Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
John Crace reduces this exhaustive biography of the Beatles legend to a pitch perfect (and smooth-legged) 700 wordsAs a 22-year-old reporter on the Northern Echo in 1965, I was lucky enough to meet the Beatles backstage at a gig in Newcastle. Paul McCartney threw me his violin bass and told me he wa...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
The prime minister, David Cameron, and former Labour culture secretary Tessa Jowell recreate the iconic cover shot of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album before visiting Abbey Road studios on Friday. Cameron’s visit comes after 282 figures from the creative industry, including Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
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John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Publicist and journalist who guided the Beatles’ rise to worldwide stardom and coined the ‘Fab Four’ monikerAs press officer and publicist for the Beatles, Tony Barrow, who has died aged 80, was a key member of the inner circle formed by Brian Epstein to steer the group’s rise to global stardom. Bar...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
Prince, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Elvis Presley have all had a string of hits since their deaths. But how do artists’ estates keep the posthumous profits rolling in? When a major pop star turns up their toes, it is guaranteed that their biggest singles and albums will return...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Philip Norman’s considered biography portrays the ‘cute’ Beatle in all his creative complexity and breadth“Never write the authorised biography,” goes one media adage; you are likely to find the most savoury sections of your tale excised. Philip Norman’s fulsome life of Paul McCartney, a companion t...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
The publicist, who came up with the phrase ‘the Fab Four’, died at home in Morecambe at the age of 80The Beatles’ first press officer, Tony Barrow, the man who came up with the phrase “the Fab Four”, has died at the age of 80.He died on Saturday night at home in Morecambe and is survived by his wido...
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 8 years ago
Tony Barrow, The Beatles' first press officer and the man who coined the phrase 'The Fab Four', has died at the age of 80. Barrow represented The Beatles between 1962 and 1968. He wrote sleeve notes for the group's early albums and EPs, as well as the comic strip in the Magical Mystery Tour booklet....
John Lennon / Info générales - 8 years ago
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 9 years ago
Nik Cohn’s passionate account of how rock’n’roll changed the world captured the same wild energy as his subject matterPop, the cultural revolution of the late 20th century, has touched art, poetry, fiction, and everything musical, with its hot white wand. In the beginning, in the 1960s, pop was sex...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 9 years ago
Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis photo shows me, aged seven, my mother on the right and my new aunt behind me. The year is 1948, we are in Oban, Scotland, and we have come from Germany. My aunt, my mother’s sister, had married a Scotsman after the war and invited us to stay with...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 9 years ago
The footage, shot by an Australian woman, shows the Beatles getting their make-up done for the special The Music of Lennon & McCartney in November 1965. Australian dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane was working at Granada TV in Manchester at the time, capturing the candid footage which has no...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 9 years ago
Fab Social LinksPaul McCartney announced Monday his One On One Tour will add a second show in Cleveland. The new show in Cleveland, Aug. 18 at Quicken Loans Arena, follows a sold-out show on Aug. 17 that was first announced a week ago. Tickets for the new August 18 Cleveland show are now on...
Beatles / Tout sur les Beatles - 9 years ago
Fab Social LinksROCK, POP & COUNTRY STAR PASSINGS IN 2016 The first four months of this year have seen a terribly large number of singers and musicians die. Included are three that I loved and respected above few others (they’re the top 3 below). 1. GEORGE MARTIN – Genius Producer of TH...