A weekly update for Tune subscribers
This week:
24th
Anniversary of the first Eurovision Song Contest (1954)
Lyric videos to all winners
Worksheets:
ABBA – Waterloo
Volare
25th
1965, John Lennon was interviewed for CBS TV in Cannes where he and wife Cynthia attended the film festival.
Please Please Me Worksheet – Karaoke video
26th
1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were secretly married in the Dominican Republic. Coincidentally they first met exactly 20 years earlier, at an Elvis Presley concert in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, when Lisa Marie was just six years old.
You Are Not Alone worksheet – Lyric video
27th
2003, Brian May and Roger Taylor performed at the Pavarotti & Friends benefit show, Modena, Italy.
Too Much Love Will Kill You Lyric video
The Show Must Go On worksheet
28th
1997, Bob Dylan was admitted to hospital in Los Angeles with chest pain, diagnosed as near-fatal histoplasmosis. Released on 2nd June he joked: “I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon” .
Knocking On Heaven’s Door Lyric video
29th
2006, David Bowie joined David Gilmour onstage at the Royal Albert Hall in London to perform Pink Floyd’s ‘Arnold Layne’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’.
Comfortably Numb Karaoke video – Wish You Were Here Worksheet
30th
1975, a noticeably slimmer Elvis Presley performed the first concert of a 17-show, 12-date, 8-city tour, in Huntsville, Alabama.
All Shook Up Worksheet – Lyric Video
Number Ones, 24th May:
1957
UK Andy Williams – Butterfly
US Elvis Presley – All Shook Up
1967
UK The Tremeloes – Silence is Golden
US The Young Rascals – Groovin’
1977
UK Rod Stewart – I Don’t Wanna Talk About It
US Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
1987
UK Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
US U2 – With Or Without You – Worksheet
1997
UK Olive – You’re Not Alone
US Hanson – Mmmbop
2007
UK McFly – Baby’s Coming Back
US Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder
2017
UK Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee – Despacito (feat. Justin Bieber)
UK DJ Khaled – I’m The One (feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper, Lil Wayne)
2027
UK Official Singles Charts
US Billboard Hot 100
Thank you for supporting Tune Into English