MUSIC
STARS UNITE FOR FREDDIE TRIBUTE
On 20 April 1992, the life and music of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, who died five months earlier following complications from AIDS, was celebrated in a star-studded concert at London’ s
Wembley Stadium. Organised by Mercury’ s bandmates, the event not only featured an array of luminaries( including Elton John, David Bowie, Phil
Collins, George Michael, and Metallica) but also raised funds for AIDS research, launching the Mercury Phoenix Trust. While all 72 000 tickets sold out in a mere three hours, The Freddie Mercury Tribute concert was broadcast live to approximately one billion fans in 76 countries.
( Reference: thisdayinmusic. com)
PRINCE AND HIS UK CHART TOPPER
In 1994, Prince topped the UK singles charts for the first time with“ The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”, a romantic ballad he issued after he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. Although Prince was still signed to Warner Bros at the time, the label, with whom he had a dispute, allowed him to release the song independently as a one-off project via his own NPG imprint. It was the Minneapolis Star’ s last US Top 10 hit during his lifetime.
SIGN OF THE TIMES SOARS
On 14 April 2017,“ Sign of the Times”, the debut single by ex-One Direction singer Harry Styles, went to No. 1 in the UK. To get there, it knocked Ed Sheeran’ s“ Shape of You” off the top of the charts after a 13-week run.“ Sign of the Times” debuted at No. 4 on Billboard’ s Hot
100, reaching No. 1 the following week. It also reached the top spot in the US iTunes charts just 19 minutes after its release, breaking the previous record held by Adele, whose 2015 song“ Hello” took the
No. 1 position after 50 minutes.
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