Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
A pair of graphic designers and self-confessed Beatles geeks have mapped Fab Four trivia including the instruments they played, the outfits they wore and even some of their most famous press-conference quips Continue reading...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
Art trafficking, comics and a master’s in the Beatles are just some of the more unusual postgrad subjects on offerOf all the subjects that you can study at postgraduate level, learning how to infiltrate the clandestine world of international art smuggling isn’t the first thing that springs to mind....
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Dylan’s Nobel prize win sparked a debate about lyrics as literature. Here, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Johnny Marr, Naomi Alderman and others nominate songwriters whose verse has the power of poetryDylan’s Nobel laureateship has proved controversial – which was presumably a part of the reason fo...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
Your report on the embarrassingly delayed and over-budget Elbphilharmonie (2 November) says Hamburg and its port have traditionally enjoyed a reputation for “music of a more raucous kind”. Hamburg has had an opera house continuously in the Dammtor since 1678; only Venice can lay claim to an older op...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
48 years ago today (11/1/68) George Harrison released his first solo album, Wonderwall Music on the Apple label. The songs which were mostly Harrison instrumentals, featured Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and an unaccredited banjo contribution by Peter Tork of The Monkees. Wonderwall Music also marks the...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
from The Huffington Post The Beatles are no strangers to artistic interpretation. Even during their heyday, the group members were rendered as fun-loving cartoon characters getting into one playful adventure after another. By the time of their disbandment, the Fab Four’s lyrics were interpreted as i...
John Lennon / Videos - 8 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
A male oral contraceptive will do little to alleviate the doubts that too often accompany sexual encountersWhat is it about producing medical male contraception that seems so uniquely difficult? Why is it that decades have passed since the female pill became freely available and still the “male pill...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
The letter, which experts have concluded is a draft of the actual note he sent, was written to return the MBE in protest against Britain’s foreign affairsA letter from John Lennon to Queen Elizabeth II, in which he explains his reasons for returning his member of the Most Excellent Order of the Brit...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
by Pat Matthews More sad news in the music world to report today. Bobby Vee, a teen idol of the 1960s, who The Beatles covered in their early days, has died. He was 73. The always smiling pop singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane c...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
An experiment has shown that incentives paid by the state to underprivileged students yield results. And what’s so wrong with that?In a study financed by the Education Endowment Foundation, the University of Bristol assessed the performance of 10,600 students approaching GCSEs in disadvantaged areas...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
Step right this way! And welcome to Pappy & Harriet’s! PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Paul McCartney, arguably the biggest pop star on the planet, gave one of his most intimate concerts for a largely locals-only crowd Thursday, providing the kind of energy that was probably reminiscent of his old...