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...Here, in reaction to the polished excellence of Sgt Pepper, were The Beatles unplugged, unadorned, at their most relaxed, relying on intuition and spontaneous inspiration to carry them through....
...“It was a bit like that Bob Dylan electric thing,” says Marry. “The fans had got used to Frost and Fire and all that, and that’s what they wanted to hear.”...
...Standing beside Sgt Bergdahl’s parents Jani and Bob, he said: “We’re committed to winding down the war in Afghanistan and closing Gitmo,” as the prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba is known....
...If the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper, released later the same year, became the friendly example of the rock album as new countercultural art form, the Velvets’ debut influenced the future sound of adventurous rock...
...Musically, however, the band are immensely skilled as they recreate sequences broadly describable as “moptops”, “Shea Stadium”, “Sgt Pepper” and “Abbey Road” (complete with barefoot Paul)....
...The Jagger moue or the Lennon sneer; the Jack Flash strut or the Fab Four hip bob; ballsy or brainy? Is it so unnatural to love them both?...
...In 1967, she and her husband, artist Peter Blake, collaborated on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt....
...The veneration heaped on peers such as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen may also have been a motive....
...Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: the Golden Age, Bob Dylan in I’m Not There, both played by Cate Blanchett 12. Darcey Bussell 13. Ingmar Bergman 14. Luciano Pavarotti 15....
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