Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Miller recalled that the song was inspired when he was driving and saw a sign on the side of a barn that read, "Trailers for sale or rent". [7] This became the opening line of the song. In June 1966, Richard Pryor —who was, at that stage, still being billed as a comedian / singer [ 8 ] —performed the song on the premiere episode of Kraft ...
The song was inspired by a sign in Chicago that read "Trailers for Sale or Rent" and a hobo who happened upon Miller at an airport in Boise, but Miller needed months to write the song, which was certified gold in May 1965 after selling a million copies. It won numerous awards and earned a royalty check of $160,000 that summer.
Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
Original Rent stars Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia visited the apartment set while filming their cameos for "Sunday" at Miranda's invitation. They described it as a surreal experience, as all three had gathered at the real apartment during Rent's development. Heredia described the set as feeling "haunted", noting ...
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
"Rent" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their second studio album, Actually (1987). It was released as the album's third single on 12 October 1987. It was released as the album's third single on 12 October 1987.
On Thursday, Oct. 24, Sony Pictures debuted the first trailer for One of Them Days, a comedy in which Palmer, 31, and SZA, 34, costar as best friends and roommates in Los Angeles who must come up ...