Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 indispensable member of the band who regularly co...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 Continue reading...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
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Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
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 there’s a new documentary film celebrating the landma...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
The Beatles have announced the 50th anniversary edition of their 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The landmark album is to be reissued on 26 May 2017 on four formats: single CD; double CD; double vinyl; and a super deluxe edition containing four CDs, a DVD, a Blu-ray disc, posters an...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
Pete Shotton, who has died aged 75, was one of the original Quarrymen, the group formed by his best friend, John Lennon, which evolved into the Beatles. Pete went on to co-found the Fatty Arbuckle’s restaurant franchise in the UK.Pete’s memoir of his friend, John Lennon: In My Life (1984), subsequen...
John Lennon / Videos - 8 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Every week we will bring you a Resistance Now track chosen by a current artist. Lanre Bakare talks to Carlos Arévalo of Chicano Batman, who picks John Lennon’s Working Class HeroI feel like that song is a commentary song on not letting the forces that be hold you down or be complacent and not lettin...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
The quote from Schiller’s poem Ode to Joy (Letters, 30 March) should read “der stehle weinend sich aus diesem Bund” and not “der stehe weinend aus diesen Bund”. Apart from being grammatically incorrect, this version messes up the rhythm. The meaning becomes starker, too. It& would not merely be “rem...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
28 March 1978: Nancy Banks-Smith reviews a spoof on the career of the Beatles and the commoner cliches of TV documentariesThose of you who have been hiding from the rain in reference libraries will have noticed that, while Newsweek is overwhelmed by The Rutles “the world now has The Rutles... Yeah,...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
The gibberish in the chorus of Missy’s hit Work It is still surprising people 15 years on. At least she wasn’t praising Satan …In one of those instructive “you’ve been using hairgrips wrong your whole life” moments, the backwards lyrics in Missy Elliott’s 2002 banger Work It have been rediscovered,...