A GROUP of musicians whose tongue-in-cheek homage to the Beatles evolved into a supergroup tribute act are coming to Henley. The Unravelling Wilburys take the t.
Pulling goofy faces, play fighting, larking around and generally looking as if they are enjoying every minute of each other s company. This isn t the way that John Lennon described the Beatles recording sessions for the film Let It Be. He told me those days were the most miserable sessions ever .
But more than half a century on, these remarkable glimpses of the Fab Four at work offer an intriguing new take on the dynamic of the group just months before they were to break up.
A new director has viewed and reshaped the 50-odd hours of film that were shot for Let It Be, and come up with a quite different interpretation of the prevailing mood in the studio.
And so this is Christmas. And what have we done?
I reflect on those two simple lines every December.
It was 40 years ago this month that the world lost John Lennon.
To mark the anniversary, a slew of new Lennon books were released this year.
Lennon died in 1980, before I was born. People under 50 probably don’t remember him alive, though we all know his music and his legend.
On this weekend before Christmas (or xmas) I want to focus on Lennon.
Because this was a year we needed him specifically the word he tried to spread.
The word was Peace.