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And now for something almost completely different

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 .

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Life of Brian, Children TV, Animated TV, The Beatles, Entertainment, Television, Video Games, Comedy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Meaning of Life, Musical Movies

Sat Nov 21, 2009

The Valley Herald

Review: Classical Mystery Tour joins Pops for fab bit of nostalgia

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.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Pop/Rock, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Music, Entertainment

Sat Nov 14, 2009

National Public Radio

A Rock Royal Finds Himself In The Digital Age

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 .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 13, 2009

TwinCities.com

Here comes the son

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Arts, Industrial Design (Product Design), Brown University, Minneapolis, MN

Wed Nov 11, 2009

DarrenBarefoot.com

An Alternative History of Rock and Roll

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

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Related Topix: Short, Music!

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Pacifica Tribune

CD Review: Bartron Tyler magical Beatles tour

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Daily Record

Music news: Unfinished Beatles song gets first play 40 years on

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

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Pop/Rock, The Beatles

Tue Nov 03, 2009

WORC-FM Worcester

The Rock History Report for November 1st, 2009

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

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Related Topix: The Dave Clark Five, Pop/Rock, Short, Music!, Nirvana, Grunge

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Manawatu Evening Standard

In step with the Beatles

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Beatles, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, John Lennon, Wedding, Comedy Movies, Caveman, Travel

Fri Oct 30, 2009

World News from Times Online

Music icons jam at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary

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.

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Folk, Simon & Garfunkel, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Adventure, Water, Music, Entertainment

OUPblog

Riddle Me When? Something.

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.

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Pop/Rock, The Beatles, John Lennon

Telegraph.co.uk

Nowhere Boy review

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.

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Related Topix: Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Pop/Rock, John Lennon, Paul McCartney

Tue Oct 27, 2009

About.com

The Hare Krishna Mantra

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Arcade, NY

Sun Oct 25, 2009

XtraMSN Real Estate

Handmade Films plans new kids' productions

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.

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Related Topix: Life of Brian, Comedy Movies

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Times Online

Duchess takes Little Red to the small screen

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.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Life of Brian

Fri Oct 23, 2009

KTVK Phoenix

Fifth Beatle Reveals the Mysteries

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.

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Venice (Los Angeles, CA), Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Metro, Pop/Rock, John Lennon

Thu Oct 22, 2009

MusicEmissions

Grant Hart - Hot Wax

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Grant Hart, Husker Du, Punk, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Adventure, Water, The Who

Tue Oct 20, 2009

The Toronto Star

Come together at UCC

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.

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Related Topix: Children TV, Animated TV, The Beatles, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Branson Courier

Branson's Liverpool Legends to announce thatre change on 'Gene Williams TV Show'

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.

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Related Topix: Branson, MO, Short, Music!, Children TV, Animated TV, The Beatles, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Examiner.com

Ravi Shankar honored with first George Harrison Humanitarian Award

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Charitable Organizations

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