Hints and tips:
...We first meet the leader, Sgt Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal, credible as a wild-eyed live wire) as he tells his trainees: “Fuck any talk of police brutality — if we lose the fight, we lose the street.”...
...It was at a night at The Bull and Gate run by Fierce Panda’s Simon Williams that Coldplay were first noticed, getting a review in the NME and going on to be signed by Parlophone....
...Sacks was in his first year at Cambridge when The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. “Totally stunning....
...Raf Simons does the same for his menswear shows: the gesture helps stir the sense of adolescent obsession around the brand....
...Canadian Sgt Andrew Doiron died this month in a friendly fire incident in northern Iraq....
...The vogue for structural, simple eveningwear has been led by Raf Simons at Dior, who has done much to streamline and simplify the evening silhouette....
...certain age, and it is the age of people who run the world, this is how a typical conversation about your abiding passion goes: you first of all lament the witless banality of reality shows, the ubiquity of Simon...
...Simon Schama on the Rolling Stones: ‘I really, really like it’ So who says we have to choose anyway? “Ruby Tuesday” or “Eleanor Rigby”?...
...His paintings that look like collages and collages that look like paintings are known the world over, and his celebrated 1967 design for the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt....
...Other FTS performances will come from composer Emily Hall and the sound artist Simon Fisher Turner and the London Contemporary Orchestra....
...And an encore of “Blackbird” (theirs, not McCartney’s) lost its piano for an arrangement cribbed, they cheerfully admitted, from Simon Jeffes....
...the new century saw a falling-off in the quality of consignments, but this trend now seems to have been reversed: last year, Christie’s sold the hand-painted drum skin used on the front of the Beatles’ Sgt...
...The Velvet Underground and Nico, Are You Experienced, Sgt Pepper, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow – those are just from 1967....
...Simon Kuper is author of ‘Football Against the Enemy’ (Orion)...
...Just as we were copying what we were hearing down the corridor,” remembered the manager of a band that recorded their debut album in Abbey Road Studios at the same time as the Beatles were making Sgt Pepper...
...inquired Paul McCartney on Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released 40 years ago next week. Yes, it transpires....
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