Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great storiesFor a baby boomer like me, 12 years old when the Beatles broke through in 1962 and a mere 19 when they called it a day in 1969, it’s curious to watch the love objects of my teenage years...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
Private-school pupils unselfconsciously screamed for their working-class heroesWhat’s on the set list? Why did he only tell you about the tape now after 60 years? Two of the questions I’ve been bombarded with since I made public the existence of an almost complete concert recording of the Beatles on...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
Sixty years ago, a little-known Liverpudlian band took to the stage at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire• Samira Ahmed: A tape that takes us back to an era of optimismIt was a sweet slice of cultural history and, at the same time, evidence of an unlikely clash of English social classes. The discovery...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
In a new documentary, the woman who went from assistant to lover of the ex-Beatle talks about her side of a misunderstood storySmack in the middle of the 1970s, John Lennon experienced what he famously called a “lost weekend”, echoing the title of a classic 1945 movie about an out-of-control alcohol...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
My friend Carol Sloman, who has died aged 66 of cancer, was a musician, actor, singer-songwriter and theatre director who took her array of talents to London’s West End, as well as a series of regional theatres.Perhaps her best known role was as Cynthia Lennon in the award-winning musical Lennon at...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
Accomplished rock drummer of the 1960s and 70s who played with George Harrison and Eric ClaptonAmid the freewheeling rock scene of the late 1960s and early 70s, the drummer Jim Gordon was one of a group of accomplished young American session musicians who emerged from the shadows of the recording st...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
(Nonesuch)In a powerful live recording, the piano virtuoso brings out the boogie, blues and gospel in the Fab Four’s songsBrad Mehldau, as inquisitive a philosopher as he is a tirelessly curious jazz-piano virtuoso, believes that an alluring strangeness is key to an artwork’s longevity. A longtime B...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
Son of the artist and late former Beatle John Lennon launches website as Ringo Starr and Elton John send wishesYoko Ono’s son has created a virtual “wish tree” to mark his mother’s 90th birthday on Saturday and is encouraging people to plant real trees in her honour.Since creating her first wish tre...
John Lennon / Videos - 1 year ago
John Lennon / Videos - 1 year ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
When it comes to musical greatness, the Beatles deserve at least as much recognition as Bob Dylan, argues Gareth Calway, while Mike Pender is impressed by some lyrical changes to Dylan’s song Make You Feel My LoveDavid Cantwell’s observation, in Annie Zaleski’s feature, that classic Bob Dylan is “la...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
Motown singer and songwriter whose hits included I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rolling Stone and MoneyOf all the dozens of worldwide hits released by the Motown family of labels, few had a more profound impact than Money (That’s What I Want), sung by the 19-year-old Barrett Strong and...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
Yoko Ono, Hamilton and Uri Geller declare themselves beneficial owners of overseas firms that hold UK propertyUK for sale: how the wealthy hold British property via offshore firmsJohn Lennon’s first home, a £16.5m London mansion owned by Lewis Hamilton and the illusionist Uri Geller’s country house...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 1 year ago
Paul McCartney has announced a book and exhibition featuring his photography from the 1960s. 1964: Eyes Of The Storm is a 336-page hardback book featuring 275 images taken by McCartney in Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, DC, and Miami. The images were from a collection of nearly 1,000...
John Lennon / Info générales - 1 year ago
He held Mercury’s hand in hospital, retrieved Lennon from a cocaine escapade with David Bowie, and was upbraided by Keith Richards for smoking a joint. Now the Zelig of the music world is looking backOn the wall of Tony King’s flat in north London, there is a beautiful signed Andy Warhol print of Ma...