Beatles
Classic Albums: John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band, BBC FourSaturday, 10 July 2010![]() The BBC just can't stop showing that flipping Lennon Naked drama. No sooner have we emerged from the Fatherhood Season, where it first appeared, than we're into a John Lennon Night on BBC Four, featuring Lennon Naked again under a new temporary flag... Read more... |
Fab Two Alert!Thursday, 08 July 2010It wasn't memorialised in HD. But last night Ringo Starr turned 70 and welcomed Paul McCartney onstage at Radio City Music Hall in New York for a musical celebration. There was only one song they were going to perform, and a thousand mobile phone... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Writer Willy RussellSaturday, 03 July 2010![]() No one understands escapism like Willy Russell. Either side of 1980, he wrote two plays about working-class Liverpool women in flight from a humdrum existence. In one a young hairdresser seeks fulfilment through a literary education with the Open... Read more... |
Lennon Naked, BBC FourThursday, 24 June 2010![]() Films about rock stars usually fail, because it's impossible to recreate whatever larger-than-life qualities made them unique and famous in the first place. You frequently end up with a slightly embarrassing party-piece impersonation that captures... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube: 21-27 FebruarySunday, 21 February 2010![]() This week’s birthday videos include guitarists Andrés Segovia playing a fandango, Japanese heavy metal hero Akira Takasaki and George Harrison. Then there’s Johnny Cash and murdered Afghan singer Nusrat Parsa. It's also the birthday of the mighty... Read more... |
Nowhere BoyThursday, 24 December 2009![]() It’s been a very good year for Beatlemania, with all the albums re-repackaged and the group going virtual in Rock Band. The BBC lobbed in their own Beatles season-ette, and one of the more striking images from their riot of documentary footage was... Read more... |
Beatles For (Multiplatform) SaleMonday, 07 September 2009Oasis have split up, but The Beatles keep getting bigger. This week, in a synchronised splurge of Beatle product of almost D-Day like proportions, their complete remastered albums are being reissued, the group appear in virtual form in the computer... Read more... |
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