With 2012 being the year of the Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, it has been decided by the FA that every single football club in the country will ditch their current, and in some cases, iconic, run out tunes and replace it with the National...
On Burns Night, 2012, the BBC broadcast to English viewers and listeners, Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, reading poems by Robert Burns. Few will forget the chilling threat that followed this attack. 'Ah will continue tae reid th' poems ay Rabbie Burns at ye sassenachs,' vowed a visibly crazed Mr Salmond, 'until Scootlund achieves independence. Indeed,' he added, with wild eyes bulging...
Indianapolis -- Football fans watching Super Bowl XLVI can remain seated during the pregame ceremonies this year, because the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner will be preempted by a television commercial for Dodge trucks. "At $7 million a minut...
I was getting ready to watch the World Series and I was enduring the atrocious warbling of an off-key canary when I thought back to some yellowed papers I'd purchased at a garage sale. It was the diary of a man named George Wemby, who was a childhood friend of Francis Scott Key. That diary contains the true meaning of the lyrics Key wrote. (This has been confirmed by researchers from Harvard, whom...
Two of the dance scene's top DJ's have been called in to revamp the UK national anthem following complaints by Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton that it is too short. The McLaren star was speaking after his "amazing" victory in the German Grand Prix a...
DALLAS - Christina Aguilera said that she had sung the "Stars Spangled Banner" dozens and dozens of times at football games, baseball games, basketball games, and even at The Laramie Cowpoke & Cowpokette Lassoing Finals and Rustic Rodeo and that...
Kumbaya is an African-American spiritual song which translates to "Come by Here" and through the years has come to symbolize peace, harmony and compassion toward our fellow man. It is a standard song sung around campfires, in cars by families heading...
Right-wing republicans are backing a plan that will stop soulful, rocked-up or jazzy renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner. The idea comes in the wake of a vote by lawmakers in the Philippines to fine and jail people who get their anthem wrong. T...
All of Europe are throwing their arms up in protest, we can reveal exclusively, following the EU's brand new decision to change the European Anthem. Formally something nice and classical, EU chiefs have decided that this kind of music was getting...
Italien England manager, Capello has told the FA, the Royal Family and the England fans, "don't expecte mio to singe de national anthem, i italiono et no engleesi, prima verdi!" This statement has caused quite a stir at "stiff upper lip" FA Englan...
Tired of being laughed at for being the English-speaking world's permanent jokes, the USA today changed their national anthem from 'The Star Bangled Spanner' to the John Lennon song 'Revolution 1', in honour of Englishman Lennon managing to end the USA's feeble involvement in the Vietnam War for them. And also in revenge for any articles here laughing at the feeble USA being rewritten by the s...
It's been described as a deliberate plot to unsettle the opposition players and fans alike, but officials of the Ukraine FA have insisted on playing a six minute version of their national anthem at Wembley tonight. "Six minutes is a long time to h...
For centuries gangs of unemployed, shaven-headed men have stood with pride to mumble selected words from 'God Save The Queen' at international football matches, but this longstanding tradition could soon come to a swift end if government plan...
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