by Super Admin - 7 years ago
Reflecting changes at this time of year, our latest reader-curated playlist includes tunes from the Beatles, the Buggles and Bing Crosby Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from your suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
The British record executive, producer and manager worked with acts including Marianne Faithfull, Black Sabbath and Fleetwood MacTony Calder, the music manager who promoted the Beatles’ debut single Love Me Do, died on 2 January at the age of 74. Rel...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
Ringo Starr is to be knighted in the Queen's 2018 New Year's honours list, it has been announced. It’s great! It’s an honour and a pleasure to be considered and acknowledged for my music and my charity work, both of which I love. Peace and love. Ring...
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28 December 1967 The Guardian’s television reviewer finds himself almost alone in praising the Fab Four’s latest filmMy feelings on finding myself almost alone in praising the Beatles television film Magical Mystery Tour are amazement, and the sad co...
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6 December 1963 Young engineer back at work after suspension for sporting a Beatles-style haircutThomas Charnock (16) returns to work as an apprentice at a Birkenhead factory today after a two-week suspension imposed because he had a Beatles-style ha...
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Wes Anderson Top Trumps, Peter Blake’s bomber jacket, A Bigger Splash beach towel, Taylor Swift’s jewellery … and other ideas for the creative pressie-buyer Continue reading...
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NIB Stadium, PerthOpening his first Australian tour in 25 years, the Beatles legend treated his fans to a crowdpleasing set to rememberLast week, in the lead-up to his tour of Australia and New Zealand, Sir Paul McCartney returned to Subiaco, Perth –...
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The Daily Beast•November 25, 2017 & Released fifty years ago—on November 27, 1967—the Beatles’ last slice of psychedelia is an underrated masterpiece, and more fun than ‘Sgt. Pepper.’ STEREO WILLIAMS 11.25.17 11:00 PM ET In 1967, the Beatles...
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Iranian photojournalist Shahrokh Hatami has died aged 89. He covered front-page events from the revolution in Iran to the Beatles backstage as Beatlemania took off. A 1963 Paris Match assignment took him to Liverpool to meet the band Continue reading...
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from The Atlantic Released 50 years ago, “I Am the Walrus” is endlessly analyzable, and yet somehow analysis-proof. “It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see she didn’t like to confess,...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
from The Atlantic & Released 50 years ago, “I Am the Walrus” is endlessly analyzable, and yet somehow analysis-proof. & “It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see she didn’t lik...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
by Pat Matthews I was trying to come up with a more interesting title to this piece….to no avail. So, I think I’m going to run with the one I have. Hopefully, I have your attention by now. I received several e-mails here at the Beatles-A-...
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John Dubber says trying to erase difficult parts of history from our national consciousness could be counterproductive, while Peter McKenna makes an interesting observation about Penny LaneMichael Rosen is right that simply removing historic names fr...
by Super Admin - 7 years ago
from Forbes Magazine by Mark Beech The Beatles, David Bowie and Pink Floyd are leading artists getting a boost as music buyers get physical in preference to digital streaming and downloads. A survey done for EBayEBAY -0.14% may make the world think a...
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from The Telegraph….by Alice Vincent Paul McCartney has admitted that Wings was not “a good group”. The band, which the former Beatle set up with his late wife Linda, had a string of hits including Mull of Kintyre and Live and Let D...