Like many musicians, Jack Costanzo lights up when he recalls his first musical epiphany. Never mind that the legendary percussionist, long known by fans and fellow performers alike as “Mr. Bongo,” ...

Matthew McConaughey only has one regret about the naked bongo drumming session that led to his arrest. In October 1999, cops were called out to the actor's home in Austin, Texas, at 3 a.m. after a ...

THE seedier side of the music business has provided rich pickings for film-makers down the years. From the fabulously downbeat Flame (1974) , which positioned the poptastic Slade at the very heart of ...

Meet Eric Pounds, or maybe you know him as “Bongo Man.” He’s a 55-year-old man experiencing homelessness who is known for playing a drum next to Pluckers Wing Bar in Austin’s West Campus area. Born in ...

Laura Pidcock, from campaign group Show Racism the Red Card, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Godfrey Bloom's comments are "highly offensive" and perpetuate colonial ideas: What I can tell you ...

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Top CNN TV news correspondent Michelle Kosinski’s summer party was silenced after neighbours complained about the noise of bongo drums being played in the garden of her Notting Hill home. Enforcement ...