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Home : Features : Television : And now for something almost completely different!! And now for something almost completely different!! 22-Nov-2009 Written by: Gary Pig Gold On the fortieth anniversary of their television debut, Monty Python tells their whole story .

Mark Kanny can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7877. Ways to get us Classical Mystery Tour returned to Pittsburgh Symphony Pops on Thursday night, providing a nostalgic experience for longtime fans of the Fab Four and letting younger fans feel the music as a concert experience.

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET Enlarge courtesy of the artist thenewno2 is led by guitarist and singer Dhani Harrison with drummer Oli Hecks .

George Harrison's son Dhani, center, has just what pop fans ordered. Expectations are always high when you're the son of a Beatle - just ask Julian or Sean Lennon.

Andy linked to this delightful alternative time line for the last forty years of popular music.

Bartron Tyler Album Cover: "Yesterday Never Knows" In February of 1964, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr played "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the Ed Sullivan Show and blew the proverbial lid off of pop music.

A SONGWRITER has finished a Beatles song that George Harrison began 40 years ago.

1969 - Faces was signed to Warner Brothers records. 1994 - Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" performance hit record stores as MTV Unplugged in New York .

Fans walk the iconic pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road. Here I am, one bright but blustery Tuesday morning, inside the wrought-iron Victorian shell of London's Marylebone Station surrounded by Beatles fans a ' mostly Americans, two Canadians, three young Australians and a sprinkling of Europeans.

It was one of the most extraordinary jam sessions in the history of rock'n'roll: Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, Billie Joel, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Sting and James Taylor - to mention a few - on stage for five hours, playing some of the most iconic songs of modern times.

Gordon Thompson is Professor of Music at Skidmore College. His book, Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out , offers an insider's view of the British pop-music recording industry.

Sam Taylor-Wood; Aaron Johnson; Kristin Scott Thomas; Anne-Marie Duff; Rating: * * * * A superior British film about John Lennon's teenage years that smartly avoids the usual pitfalls of music bio-pics, Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy proved a fitting climax to this year's London Film Festival, which ended last night.

If you open up your heart You will know what I mean We've been polluted so long But here's a way for you to get clean By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see.

Handmade Plc, which runs British movie company Handmade Films, plans to raise 17 million pounds to pay off debts and fund a new production unit that will make programing for children.

Handmade, the film company established by George Harrison in the 1970s to finance The Life of Brian , has turned to Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, to spearhead its entry into children's television.

The Fifth Beatle reveals the mysteries of the universe. Colonel Pepper is the true Fifth Beatle, and he has kept this secret for over forty years.

Aside from Bigfoot, UFO's and WMD in Iraq, one of the biggest current myths is that Bob Mould was the best songwriter in Husker Du.

George Harrison's sister arrives 10 minutes late to the 8 a.m. reception held in her honour at Upper Canada College, wearing a black T-shirt with an imprint of her brother George's face in faint white, over a black turtleneck, black Capri tights, and on her feet, black tasselled loafers.

They were hand-picked by Louise Harrison, sister of the late George Harrison of the Beatles, to recreate the famous band and this week the Liverpool Legends are the guests on the "Gene Williams Country Music Television Show" to be telecast Oct.

Ravi Shankar and daughter Anoushka at the Fes Sacred Music Festival in June, 2005.