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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday took aim at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, telling an energy forum he did not share the excitement about her United Nations speech last month. The 16-year-old Swede electrified the U.N. summit in New York when she denounced world leaders for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt by millions of her peers by demanding: “How dare you?” Putin, chairing a session at an energy forum in Moscow, said: “I may disappoint you but I don’t share the common excitement about the speech by Greta Thunberg. “No one has explained to Greta...

Full video of Vladimir Putin playing the piano and singing Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill". The Russian prime minister is used to taking to the stage, but this time it was not for one of his speeches. Vladimir Putin made his audience sit up and take note, as he sang at a charity fundraiser. Click Here for the video...

Fats Domino, one of most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89. The American rock and roll artist was best known for his songs Ain't That A Shame and Blueberry Hill. The New Orleans singer sold more than 65 million records, outselling every 1950s rock and roll act except Elvis Presley. His million-selling debut single, The Fat Man, is credited by some as the first ever rock and roll record.

Vladimir Putin has quite a musical side. The Russian prime minister may have a tough stance on foreign policy, but he also has quite a docile side when it comes to the arts. Putin gave his best rendition of Fats Domino’s classic “Blueberry Hill” for a larger audience at a charity event for cancer in St. Petersburg recently and the A-list crowd could not get enough! The full house was packed with famous faces including Kevin Costner, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Gérard Depardieu and Sharon Stone. OK! NEWS: KATE HUDSON’S HOLLYWOOD HERO — HER “BRILLIANT” MOM GOLDIE HAWN Goldie and...

Who dares gives an honest critique of the new Tzar. The most honest critique gets awarded a Polonium Tequila. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxjetOwwRsw

In 40-some years of sitting in Baptist services, including the height of the anything-with-a-beat-is-of-the-devil era, I have actually heard preachers refer to the Fats Domino classic, Blueberry Hill. They expounded, mostly, on the innuendo of what “found my thrill” really meant… However, not one, not one of them– even those who claimed the Beatles couldn’t sing, it was just primal screaming– referred to Blueberry Hill as “hard rock.” Leave that to Keith Olbermann. Oh, and by the way, nobody has used the term “hard rock” in about a decade…Fittingly, this bit of musical critique came in Olbermann’s “Oddball” segment, in...

WASHINGTON - A high school band plays Beethoven. President Calvin Coolidge delivers his inaugural address. Fats Domino turns “Blueberry Hill,” which had been a hit for Glenn Miller, into a rock ’n’ roll classic. They’re among the 50 records that the Library of Congress has deemed worthy of preservation this year.Other rock classics being inducted include Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day,” both from 1957; the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Are You Experienced?” from 1967; and Sonic Youth’s landmark noise-rock album “Daydream Nation,” from 1988.Rest of the story here