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Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yungblud Really Really Really Swings Big on the Charmingly Overwrought ‘Idols'
Since emerging in the late 2010s, the British yelper Yungblud — a.k.a. Doncaster, England-born Dominic Harrison — has become an anti-pop hero. His songs channeled the angst and agitation of youth into frenetic mini-anthems that musically reflected the on-shuffle mentality of the 21st century. Yungblud's voice — a piercing yelp that exists somewhere between Gerard Way's wail and Brian Molko's sneer — slotted him in the alt-rock world, but his aspirations seemed to stretch far beyond that categorization. With his fourth album Idols Yungblud harnesses those hopes and takes a very big swing. The 12 songs released this week are the first half of what he's calling a double-album project, with part two slated for release at some point in the future, and this installment's opening track 'Hello Heaven, Hello' doubles as a leadoff statement of Yungblud's revitalized ambition. Mutating from a dreamy greeting into a muscular, shape-shifting rock song before taking a hairpin turn into fuzz-shrouded acoustic balladry, the nine-minute cut finds Yungblud reintroducing himself to his audience with equal parts bravado and humility: 'All the hopes and dreams I may have borrowed/Just know, my friend, I leave them all to you,' he wails near the song's end before disappearing into a cloud of strings and feedback. More from Rolling Stone Yungblud Confronts His Insecurities on 'Idols': This 'Was Almost My Last Chance' Florence Pugh Looks for the Light in Yungblud's Video for 'Zombie' Yungblud's Guide to Good Emotions: Lady Gaga, Florence Pugh, Rogue Bartending, and More Yungblud told Rolling Stone Australia that Idols comes 'from [my] heart and not from [my] head… it came from within me, and I made this for me.' Its broad scope shows how deep his passion for taking music in unexpected directions can run. 'Lovesick Lullaby' recalls the grungy, stompy power-alt-pop of the Nineties, with Yungblud sing-talking through a neurotic inner monologue on the verses before the candy-coated chorus opens up; the bridge brings forward some Brian Wilson-inspired vocal layering; and then everything comes back into the mix for chaos that's as raucous as it is hooky. 'The Greatest Parade' is defiantly downcast, its charging rhythms giving heightened importance to Yungblud's withered yowl and world-weary lyrics ('Now I think I've forgotten/Who I am/Well, can you remind me/Let's write it in the sand'). 'Ghosts' is another ambitious offering, pairing ruminations on mortality with stadium-rock grandeur, complete with an outro that possesses a churning splendor in a way that feels like a rebuke of any earthly limitations. (It's one of a few cuts to feature the London Philharmonic, a nod to how much of a force Yungblud has become.) Idols also shows how Yungblud's bellow is tailor-made for cathartic ballads. 'Zombie,' where he exposes his self-loathing ('Would you even want me, looking like a zombie?') over midtempo riffing, and 'War,' which tackles the conflicted feelings dredged up by the demands of stardom — particularly ones made by the people surrounding him whose motivations he can't quite trust. On Idols, Yungblud doesn't entirely ignore the hangers-on and 'helpful' outsiders, but he does barrel past them with a hungry bravado that shows why so many have become passionate about his music. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
The Independent
23-06-2025
- The Independent
Met Police appeal after ‘priceless' 280-year-old violin stolen from pub
The Metropolitan Police are appealing for information after a £150,000 violin was stolen from a pub in Islington. The instrument, which belongs to a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, is believed to have been taken from The Marquess Tavern on Canonbury Street on February 18. The 30-year-old victim reported the theft to the Metropolitan Police that evening, police said Pc Michael Collins, from the Met's local policing team in Camden, said officers were releasing CCTV in an attempt to try and identify the suspect. 'We've been working hard to try and locate the suspect and are releasing this CCTV in an effort to help identify them as soon as possible. 'The victim, who is a member of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, has told us the piece is worth more than £150,000 and was made in Florence in 1740. Anyone with information should call 101 with the reference 01/7178074/25 or tweet the police via @MetCC. He added: 'It is incredibly precious, and for the victim, it's priceless.' 'Please help us find the person responsible and have the violin returned it to its rightful owner.'
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Yahoo
Met Police appeal after ‘priceless' 280-year-old violin stolen from pub
The Metropolitan Police are appealing for information after a £150,000 violin was stolen from a pub in Islington. The instrument, which belongs to a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, is believed to have been taken from The Marquess Tavern on Canonbury Street on February 18. The 30-year-old victim reported the theft to the Metropolitan Police that evening, police said Pc Michael Collins, from the Met's local policing team in Camden, said officers were releasing CCTV in an attempt to try and identify the suspect. 'We've been working hard to try and locate the suspect and are releasing this CCTV in an effort to help identify them as soon as possible. 'The victim, who is a member of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, has told us the piece is worth more than £150,000 and was made in Florence in 1740. Anyone with information should call 101 with the reference 01/7178074/25 or tweet the police via @MetCC. He added: 'It is incredibly precious, and for the victim, it's priceless.' 'Please help us find the person responsible and have the violin returned it to its rightful owner.'
The Guardian
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Winter Words (arr Holloway), etc album review – confirms Gardner's status as an outstanding conductor of Britten
If Edward Gardner's performances and recording of Peter Grimes had not already firmly established his credentials as an outstanding Britten conductor, then this collection, taken from Gardner's concerts with the London Philharmonic at the Festival Hall in London and at Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden, superbly confirms them. It contains an outstanding account of one Britten's greatest orchestral achievements, the Sinfonia da Requiem, and a fine one of a suite (Gardner's own selection) from Britten's only full-length ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas, together with the first recording of a fascinating orchestration by Robin Holloway of Britten's Thomas Hardy song cycle Winter Words. In a note on his orchestrations, Holloway declares that Winter Words is his favourite among Britten's song cycles and that Britten and Hardy 'seem made for each other'. But in its general tone and subject matter – nature, the changing seasons, and man's place among them – and Britten's treatment of them there's an introspection and intimacy, which doesn't automatically suggest the large scale 'public' exposure of an orchestral song cycle. But Holloway's interventions are wonderfully discreet and subtly imaginative, especially in his use of the marimba and xylophone, and tenor Nicky Spence's careful performance certainly respects that. (Not available on Apple music and Spotify)
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Royal fury over fake German prince who has met Prince Charles after using legal loophole to gain access to high society
A fake German prince who has rubbed shoulders with Prince Charles has been slammed for using a legal loophole to gain access to high society. His Serene Highness Dr Donatus, Prince of Hohenzollern, has spent the better part of two decades schmoozing with Britain's elite. But Donatus, who is really a 64-year-old music teacher called Markus Hänsel, was only able to do this after paying to be adopted by a minor German royal in the House of Hohenzollern at the age of 42. The real Prince of Hohenzollern, Karl Friedrich, the head of the House of Hohenzollern, has hit out at Donatus for using his family's name. He told The Sun: 'It makes me angry and frustrated, it leaves a very bitter taste in my mouth. 'Donatus is not my blood, he is not a member of the German royal family, he is simply a non-royal name bearer. 'He certainly cannot use the moniker of Serene Highness.' Donatus is connected to several music organisations and charities, alongside King Charles and Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent. He is the Chairman of the Friends of the English Chamber Orchestra and is also ambassador of The Purcell School for Young Musicians, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, both of which are organisations that King Charles is a patron of. Donatus is also a member of the International Board of Governors of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, of which the Duke of Kent is patron, and and Creative Benefactor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. On top of this, he was previously a Principal Supporter of London's Royal College of Music, and a founding patron of the Royal College of Music Prince Consort Orchestra. In one clip taken from his Surrey home, a photo of him and King Charles was seen on the side. Prince Karl told the Sun that he confronted Donatus over his claim to his family's name, and it was revealed that Katharina Feodora, Princess of Hohenzollern, adopted him in around 2003. 'I wrote to Donatus and said I know all the members of my family but I hadn't heard of him. He wrote back and said, 'yes I have been adopted by your aunt Katharina'. 'I then spoke to my aunt and she told me, 'yes well, he offered me such an amount of money I couldn't resist'. She was always short of money. 'There's nothing we as a family can do.' Three years after he was adopted, he married Dr Viola Hallman, heiress of the Theis steel business, who later became Dr Viola Christa, Princess of Hohenzollern. They lived in a castle in Haelen, the Netherlands. Viola died of cancer in 2012. Donatus told The Sun in an emailed statement, written in the third person: 'Donatus has the same legal rank and rights represented in Germany's family law as Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern, who does not have the authority to speak on behalf of all the members of the family.' He also says he 'financially supports' his 'mother' Katharina. Prince Karl said he is now seeking legal advice on the matter: 'We don't like somebody bringing the family name into a bad light. 'It's obvious he doesn't know me and the history of the Swabian branch of the Hohenzollerns. He's an uninformed man. 'He is not a member of the royal house of Hohenzollern.'
