A BENTLEY Mulsanne once owned by my old mucker Adam Faith is up for auction. I fondly remember cruising up and down Park Lane in it, being regaled with stories about Tom Jones, John Lennon and Ringo Starr. A 1981W with 102k miles and reams of history, it's in nice...
WEDNESDAY David Hockney's Secret Knowledge 8.50pm BBC4 David Hockney propagates the revolutionary theory that rudimentary forms of photography were available as early as the 15th century. The painter argues that this would solve the mysteries attached to celebrated works by artists such as...
After a 43-year wait, Paul McCartney performed his first concert in Israel on Thursday, kicking it off with the familiar Beatles song "Hello, Goodbye" to the joy of tens of thousands of cheering fans in Tel Aviv. McCartney billed the concert "Friendship First," saying he's on a...
The young John Lennon may have once irreverently boasted that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus. But not, it seems, in Jesus's birthplace and among some Palestinians at least. Before Sir Paul McCartney turned up genuinely unannounced at the Church of the Nativity here yesterday, a...
Tales of the City Do we need another book on John Lennon? In the 28 years since his death, a tsunami of Beatles history, biography, song analysis and memorabilia has engulfed fans of the Working-Class Hero. Lennon's own family have joined in; only last year Julia...
Digital Audio Technology Student Finalist in John Lennon Songwriting Contest SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Out of thousands of entries, Digital Audio Technology senior at Cogswell College (http://www.cogswell.edu/home.html), Daniel Codella, was selected as one of three finalists in the Electronic category in Session 1 of the 2008 John Lennon Songwriting...
SIMULTANEUOUS concerts on both sides of the Atlantic were due to be held today to mark the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. After performances featuring musicians who lost loved ones in the atrocity, audiences in London and New York were expected to join the artists in...
Byline: Denis Kilcommons BEATLES songs could be used to relieve depression. This is one possibility after a Leeds University study asked 3,000 worldwide respondents, mainly aged between 55 and 65, for their memories surrounding the music of the Fab Four. The vast majority said...
Byline: By LINDA RICHARDS ONE of the biggest exhibitions of Yoko Ono's art is coming to Tyneside. The widow of Beatles legend John Lennon will show Between The Sky and My Head at the Baltic in Gateshead. Opening on December 13 and showing until...
Editor who led 'Melody Maker' from the jazz age to the Beatles era JACK HUTTON was the highly professional and dynamic editor of Melody Maker who ensured the music paper's transition from the jazz age into the Beatles era and beyond. A lifelong journalist, publisher and...
She's a political girl and she's living in a political world, Madonna is. Kicking off her "Sticky and Sweet" international tour over the weekend, the Associated Press reports, Madge took a none-too-subtle swipe at GOP presidential candidate John McCain . Her four-act show at a packed Millennium Stadium in Cardiff,...
VETERAN American country music star Glen Campbell is hoping that singing a U2 hit will revive his flagging career. The 72-year-old legend, best known for such classics as Rhinestone Cowboy, Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Southern Nights and By The Time I Get To Phoenix, has recorded a...
LOS ANGELES -- Online music thieves can't interfere with the hundreds of songwriters Hanna Rochelle Schmieder has on her payroll. Her company, Lyric Culture, prints famous song lyrics on high- end jeans and T-shirts -- and pays artists for the privilege. "My goal is...
Home News IN BRIEF John Lennon's carved lyrics for 'Maharishi' ('Sexy Sadie') at the Idea Generation Gallery in London. The work will be auctioned at The Fame Bureau on 4 September getty...
USA: John Lennon's killer has told a parole panel he is ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle nearly three decades ago. Mark Chapman, pictured in 1975, is now 53. He was interviewed by the parole board for a fifth time and was denied release...
The first involvement with the Fringe for Pavel Douglas right, a star of EastEnders, Lovejoy and Doctors, was in 1968, whitewashing a venue at Cowgate, working on productions with Lindsay Kemp and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That venue is now The Underbelly, in which Douglas is this year performing...
THOMSON has a seven-night fly/cruise from pounds 719pp (saving pounds 100pp on brochure price) for two sharing an inside cabin. Departing August 22 from Leeds Bradford and John Lennon Liverpool. The Emerald sails from Corfu to Thira, Kusadasi, Piraeus for Athens, Mykonos and Zante. Details: www.thomson.co.uk/cruise,...
CELTIC CRUSADERS moved level with Halifax in second place in National League One as they overwhelmed Sheffield Eagles 42-6 at the Brewery Field to halt a three-match losing streak. Captain Darren Mapp was in inspirational form as he bagged two tries in four second-half minutes. ...
LONDON AFP — An early Beatles tape which captures John Lennon and Paul McCartney cracking jokes in a recording studio sold at auction in Britain for 9,800 pounds (12,400 euros, 19,000 dollars) on Tuesday. The recording, which was found in an attic and dates from 1964, features songs...
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