Florida Carnival Cruise Ship Catches Fire
If you booked a Carnival Cruise recently, you may want to see this story. A cruise ship that is operated by Carnival Cruise Line and left from a Florida port…
The ship left Florida earlier this week.
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)If you booked a Carnival Cruise recently, you may want to see this story. A cruise ship that is operated by Carnival Cruise Line and left from a Florida port earlier this week has caught fire and burned fiercely for a short while in Grand Turk. As seen in these pics and video, the huge exhaust port on the top of the ship can be seen burning and billowing clouds of black smoke. A representative of the cruise line said the fire has now been extinguished and there were no inujuries to crew or passengers. The ship is the Carnival Freedom and it departed from Port Canaveral on Monday. It is unclear what will happen to the passengers and ship from here. Source: Fox13News.com
The King In Pics
Elvis Presley would've turned 88 today (January 8.)
“The King” has been heavily chronicled over the years and yielded some of the most iconic images in music history. To honor Presley, scroll through the gallery below full of classic photos from Presley's incredible career and life.
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
044636 02: Singer Elvis Presley poses for a studio portrait. (Photo by Liaison)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
149269 01: Ann Margret and Elvis Presley pose in 1964 in USA for a publicity photo for their new film "Viva Las Vegas". (Photo by Liaison)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
044636 19: Singer Elvis Presley poses for a studio portrait. (Photo by Liaison)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
American rock singer Elvis Presley points to Welsh entertainer Tom Jones' wrist as his wife Priscilla Presley looks on, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1st July 1971. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
380450 08: President Richard Nixon shakes hands with Elvis Presley December 21, 1970 at the White House. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
1st May 1967: American rock n' roll singer and actor Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) with his bride Priscilla Beaulieu after their wedding in Las Vegas. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
American film star Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) strides around a ranch with a gun in his hand. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977), now a GI, receives his first bundle of mail at the Friedberg US Army base in Germany, where he will serve sixteen months in the 3rd US Armoured Division. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
044629 45: Singer Elvis Presley poses for a studio portrait. (Photo by Liaison)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Singer Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) in a classroom when in the Army. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) being fed a mouthful of wedding cake by his bride Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
July 1963: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) and Joan O'Brien play nurse and patient in director Norman Taurog's film 'It Happened At The World's Fair'. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
18th June 1965: The most popular male voices in the USA, singers Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998), left, and Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) share a joke together in Hollywood, unusual as both of the stars are adverse to posing for press photographers. Sinatra was on the set of the film 'Frankie And Johnny' and Presley had just donated $50, 000 to the Motion Pictures Relief Fund to aid needy actors and actresses. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
044636 05: Singer Elvis Presley poses for a studio portrait. (Photo by Liaison)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
17th December 1958: US rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) in military uniform during his stint as a US serviceman at the Grafenwoehr exercise camp, Germany. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
13th February 1968: Elvis and Priscilla Presley with their daughter, Lisa Marie, born on 2nd February. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Singer Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977), 33, and his 22 year-old wife Priscilla, leaving the Baptist Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, with their baby daughter Lisa-Marie, born at the hospital on February 2nd. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) cutting the six-tier wedding cake with his bride Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
FILE PHOTO: President Richard Nixon meets with Elvis Presley December 21, 1970 at the White House. (Photo by National Archives)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
28th January 1958: Rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) chatting to two convalescent teenagers, during a visit to a hospital. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
22nd December 1958: Fans watch as German TV celebrity Uschi Siebert presents American rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) with the keys to the BMW sports car with which German racing driver Hans-Joachim Stuck won a number of world racing events. Presley is a PFC in the American Armed Forces, serving with a US armoured unit at Friedberg. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Portrait of American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley, dressed in an orange open-neck shirt and in front of a brick wall, mid 1960s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Portrait of American singer and actor Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) as he holds a twelve string guitar, mid 1950s . (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
circa 1975: American popular singer and film star Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977), to his fans the undisputed 'King of Rock 'n' Roll'. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) poses on a wagon at Knott's Berry Farm in California, circa 1955. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) and Judy Tyler (1933 - 1957) star in the musical film 'Jailhouse Rock', 1957. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
American rock singer Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) serenades a basset hound in a top hat with the song, 'Hound Dog' on the set of 'The Steve Allen Show,' July 1956. (Photo by NBC Television/Getty Images)
Classic Images of Elvis Presley
Singer Elvis Presley holding up actress Jennifer Holden, his co-star in the film 'Jailhouse Rock', as they spend time together in a swimming pool, circa 1957. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Craziest Concert Double Bills
New tours are seemingly announced every week. Oftentimes, those tours feature outstanding multi-act lineups and other great supporting acts.
With that in mind, we can't help but think about all of the strange opening acts and headliner combos in rock history, and there have been some doozies.
A great example of this was the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto concert in 2003. The show was organized as an economic boom for Toronto, which was hit pretty badly by the SARS outbreak. (It's also why the show is affectionately known as SARSStock. Over 450,000 people attended the show, which featured the headlining lineup of The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who...and Justin Timberlake.
Bookers and promoters didn't think about how a predominantly rock crowd would react to Timberlake. It's a memory that still sticks with Timberlake, who reflected on it during a February 2020 appearance on BBC's The Graham Norton Show.
"You would think Canadians are historically peaceful people, ... It was a bit of a blur," recalled Timberlake, who at the time had just started his solo career. "I just remember saying to the band before we went on stage, 'I don't think this is going to go well.' Little did I know how bad it was going to go."
So, how bad was it? People threw bottles of urine at him!
Jokingly, Timberlake said, "I still have a lot of trauma from this incident. After the first song, the host of the festival comes out and [tries to wave me off stage,] and I'm like, 'No, man! I'm staying out here! We're doing this!'"
Fans then continued to throw the bottles of urine at him, but things eventually calmed down. Timberlake said, "After [the second song of the set] either one of two things happened: Either they ran out of nerve, because they knew I was going to stay there, or they ran out of urine."
Fortunately, no bottles of urine were involved in the following five examples of strange opening act and headliner combos. However, they all are very interesting and almost baffling that they even happened. Enjoy!
Jimi Hendrix Experience Opening For The Monkees (1967)
Express, Keystone Features/Getty ImagesThe Who Opening For Herman’s Hermits (1967)
Steve Wood/Express Newspapers, Keystone/Getty ImagesBruce Springsteen Opening for Anne Murray (1974)
ohn Minihan/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive, Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThe Beatles Opening for Brenda Lee (1962)
Daily Express/Archive Photos, Edward Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesLynyrd Skynyrd Opening For Strawberry Alarm Clock (1968)
Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesINDIO, CA - APRIL 25: Musician Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd performs onstage during day 1 of 2014 Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 25, 2014 in Indio, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach)
The flames and black smoke could be seen...
