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Palace releases new portrait of King and Queen as their Samoa trip ends

Palace releases new portrait of King and Queen as their Samoa trip ends

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King Charles heckled by Australian senator: ‘Give us our land back’ Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Buckingham Palace has released a new portrait of the King and Queen as their Samoa trip draws to a close. King Charles III said: “As our visits to Australia and Samoa come to a close, my wife and I would like to thank both nations for the warmest of welcomes and for the countless fond memories we will carry in our hearts for many years to come. “Even when we are far apart in distance, the many close connections that unite us across the globe and through our Commonwealth family have been renewed, and will remain as profound as they are enduring.” It came after he acknowledged the “most painful aspects” of the Commonwealth’s past as he bid goodbye to Samoa after indirectly acknowledging growing calls for slavery reparations in Samoa. Charles and Queen Camilla ended their four-day state visit to Samoa …

B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985)

B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985)

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The scene is Farm Aid, 1985, attend­ed by a crowd of 80,000 peo­ple. The song is “How Blue Can You Get.” And the key moment comes at the 3:10 mark, when the blues leg­end B.B. King breaks a gui­tar string, then man­ages to replace it before the song fin­ish­es min­utes lat­er. All the while, he keeps the song going, nev­er miss­ing a beat and singing the blues. Enjoy. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks! Relat­ed Con­tent: B.B. King Plays Live at Sing Sing Prison in One of His Great­est Per­for­mances (1972) The Thrill is Gone: See B.B. King Play in Two Elec­tric Live …

King Charles faces indigenous activists for second day after senator explains outburst – Royal family news

King Charles faces indigenous activists for second day after senator explains outburst – Royal family news

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King Charles heckled by Australian senator: ‘Give us our land back’ Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The King faced indigenous activists questioning the supremacy of the British monarchy for a second day as he tours Australia. When Charles met First Nations elders during a visit to the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) in Sydney, Elder Allan Murray from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council told him their goal was “sovereignty”. The visit came after the King was accused on Monday of “genocide” against Australia’s First Nations by senator Lidia Thorpe who told him “You are not my King”. The Indigenous senator has spoken out to explain why she confronted him after his parliamentary adress. Senator Lidia Thorpe shouted at the monarch “you are not my king” and demanded a treaty between Australia‘s First Nations and its government on Monday. Ms Thorpe, an Indigenous woman from Victoria, has long advocated for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians to …

Country Music’s Philosopher King – The Atlantic

Country Music’s Philosopher King – The Atlantic

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A Nashville musician once offered Kris Kristofferson some feedback on “Me and Bobby McGee,” the 1971 Janis Joplin smash Kristofferson had written. The musician loved the song’s storytelling about young lovers on the road. But, he asked, “why do you have to put that philosophy in there?” “That philosophy” was the line “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” It sounded a little highfalutin, a little abstract, for a humble country tune—and, of course, it ended up becoming one of the most memorable refrains in the 20th-century American songbook. Kristofferson, who died at age 88 in his Maui home on Saturday, was a guitar-toting stage performer, a ruggedly handsome movie actor, and an outspoken humanitarian and activist. But at base, he was a thinker-poet who pushed country music in existentialist directions. The songs he wrote for himself and others, including Joplin and Johnny Cash, built on the insight that music is philosophy: To write a song is to connect ideas and sound into one flowing whole, to hitch the small to the big, …

Royal biographer gives insight into Charles’s first day as King

Royal biographer gives insight into Charles’s first day as King

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A royal biographer has given an insight into King Charles’s first hours as monarch after being told the news of the Queen’s death in a car. Robert Hardman told an audience at the Henley Literary Festival – with which The Independent has joined as its exclusive news partner for the second year in a row – about how Charles’s reign has differed from his mother’s and the late Queen’s final days. His book, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, chronicles the King’s first year as monarch in what marked the first time the majority in Britain had encountered a ruler other than Queen Elizabeth II. He told the audience in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, how Charles became aware that he had become King over the phone while driving back to Balmoral castle to see the late Queen. Robert Hardman told an audience at the Henley Literary Festival …

James Earl Jones, voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader and Mufasa in The Lion King, dies aged 93 | Ents & Arts News

James Earl Jones, voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader and Mufasa in The Lion King, dies aged 93 | Ents & Arts News

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Acting great James Earl Jones, who voiced Star Wars villain Darth Vader and Mufasa in The Lion King, has died at the age of 93. Jones, a longtime sufferer of diabetes, died at his home surrounded by family members, his agent Barry McPherson said. No cause of death was provided. He appeared in Conan the Barbarian, played Eddie Murphy’s dad in Coming to America and starred in The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games. But it was his iconic voice as the villainous Darth Vader for which he was best known. Image: Jones with Star Wars creator George Lucas in 2007. Pic: AP Image: Jones poses with Darth Vader at the premiere of ‘Star Wars Episode II’ , 2002. Pic: Reuters Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, Vader’s son in Star Wars, tweeted: “RIP dad.” Jones was one of the few entertainers to have won the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards). Celebrities paid tribute to Jones, with Colman Domingo, who stars in the recently released Sing Sing, saying on X: “Thank you …

Prince Harry ‘looking for a way back into fold’ as King Charles to host Starmer at Balmoral – Royal family news

Prince Harry ‘looking for a way back into fold’ as King Charles to host Starmer at Balmoral – Royal family news

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Meghan Markle shares the moment from royal life that ‘changed everything’ Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prince Harry has sought advice from his former British aides about plotting a return from the US that could involve a partial reinstatement to the royal fold, sources have revealed. In what has been described as the initial stage in a strategy to “rehabilitate” him, The Mail on Sunday reported the Duke of Sussex has been seeking help from advisers he had when he was a working royal amid increasing alleged issues with American-based PR firms. A key aim of the claimed move would be for Harry to repair his relationship with his father – although the sources stressed he and his wife Meghan Markle are not looking to make a permanent return to the UK. It comes as the King is hosting Sir Keir Starmer at Balmoral for his first official weekend at …

The Watch World’s New Indie King

The Watch World’s New Indie King

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Rexhepi is handsome with a strong jaw, permanent stubble, and boyishly pointed ears. If Hollywood ever catches watch fever and decides to give Rexhepi a biopic, Tom Hardy would fit the bill. He is meticulous about everything, not just watches—even the workbench he uses is of his own design. His desk is stacked with notebooks filled with drawings of watches and mechanisms. He designed the notebooks too. On the day of our meeting, he is wearing a camel-colored knit polo and matching sport coat. He cares so much about his clothes that he’s talked about designing his own one day. On his wrist is the vintage Rolex Milgauss he’s known for, but he tells me he also has several of the brand’s Daytonas at home. The Chronomètre Contemporain II is Rexhepi’s current masterpiece, considered by many to be one of the finest modern watches in the world. Rexhepi’s office is decorated with objects that pass his smell test: samurai swords and a handmade knife from Emmanuel Esposito that clicks into place so smoothly, like those …

‘There is no Hairy Bikers without Dave’: Si King on TV, cooking and life without his best friend | Food TV

‘There is no Hairy Bikers without Dave’: Si King on TV, cooking and life without his best friend | Food TV

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Si King knows what he cannot do next. “It can’t be the Hairy Bikers 2.0,” he says. “That’s not going to happen. It wouldn’t be respectful.” It is a cool, rainy day in May and we are sitting by the fire in his small but sturdy gatehouse cottage just to the south of Newcastle. It is less than three months since the death from cancer of Dave Myers, his friend of over 30 years and the other half of the internationally successful TV cooking phenomenon known as the Hairy Bikers. Si has decided it’s time to talk: about the man he knew and the pain of loss and the thorny issue of what he does now. “There’s obviously the sense of losing your best mate,” he says. “But there’s also a sense of loss in that the experiences we had together can’t go on.” He seems almost baffled by the enormity of what has happened. I have known Si for about 15 years. We first met on a food and drink episode of The Weakest …