Tag Archives: Beatles

It’s Been A Busy Week For Benedict Cumberbatch…

By | Posted on November 1st, 2012
Benedict Cumberbatch (Rex Features via AP Images)

It’s official,  Benedict Cumberbatch is the hardest-working actor in the world (internationally famous division) right now, and it doesn’t look like the pace is going to slow down anytime soon.

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Remembering Victor Spinetti, F.O.B. (Friend of the Beatles)

By | Posted on June 21st, 2012

Victor Spinetti, a Welsh actor who appeared in all three Beatles films – A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Help! (1965) and Magical Mystery Tour (1967) – and was a longtime friend of members of the rock group, died of cancer in London on ...

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The Great British Songbook #11: ‘Real Love’

By | Posted on May 14th, 2012

If you imagine the Great British Songbook as a collection of of precious jewels scattered on a kitchen floor, which need to be gathered up and, y’know, put in a jewellery box or a safe or something, the songs of the Beatles will ...

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It Was 48 Years Ago Today…

By | Posted on February 9th, 2012

Beatles anniversaries are never too far away, given the amount of very, very noteworthy things the band achieved in such a short time, but it’s always worth stopping  for ten minutes or so to look once again at the footage of ...

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Bronze Thieves Steal Sgt Pepper Artist’s Only Public Sculpture

By | Posted on October 14th, 2011

Times are hard in Blackpool, Lancashire. So hard, in fact, that some enterprising thieves have made off with the top half of a bronze statue by Sir Peter Blake, the artist who designed the cover for the Beatles album “Sergeant ...

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News Roundup: Canada Is Russell Brand-Proof

By | Posted on October 3rd, 2011

It’s not easy being Russell Brand. Oh sure, everyone loves you and your strange talkyspeak and your Utopian exhortations, but you’re also a recovering drug addict with several arrests under your belt, just the kind of guy ...

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News Roundup: Man Finishes The Biggest British Fry-Up Ever

By | Posted on September 15th, 2011

I’m not sure if this constitutes news to a society that has already given the world that bacon, peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich Elvis used to eat, but if you’re a fan of the great British fry-up, and you always ...

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Five Great British Songs Re-imagined By American Artists

By | Posted on August 31st, 2011

Willie Nelson, no shrinking violet in the songwriting stakes himself, has lent his distinctively weathered vocal tones to a cover version of the Coldplay song “The Scientist,” which has been used as the soundtrack to a ...

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UK Chart Report: The American Invasion

By | Posted on May 16th, 2011

Wait just a cotton pickin’ minute here! Aren’t we supposed to be in this together? Aren’t the British and Americans the joint rulers of all things popular and musical?

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