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“Kokomo”, l’onta dei Beach Boys

By 1988 the Beach Boys were no longer the fresh-faced success story of their youth. In desperation they wrote a song for the Tom Cruise movie, Cocktail which turned out to be the worst film of the eighties.

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Rewinding the History of Music

<p>By 1988 the Beach Boys were no longer the fresh-faced success story of their youth. In desperation they wrote a song for the Tom Cruise movie, <i>Cocktail </i>which turned out to be the worst film of the eighties.</p>

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Foo Fighters

Was Dave Grohl's talent ignored in Nirvana?

Since his birth, Keith Richards has been burning the candle at both ends, and yet he's still fighting fit. He's even survived 2016. Is the Rolling Stones guitarist too rocky for The Reaper? Quite possibly... 

Since his birth, Keith Richards has been burning the candle at both ends, and yet he's still fighting fit

Keith Richards

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Iron Maiden

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Lou Reed

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Nick Cave

The child-star of the Cosby Show, Raven-Symoné signed her first contract by the age of five. In 1993, Raven-Symoné came out with the hit song That's What Little Girls Are Made Of, featuring Miss Elliott - but in the music video, Missy was replaced by an actress. Missy didn't look the part. That was devastating to her... but it didn't stop her rise and rise. 

Missy Elliott

The music industry tried to break Miss Elliott - but she changed the game instead. 

Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing. He's always been fighting for our right to enjoy a better future than the one we are making for ourselves. Perhaps a strange mission for someone with punk musical roots?

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Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing

Sting

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The Doors

Why did Jim Morrison lie to the press about his parents being dead?

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ABBA

When it was up to Sweden to host the Eurovision, the counterculture mobilised big time in a bid to take down ABBA

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Miles Davis

How the God of jazz, Miles Davis, shocked jazz purists

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Daft Punk

What if everything that critics hated about Daft Punk was precisely what made the band so successful?

On October 1, 2014, Snoop Dogg made the guests of his Youtube show laugh by attacking Migos and their signature flow. But the Atlanta's technique is nothing new! So what annoys Snoop so much about the Migos rap style?

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Phil Collins is the king of pop who doesn't make waves. Patrick Bateman, the anti-hero of American Psycho. But Bateman is quite the Collins fan... how come?

Phil Collins

Patrick Bateman, the anti-hero of American Psycho, is a Phil Collins fan

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Last year, Lil Nas X drew the ire of  American pastor Greg Locke, who filmed himself reacting to the Montero music video. Lil Nas X broke onto the music scene with his country-rap hit Old Town Road in 2019, but this new song was different. It features inverted pentagrams, devilish cosplay, and a lapdance to Lucifer. What is the meaning of Lil Nas X's satanic twerking?

Lil Nas X

What is the meaning of Lil Nas X's satanic twerking?

Apple launched its streaming service in 2015, and to celebrate, the company made their customers an offer they couldn't refuse: three months free subscription. The problem: during these three months, the artists streamed will not receive a penny. But that was without reckoning for Taylor Swift, who published an open letter to the firm on her Tumblr detailing why refusing to pay artists for their work was unacceptable. Apple backtracked. 

Taylor Swift

In 2017, Justin Bieber attended the Hillsong Church conference with his pal Carl Lentz, the star pastor of this powerful evangelical church. Thanks to him, and after going through an existential crisis, the pop star said he was finally saved. But their close relationship wasn't to last...

Justin Bieber was close to star pastor Carl Lentz, member of a powerful evangelical church

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At first glance, nothing connects Lil Wayne to Donald Trump: one is an African-American rapper from the poor neighborhoods of New Orleans, the other a rich white heir turned President of the United States. And yet without Donald Trump, Lil Wayne could have gone to prison for up to a decade. TAPE tells you all about this surprising relationship.

Lil Wayne

Without Donald Trump, Lil Wayne could have gone to prison for over a decade

Elvis Presley had a bone to pick with the Beatles. Their worlds couldn't have been more different. TAPE analyses the tensions between the icon of the 50s and the band of the hippie generation.

Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley had a bone to pick with the Beatles

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Jimi Hendrix

What if guitar enthusiasts who love Jimi Hendrix have got the wrong end of the stick?

In 1998, Johnny Cash received the Grammy Award for best album of the year. But that only came after a decade of being shunned by the industry and his peers in Nashville. 

Johnny Cash won a Grammy but only after a decade of being given the cold shoulder

Johnny Cash

August 19, 2014. Nicki Minaj releases the music video for Anaconda. The message is clear: down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech. Provocative? Maybe. Feminist? Definitely.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj says down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars, and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech

Flavor Flav, a liability or a bankable asset for Public Enemy? There's an ideological chasm that separates the MC from the rest of the group. TAPE investigates.

Public Enemy

Flavor Flav, a liability or a bankable asset for Public Enemy?

Incredible but true: Dexter Holland, the frontman of The Offspring, has a doctorate in molecular biology. But a punk researcher in hard sciences isn't such a rare breed after all...

The Offspring

Incredible but true: Dexter Holland, the frontman of The Offspring, has a doctorate in molecular biology.

Drake gives us a little crash course in humanitainment. The Canadian rapper has a knack for helping his neighbour… when the cameras just so happen to be rolling. These publicity stunts see the artist make money on the backs of people in need.

Drake

These publicity stunts see the artist make money on the backs of people in need

The number one rule of being a gangster? You never, ever rat out your friends. And yet that's exactly what Tekashi 69 did when he betrayed the Nine Tray Bloods. The entire world of hip hop turned its back on him, and he even got death threats.

The number one rule of being a gangster? You never, ever rat out your friends...

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 Lady Gaga speaks out on behalf of the voiceless, and insists on expressing herself and her strangeness

Lady Gaga

Bono is on a mission to make the world a better place, from charity fundraisers, meetings with the Pope and humanitarian trips... Bono is rock's Mother Teresa. But can celebrities save the world?

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Breaking and making records is just a part of Eminem's MO

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At a party organized by GQ magazine, Noel Gallagher admitted it: the Oasis secret sauce for success is good old-fashioned plagiarism

Oasis

When Cardi B won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album of the Year 2019, haters around the world piled on to her; saying she didn't deserve it and that she was a bimbo. The backslash was so bad that Cardi B temporarily left the platform. 

When Cardi B won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album of the Year 2019, haters around the world piled on to her

Cardi B

On December 25, 2006, the whole of America went into mourning: James Brown was dead. His funeral was of an opulence that matched his luxe, zany life, with a solid gold coffin and a stadium full of mourners.

James Brown's funeral was of an opulence that matched his luxe, zany life

James Brown

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Thanks to her 1994 smash hit 'All I Want for Christmas is You', Mariah Carey is almost as Christmassy as Santa himself

Mariah Carey

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How Britney songs are fighting piracy in Somalia

Britney Spears

Kanye West started off as a megalomaniac hip-hop star who transformed himself into a modern-day messiah. But is his preaching just another type of celebrity? After all, it is lucrative...

Kanye West started off as a megalomaniac hip-hop star who transformed himself into a modern-day messiah

Kanye West

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Live from the Philharmonie de Paris, 2 July 2022.

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Former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker revisits classic French pop songs from the 1960s, tracks immortalised in the Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch.
Live from the Philharmonie de Paris, 2 July 2022.

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Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? Brazil, especially, uses large quantities of harmful pesticides imported from Europe with terrible effects on the population’s health.

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? 

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The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland. Once German East Prussia, it is now home to 1 million Russian citizens. What is life like in this small territory now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began?

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In an historic turnaround, Sweden and Finland want to join NATO thus ending their decades-long neutrality. 

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Dutch band Epica returns to Hellfest to present Omega, a new album showing off their inimitable symphonic heavy metal sound.

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