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...The sea sweeps in and out, imposing its rhythm on town, people, animals, in the collage “this is Llareggub Hill”....
...To the south rises the Slabs’ most famous landmark, Salvation Mountain — a hill-sized sculpture-cum-landform-cum-place of worship built of adobe and haybales and painted in bright Sgt Pepper colours by the...
...Hill....
...He would apply collage many times throughout his career but most recognisably in his stylised cover design for The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967....
...The largest shows the four in full Sgt. Pepper kit, flanked around a beaming Maharishi. But I persevere, moving deeper up leaf-buried paths....
...He grew up in Notting Hill in the 1950s and 1960s when it was a west London enclave of bohemianism. His mother is the celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Shirley Hughes....
...By the time they came to record Sgt Pepper, The Beatles had their pick of the world’s most advanced and opulent recording spots....
...As we descended, the jagged peaks of the Himalayas were replaced by endless vistas of blue-tinted hills receding into the distance....
...(FT) In the news Bergdahl faces court martial Sgt Bowe Bergdahl will face a military trial on charges that he deserted his unit in Afghanistan in 2009 and endangered the lives of soldiers who searched...
...Canadian Sgt Andrew Doiron died this month in a friendly fire incident in northern Iraq....
...Review by James Urquhart … NOS4R2, by Joe Hill, Gollancz, RRP£18.99, 704 pages It seems unfair to compare Joe Hill’s fiction to that of his father Stephen King....
...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)....
...Certainly, its parping brass was not as Sgt Peppery as on the new record, more a nutty showtune with a meltingly soft centre....
...Such problems are set to command the spotlight today, when Gen Petraeus faces a confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill....
...Sgt Arik, 39, who worked as a civil engineer in Tel Aviv, said he hoped he would be too old to serve when the next round of fighting came around. “No, I don’t think it is finished....
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