This week:
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
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
Number Ones, 23rd May:
1962
UK B.Bumble & The Stingers – Nut Rocker
US The Shirelles-Soldier Boy
1972
UK T.Rex-Metal Guru
US Roberta Flack-The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
1982
UK Nicole-A Little Peace
US Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder-Ebony And Ivory
1992
UK KWS-Please Don’t Go
US Kris Kross-Jump
2002
UK Ronan Keating-If Tomorrow Never Comes
US Ashanti-Foolish
2012
UK Rita Ora-R.I.P. (feat.Tinie Tempah)
US Gotye-Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) – Worksheet
2022
UK Official Singles Charts
US Billboard Hot 100
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