Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
By Bill Wyman www.vulture.com At Beatles anniversary time, the stories write themselves. “It was 25/30/40 years ago today!” “The act you’ve known for all these years!” “A splendid time was guaranteed for all!” Last week’s 50th anniversary of the U.S. release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Ban...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
Fifty years ago, homosexuality was decriminalised – and pop was never the same again. From Dusty and Motown to Mick Jagger and the Kinks, here are the songs, scenes, clubs and clothes that liberated BritainIn one of his very last acts as Beatles manager, Brian Epstein signed a contract for the group...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
Think you know about the Beatles’ defining album? This brilliant documentary will give you a whole new perpective. Plus: Nordic noir, Canadian-style, in CardinalIt was 50 years ago today … actually, it was 50 years ago last Thursday. You would think that a documentary celebrating a big anniversary o...
John Lennon / Info générales - 7 years ago
Lucy in the Sky fireworks, A Day in the Life of the living dead, Lovely Rita’s parking meter parade … Beatlemania is gripping Liverpool. Our writer dives inAmong the selection of vast advertising hoardings lining Liverpool’s Erskine Street, one currently stands out. If you’re driving into the city,...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
Its opening coincided with the release of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album and the publication of the poetry anthology The Mersey Sound. Half a century on, the famous wigwam continues to inspireI see it every day, straight ahead, as I drive down Hope Street in Liverpool on the way to work. A ring of fl...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
The remarkable life of the artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of Radio 4’s book of the week. Plus: the faces of the Sgt Pepper artwork discuss the albumThe Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington (Weekdays, 9.45am, Radio 4) is Joanna Moorhead’s account of her father’s cousin, who ran away from a co...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
The Beatles are forgetting their ability to write tunes is Guardian critic Edward Greenfield’s verdict on Sgt Pepper, while the Observer’s George Melly feels there is a ‘tendency to overdo the curry powder’Alan Johnson’s Sgt Pepper pilgrimage: “It was a musical high from which I’m yet to descend”The...
John Lennon / Info générales - 7 years ago
In May 1967, Johnson was 17, playing in a band and waiting for the Beatles’ new album. Fifty years after Sgt Pepper’s release, the retiring MP heads to Liverpool to join the city’s celebration of the LPI am standing “beneath the blue suburban skies” of Penny Lane on a gloriously sunny day in Liverpo...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
It was the first rock album with printed lyrics, the first with a fold-out cover, the first to win a “Best Album” Grammy. It may be the most influential record in pop history, and the best-loved. It changed the direction of The Beatles, and rock-and-roll, foreve...
John Lennon / Info générales - 7 years ago
Unlike other psychedelic classics, The Fabs’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band doesn’t sound like hippy idealism. Instead, the diverse, inclusive vision of English identity it promoted couldn’t be more necessaryFifty years ago, The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band fired a starting pi...
John Lennon / Info générales - 7 years ago
Thirty-year-old man arrested after bodies of woman and two children found at flat in LiverpoolA 30-year-old man has been arrested in Liverpool on suspicion of murder after the bodies of a woman and two children were found in the former home of John Lennon.Merseyside police opened an investigation af...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal saga was published two days before Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, heralding the ‘summer of love’A rural Colombian epic written in Mexico City and published in Buenos Aires, One Hundred Years of Solitude came out 50 years ago, on 30 May 1967. It d...
John Lennon / Info générales - 7 years ago
Royal Court, LiverpoolThe celebrated American choreographer swings into town for Sgt Pepper’s 50th birthday partyIn May 1967, 50 years ago last Friday, the Beatles released their eighth studio album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Technically and musically innovative, the LP’s 13 tracks wove...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 7 years ago
Royal Court, LiverpoolUsing a bold new score from Ethan Iverson, the choreographer has created a gorgeously entertaining and witty tribute to the classic Beatles albumWith Mark Morris it always starts with the music. His new work Pepperland has been created for the celebratory Sgt Pepper at 50 festi...
John Lennon / Info générales - 7 years ago
This documentary about Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band picks up where Ron Howard left off – without any of the band’s music or even images Related: The Beatles: Sgt Pepper 50th Anniversary Edition review – peace, love and rock star ennui It’s not easy to make a documentary about the greatest al...