This week:
20th
2009, AEG Live announced Michael’s comeback tour would be delayed by four days, saying his health was “fantastic”..
This Is It Lyric video
Heal The World worksheet
21st
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
Worksheet: American Saturday Night – Brad Paisley – Lyric video
22nd
1970, David Bowie recorded ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, the final track for the album, with Tony Visconti at Advision Studios, London, writing the lyrics in the studio. The next day he and Angie left for Scotland for a belated honeymoon.
Lyric video – Space Oddity Worksheet
23rd
Anniversary of the gunning down of Bonnie & Clyde (1914)
Worksheet: The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde – Georgie Fame
Eminem – Bonnie & Clyde Lyric Video
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
Number Ones, 20th May:
1954
UK Doris Day-Secret Love
US Perry Como-Wanted
1964
UK The Searchers-Don’t Throw Your Love Away
US Mary Wells-My Guy
1974
UK The Rubettes-Sugar Baby Love
US Ray Stevens-The Streak
1984
UK Duran Duran-The Reflex
US Lionel Richie-Hello
1994
UK Stiltskin-Inside
US Ace Of Base-The Sign
2004
UK Eamon-Fuck It
US Usher-Yeah
2014
UK Mr. Probz-Waves
US John Legend-All Of Me – Worksheet – Speak Up video
2024
UK Official Singles Charts
US Billboard Hot 100
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