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Pink Floyd Release Surprise Atom Heart Mother Live Recording

The huge and impressive box set The Early Years 1965 - 1972 (no less than 27 discs) released in November 2016 seems to have only started a comprehensive list of surprises coming from legendary band Pink Floyd, as the fans discovered on the official YouTube channel a 15 minute live recording of Atom Heart Mother. Shot on August 8 1970, when the...

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Facts and Figures About Famous Cities

In Hong Kong there are actually more skyscrapers than in New York. Hong Kong it the city which holds the world record for the number of skyscrapers, over 7800. And among them about 1300 are more than 100 meters tall, while the all time record is the International Commerce Centre - 484 meters high. And as you might have thought the city also has a...

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Did You Know That? Strange Facts and Firsts

According to researchers, zebras are white with black stripes, and not the other way around. New York was once named New Amsterdam, as it was a Dutch colony, conquered by the English in 1664. It's new name was dedicated to the Duke of York, the future King James II. Walt Disney still holds the record for most Academy Awards - 26 out...

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What You Didn't Know About Fleetwood Mac

1. The name of the band was chosen by Peter Green, the leader and main driving force during the first part of the group's history. There was no strange explanation behind it, he simply used the names of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie (altering the spelling). And so a legendary name was born. 2. It was Peter Green...

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Things Famous Composers Said

1. In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of (Robert Schumann) 2. Competitions are for horses, not for artists. (Bela Bartok) 3. Works of art make rules. But rules do not make works of art. (Claude Debussy) 4. What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There...

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Albert Einstein - Facts and Stories

As a child he seemed to be a slow learner and his parents were sure that he had serious health problems. He began to speak when he was about four years old, but when he was about five he first started his science interest when he discovered, by accident, a small pocket compass. Wanting to understand why and how the needle pointed to the North, he...

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Facts About Pink Floyd

1. It was named after two of Syd Barrett's favourite blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. It wasn't the only name, for before that they also used Jokers Wild, The Abdads, The Tea Set and, for a while, The Pink Floyd Sound. 2. The Dark Side of the Moon , released in 1973, is still one of the best-selling albums of all times,...

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Facts and Stories About Louis de Funes

1. The full name of the famous comedian was Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (that's a long one), and he was of French and Spanish origin. Born on July 31st 1914, he was from an early age a tallented piano player, liked drawing and painting, and over the years he learned English and Spanish very well. So any time you see him in a movie...

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Seven Facts About Samuel Barber

1. Born on March 9 1910 in a rather wealthy and influential family, the future composer seemed to be a child prodigy, fascinated by music beyond all else. No wonder that his main early influence would be his aunt and uncle, Louise and Sidney Homer, at that time respected figures in the New York music scene. Were they the ones who made him write his...

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Maurice Ravel - Facts and Curiosities

1. Born in 1876, Maurice Ravel began his piano lessons when he was only six, and by the time he was 14 the future composer was already an accomplished musician who entertained first his family and friends with his recitals, eventually giving his very first public concert. In no small part his passion for music was influenced by his father, Joseph...

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Facts You Didn't Know About Famous Authors

1. As strange as it might seem, three of the most famous tales in the Arabian Nights cycle weren't in the original book. Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sindbad the Sailor and his seven adventurous voyages were much later additions to the original tales, and some researchers still consider these to be fakes, not the real deal. 2. Ray Bradbury...

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Ten Facts About Erik Satie

1. Born on May 17th 1866, Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, famous today as Erik Satie, would be a composer, pianist and eccentric, colourful and rebelious figure, who made his mark on later art movements ranging from minimalism and Dadaism to Surrealism and experimental music. A huge influence especially after his passing, he was in his time either loved...

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Strange Facts From the History of Classical Music

1. When Beethoven premiered his 9th Symphony his legendary deafness was complete. One of the most important and influential composers of all times could not hear even a single note, a whisper, a word. So not only he conducted often losing the rhytm of the music, but at the triumphant end of the symphony he had to be turned around in order for him to...

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Funny Beatles Quotes

Taken from various interviews, TV shows, fan meetings, concerts, proving once and for all that the Fab Four really had a sense of humous. Maybe a little British sometimes, but nevertheless always funny. Really funny. And almost always spontaneous. And it couldn't start any other way that with the Beatles playing before the Queen. It was on...

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Five Movies About Famous Painters

1. Andrei Rublev (1966) Considered by many critics to be the masterpiece of famous Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, this 1966 movie was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival of 1969 and was received as one of the most beautiful, touching and passionate movies of all times. Still held today as one of the most convincing of artist's portrayals in...

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Martin Balint solo show

MARTIN BALINT Hagiografia Ginandromorfica solo show November 14 - 28, 2016 @ TIT - Transmedia Intervention Territory 60 Vaselor St. (floor 5), Bucharest Opening November 14, 2016, 19.00 We're teaming up and piloting a series of hybrid happenings with arts and media in many of their forms for...

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Best Five Books About Freddie Mercury

While the latest book about the legendary vocalist of Queen has recently hit the shelves and the e-book domain - Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne - the fans already know there are several other biographies, memoirs of those who had known him and various titles about the...

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Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema 2016

MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema returns for its 11th edition from December 1-8, 2016 exclusively at the Jacob Burns Film Center Discover the Lineup and Purchase Your Tickets! Dear friends and supporters of Making Waves, The Romanian Film Initiative and the Jacob Burns Film Center are pleased to announce the...

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10 Famous Paintings

1. Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa Is this the most famous and celebrated painting of all times? Counterfeited and stolen, retrieved and admired, imitated and surely wanted by all elite collectors worldwide, no such a list could be even remotely complete without this lady and her smile. 2. Rembrandt - Nightwatch It was...

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Roger Waters Goes Back On the Road

Roger Waters, the bass player, singer and composer who became famous during his years as one of the members of legendary band Pink Floyd, has recently announced that he would be back on the road in 2017. There had been a lot of speculation about the future of the 73 years old artist. Some were sure that he would announce his retirement, others that a...

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Bob Dylan Facts

1. His real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, but over the course of his career he used several other names. In the beginning he was known for a short time as Elston Gunn, and later recorded and published as Bob Landy, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Blind Boy Grunt and the list goes on and on. 2. When he was just 20 years old Bob Dylan was signed on...

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Sherlock Holmes Secrets

1. At first Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to name his most celebrated character...Sherrinford. Sherrinford Holmes. And Dr. Watson would have been Ormond Sacker, or at least that was written in the first notes for the following stories. 2. And no, in the original stories not even once does Holmes say "Elementary, my dear Watson." Never,...

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Queen Releases the Complete BBC Sessions

Starting with February 1973 and ending with October 1977, when the band was already considered to be one of best new groups in the world, Queen had recorded no less than 24 songs in the BBC studios, and these were surprisingly different from the original ones that you could listen to on singles and the albums. Often reworking the song to an amazing...

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Six Facts About Gene Wilder

1. He was actually born Jerome Silberman, on June 11th 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and made his first steps towards a comedian's career by entertaining his sickly mother with jokes, one-liners and funny accents. Even if he was just a kid he seemed to have a real knack for it. 2. Although he would be famous later for his funny roles, his...

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The First and Last American Emperor

After the middle of the 19th century on the streets of San Francisco you had the chance of meeting almost everyday an unusual, rather bizzare individual, who seemed to watch out for everything as if anything was actually in his property. Or rather under his guise and protection. Smiling, very polite, talking to many of those who passed him by,...

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Behind Great Movies There Are Stories

Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks was twice inspired when he chose to do this movies. First of all he accepted to play the part not two hours after he had read the script, as it was one of the best he had ever come across. Then he refused to take a fixed salary, asking for a percentage after the release of the movies. By the end this would mean over 40...

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DAN VEZENTAN - Feed Me / No Gravity

DAN VEZENTAN - Feed Me / No Gravity September 23rd – November 1st 2016 Dan Vezentan reconstructs a farming hall for chickens at / sandwich /, while using one material that would be legally forbidden in such constructions: the mirror. Access stirrups are multiplied in a kaleidoscope that recalls of Escher's...

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Funny Art Stories

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most famous artists of all times, and one could expect that this amazing genius would have left for future generations a rich and huge collection of his art works. Yet we only have today about 15 works that are almost surely fully or mostly his work, as several others have proven to be the works of his apprentices or...

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Funny Classical Music Stories

One time Franz Liszt was playing before Czar Nicholas the First and his imperial court, but by the middle of his performance the host was bored and began talking to one of the spectators. At first the pianist ignored him, but after several minutes he simply stopped playing. All you could hear was the czar talking, louder now it seemed, and after a...

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The Biggest Pink Floyd Box Set Ever

On November 11th 2016 Pink Floyd fans will be in for a treat. That will be the day when the biggest box set of the legendary band will be launched (and maybe it is just the first in a longer series), a mammoth collection comprising of 27 discs and several others surprises. Entitled Pink Floyd - The Early Years 1965-1972 , this huge surprise...

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