After this performance the band did an interview saying this was the best performance they have ever done. Just this song. Everyone was on cue. Perfect. Not a note missed by anyone. Pitch. Tone. Timing. All perfect. They said they never performed this good ever before. And you can clearly tell.❤️🎶
Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere
Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). During his first broadcast, he improvised the entire monologue on the spot, which makes the scene even more incredible 😭🎬
Amazing just how incompetent the @fia is.
The correct handling of the finish under the regs, but incredibly poorly managed. Yet again, they've conspired to screw it up and leave fans feeling confused and unhappy. #F1#BritishGP
@blog_formula1 O legal é que o regulamento é sempre cumprido a risca. Só teve uma única corrida na história da f1, que o regulamento do safety car não foi cumprido. Dica. Ela foi a última corrida de um determinado ano.
🚨 COMUNICADO DA FIA: FOI UM ERRO DE SOFTWARE 🚨
A FIA se pronunciou após o papelão: "Em relação ao regulamento sobre o período de Safety Car, Artigo B5. 13.5, estabelece que uma volta deve ser completada após o procedimento dos retardatários se colocarem na mesma volta do líder novamente.
Esse processo foi seguido pela operação de corrida. A mensagem de “Safety Car nesta volta” (que indicava que o Safety Car iria para os boxes) foi exibida erroneamente devido a um erro de software"
GM, through the Cadillac's F1 onboard telematic control unit (TCU), recorded Valtteri's sudden acceleration and late braking data and sold that data to his insurance company. Now Valtteri has points on his driver's license, and his insurance premium is rising. #F1
Bob Geldof did not want them on the bill.
He had agreed to include Queen in the Live Aid lineup only reluctantly, pushed by promoter Harvey Goldsmith. By the summer of 1985, Geldof was not alone in thinking their moment had passed. Their biggest hits were nearly a decade old. Critics had started writing them off. Privately, the band itself was wondering if it was finished.
Then came July 13, 1985.
What nobody watching that day knew was what had happened the week before. Queen had booked the 400-seat Shaw Theatre near King's Cross in London and rehearsed their 21-minute set down to the exact second. Not the general shape of it. The exact second. Six songs, every beat drilled until nothing could go wrong.
And then, reportedly, their roadies disabled the sound limiters on the PA before the set. Every other band on that stage was capped. Queen was not.
At 6:41 PM, Freddie Mercury walked out. White jeans. White tank top. Studded armband. Seventy-two thousand people erupted.
He sat at the piano and played the opening of Bohemian Rhapsody, not the whole song, just enough to set the crowd on fire. Then he stood. Strode to the microphone.
Radio Ga Ga filled the stadium. Seventy-two thousand people raised their hands in perfect unison, one of the most iconic images of the entire decade.
Then Freddie stopped the band. He turned to the crowd. He opened his mouth and sang a single sustained note.
""Aaaaaaay-o.""
And waited.
Seventy-two thousand people sang it back. He went higher. They followed. Higher still. They stayed with him. Back and forth, the note climbing, the crowd holding on, the moment stretching into something that felt almost sacred.
It would later be called The Note Heard Round the World.
They tore through Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a shortened We Will Rock You, and finally We Are the Champions. The stadium shook.
Twenty-one minutes after they walked on, Queen walked off.
Bob Geldof, the man who had not wanted them there, said afterward: ""Queen were absolutely the best band of the day. They played the best, had the best sound, used their time to the full. It was the perfect stage for Freddie: the whole world.""
An estimated 1.9 billion people across 150 nations had been watching. In 2005, music industry insiders voted it the single greatest rock performance in history. Not one of the greatest. The greatest.
Authors and musicians who were there have said those 21 minutes may have saved the band itself, that Queen was on the verge of a permanent split, and that afternoon reminded all four of them what they were still capable of together.
Freddie Mercury died on November 24, 1991. He was 45 years old.
But on July 13, 1985, for 21 minutes, standing before 72,000 people under a London summer sky, he was the most alive person on earth.
Os caras meteram bandeira amarela SIMPLES quando o Verstappen tava na brita e os pilotos tavam a mais de 300km/h
E ativaram a amarela DUPLA na volta de desaceleração, quando naturalmente os carros andam mais lentos
coerente da FIA 🤪
Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen
Just one example (bear with me):
Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.
The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows
But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered
Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle
There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).
If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.
Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).
Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed
So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef
Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers
🚨HEARTBREAKING BOMBSHELL FROM DIDDLY SQUAT: JEREMY CLARKSON REVEALS HE HAS CANCER 😢
In the final two episodes of Clarkson’s Farm Season 5, Jeremy Clarkson shares some truly devastating personal news.
Jeremy is in his office discussing the farm harvest with Charlie and Kaleb Cooper when he breaks off mid-sentence, leans back in his seat, and quietly reveals the devastating news: “I’ve got cancer.”
A stunned Kaleb asks where. Jeremy replies it’s not something he wants to detail publicly, but he’s known since May after a medical, followed by a biopsy. It’s aggressive but caught early. He hoped to finish the harvest before treatment, but it’s hitting right in the middle.
Kaleb wipes away tears and says: "Look after yourself, you go and do…if you need anything just ring."
Later, with the full team (including Lisa, Charlie and Gerald), he reflects on the tough year: starting with heart issues and ending with this.
In the closing moments, we see him back in a hospital bed:
“So we started season five with me in a hospital bed and we are at the end of season five and I’m back in a hospital bed. Some of the treatment has gone awry, let’s say, I'm going to be here for a little while. I'm nil by mouth, i dont know whats going to happen. If this is all successful I’ll see you for season six and if it isn’t I won’t. Take care everyone.”
It’s an incredibly raw, emotional watch from a man who’s usually full of bluster and humour.
Thoughts with you, Jezza. 💔
I’m sure you’ll pull through! 💪
In Rush's first show without Neil Peart since 1974, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made grown men cry, and new touring drummer Anika Nilles absolutely killed.
See our review of the Fifty Something Tour kickoff: https://t.co/30o0Zaytf6