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At the MGM Grand Garden Arena, musician Lady Gaga performs during the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2011. (via Life)

Erykah Badu VIBE Cover Promo Photo

Badu graced the other cover of the June/July 2010 issue. (via Rap Radar)

A model of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, made from Lego by Iain Heath. The computer programmer, 44, who moved from Luton, Beds, to Seattle, Washington, US, 15 years ago, says: “Lego building is now my main hobby and I am very involved in the fan community, for example helping at various Lego conventions. Part of my mission is to make the general public aware there is a cool Lego fan movement.” (via Telegraph)

Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed cover artwork up for sale

Artwork for one of the most famous album covers – the Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed – is expected to fetch up to £40,000 at auction next month.Keith Richards commissioned his friend, the graphic designer Robert Brownjohn, to create the sleeve images for the 1969 album.The front cover features a surreal sculpture created by Brownjohn comprising the Let It Bleed LP apparently being played with an old-style record arm. Stacked above the record on an automatic changer spindle are a dinner plate, a tape or film reel canister, a clock face, a pizza and a tyre. (via guardian.co.uk)

Angela Gheorghiu: L’amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle (Habanera) from Carmen - video

Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu ‘duets’ with Maria Callas in this performance of the Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen. Abbey Road engineers stripped the orchestral accompaniment from Callas’s 1950s recording, isolating her vocal track, and allowing Gheorghiu to perform with the great diva (via guardian.co.uk)

Kinshasa Strings

Josephine Mpongo of the the Kimbanguiste Symphony Orchestra practises the cello in the group’s rehearsal space. Andrew McConnell’s picture won the best of show prize in the US National Press Photographers Association’s 2011 photojournalism contest. (via Guardian.co.uk)

Not A Virgin (by debaser9779)

Probably the lyrics Madonna should have used the first time round.

Gin n’ Juice, country style. I’m holding my counsel until the shock wears off.

For too long Birmingham and the Black Country have failed to celebrate their importance as the birthplace of ‘Heavy Metal’. This summer however, that will change with Capsule‘s celebration of the music of the Midlands – Home of Metal. It’s time to put the region on the map. (via More Canals than Venice)