Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 artists to sign with The Beatles’ Apple Record...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 social media by confessing I hadn’t “got” the fact t...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 festival, Field Day, has a flash new bit of kit to show...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 since the release of the band’s groundbreaking albu...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 million viewers watched the two-and-a-half hour program...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
With musicians such as Elvis Costello, John Lennon and Lead Belly paying homage to their heroes, a reader picks from your suggestionsHere is this week’s playlist of songs picked by a reader from your suggestions, after last week’s callout. Read more about how our weekly readers recommend series work...
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Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 11 May 1967, Lord Beecham, Sir Jeremy to his frien...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 recalled, “I happened to be driving across the country...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 out on the production of The Beatles’ Anthology 2 a...
John Lennon / Videos - 8 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
To celebrate 50 years since the release of the Fab Four’s masterpiece, we have an exclusive recording from the legendary sessionsIt was 50 years ago today that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play. Which means it must also have been just under 50 years ago today that Sgt Pepper told the four lads in h...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 Sinatra, among others. Yet while that success made...