fulfill that self-prophecy...live my life to its fullest; grab every token, follow every path that presented itself, never let an opportunity go by. That was the real beginning, the intent to life my life to its fullest.

The summer passed. I returned to my NJ suburban home. I already had sculptures and drawings in a gallery in Englewood, the only artist showing, but Sharon Cohen, the owner, was so supportive she had somehow convinced my parents to let me pursue my studies at the University of Hartford Art School. It was a disaster. I didn't know how to be a student, I didn't follow the rules, I didn't understand or even know the rules and my fuck-it-all attitude annoyed the professors. The following summer, counselling at some Jewish sleep-away camp in upstate New York, teaching little people how to water ski, I met a girl who talked me into quitting school and getting a job at Columbia U. I just did it. The next day I was driving back home, I shucked the camp, college, and other people's ideas of what I should be doing with my life and slid out of it like an old, ratty, worn-out coat. I started commuting to my job at Low Library at Columbia on 116th St in NY, renovated my brother's unused bedroom into an art studio, got a bunch of drawings accepted at the Marissa del Rey Gallery on Madison Avenue, and my new life was underway.

Life slid into perfection. The 60's in New York was filled with civil disobedience, marches and sit-ins against the Vietnam war spilled out from Low Library onto the campus. I started seeing a boy who edited an underground newspaper filled with anarchy and insurrection, his tiny apartment in the Village smelled of Brussel Sprouts and cat litter and pot. Coming home at 2am stinking of Mary J, stoned out of my mind, sitting at the piano, composing and flying high. Commuting daily to my mindless job, weekends painting, drawing, exploring art, showings at my 2 galleries.

Mom decided I was drifting. Hear this voice, slightly Jewish NY accent, saying "Hally, you need something to fall back on. I signed you up for Katherine Gibbs. Go, you need a real job." Mothers. Can't live with them, can't be born without them. What could I do? I didn't have an alternative, the ultimate was given. My brother was living in Englewood with his friend, Dan Hennessey (yeah, he wasn't born in Toronto, he was born in Demarest, NJ -- Hi Dan, give me a call sometime) but he wouldn't let me move in, so I was trapped.

So I learned typing and shorthand. I hated every minute of it until I met Cheryl Vernon. Kindred spirit, gorgeous face with a marring split lip, we wore huge hats (hats were a must have at Katie Gibbs), white kid gloves that turned black from subway soot, heals under 2", skirts below your knees. It's 1968. Beatles, Donovan, folk rock. At the end of class every day we put our shoes and hats in our lockers, we rolled up the waists of our skirts to show our thighs, we put on our hip-high white patent leather boots that were definitely meant for walking, see-through shirts, chocolate Nat Sherman's delicately held to our glossy painted lips, we sauntered down Fifth Avenue with the rest of the girlie brigade.

[lonely-dog-song]

face claims for random characters in. the book Ghost Story by Peter Straub from 1979 because i can !!!!!

Donald Wanderly- Michael Shannon

the beginning of the book reminded me a lot of the movie Midnight Special, which immediately cemented the character of Don (travelling with a mysterious child) as looking kind of like Michael shannon (a guy who travels with a mysterious child in the aforementioned movie).

Angie M. - Anne-Marie mostly

the aforementioned mysterious child! i thought of TWO black haired children but mostly I'm envisioning Anne-Marie from All Dogs Go to Heaven (her name has the same initials Come ON (subconsciously this is probably why i thought of her)). but i also thought of Cheryl from Silent Hill cuz of her pink clothes

Sears James- one of these guys

Edward Gorey or Peter Freuchen... Sears is described as "massive" with a bald head and an impressive beard. he also wears a black coat (i'm really caught on the coat here). neither of these r quite how i imagine him, but i did very specifically think of these photos (it;s the coat + beard combo).

Lewis Benedikt- Lon Chaney Jr.

not sure why i thought of this drawing of Larry in The Wolf Man by wormthing for this guy! Lewis is described as looking very good for his age, with a Cary Grant vibe that makes people think he should be an actor.

Stella Hawthorne- a person i know in real life so i'm not naming her or sharing her photo lol. u might run into my stella hawthorne faceclaim and never know

i wish i had a face in mind for her husband Ricky, but i can just rest easy knowing he is played by Fred Astaire in the movie adaptation

Anna Mostyn/Ann-Veronica Moore- Michelle from Strawberry Fields

i was 99% sure these were the same character & it turns out they kind of are but kind of aren't. Anna is in her 30s i think, & all i can remember about Ann-Veronica is that she has green eyes & is around the age of 18. but they're both this cartoon character from scrapped beatles movie strawberry fields

Gregory Bate- Conrad Veidt??

Gregory is described as being muscular, very beautiful, calm & charismatic with an underlying animalistic, seething malice. plus he has golden eyes. when i tried to envision his eyes, i thought of this shot in Eerie Tales where the light hits Conrad Veidt's eyes really strongly, so now it's kind of stuck even if this guy isn't the body type i would ascribe to an actor of greg. Greg is also very theatrical, which is fitting. side note he also wears a pea coat in some scenes which i'm pretty sure is what conrad is wearing up there SWAG

i wish i had a face claim for his younger brother Fenny but i have nothing :•( sorry boy. i guess it would b kinda funny if he was played by Jaeden Martell (who was also in Midnight Special) but i can't say that's how i envision him

Walt Hardesty- the sheriff guy from The Incredible Melting Man

what can i say they're both sheriffs......... the actor here is Michael Alldredge.

Elmer Scales- Horace Nebbercracker from Monster House

aww look at that first screenshot, he's so smitten :•) Elmer is described as having ears that stick out i think? I don't think he's very old so here's a pic of this guy when he's young. but at some point he starts looking worse & worse because he isn't sleeping or eating much.

ok that's all i got

[dstrachan]

'VIEWS FROM THE EDGE' - w/c 4th March 2024

Cheryl Lyn ‘Got To Be Real’

Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King ‘Love Come Down’

Blackout JA & Liondub ‘Novichok’

Alela Diane ‘The Pirate’s Gospel’

KiNG MALA ‘martyr’

Blondie ‘Hanging On The Telephone’

Pearl Jam ‘Even Flow’

Lizzo ‘Pink’

The Beatles ‘Sun King’

B KHI & Hun.G ‘Mai Lai’

Mantronix ‘Got To Have Your Love’

Indeep ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’

Pulp ‘Disco 2000’

Alcazar ‘Crying At The Discoteque’

Sophie Ellis-Bextor ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’

Pink Diamond Revue ‘At The Discoteque’

Transglobal Underground ‘Delta Disco’

Mary Kiani ‘Till Death Do Us Disco’

Gregory Abbott ‘Shake You Down’

Mtume ‘Juicy Fruit’

Helefonix ‘Who Do You Wanna Be?’

Melia ‘ I Wanna Be Your Girl’

Lethe ‘Erosion’

Sisters Of Mercy ‘This Corrosion’

The Rolling Stones ‘Shine A Light’

Family ‘The Weaver’s Answer’

James Brown ‘How Do You Stop’

[multitudecontainer420]

you can call me al by paul simon

give it to me baby by rick james

never too much by luther vandross

forget me nots by patrice rushen

glide by pleasure

strawberry letter 23 by the brothers johnson

palm grease by herbie hancock

use me by bill withers

i can't help it by michael jackson

stayin alive by the bee gees

spiderwebs by no doubt

got to be real by cheryl lynn

square biz by teena marie

tell me something good by rufus

green onions by booker t. & the m.g.'s

all blues by miles davis

what is love by haddaway

flash light by parliament

them changes by thundercat

take me to the river by talking heads

dream 17 by annette

mysteries of the world by msfb

sabotage by the beastie boys

come as you are by nirvana

lithium by nirvana

breed by nirvana

waiting room by fugazi

longview by green day

brick house by commodores

last train to london by electric light orchestra

boogie oogie oogie by a taste of honey

le freak by chic

i want your love by chic

hes the greatest dancer by sister sledge

get up (i feel like being) a sex machine by james brown (bootsy collins on bass)

superbad by james brown

what so never the dance by house guests

super freak by rick james

chain of fools by aretha franklin

higher ground and i wish by stevie wonder

rime of the ancient mariner by iron maiden

5:15 by the who

the real me by the who

chameleon by herbie hancock

stand by me by ben e. king

what's going on by marvin gaye

comedown by bush

song 2 by blur

brown eyed girl by van morrison

taxman by the beatles

come together by the beatles

prince

talking heads - slippery people

tom tom

sabotage by beastie boys

whip it by devo

[manyfandomocs]

Cute character questions: Derek?

the basics:

name: Derek Benfield Wallis age: 16-24/25 (if I include the timeskip) zodiac sign: Sagittarius (December 20th) one good trait: confident one bad trait: condescending

habits:

one bad habit: flaunting his money one good habit: working out one habit they can’t break: eavesdropping one they’ve broken: treating people like lesser than what they’re afraid of: being buried alive

family:

their parents names: Charles and Emma Wallis their siblings names: Bret Weston Wallis favorite childhood memory: Playing football with his dad favorite childhood toy: A play piano embarrassing story: He got expelled from Stonewall Prep for a stupid prank (tbd on the prank) favorite family member: Emma a story about that family member: When he was little, she would read to him before going on trips with his father

what they prefer:

coffee or tea? Coffee showering in the day or night? Morning taking baths or taking showers? Showers tv or movies? TV writing or reading? Reading platonic or romantic love? Both iced tea or lemonade? Iced tea ice cream or smoothies? Smoothies cupcakes or cake? Cupcakes beach or mountains? Beach

favorites:

song: Whipping Post - The Allman Brothers Band band: Idk why I feel the Beatles outfit: Cheryl's S1 after party place: Pop's memory: Winning a game with Jason person: Jason or Veronica movie: Die Hard show: Scandal

Send me cute character questions and find out…

[parkerbombshell]

The Menace's Attic #815

The Menace’s Attic Mon-Sat 5pm EST bombshellradio.com on ​Bombshell Radio Sunday’s 8pm EST New Shows Wednesday’s 1pm-2pm EST 10am-11am PDT 6pm-7pm BST bombshellradio.com Repeats Friday 5pm EST #classics #pop #rock #classicrock #themenacesattic #BombshellRadio Closing Song  Beep Beep - The Playmates (Roulette) This Week – Episode #815 (10/21/2017)   "I Gotta Tell �Ya, It's Brave Of Me To Do One Of These Shows Where I've Picked A Buncha Songs, But Don't Even Know What The Set Titles Are Yet!"   Opening Song  Got To Get You Back (Tom Moulton Remix) - Sons Of Robin Stone (Atco) Set #1 What Have I Got In This Set? Well, Let's Just Say, It's Got To Be Good, Or I'll Never Get To The Next One! People Got To Be Free - The Rascals (Atlantic) Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles (Capitol) Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn (Columbia) She Got Me Where She Wants Me - Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (Epic) Set #2 We Start With A Song Covered By The Last Band In The First Set And Where It Goes From Here I've Got No Idea! Got To Get You Off My Mind - Solomon Burke (Atlantic) I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher (Atco) You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Silkie (Fontana) We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals (MGM) Gotta Get Up - Harry Nilsson (RCA) Set #3 It's Time To End The Got Songs And Head For The Other Side Of The Street Where Things Are More Art-istic!  Second Avenue - Art Garfunkel (Columbia) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty (United Artists) Out In The Streets - The Shangri La's (Red Bird) Set #4 Once You Hit The Streets On A Saturday Morning There's No Going Back Until Early Sunday Morning! Walking Down Your Street - The Bangles (Columbia) Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack (United Artists) Closing Song  Joy - Apollo 100 (Mega)   Read the full article

[theangrycomet-art]

Get a Room

“Oh for pete’s sake- HURRY UP!” Cheryl shouted at the couple. “Some of us would like to get to practice on time!”

“Ah cool it, Beater.” Rolling his eye beneath the brim of his hand, Rueben placed his hands on his hips, gesturing o the two of them. “Your just still bitter that Devlin asked out Amber first.”

“Am NOT!” she said hotly. 

“Are too.” Becka taunted, floating behind Rueben for safety. “Penny for your thoughts, Mics?”

“I think it’s cute.” Shang signed, amused at the situation Devlin had gotten himself into. “Besides, isn’t it a thing? To give your girlfriend your jersey?”

“Well it’d be a lot cuter if he’d HURRIED UP!” Cheryl snapped, turning on her heel. “I am NOT being late for a Monday afternoon practice with Crusader coming back from a weekend at his mothers.”

-//-

The Gizmos- or at least the half I haven’t really shown yet. 

Cheryl Beatles, eldest daughter of Wallabee Beatles and Kuki Sanban- her mortal enemy is the hair brush. Can play forward or a defense men depending on the mood of the rink.

Rueben Gilligan, eldest of the Gilligan brothers (as well as the unspoken coolest)- he stole his mama’s old hat when he was about 6 and has yet to give it back. Typically a D-man with his brother, he’s one of the few cool-headed members of the team.

Shang McCraigen, one of the middle children of the McCraigen clan, he may be deaf but you’d be hard pressed to get a puck past him. His reflexes are insane. They’d have to be when your one of your older brothers is a tetramand and your two of your little sisters are a kineceleran and a conductoid. 

I really need to make a family portrait of the McCraigen Clan