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On This Gay Day: ‘That’s What Friends Are For’ wins Grammy award

‘That’s What Friends Are For’ wins Grammy award for Song of the Year On this day in 1986 the song That’s What Friends Are For won the Song of the Year category at the Grammy Awards. The recording by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Elton John also picked up the Grammy Award for Best Pop […]

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Elton John quits Twitter citing their failure to tackle misinformation

Elton John quits Twitter citing their failure to tackle misinformation

Elton John has announced he will no longer be posting to Twitter. The singer posted the reasons for his departure from the social media platform before logging off. “All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our […]

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Elton John’s Oscar party raises millions for HIV research

Elton John’s Oscar party raises millions for HIV research

The Oscars returned to their full glamorous delivery yesterday, after a Covid-subdued Zoom call version in 2021, and alongside the awards show was the return of Elton John’s legendary HIV/AIDS fundraiser viewing party. Elton couldn’t make the party himself this year as he’s currently on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road final world tour, but he […]

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Sir Elton John shaken after mid-air jet emergency scare

Sir Elton John shaken after mid-air jet emergency scare

Sir Elton John has been left slightly shaken after his private jet was forced to abort a flight to New York following a hydraulic failure. The jet aborted it’s flight and returned to the UK but struggled to land due to high winds. The plane finally touched down on it’s third attempt at an emergency […]

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Elton John reunites with ‘The Lockdown Sessions’ collaborators on The Ultimate Zoom Call

Elton John reunites with ‘The Lockdown Sessions’ collaborators on The Ultimate Zoom Call

Elton John and the collaborators from the acclaimed UK Number 1 album The Lockdown Sessions have reunited over Zoom for a wonderfully warm seasonal video. Filled with all the idiosyncrasies that have come to characterize how we’ve all communicated over the last two years; it is a fitting way to celebrate a project as unique […]

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Elton John is about to release ‘The Lockdown Sessions’

Elton John is about to release ‘The Lockdown Sessions’

Elton John is back in the Australian Top 10 with Cold Heart, his collaboration with PNAU and Dua Lipa, hitting the number three slot on the ARIA charts. The song is from his upcoming album The Lockdown Sessions which will be his 32nd studio album in his long career which kicked off in the late 1960s. The new […]

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New Elton John and Dua Lipa tune mashes past hits

New Elton John and Dua Lipa tune mashes past hits

  A new collaboration between Dua Lipa and Elton John mashes together several past hits to create a new tune. Cold Cold Heart has just been released with an animated music video. The track is remixed by Australian dance act PNAU. The tune melds sections of four of Elton’s previous songs. It kicks off with Elton […]

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DaBaby issues a new apology as he’s dropped from festivals

DaBaby issues a new apology as he’s dropped from festivals

Rapper DaBaby has issued a fresh apology for comments he made about people living with HIV. The rapper faced a backlash online after he made comments about AIDS during his performance at a music festival in Miami, and shortly afterwards released a violent music video. At his show the musician invited people to turn on […]

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Bibliophile | ‘The Queer Bible’ presents love letter to queer community

The Queer Bible Edited by Jack Guinness HQ (Harper Collins) Jack Guinness shines a light on some unacknowledged LGBTIQ+ history with stories of a group of LGBTIQ+ people who have inspired others and helped shape the world into being a better place. He wants people to know that “they walk in the footsteps of the […]

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Elton John and Years & Years deliver amazing take on ‘It’s a Sin’

Elton John and Years & Years deliver amazing take on ‘It’s a Sin’

Elton John teamed up with Years & Years (aka Olly Alexander) for a stunning take on Pet Shop Boys classic It’s a Sin.  Performing at the Brit Awards, the performance saw Olly Alexander lying on the top of Elton’s grand piano. Wearing a midriff top that showed off his abs, he’s cavorted ala Michelle Pfeifer style, […]

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