Paul McCartney performs at SoFi Stadium. One of music’s biggest acts for more than half a century, the former Beatle turns 80 next month. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Even — or especially ...
05.14.2022 Latimes.com and 4 sitesNoel Gallagher’s Gibson guitar, which was broken in 2009 at the same time as the British group Oasis imploded, sold for 385, 500 euros at an auction in Paris on May 17. Later repaired, the red Gibson’...
05.17.2022 rte.ie , rfi.fr , philstar.com and 11 sitesAbove Guitar expert Arthur Perrault holds the Oasis band member Noel Gallagher’s Gibson ES-355 guitar. (Reuters photo) Noel Gallagher& amp; #039; s Gibson guitar, which was broken in 2009 at the s...
05.19.2022 indiatimes.com , bangkokpost.com and 1 sitesC lad in a stripy Technicolor dream jacket redolent of Joseph, Michael Kiwanuka shuffles on stage, buffeted by the celestial oohings of his backing singers. “To begin again, ” he breathes on Piano Joi...
05.14.2022 Theguardian.com and 4 sitesIn 1958, shortly after returning to Britain from studying in Paris, the flautist William Bennett received a phone call: “Get to the Festival Hall as quick as you can. Sir Thomas Beecham is doing Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and is a player short. The rehearsal has already started. ” This was soon followed by another call telling him to present himself in Manchester for an audition with the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, now the BBC Philharmonic. Five days later Bennett, who has died aged ...
05.17.2022 Theguardian.com and 2 sitesWhen she graduated from Hollywood High School in California in 1961, Carrie White did her hair up in a bubblegum-pink beehive. She had learned, she wrote in her memoir, that “if I could get my hair ri...
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05.16.2022 Msn.com and 1 sites+++dropcap Bill Frisell owns sixty-three guitars, according to his biographer. Both parts of that sentence are surprising. It’s surprising that Frisell, whose records are linked by the tone that he ge...
05.16.2022 Newyorker.com and 1 sitesBy 1980, the British rock trio the Police had already established themselves as a successful group in the U. K. and U. S. with such hits songs as “Roxanne, ” “Can't Stand Losing You, ” “Message in a B...
05.20.2022 Forbes.comPaul McCartney didn’t used to be cool. Even back in the Nineties, when the Beatles -indebted Britpop scene was in its pomp, “Macca” always seemed like a cheesy elder statesman. He was a bit dad jeans. A bit Alan Partridge. Both thumbs seemingly fixed...
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