A lot goes into making an album, but some fans believe bands do even more work than is apparent by slipping hidden messages into their songs. Some of these supposed secret transmissions from musicians are nefarious or conspiratorial, while others are relatively benign. Regardless, here are three bands that some believe placed hidden messages in their songs.
Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, and Brian May | Express Newspapers/Getty Images The Beatles
John Lennon sparked conspiracy theories when he admitted to placing a backward message in a song.
“On the end of ‘Rain’ you hear me singing it backwards,” he told Rolling Stone in 1968. “We’d done the main thing at Emi and the habit was then to take the songs home and see what you thought a little extra gimmick or what the guitar piece would be.”
From there, fans began poring over the band’s lyrics in search of other hidden messages.
Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, and Brian May | Express Newspapers/Getty Images The Beatles
John Lennon sparked conspiracy theories when he admitted to placing a backward message in a song.
“On the end of ‘Rain’ you hear me singing it backwards,” he told Rolling Stone in 1968. “We’d done the main thing at Emi and the habit was then to take the songs home and see what you thought a little extra gimmick or what the guitar piece would be.”
From there, fans began poring over the band’s lyrics in search of other hidden messages.
- 4/23/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: Production company and management firm The Cartel, the producers of Shudder’s Creepshow, is expanding into unscripted with the hire of unscripted entertainment agent Stewart Cavanagh.
Cavanagh, who was previously Vice President of Alternative at The Gersh Agency joins the company as Head of Unscripted and Documentary.
He spent four years at Gersh, six years as Vice President of Alternative at Rebel Entertainment Partners and 3 years as an Alternative Agent at Innovative Artists.
Cavanagh will bring with him to The Cartel clients on the management side such as New Dominion Pictures, Buck Productions, and Kornhaber Brown. Some of his showrunner clients include Michael Mills (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Ray Dotch (Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath), Emi Macuaga (Seeking Sister Wives), Aaron Catling (Hyperdrive), Tammy Wood (Twisted Sister), Blake Davis (Ugly Delicious), and Hugh Peterson (Car Masters).
“The Cartel is thrilled to have an unscripted agent of Stewart’s caliber joining the team,...
Cavanagh, who was previously Vice President of Alternative at The Gersh Agency joins the company as Head of Unscripted and Documentary.
He spent four years at Gersh, six years as Vice President of Alternative at Rebel Entertainment Partners and 3 years as an Alternative Agent at Innovative Artists.
Cavanagh will bring with him to The Cartel clients on the management side such as New Dominion Pictures, Buck Productions, and Kornhaber Brown. Some of his showrunner clients include Michael Mills (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Ray Dotch (Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath), Emi Macuaga (Seeking Sister Wives), Aaron Catling (Hyperdrive), Tammy Wood (Twisted Sister), Blake Davis (Ugly Delicious), and Hugh Peterson (Car Masters).
“The Cartel is thrilled to have an unscripted agent of Stewart’s caliber joining the team,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Mattel-owned American Girl doll line — familiar to virtually any adult with female children — today announced a partnership to launch a new musical production inspired by the stories behind some of the line’s characters and their stories.
The production will tour North America in the fall, with an all-female creative team and cast. A writer and director will be named in the coming weeks. The tour is a collaboration between American Girl and Mills Entertainment, a division of CAA specializing in branded live entertainment. Its current projects include “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Carnival of Curi-oddities” and “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live!”
“We’re thrilled to bring a new touring experience to families across the U.S. and offer this unique live-engagement with the brand,” said Katy Dickson, president of American Girl. “Over the past 30 years, American Girl’s beloved characters have become role models — inspiring millions...
The production will tour North America in the fall, with an all-female creative team and cast. A writer and director will be named in the coming weeks. The tour is a collaboration between American Girl and Mills Entertainment, a division of CAA specializing in branded live entertainment. Its current projects include “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Carnival of Curi-oddities” and “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live!”
“We’re thrilled to bring a new touring experience to families across the U.S. and offer this unique live-engagement with the brand,” said Katy Dickson, president of American Girl. “Over the past 30 years, American Girl’s beloved characters have become role models — inspiring millions...
- 4/9/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Getty Images Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
Ricky Gervais is back for a return stint hosting the Golden Globes 2012. Which actors, producers and directors will leave with awards–and which ones will go home smarting from Gervais’s sharp tongue? Early winners include Kate Winslet and “Downton Abbey.”
Speakeasy is live-blogging the show. You can follow along and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Ricky Gervais is back for a return stint hosting the Golden Globes 2012. Which actors, producers and directors will leave with awards–and which ones will go home smarting from Gervais’s sharp tongue? Early winners include Kate Winslet and “Downton Abbey.”
Speakeasy is live-blogging the show. You can follow along and leave your thoughts in the comments.
- 1/15/2012
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Actor who brought sympathetic dimensions to the comic twerp Bertie Wooster and the shrewd detective Lord Peter Wimsey
Actor known for his roles as the archetypal blithering Englishman
Playing the archetypal silly ass was the sometimes reluctant business of the stage, film and television actor Ian Carmichael, who has died aged 89. In the public mind he became the best-known postwar example of a characteristic British type - the personally appealing blithering idiot who somehow survives, and sometimes even gets the girl. One of his most characteristic and memorable sorties in this field was his portrayal of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim – the anti-hero James Dixon, who savaged the pretensions of academia, as Amis had himself sometimes clashed with academia when he was a lecturer at Swansea. Appearing in John and Roy Boulting's 1957 film, he was able to suggest an unruly but amiable spirit at the end of its tether,...
Actor known for his roles as the archetypal blithering Englishman
Playing the archetypal silly ass was the sometimes reluctant business of the stage, film and television actor Ian Carmichael, who has died aged 89. In the public mind he became the best-known postwar example of a characteristic British type - the personally appealing blithering idiot who somehow survives, and sometimes even gets the girl. One of his most characteristic and memorable sorties in this field was his portrayal of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim – the anti-hero James Dixon, who savaged the pretensions of academia, as Amis had himself sometimes clashed with academia when he was a lecturer at Swansea. Appearing in John and Roy Boulting's 1957 film, he was able to suggest an unruly but amiable spirit at the end of its tether,...
- 2/7/2010
- by Dennis Barker
- The Guardian - Film News
Latino Review is reporting that Alia Shawkat – better known as the acerbic teenager, Maeby, on the godlike and gone-too-soon sitcom, Arrested Development – has joined the cast of the Kristen Stewart-starring Joan Jett biopic, The Runaways.According to them, Shawkat will play Robin, a fictional character who may or may not be an amalgam of several of the teen girl group’s bass players (they went through them like Spinal Tap goes through drummers), including Micki Steele, Peggy Foster, Jackie Fox, Flea, Mike Mills and Jim Tavare.If the rumour is true, then it represents a decided upturn in fortunes for Shawkat, who’s been possibly the only Arrested Development alum to have fared less than well since the show ended in 2006.While the likes of Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Michael Cera have been carving out movie careers, she’s cropped up in the likes of Prom Wars and Bart Got A Room.
- 6/30/2009
- EmpireOnline
Athens, Ga. popsters offer mid-tempo pleasantries
Amidst Ben Folds-inflected piano rockers, Modern Skirt’s 2005 debut featured the charming “Pasadena,” a shuffling acoustic number that backed heartsick hopes with chiming group vocals. The lion’s share of their follow-up seizes on that formula, at its best holding steady between ’60s sunshine and ’90s alternative to spin out breezy jangle pop. The mid-tempo pleasantries do sometimes plod, however, even with their layered depth, and a melting-pot agreeability here is often an interest-losing weakness. All Of Us is invigorated midway through by “Face Down,” which sounds like a bizarro Weezer—in a world where Rivers Cuomo’s childhood obsession was more along the lines of Zombies than White Zombie. And as exhibited by the sly build of “Motorcade,” a campfire sing-along for the urban set (produced by R.E.M.’s Mike Mills), the Skirts are most captivating when they allow their songs to mature and surprise.
Amidst Ben Folds-inflected piano rockers, Modern Skirt’s 2005 debut featured the charming “Pasadena,” a shuffling acoustic number that backed heartsick hopes with chiming group vocals. The lion’s share of their follow-up seizes on that formula, at its best holding steady between ’60s sunshine and ’90s alternative to spin out breezy jangle pop. The mid-tempo pleasantries do sometimes plod, however, even with their layered depth, and a melting-pot agreeability here is often an interest-losing weakness. All Of Us is invigorated midway through by “Face Down,” which sounds like a bizarro Weezer—in a world where Rivers Cuomo’s childhood obsession was more along the lines of Zombies than White Zombie. And as exhibited by the sly build of “Motorcade,” a campfire sing-along for the urban set (produced by R.E.M.’s Mike Mills), the Skirts are most captivating when they allow their songs to mature and surprise.
- 1/22/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
A music video aimed to promote R.E.M.'s single "Until the Day Is Done" has been unveiled. Reportedly shot during their concert in Dublin, the music video is filmed in stark, high-contrast black-and-white scene presenting the band's on-stage performance in front of thousand concertgoers.
"Until the Day Is Done" is penned by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe. The brand new song is taken from the band's Jacknife Lee-produced effort "Accelerate" which has been released in the U.S. market since April 1 via Warner Bros. Records.
In related news, R.E.M. plan to release a special edition of their debut album "Murmur". Expected to come out as a double-disc package, the record will feature a newly-remastered version of the original album and never-before-released materials from their live gig in Toronto. The package, which will be available for purchase on November 25 in the United States, will...
"Until the Day Is Done" is penned by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe. The brand new song is taken from the band's Jacknife Lee-produced effort "Accelerate" which has been released in the U.S. market since April 1 via Warner Bros. Records.
In related news, R.E.M. plan to release a special edition of their debut album "Murmur". Expected to come out as a double-disc package, the record will feature a newly-remastered version of the original album and never-before-released materials from their live gig in Toronto. The package, which will be available for purchase on November 25 in the United States, will...
- 10/24/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Athens, Ga.-spawned 4 to Watch alums Modern Skirts are readying a new album, All of Us in Our Night, set to drop on Jan. 20. The band’s first album since Catalogue of Generous Men in 2005 includes cuts produced by R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills and Cracker’s David Lowery and was recorded in Richmond, Va., New Orleans and back home in Athens. The record features original artwork by an Atlanta artist that creates a sequential narrative broken up for each new track.
- 10/23/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
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