Grunting queens, and other music-themed headlines...

Some headlines make me think of the pop songs of my day...

Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova -- dubbed the "deci-belles" for their shreiks and grunts on court at the Australian Open in Melbourne -- meet Saturday (28 Jan) in the Women's final. The headline writer must have been inspired by this 1976 Abba song:

Dancing Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s

This next headline, and very appropriate here, is about noise-cancelling earphones...

There's a Kind of Hush (Herman's Hermits, 1967)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gatIk3z9a7Y

From Britain's Sun tabloid is this classic, about a match between famed Scottish soccer team Celtic and underdog Inverness Caledonia Thistle ("Caley") which scored an upset, with a 3-1 win:

Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious

The song that inspired that headline was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, from the musical Mary Poppins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-Z0SSyUcw

Finally, it's the Sun again! The tabloid just had to be punny when rock superstar Elton John and his gay partner got hitched. The headline it came up with?

Elton Takes David Up The Aisle

Ok, that one has no embedded music theme but it made me think of this hit song by Sir Elton (this YouTube version is before he got pudgy)...

Rocket Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2hu2EwCm-k