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from The Guardian 5/12/17 & Filmed by late actor Leo McKern, who starred in the film, the clip shows the Fab Four messing around between takes during filming in Austrian Alps A still from the newly discovered footage of the Bea...
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High-profile new box sets from Beyoncé, Radiohead and the Beatles are appealing to an audience still willing to spend big on physical mediaFor an album that is barely a year old, it’s somewhat astonishing that Beyoncé’s Lemonade is already getting th...
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BBC News……..A collection of outfits and souvenirs is being sold off by Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. Hopkin, 67, from Pontardawe, shot to fame in 1968 with her number one single “Those Were The Days”. She was one of the first ar...
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It took me years to work out how these bands got their names. And I’ve only just got the connection between Emmanuel Macron and En Marche!When the news of Emmanuel Macron’s triumph in the French presidential election broke, I embarrassed myself on so...
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From disco queens and interactive fun to Aphex Twin blowing the roof off Field Day and Frank Ocean at Lovebox, here are this year’s ‘were you there’ highlights Read our guide to the best rock, pop and dance festivalsLondon’s most discerning day festi...
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Turner prize winner honours Brian Epstein for 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper albumTurner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is to stage a haunting tribute to the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, in the run-up to events in Liverpool marking 50 years s...
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DAVID MAGNUS by ADAM RATHE MAY 2, 2017 On June 25, 1967, performers representing 19 countries from around the world appeared on Our World, the first international television production broadcast by satellite. An estimated 400 milli...
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Reader Tony Flynn looks forward to the fiftieth anniversary of the start of Sir Jeremy Beecham’s political careerJohn Harris (Opinion, 27 April) reminisces about the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album on 1 June 1967. On...
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This great Beatles album is as thrilling a listen as ever on its 50th anniversary: but it’s a melancholy time for the one-world counterculture the record soundtracked“At the time Sgt Pepper was released,” the American writer Langdon Winner once recal...
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from Mojo Magazine Inside the Beatles’ studio magic and how even history’s most famous album has been improved, with The Son Of Fifth Beatle George. By DANNY ECCLESTON APRIL 27, 2017 SINCE THE EARLY ’90s, when he was brought in to help o...
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from Rolling Stone Magazine (online) During the late Sixties and early Seventies, Jimmy Webb was arguably the most successful mainstream songwriter alive, churning out sweeping, richly orchestrated hits for Glen Campbell, Barbra Streisand and Frank S...
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For casual fans (and the terribly uninformed), George Harrison was a second-tier member of the Beatles—a member whose contributions only became essential when he wrote “Here Comes The Sun.” For a mid-level fan, and rock writers everywhere, he was an...
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As Georgia announces a 7ft bronze statue of Tupac Shakur a week after it was revealed that he will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, here is a look at other artists who have been commemorated with statues, often with mixed results Cont...
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On 1 June 1967, the Beatles released Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and arguably changed the course of music. A new film celebrates its makingIt was, quite literally, 50 years ago today that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play. And now the...