Stéphane Bern says that New York owes its nickname “Big Apple” (the “big apple”) to a famous American sports journalist of the 1920s. John J. Fitz Gerald covered for the New York Morning Telegraph horse racing, very popular at the time. He used the expression after hearing two young stable boys use the term “apple” … Read more
A year and a half after announcing on RTL that she would never be able to sing again, Françoise Hardy publishes Songs about you and us, a collection of all his texts with his comments. The 77-year-old singer says to herself exhausted by years of illness, in particular a cancer of the larynx which required … Read more
“Like mother, like son”. The singer Shy’m published this Thursday, February 11 on her Instagram account, a first photo of her baby, born on January 22. In this black and white photo, we can see the singer’s son, whose face is hidden by his little hand, with the caption: “Like mother, like son” (like mother, … Read more
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, ballad signed Michael Jackson, in duet with singer Siedah Garrett… Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston were initially approached to sing with him. This was the first single from thealbum Bad, released in July 1987. Michael Jackson was then at the top, he knew that this song was going to … Read more
New York is a land of fantasies. We dream there, we create and we hope there like no other. How did this city inspire musicians and artists? From the city’s legendary jazz clubs to sassy nights in Manhattan apartments? David Bowie, Andy Warhol, the Blue Note, the Velvet Underground without forgetting some jewels of the … Read more
New York looks like a friendly city. A city that you think you know even when you’ve never set foot there. Greenwich Village was the gateway to Gaëtan Roussel when he landed in New York for the first time in his life. What better place to start this musical walk, this stroll through the quintessential … Read more