The celebrate Bernie Taupin and Elton John’s 50 year collaboration they’ve teamed up with You Tube for a fan contest. Just create a video for “Bennie and the Jets,” “Rocket Man” and “Tiny Dancer.” The contest is called “Elton John: The Cut.” You have until January 23rd to get it done. The prize is $10,000.
Ian Anderson is re-creating some of his classic songs in the style of classical music. It’s called “The String Quartets” on March 24th, and includes “Aqualung,” “Bungle in the Jungle” and “A Christmas Song.” Check out the list below and you can pre-order it HERE.
- “In the Past (Living In The Past)”
- “Sossity Waiting (Sossity: You’re a Woman / Reasons For Waiting)”
- “Bungle (Bungle In The Jungle)”
- “We Used to Bach (We Used to Know / Bach Prelude C Major)”
- “Farm, the Fourway (Farm On The Freeway)”
- “Songs and Horses (Songs From The Wood / Heavy Horses)”
- “Only the Giving (Wond’ring Aloud)”
- “Loco (Locomotive Breath)”
- “Pass the Bottle (A Christmas Song)”
- “Velvet Gold (Velvet Green)”
- “Ring Out These Bells (Ring Out, Solstice Bells)”
- “Aquafugue (Aqualung)”
Sharon and Ozzie are renewing their vows. ‘Yes I take my sex addicted husband to have and to hold and to regularly…change the batteries in his ankle monitor.” If you want, you can read more here.
And OH GOD PLEASE LET THIS BE THE LAST CHAPTER IN THIS SAGA!……Bob Dylan didn’t show up for his Nobel Prize but he’s going there next year to do a couple of gigs. Here’s a little Nobel prize fact. To collect the $870,000 that comes with the Nobel Prize for Literature Bob is supposed to do a lecture in his field of expertise within six months. They say a gig would be the perfect opportunity to do that. Maybe he’ll just sing it. Here are the dates for the gigs.
- April 1st – Stockholm, Sweden
- April 2nd – Lund, Sweden
- April 9th – Sparbanken Skane Arena
