Fit for Queen: Freddie Mercury’s Rolls-Royce to hit auction block
The hammer will soon fall on the auction of Freddie Mercury’s Rolls-Royce. >> Read more trending newsThe sale by RM Sotheby’s will benefit the Superhumans of Ukraine charity, which is trying to build a new hospital in Lviv. The auction house said Mercury didn’t have a full license, but he was chauffeured in the car for most of his career. It was also the scene of rock ‘n’ roll history scene when Mercury signed a record label contract while sitting in the car. After Mercury’s death, the car was given to his sister — Kashmira Cooke — who bought it from the singer’s estate in 2003.
wftv.com‘Face It Alone’: Queen releases new song featuring unheard Freddie Mercury performance
Freddie Mercury has been gone since he died in 1991, but Queen just released a new song featuring its former lead singer. >> Read more trending news“Face It Alone” was recorded when the band was making the 1989 album “The Miracle,” BBC News reported. Mercury had recorded the track after finding out he was HIV positive but had not yet announced the diagnosis to his fans. This is not the first time that new music featuring Mercury has been released after his death. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images) (PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)©2022 Cox Media Group
wftv.com'Elvis,' 'Top Gun' tie for box-office crown with $30.5M each
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic “Elvis” shook up theaters with an estimated $30.5 million in weekend ticket sales, but — in a box-office rarity — “Elvis” tied “Top Gun: Maverick,” which also reported $30.5 million, for No. 1 in theaters.
Queen to release forgotten song featuring the late Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury and Queen Fast Facts Freddie Mercury and Queen Fast Facts (NCD)Members of the rock band Queen said in an interview this week that they have found an unreleased song by the band featuring the late lead singer Freddie Mercury. >> Read more trending newsBrian May and Roger Taylor confirmed during an interview on BBC Radio 2 that the band had discovered an unreleased song recorded before Mercury’s 1991 death from complications from AIDS. “We did find a little gem from Freddie that we’d kind of forgotten about,” Taylor said. According to May, band members did not think the song could be released because it was not completed. “But in fact, we went in there again and our wonderful engineering team went, ‘OK, we can do this and this’.
wftv.comCoronavirus: Queen guitarist Brian May tests positive for COVID-19
May confirmed via social media on Dec. 18, 2021, that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen) ((C)Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen)Queen co-founder and lead guitarist Brian May has tested positive for the coronavirus. More than 88,376 coronavirus new COVID-19 cases were confirmed Thursday in the United Kingdom, including more than 11,000 cases involving the emergent omicron variant, Variety reported. More coronavirus pandemic coverage:>> Coronavirus: How long between exposure to the virus and the start of symptoms? (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images) (PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)©2021 Cox Media Group
wftv.comBrandi Carlile inspired by isolation for new record
Music Brandi Carlile FILE - In this March 9, 2021 file photo, Brandi Carlile poses on the press line at the 63rd Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The six-time Grammy-winner sports a Bowie-inspired look in the first music video from her upcoming sixth album, “In These Silent Days,” which is coming out on Oct. 1. In a statement on Wednesday announcing the new record, Carlile said she was inspired to write while being in isolation during the pandemic with bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth. Carlile, who broke out with her acclaimed 2018 album “By the Way, I Forgive You,” was influenced by Bowie, Freddie Mercury and her two close musical friends, Elton John and Joni Mitchell, on the new record. Carlile's new music video, directed by "Friends" actress Courteney Cox, is called "Right On Time."
wftv.comOn-screen smoking in PG-13 films has doubled since 2010, CDC says
The lead characters in some of the decade's most successful films still smoke on-screen. The number of times tobacco use appeared on-screen in PG-13 films jumped 120% between 2010 and 2018, according to a new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. It's a troubling trend, researchers said, because young people who see more smoking on-screen are more likely to smoke themselves. The authors didn't offer an explanation for the jump in on-screen tobacco use but proposed ways to curb it. Researchers suggested that the Motion Picture Association of America, the body responsible for rating films based on content, dole out R ratings to films with on-screen smoking unless the character smoking is a biographical figure or it portrays the negative effects of smoking.