I’m just getting over the idea that Harry Webb, better known as Cliff Richard, will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of his birth in Lucknow in October 1940 by putting out an album of jazz standards, when I read something even more surreal. Sitting comfortably?

According to the Innthebasement blog, brace yourselves for Aretha Franklin and Condoleeza Rice teaming up for operatic arias.

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No doubt she’ll find out sooner. Or possibly later….