Next time you hear Gala’s rave hit “Freed From Desire”, spare a thought for Danny Dyer. When the Rivals actor’s beloved West Ham won the Uefa Europa Conference League last year, the team’s star winger ...

If you've tuned in to the Paris Olympics, the infectious energy throughout the crowds at each event can be felt through the broadcast. Basketball games have been no exception. As French fans cheered ...

This is an updated version of an article first published in June 2024. It is 5am in Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the city’s central train station. Eyes are bleary, heads are fuzzy, no one has slept and the ...

Forget “Seven Nation Army” — this World Cup, the latest song to be hijacked by crazed football fans and turned into an anthem that is seemingly ubiquitous-among-winning-teams-and-their-fans is, ...

Italian singer Gala Rizzatto has re-recorded her 1996 dance anthem ‘Freed From Desire’ in a move to reclaim ownership over the famous song. The re-release aims to amend the unfair contracting on the ...

It’s the 1996 Eurodance classic which has become a football match and protest march mainstay, a resurging pop banger whose catchy “Na-na-na-na-na” chorus is inescapable. We’re talking, of course, ...

Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This ‘Bowen’s on fire!’: Jarrod Bowen scoring the winning goal in the final of the Uefa Europa Conference ...

Despite the worldwide success of her hit ‘Freed From Desire’ in the 90s and the anthem’s renewed ubiquity in the 2020s, Italian singer Gala has been living “penniless in Brooklyn with friends in ...

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