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7 months ago
Producer and director who became a champion of the TV industry, founding the Campaign for Broadcasting EqualityThe television producer and director Simon Albury, who has died aged 80, went from making current affairs and music programmes to becoming a passionate advocate for the industry he loved.He...
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7 months ago
Watford Palace theatreStage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than dramaWhat went down during the penultimate face-to-face meeting between John Lennon, then a stay-at-home dad in granny specs and dressing gown, and Paul McCartney,...
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8 months ago
Venice film festival Kevin Macdonald’s surprising documentary catches a radioactively charismatic Lennon enjoying his rambunctious post-Beatles heyday in New YorkA fire alert disrupts the Venice screening of One to One: John & Yoko, Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ documentary about Lennon’...
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8 months ago
Fans can stay at the Casbah Coffee Club where the Quarrymen, who became the Beatles, had a residencyThey became the biggest band in the world, but without a dilapidated building in Liverpool, a lucky bet on a race horse and one woman’s ambitious dream, the Beatles may never have existed.The Casbah C...
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8 months ago
Performer reveals himself as winning bidder for the round spectacles, saying he had been a friend of the BeatleThe spoon-bending magician and mystic Uri Geller has revealed he is the buyer behind a pair of John Lennon’s round glasses at auction, which sold for £40,000 on Wednesday.The blue-tinted sp...
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9 months ago
Olympic opener | Imagine lyrics | Harvest mice | Healthy drinking | No Guardians here It rained and there was some interminable ugly dancing, but the Olympics opening ceremony also showed the beauty of Paris. It is summed up by the quotation from Montaigne beneath his statue near the Sorbonne: “Pari...
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Lennon and Christianity | Pepys loses it | Two-child cap | Guardian delivery | Gareth and Gove | MPs and buses“The Beatles joked about being bigger than Jesus” (I’m a Swiftie, but the staggering size of the Eras tour has left me feeling alienated, 13 July)? Not quite. One Beatle, John Lennon, during...