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...She re-examined it to discover that of its 65 people, only 13 were women, three of them Shirley Temple, although one was Haworth’s mannequin of the child actress....
...Jacket encomiums from the likes of Lee Child and James Patterson are ten a penny these days, but they are justified here — not least for the (literally) explosive finale....
...Peter Blake, the pop artist who put Carroll on the cover of the Sgt Pepper album and later retreated to the countryside as a founder of the Ruralists, a group devoted to traditionalism in art, contributes...
...Sacks was in his first year at Cambridge when The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. “Totally stunning....
...Bright Phoebus has been compared to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for its originality, variety, cast of strange imaginary characters and evocation of a magical Britain....
...Later, the lyric echoes William Wordsworth: “The child is father of the man.”...
...Named David Jones, he was the only child of parents who, unconventionally for the era, were unmarried when he was born....
...Even if it hurts, it’s good,” says Sgt Price, a soldier returning from Iraq in the opening story, “Redeployment”....
...The child is found dead, and fingers are pointed at a Jewish shopkeeper whom the locals accuse of practising black magic....
...The dining clientele – a Sgt Pepper-style assortment of colourful English archetypes – become the people of Peking....
...British writer Travis Elborough remembers marvelling as a child....
...And even some of these winners are swiftly forgotten, such as the child who emerged from the crowd to cox a Dutch rowing pair to gold in the Paris games of 1900....
...As a child he remembers being fascinated by chemistry lessons without having a clue what it all meant. He grew up in Kent, where his parents brought him up on a rigorous diet of modernist music....
...It was Gabriel, Genesis’s chief utopian fantasist, who helped fashion the band as the precocious child of Alice, Sgt Pepper, Vaughan Williams, Tolkein, Monty Python, Marcel Marceau and King Crimson....
...That makes the sign on the back window of a Ford Explorer stand out. ”Welcome Home Sgt Adcock” it reads in white paint....
...Art, music and collage collided in popular culture in the 1960s with The Beatles’ Sgt....
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