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AnOther
1 month ago
Film

An Intimate Portrait of Aaron Taylor-Johnson by Sam Taylor-Wood

Exploration of John Lennon's childhood in the film Nowhere Boy
Success of Sam Taylor-Wood in transitioning to cinema with a sensitive coming-of-age story [ more ]
Little White Lies
1 year ago
Film

Rian Johnson: 'Sondheim's my guy'

The writer/director of Glass Onion talks musicals, murder mysteries, and the sartorial secrets of master detective Benoit Blanc.It's approaching two decades since Rian Johnson announced himself as one of genre cinema's most intriguing young talents.His debut feature, Brick, a high-stakes high school noir with a clockwork plot and killer script, set the tone for what was to come - not least its opening shot of a dead body lying face down in the dirt.
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West Side Rag
4 months ago
Upper West Side

Monday Bulletin: John and Yoko Atop Charts as Anniversary of his Death Passes; Shuttered Prison Near Central Park to Become Affordable Housing; UWS Landlord Sues Over Food-Truck Gripe; Mayor Eric Adams Polls Record-Low Approval Rating

NYC Hotel Week offers deals on Upper West Side hotels from January 3 to February 4, with savings of 24%.
John Lennon's song "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has reappeared on Billboard's top-10 rock-streaming songs list. [ more ]
Music
Consequence
4 months ago
Music

Cat Power and Iggy Pop cover "Working Class Hero"

Cat Power and Iggy Pop have collaborated on a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" for a tribute album for Marianne Faithfull.
The tribute album aims to raise funds for Faithfull as she recovers from Long COVID. [ more ]
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
11 months ago
Music

Does digital music have same effect as physical music?-Alayna Husain Beal High School

4 When taking an evening stroll in Notting Hill my curiosity pulled me to a record store called Music and Video Exchange.I have seen my parent's collection of countless records dating back to the seventies.To my amazement, the shop was busy with loud music and a great atmosphere.There were people of all ages sifting through the records like in a comic book store.
Consequence
1 year ago
Music

Depeche Mode embrace simplicity and sadness on new album Memento Mori: Stream

Depeche Mode, the post-synth-pop group that made sensual broodiness a part of the mainstream, have returned with a new album titled Memento Mori.You can stream it below.Memento Mori, their first album in five years, is also their official return after the loss of founding member Andrew "Fletch" Fletcher in 2022.
www.dw.com
1 year ago
Music

The Beatles' rushed first album turns 60 DW 03/22/2023

When the album "Please Please Me" was released in the UK on March 22, 1963, it shot straight into the Top 10 of the British album charts.Six weeks later it was number one and stayed there for 30 weeks.It also spawned a number of hit singles including "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout."
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Music

Rolling Stones to record new album with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr: report

The "Beggars Banquet" is filling up.The Rolling Stones are bringing along a couple of ringers on their next album, according to a new report.Multiple sources told Variety that former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are coming together once again to record parts on the upcoming, so-far-untitled album by the Stones.
Vulture
1 year ago
Music

Paul McCartney Recorded With 'Blues Cover Band' the Rolling Stones

For their latest project, the surviving Beatles have been helping out an old "blues cover band" on their new music.reports that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been recording with the Rolling Stones, a rare union of two of the biggest forces in rock-and-roll music - despite Macca's persistent ribbing of his rivals.
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Fatherly
10 months ago
Fathers

43 Years Later, John Lennon's Voice Will Augmented By AI For "Final" Beatles Song

Over four decades after his death, John Lennon will once again sing with The Beatles.Well, sort of.Paul McCartney has revealed that an unreleased Lennon recording called "Now and Then" will be released sometime in 2023 as a kind of digital Beatles reunion song.And, although a demo of this song has existed since 1980, machine learning technology will be used to create a new version of the track as a "new" Beatles song.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Arts

The Beatles will release a final record, using John Lennon's voice via an AI assist

The voice of John Lennon, seen here in 1963, will appear on The Beatles' new record, says his former bandmate Paul McCartney.Hulton Archive/Getty Images The music has analog roots, but now it's being revived by futuristic technology: The Beatles have completed a new recording using an old demo tape by John Lennon, thanks to AI tools that isolate Lennon's voice, according to Paul McCartney.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

5 Facts You Didn't Know About The Song That Inspired 'Knives Out 2'

Daniel Craig has returned as Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion.Although there are no cozy sweaters like the first film, the sequel delivers the old-school whodunit goods.In the same Agatha Christie-style of the first film, Glass Onion both revels in murder-mystery cliches, while also subverting a few, too.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Revolver,' Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak

Imagine  or if you're young or distant enough, enjoy  a moment when Beatles songs weren't bone-deep familiar, weren't canonical, weren't thoroughly embedded in succeeding generations of rock and pop.A moment when the band that had worked its way up to becoming the most popular act in the Western world was still just four guys knocking songs around in a room and keeping themselves loose and whimsical.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Douglas Kirkland, Canadian artist who famously photographed Marilyn Monroe, dead at 88 | CBC News

Canadian photographer Douglas Kirkland, whose intimate shots of Marilyn Monroe taken a year before her death earned him the trust of many Hollywood stars, has died at 88.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
NYC music

Paul McCartney Says A.I. Helped Complete Last' Beatles Song

More than 50 years after the Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney said artificial intelligence helped create one last Beatles song that will be released later this year.The song was made using a demo with John Lennon's voice, McCartney said in an interview with BBC Radio 4 that was released on Tuesday.He did not give the title of the song or offer any clues about its lyrics.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Jim Gordon, Top Rock Drummer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 77

Jim Gordon, a talented but troubled drummer who was ubiquitous in the recording studios of the 1960s and '70s and who, as a member of Eric Clapton's band Derek and the Dominos, helped write the romantic ballad Layla but who suffered from schizophrenia and spent nearly 40 years in prison, convicted of murdering his mother died on Monday in a prison medical facility in Vacaville, Calif.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Rick Rubin Wants You to Read Sherlock Holmes Before You're 21

The Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell.I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, edited by Sudhakar S. Dikshit.The Gift, by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky.The I Ching, or Book of Changes, translated by Richard Wilhelm (into German) and Cary F. Baynes (from German into English).
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Ed Rudy, Chronicler of the Beatles' First Trip to America, Dies at 93

On Feb. 7, 1964, when the Beatles were greeted by thousands of screaming fans at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a radio reporter named Ed Rudy was there.When they performed in Washington, Mr. Rudy was there.And when they headed to Miami Beach, he was there.Mr. Rudy filed reports to a syndicate of radio stations throughout the Beatles' two-week tour of the United States, their first performances in the country, and soon after packaged his material into a 35-minute album, The American Tour With Ed Rudy, which rose to No. 20 on Billboard's Top LPs chart.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Revolver', la reciente version expandida muestra que los Beatles aun tienen sorpresas

Imagina o si eres lo suficientemente joven o distante, disfruta un momento en el que las canciones de los Beatles no eran tan increiblemente familiares, no eran canonicas, no estaban integradas por completo en las generaciones posteriores del rock y el pop.Un momento en el que la banda que llegaria a ser la atraccion mas popular en el mundo occidental todavia eran solo cuatro tipos tocando canciones en una habitacion con una actitud relajada y caprichosa.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC music

When Weird Al Yankovic Met Daniel Radcliffe, Things Got ... Well, You Know

For their decidedly nonfactual rock biopic, the pop-music parodist and the "Harry Potter" star found themselves on the same wavelength.
Creative Bloq
10 months ago
Graphic design

That horrendous AI John Lennon is completely tone deaf

We've seen a fair few controversial uses of AI art in the past few months.From winning entries to art and photography competitions to AI 'models' in fashion and backgrounds in Netflix animations, almost every week brings fresh controversy.But an AI-generated John Lennon is provoking what must be the most universally hostile reaction yet.
Creative Bloq
1 year ago
Graphic design

Oh great, now Google has a terrifying AI image generator

Just a few weeks ago, the art world was, to use internet parlance, 'shooketh' by the power of OpenAI's DALL·E 2, which can transform written phrases and sentences into terrifyingly accurate AI-generated images.
www.fastcompany.com
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Generative AI that can change anyone's race is probably not a great idea

The worst thing about this hyperspeed artificial intelligence race is that, even if you are used to expecting the unexpected, the bloody thing keeps surprising you by opening new cans of worms every other day.And this weekly roundup has truck-size cans overflowing with worms the size of elephant trunks among the release of Stability.ai's
Consequence
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Artist uses AI to imagine what dead musicians would look like today

Have you ever wondered what members of the 27 Club and other dead celebrities would look like if they were still alive?
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
Writing

Menage a quatre: why most poetic biopics are romantic fiction

How do you make the life of a poet work on screen?It helps if they had scandalous personal lives (Rimbaud and Verlaine in Total Eclipse, Dylan Thomas in Last Call and The Edge of Love).Robert Graves was last seen on the sidelines of Terence Davies's biopic as the friend of the first world war poet Siegfried Sassoon (Benediction).
Fish Stripes
1 year ago
Miami Marlins

An Ode to Opening Day

You did it.After what can only be described in the words of George Harrison as "a long cold winter," the rites of Spring have brought with it the return of the National Pastime.Yes, Major League Baseball's Opening Day is here.This time of year brings a cornucopia of emotions to many million a baseball fan.
www.standard.co.uk
1 year ago
London

National Portrait Gallery to display unseen Beatles photos by Paul McCartney

The archive features more than 250 images taken between November 1963 and February 1964 which capture the emergence of Beatlemania through the personal lens of Sir Paul's Pentax camera.The exhibition, titled Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes Of The Storm, will run from June 28 to October 1 and marks the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery, which has undergone three years of major refurbishments.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Unseen McCartney photos from Beatles' early days unveiled ahead of gallery show

A handful of unseen photographs taken by Sir Paul McCartney during the early days of The Beatles have been released ahead of his National Portrait Gallery display.The archive features more than 250 images taken between November 1963 and February 1964 which capture the emergence of Beatlemania through the personal lens of Sir Paul's Pentax camera.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Unseen McCartney photos from Beatles' early days unveiled ahead of gallery show

A handful of unseen photographs taken by Sir Paul McCartney during the early days of The Beatles have been released ahead of his National Portrait Gallery display.The archive features more than 250 images taken between November 1963 and February 1964 which capture the emergence of Beatlemania through the personal lens of Sir Paul's Pentax camera.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

John Lennon's glasses and Kurt Cobain guitar to headline blockbuster US auction

A pair of John Lennon's glasses and Kurt Cobain's smashed guitars are due to headline a blockbuster music memorabilia auction later this month.The items, which are expected to go for almost 500,000 dollars (430,000) in total, will form part of Julien's Auctions Icons and Idols: Rock N' Roll auction.
Consequence
1 year ago
Music

Scott Weiland's previously unreleased cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" unveiled: "Stream

Scott Weiland's 2011 holiday album The Most Wonderful Time of the Year is receiving a vinyl reissue on October 21st.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Music

Mavis Staples & Levon Helm: Carry Me Home review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

n the early noughties, Levon Helm began hosting live shows he called Midnight Rambles in a studio at his home in Woodstock, NY.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Lana Del Rey Talks Back to the Songbook

Image I love these lyrics from the title track of Lana Del Rey's sprawling ninth album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, which comes out today: Harry Nilsson has a song, his voice breaks at 2:05 Something about the way he says Don't forget me Makes me feel like I just wish I had a friend like him Someone to get me by Del Rey's music is both vividly intimate and highly referential.
Secret London
1 year ago
Music

Beatles Day: A Musical Legacy Worth Celebrating

While some fans celebrate Global Beatles Day on June 25, others consider Beatles Day to be January 16, as this was the day the band made their debut at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.But no matter whether you celebrate on January 16 or June 25, one thing is clear: fans honour the love and legacy of the iconic band 365 days a year.
Lucy Talks Data
1 year ago
UX design

I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

I recently got access to DALL-E, at last!For those who are unfamiliar with DALL-E: DALL-E is a machine learning model built by OpenAI that generates images from natural language descriptions.
The Marginalian
1 year ago
Inspiration

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Music

Bono says pressure to look macho' made him hide his love of Abba

Pressure to look macho led a young Bono to hide his love of Abba, the U2 singer has admitted.He said he lacked the courage to own up to liking the Swedish pop group at a time when his contemporaries were listening to punk, but was now able to see that he had, in fact, been thankful for the music all along.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Music

Mark Everett of Eels: It's weird being a father when you're older than your father ever was'

I played I Like the Way This Is Going as a love letter to my then girlfriend, now wife, before having it played as we walked down the aisle.What does it feel like to be able to create songs that can change people's lives?cleckhuddersfax It's the most amazing feeling because you write these songs for yourself, so to have other people getting something out of it is fantastic.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Mental health

Little evidence screaming helps mental health, say psychologists

Popping into a room on your lunch break to have a good scream may seem like a helpful way to let off steam, but experts say there is little evidence the approach offers long-term benefits for mental health.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC music

Ronnie Hawkins, Rockabilly Road Warrior, Is Dead at 87

Besides performing, he mentored other musicians, including stars like Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm and Rick Danko, who went on to form the Band.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Coin mosaic marks 90th birthday of Sir Michael Caine

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A unique mosaic portrait of Sir Michael Caine in one of his most famous film roles has been created to mark his 90th birthday.The image of British secret agent Harry Palmer consists of thousands of coins, sourced from a bank in the southern Spanish town of Coin.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Rare photographs of The Beatles playing at Liverpool's Cavern Club uncovered

Two rare photographs of The Beatles playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool have been discovered.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Boris Johnson: The Simpsons producer says former PM is a character right for satire'

The producer of The Simpsons has called Boris Johnson a character right for satire.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

From Marilyn Monroe to Lady Gaga: How the Queen charmed the stars

The Queen encountered hundreds of showbiz stars, pop legends and Hollywood greats over the decades.
Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
1 year ago
Music

Hardcore Band Militarie Gun Play at Playback Studios | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly

Anyone halfway paying attention (or who once in a while takes a glance at this section) can see that the hardcore scene is going through a major renaissance at the moment.This is thanks, in part, to the work of bands like Militarie Gun, who play San Jose's Playback Studios on their current tour this Tuesday.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Music

The Beatles: Revolver Special Edition (Super Deluxe) review | Annie Zaleski's album of the week

The Beatles' career has been so exhaustively documented, chronicled and bootlegged, it can feel as if there aren't many surprises left to uncover.But the footage in Peter Jackson's recent documentary on the band, Get Back, certainly proved that assumption wrong  particularly the mind-blowing jam session where the band conjure the documentary's title track out of thin air.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Bob Chiarito: Rock fans hope XRT's Lin Brehmer's Friday sign-off was not a goodbye

Chicago radio icon Lin Brehmer closed his last show Friday afternoon in the most Brehmer-esque way, telling a story before spinning a song that emphasized his point even more.
Vulture
1 year ago
Music

Songs on the Minions: The Rise of Gru Soundtrack, Ranked

The Minions: The Rise of Gru soundtrack is out, and it wants to be cool.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Books

For the Beatles-obsessed, here are 3 never-before-seen photos from 1964

"The crowds chasing us in A Hard Day's Night were based on moments like this," McCartney writes."Taken out of the back of our car on West Fifty-Eighth, crossing the Avenue of the Americas."Paul McCartney/1964: Eyes of the Storm When the Beatles embarked on the tour that helped launch the British Invasion in 1964, Paul McCartney had a 35mm camera on hand to help document the history-making mayhem.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: ODOT's Dangerous Plan, Thorns' New Coach, and Can a Robot Give Sex Advice?

GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY!It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week!(PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters!All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box... and then... YOUR HEAD.)
* Advocates Fear Increased Pedestrian Deaths in Planned Rose Quarter Project
ODOT's analysis of the I-5 Rose Quarter project shows an increased risk of pedestrians being hit by cars near the Moda Center.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

The trusty tarot has revealed the Tories' future to me | Stewart Lee

I believe it was John Lennon and Yoko Ono who sang: A very merry Christmas.And a happy new year.Let's hope it's a good one, without Andrew Pierce.(In the current climate of cancel culture and wokeness, can I make clear this is a joke?I may have rather put my foot in it, but I mean no ill will to the Daily Mail consultant editor and respected GB News presenter Andrew Pierce.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Music

I've never met anyone who doesn't like Abba' Stephen Mulhern's honest playlist

The first song I remember hearing My dad is a huge Beatles fan and would always play Imagine by John Lennon.I said: One day, I'm going to buy a white, grand piano, like on the cover.So I bought one when I finished Saturday morning kids' TV.The first single I bought Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by Bombalurina, featuring Timmy Mallett, from Woolworths in Stratford, east London.
Document Journal
1 year ago
Music

Unorthodox holiday albums that are actually pretty good

From rap to K-pop to punk rock, Document offers the best festive records from across the musical continuum

If you're a struggling artist, you might consider a Christmas album.Each year, come December, the holiday genre gives regular music a run for its money-perhaps part of the reason labels tend to delay their clients' releases until the new year is well behind us.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

The One About When Groucho Marx and Dick Cavett Became Great Friends

On a hot summer day in 1961, a young TV writer and aspiring comedian named Dick Cavett attended the funeral of George S. Kaufman, the renowned wit and man of letters.There he saw one of his heroes, Groucho Marx.Cavett approached Marx, and managed to tell him that he was a big fan.Without missing a beat, Marx responded: Well, if it gets any hotter, I could use a big fan.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Yet Another Serving From the Royals Banquet

THE QUEEN: Her Life, by Andrew Morton Ever since his early-1990s blockbuster Diana: Her True Story, about the Princess of Wales (which was expanded after her death), Andrew Morton has been the best known and most accessible, if not the foremost, biographer of England's royal family.He's on a first-name basis with the lot of them, at least on the page.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
London food

On my radar: Angela Hartnett's cultural highlights

The chef Angela Hartnett was born in Kent in 1968.
She studied history at Cambridge Polytechnic before turning to the kitchen, working her way up under Gordon Ramsay.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Music

'My teenage hormones were raging!': stars salute the Beatles' Love Me Do at 60

I was three years and two months old when Love Me Do came out, but I had a plastic toy guitar and whenever the song came on the radio I would stand on a stool and sing along.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Mental health

Carry on screaming: why letting it all out, especially for women, can make you calmer and happier

ne afternoon in early lockdown I led my two small children into the garden and told them to scream."Go on," I said, setting a timer."Scream as loud as you want.I'll join you."
the Guardian
1 year ago
Mental health

Living on a Thin Line by Dave Davies review - a Kink in his armour

ave Davies, co-founder of the Kinks, has had a life of era-appropriate excess and lived to be contrite about it.
Medium
1 year ago
Data science

Artist Uses AI to Bring Life to Dead Celebrities

We know of many artists and celebrities who have passed away both unexpectedly and at a young age.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

New Beatles Album Re-Release Features Sad Alternate Version Of A Famous Song

The one Beatles song often cited as the most kid-friendly is without a doubt "Yellow Submarine."There are kids' books focused on that submarine, toys, and even pretty rad magnetic puzzles.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

We Brutally Ranked the Best Beatles Albums for Kids

Beatlemania will never end.
www.standard.co.uk
1 year ago
London

Daniel Craig and Knives Out 2 set to close London Film Festival

Director and writer Rian Johnson said it was an honour to bring the new film, starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc, to London given so much of its inspiration comes from the golden age of crime writing with authors including Agatha Christie.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC music

Alan White, Who Drummed With Yes and Ex-Beatles, Dies at 72

The invitation to perform with John Lennon, which he thought was a joke, led to almost 50 years with one of progressive rock's foremost bands.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
Music

Alan White, longtime drummer for prog rock band Yes, dies at 72

SEATTLE - Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects with John Lennon and George Harrison, has died.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

How to avoid toe jam, that icky buildup between your toes

(The Conversation)Toe jam can be a source of fascination, disgust or barely noticed.
It can be a sign you need to wash your feet or rethink your choice of footwear.
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