“I couldn’t handle singing that song again,” adds Bridgewater, who recorded “Strange Fruit” for her 1991 live album, “In Montreux,” but hasn’t sung it since. “I think it’s bad ...

A filmed sequence of "I Am The Walrus" was to be featured in the Beatles TV movie, Magical Mystery Tour, later that year. It remains the only film of John singing the song. For this reason ...

Strange Fruit : Throughline Billie Holiday helped shape American popular music with her voice and unique style. But, her legacy extends way beyond music with one song in particular — "Strange ...

Really, all I could do was cry. I was just so happy. Other than “Strange Fruit,” what other songs meant the most to you to sing on the new album? Probably “Blackbird.” Because most ...

The story behind the song "Strange Fruit" is well-known ... though they were denied credit for their composition. Singing the song isn't intended to be ironic, she says, but instead serves ...

A photographer captured Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit as she recorded the song in 1939 First recorded in 1939, the protest song Strange Fruit came to symbolise the brutality and racism of ...

As British singer Rebecca Ferguson says she’d be willing to accept an invitation to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration—but only if she’s allowed to sing ... Fruit”—we discuss how ...

While we will be the first to raise our hands as Beatles fans, we can’t deny that their song ... (singing) ‘I am the carpenter….’” As if there wasn’t enough in “I Am The Walrus ...

If you allow me to sing ‘strange fruit’ a song that has huge historical importance, a song that was blacklisted in the United States for being too controversial. Explore Explore See latest ...

According to a Jan. 3 report from People, "X Factor" U.K. runner-up Rebecca Ferguson posted on Twitter that she has been asked to perform at the ceremony. She said she has agreed to do so, but ...

Last week's animated viral tune about a 'cannibal' walrus took us a little bit by surprise when we found it down the back of the internet. We weren't that bothered about it, in all honesty ...

John Lennon said he wanted to sing like a siren on The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.” He revealed where the siren sounds were supposed to be in the song. Notably, “I Am the Walrus” was ...