Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingRepublicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” ... “Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... Indeed, some view it as either a conservative or liberal movement dependent on their notion of Islam....
photo: Public Domain / Facebook/ Attanai Thaiyuanwong
How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ... . ....
A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....
Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....
While this mini TV series gave a new lease of life to Korean show business, it also elevated the stardom of its lead actors Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo ... The on-screen chemistry between Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo was so adorably spectacular that fans of Descendants of the Sun wanted the duo to get together in real life too ... It remains to be seen whether Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo will get together for real....
After he kicked up a controversy by removing Arijit Singh’s version of a song from the film, the actor is now apparently keen on recording all the songs in the film’s album ... However, it came as a surprise to many when they found out that the voice crooning the song was of neither of the singers, but rather that of Salman himself ... Singing the earlier songs was not planned and was impromptu....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Latest on a lawsuit claiming the intro to Led Zeppelin's hit "Stairway to Heaven" was copied from another band's song (all times local). ... The estate of Spirit's founder, the late Randy Wolfe, claims Led Zeppelin violated the song's copyright. Kevin Hanson, a guitar instructor and former member of Huffamoose, played passages from both songs on acoustic guitar and says they are virtually identical....
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit claiming the intro to Led Zeppelin's hit "Stairway to Heaven" was copied from another band's song (all times local). ... The estate of Spirit's founder, the late Randy Wolfe, claims Led Zeppelin violated the song's copyright. Kevin Hanson, a guitar instructor and former member of Huffamoose, played passages from both songs on acoustic guitar and says they are virtually identical....
When prosody is effectively employed, a song's music and lyrics present a united front that clarifies and enhances the emotions its writers hoped to convey. Several tools can be employed to bring together a song's various elements so that they work in sync to impart the feeling the writers intended to evoke ...Listen to the song and you'll notice that the end of every melodic phrase descends to finish on a low note....
A Mary Poppinssong is the latest piece of evidence in the Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” trial ... During his second day on the witness stand, Page was asked about a previously written declaration he gave for the lawsuit where he talked about his song and the more up-tempo tune from the Mary Poppins film ... Sherman, and the song from the Mary Poppins score won an Academy Award for BestOriginalSong in 1964....
Pop star Christina Aguilera has released a new song, "Change," following Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub ... The song features lyrics about waiting for hope and change and "waiting for the day when hate is lost and love is found."...
What will it be like to revisit the heartbreak in these songs when you sing them on your solo tour this summer? ... I had this opportunity to be on The Voice, so it was like, "You're on TV, let's put a song out." ... And at the end of the day, a song is a song. You can take a country song and make it into a dance track ... "Hollaback Girl" has become such a signature song for you ... Is it tough having to live up to songs like that?....
Atlanta native Robert Burke Warren is a songwriter, whose new novel, “Perfectly Broken,” comes with a batch of songs...Warren, the songwriter, thought that as long as he was fabricating a late ’80s, early ’90s musical phenomenon, he might as well create — and record — the songs that set the story in motion ... I’d play a song, read, play a song, read, then do a Q and A,” said Warren ... He collaborated on songs with Roseanne Cash....
As the song built, literally, to its climax – with the sound of Birkin in the throes of apparent orgasm – the room went still ... And Harvey's translations of the songs – which meticulously preserved the rhymes, innuendos, puns and endless double-entendres of the originals – are a major reason why ... Harvey followed the cult success of Intoxicated Man with a second volume of Gainsbourgsongs in 1997, Pink Elephants....
The Grammy-winner has taken issue with Kardashian's bombshell interview in the July issue of "GQ," where she claims that Swift knew all along that Kanye West would be calling her "that b**ch" in his song "Famous.". Kardashian told the magazine that Swift "approved" the song and was pretending to be offended when it came out in February ... A song cannot be approved if it was never heard. Kanye West never played the song for Taylor Swift....
The similarity between Stairway to Heaven and a song that members of Led Zeppelin are accused of copying can be found in music dating back 300 years, a court has heard ... A lawsuit has been filed by Michael Skidmore, the trustee of Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe - known as Randy California - who drowned in 1997 having never taken legal action over the song....