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Yesterday review – Richard Curtis' magical mystery tour of a world without the Beatles | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

A hopeless songwriter wakes up to find he’s the only person who can remember the Fab Four’s hits in a wacky, winning comedy directed by Danny BoyleImagine no Beatles, it’s not easy even if you try. No Yesterday, no Blackbird, no Sgt Pepper ... and th...

Yesterday review – Richard Curtis' magical mystery tour of a world without the Beatles

Russ Gibb — Detroit rock visionary, schoolteacher and ‘Paul is dead’ prankster — dies at 87

by Russ McCollum Detroit Free Press Russ Gibb, the farsighted arts lover and entrepreneur who helped ignite Detroit’s live rock scene, died Tuesday in Garden City after a series of medical struggles. The longtime Dearborn resident was 87. Gibb...

Woodstock Organizers Cancel 50th Anniversary Festival

4/29/2019 by Dave Brooks from Billboard “We don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name.” Woodstock 50 has been cancelled. Earlier today officials with Dentsu Aegis Network,...

Michael O’Donnell obituary

Doctor, General Medical Council ‘rebel’ and broadcaster who appeared on Stop the Week and My Word!As a broadcaster, Michael O’Donnell, who has died aged 90, was a popular presenter and panellist. On Radio 4 he reined in the verbal antics of Frank Mui...

Fogerty, Ringo(!), Santana to Headline Concerts at Original Woodstock Site

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the cultural center located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y., announced today (April 24) that John Fogerty will play on the 50th anniversary of the concert he played there with Creedence Cle...

Millennials Prefer Music From The 60s To Recent Hits, Study Finds

BY : FRANCESCA DONOVAN Let’s be honest, music from the 60s marked a heyday for originality and most popular music since has stemmed from the great and the good of that beautiful era of melody-making. So, it should come as no surprise the longevity o...

John Lennon’s Sgt Pepper Gypsy Caravan to be Restored

A spectacular gypsy caravan belonging to John Lennon is to be restored after finding its way into the hands of a charity. The caravan, much like John’s famous Rolls Royce, was painted with the motif of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band...

Fest For Beatles Fans!!!

The Lapidos family is once again putting the final touches on their next Fest for Beatles Fans worldwide and this year’s event promises to be the best yet! You can still get your tickets and make plans to join in the fun on the final week of Ma...

Chris Grayling’s terrible cost to the nation | Brief letters

Chris Grayling | Otto Warmbier | Michele Hanson | Words for toilet | A Beatles BrexitThe likely cost of £2.7bn to the taxpayer due to Chris Grayling’s incompetence will ring hollow to the parents of disabled pupils in Leicestershire and across the co...

Pepperland: 'If you're here for a Beatles singalong, that's not going to happen'

As their stunning Sgt Pepper dance show tours the UK, Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson recall how they fell for the album’s ‘hokey, vaudeville’ charmsThe light-footed Fred Astaire is among the faces on the cover and one song finds a certain Henry the Ho...

The French know how to do lunch | Brief letters

Peter Tork, Endearingly Offbeat Bassist and Singer in The Monkees, Dies at 77

Washington Post Obituary By Harrison Smith February 21 at 10:58 AM Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Bea...

The greatest banned songs of all time – ranked!

Thirty years on from 2 Live Crew being banned by the Beeb, we pick 20 foul-mouthed, orgiastic outings deemed too scandalous for public consumption(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (1981) Related: From Blurred Lines to New Rules: how sex in po...

The Beatles, “Let It Be”, and Peter Jackson

from Beatles Blog 2/4/19 Of course you’ll have heard by now that the multi-award winning film maker Peter Jackson has been selected by to re-cut the hours of Let It Be footage and audio from the winter of 1969 into an entirely new film. We’ve been le...