Turn around. Turn around, bright eyes.

PARIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Passengers on a flight from France to Mauritius have filed suit against Air France after musician Bonnie Tyler performed a song at the request of the co-pilot.

The passengers, believed to be Belgian, complained to the airline after the Welsh singer performed part of her 1983 hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart" at the request of the co-pilot, who retired after the flight, The Mail on Sunday reported.

"I was asleep in First Class. The stewardess came and said the co-pilot was retiring. And they asked me would I sing to him. They were having a bit of a party," Tyler said.

The complaining passengers reportedly claimed they were traumatized by the experience and had feared for their safety during the celebration. The complaint eventually escalated into a legal dispute.

An Air France official said: "The claim against Air France, which it completely rejects, is that the celebrations got more and more unruly and came to a climax when Bonnie sang.

"Air France is saying that any suggestion there was anything more than a few slaps on the back for the co-pilot is nonsense, and it completely rejects the claims that the passengers were at any sort of risk."

Any possible punchline I could add here would be like a moustache on the Mona Lisa, folks. [via Bedazzled]

The Well-Tempered Teenybopper

Danny Pi's "How to Write a Fugue" applies Bach's methods to Britney's material, with amusing results. Somewhere in Heaven, Glenn Gould is laughing his ass off.

Eeeerie.

Okay, unless you've been living under a different rock than me, you've probably seen Joel Veitch's (no relation) "Viking Kittens", in which a pair of cute, helmet and battleaxe-equipped felinelets "sing" Led Zeppelin's "The Immigrant Song." Behold, if you will, the eerie cosmic coincidences unveiled when that video is synched up with Jonathan Coulton's "The Ikea Song":


This is like the new "Dark Side of the Rainbow.

Vaaaaaaaaaaan Gaaaaaaaaaaaaalen!

Calgary's very own Chad VanGaalen brings the awesome with "Flower Gardens." Not only the music, that is, but the psychedelic animation as well. Let's see you top that one, A-Ha.



(P.S., the video's not broken, it's actually supposed to be more-or-less black for the first 15 seconds or so.)

Dead music legends of the world, unite!

Ray Charles on the "Johnny Cash Show":


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Now if anybody's got video of Johnny Cash doing "Mess Around" or "In The Heat of the Night"...

Strum it like a polaroid picture

Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker finds the bittersweet acoustic centre of the Tootsie Roll that is OutKast's "Hey Ya":


Ladies, I didn't blog this thing for nothin'. I wanna see y'all on your baddest behaviour. Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbour.

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Also, for those of you whose minimum daily requirement of F-bombs has not been filled, Nina Gordon (formerly of Veruca Salt) Lilithises NWA's "Straight Outta Compton":


And now, Interweb, I command you to cover Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" in the talkin' blues style a la "Bob Dylan's Dream".

Stephen says you're on notice!

Behold the glory that is the Colbert Report "On Notice Board" generator... and tremble, ye mighty, before its wrath.

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