On June 13th 1992, Billy Ray Cyrus started a 17-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Some Gave All’. His debut album featured the world-wide breakthrough song ‘Achy Breaky Heart’, which was originally recorded as ‘Don’t Tell My Heart’ by The Marcy Brothers on their 1991 self-titled album.
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Tim Burton’s ‘Beetlejuice 2 to Open Venice Film Festival
Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” — starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe — will open the upcoming Venice Film Festival. The latest trailer shows a member of the Deetz family who has passed three generations of sudden death. They returned to their house in the city of Winter River, Connecticut. Beetlejuice 2 will start showing in cinemas throughout the world in September 2024.
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Coldplay Announce First ‘Moon Music’ Album Single ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’
Coldplay embarks on the next phase of their intergalactic journey with FeelsLikeImFallingInLove.” Produced by Swedish master Max Martin, the new cut dropped at the stroke of midnight and is the first lifted from the British band’s forthcoming tenth studio album, Moon Music. Coldplay premiered the song live this week at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna, and will get the chance to perform it for a sea of music fans (and millions more watching on their screens) when they headline Glastonbury Festival for a record fifth time. Moon Music is due out Oct. 4, 2024.
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Today in Music’s History
On May 22 2014, Fleetwood Mac‘s Christine McVie was honoured with a lifetime achievement at this year’s Ivor Novello songwriting awards. McVie played with Fleetwood Mac for 28 years and wrote some of their most famous songs, including ‘Don’t Stop’ and ‘Little Lies’. Other winners at the ceremony in London included London Grammar, The Chemical Brothers and Nile Rodgers.
