With hundreds of millions of records sold, careers that are still thriving in their fourth decade, and admiration from the likes of Taylor Swift, the boy bands the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync are absolute pop royalty. They were also the creations of one of America’s biggest criminals. It’s this bizarre duality that Netflix’s new docuseries…
Eric Clapton fled the Yardbirds in the spring of 1965, dismayed by the prospect of their latest single, For Your Love, bringing commercial success and thereby compromising his musical integrity. The 20-year-old guitarist found comfort in the arms of John Mayall, who welcomed him into his band, the Bluesbreakers. Within weeks their relatively purist approach…
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An armed officer has been removed from frontline policing after footage showed him kicking a man in the face during an arrest at Manchester airport. A senior Greater Manchester police officer described the incident as “truly shocking” and said people were “rightly extremely concerned” by it. Footage shared widely online on Wednesday showed the officer…
The NBA announced new 11-year TV deals with incumbent ESPN and newcomers NBC and Amazon Prime Video, rejecting TNT Sports’ right to match, which is expected to lead to a legal battle between the network and the league, according to sources briefed on the deal. The forthcoming agreements, worth $77 billion in total, with ESPN,…
However, during the Olympics, I am surrounded by Polish people, making the experience uniquely meaningful and somewhat homier. I feel I can truly be myself; my jokes are understood, and I receive much more support from my country than during other races. Having participated twice in the Olympics, in Rio and Tokyo, I’ve experienced the…
The 1972 Munich Olympics were viewed by their German hosts as a chance to leave the country’s history behind. Instead, the Games became notorious for terrorism after an attack on the Israeli team by Palestinian militants that left 12 victims dead, as well as five attackers. That history now looms over the 2024 Paris Olympics,…
Riffle Ventures – Funding high-impact climate solutions Riffle Ventures Funding climate solutions requires an enormous amount of capital – now it feels like common knowledge, but we have to say it anyway. According to McKinsey and Bloomberg NEF, we will need over US$200 trillion in cumulative financing to power the green transition, a lot of…
Netflix’s new three-part docuseries, Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, examines the rise and fall of the late Lou Pearlman, a music manager who created – and then exploited – some of the biggest boy bands of the ‘90s, including Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, O-Town and LFO. By 2006, he was accused of running a industry…