Category: Beatles
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Macca’s banjo, Mellotron and a Monkee: the story of George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music | Music | The Guardian
Almost 50 years ago, the Beatle stepped aside from the planet’s biggest band to create the soundtrack to Joe Massot’s movie Wonderwall. With the help of India’s finest musicians, he invented the idea of the world music crossover Source: Macca’s banjo, Mellotron and a Monkee: the story of George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music | Music |…
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Macca’s banjo, Mellotron and a Monkee: the story of George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music | Music | The Guardian
Almost 50 years ago, the Beatle stepped aside from the planet’s biggest band to create the soundtrack to Joe Massot’s movie Wonderwall. With the help of India’s finest musicians, he invented the idea of the world music crossover Source: Macca’s banjo, Mellotron and a Monkee: the story of George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music | Music |…
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Poster for my lecture at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution 12th July
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John Lennon’s Records and Compact Discs with Andy Warhol Art
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Beyond the Beatles: Peter Blake’s pop art on paper
Beyond the Beatles: Peter Blake’s pop art on paper http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/aug/23/beyond-the-beatles-peter-blakes-pop-art-on-paper-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
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‘Bob Dylan was 10 feet away from me’: Isle of Wight festival, 1969
“Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were sitting behind us. The talk of the festival was that they might join Dylan on stage.” Penny Warder The organisers of the 1969 Isle of Wight festival, brothers Ronnie and Ray Foulk, had managed to pull off the amazing coup of getting Bob Dylan to…
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My Favourite Albums of All Time (Part One)
This is a tricky one. I’ve never been that impressed with ‘best of’ lists but I found myself sitting in a hotel room listening to music on my phone and I began thinking about what my favourite (and most influential) albums of all-time were. I say influential because, as some of you know, I am…
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Trip to Liverpool
Well, I spent Wednesday to Friday last week in Liverpool staying with my old school friend Nev, and what a fascinating place it is. Apart from visiting the International Slavery Museum for a short time several years back it is the first time I’ve been in the city. I don’t know why really. What with…