This week:
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
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
World Play Day
Worksheet: Kentucky Avenue – Tom Waits
Games/Activities
Number Ones, 22nd May:
1963
UK The Beatles-From Me To You
US Jimmy Soul-If You Wanna Be Happy
1973
UK Wizzard-See My Baby Jive
US Stevie Wonder-You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
1983
UK Spandau Ballet-True
US David Bowie-Let’s Dance
1993
UK Ace Of Base-All That She Wants
US Janet Jackson-That’s The Way Love Goes
2003
UK R. Kelly-Ignition
US Sean Paul-Get Busy
2013
UK Daft Punk – Get Lucky – Worksheet – Speak Up video
US Macklemore and Ryan Lewis-Can’t Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)
2023
UK Official Singles Charts
US Billboard Hot 100
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