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  En la entrada de hoy voy a exponer algunos pensamientos sobre los  biopics musicales , esto es, sobre películas biográficas sobre figuras de la música y artistas. Ha habido  biopics  sobre artistas desde hace bastante tiempo (se me vienen a la mente el de  The Doors  -con Val Kilmer haciendo de Jim Morrison- o  Dreamgirls , sobre  The Supremes ), pero, desde que en 2019 Rami Malek encarnara a Freddie Mercury en  Bohemian Rhapsody  (Bryan Singer, 2018) y consiguiera ganar el Oscar a Mejor Actor-, éstos parecen haber experimentado un gran crecimiento. En estos tiempos, donde parece que Hollywood se ha quedado sin ideas originales (remakes,  reimaginaciones  de personajes, segundas partes de series exitosas….), los  biopics  suponen una parte considerable del argumento de muchos de los largometrajes estrenados en la actualidad (Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, la reciente serie  Love Story …).  C...

 Today I return with other 5 songs that will make you cry. This is the second part to a post I did near 2020 Christmas . The purpose is not to drive you in tears in the summer holidays, but to create a playlist that you can check out whenever you feel in the mood to listen to them. 1. Unchained Melody- Elvis : Elvis covered the classic song from The Righteous Brothers in his last concert in 1977, just weeks before his death. He sang it while playing the piano in his iconic white and shimmering golden suit. Elvis showed his vocal power during the performance and appeared to be a little bit exhausted after the whole show. You can even hear some suffocation on his breath. This performance may be the perfect metaphor for the last and final years of the King: Locked up in Las Vegas' Westgate Hotel, always performing and physically deteriorated, but so joyful and powerful on stage as in his early days.  This memorable performance makes up the final scene of  Baz Luhrmann's Elv...