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
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
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:
1961
UK Floyd Cramer-On The Rebound
US Del Shannon-Runaway
1971
UK Dawn-Knock Three Times
US Three Dog Night-Joy To The World
1981
UK Adam & The Ants – Stand And Deliver
US Kim Carnes-Bette Davis Eyes
1991
UK Cher-Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)
US Hi-Five-I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)
2001
UK Geri Halliwell-It’s Raining Men
US Janet Jackson-All For You
2011
UK Bruno Mars – The Lazy Song Worksheet
US Adele-Rolling In The Deep
2021
UK Official Singles Charts
US Billboard Hot 100
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