Livres, disques, télé : nos choix de la semaine
lesechos.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lesechos.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon s first solo album after The Beatles breakup, retains its power 50 years on
Firstpost 4 hours ago The New York Times © Provided by Firstpost Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon s first solo album after The Beatles breakup, retains its power 50 years on
It was raw. Yet it was meticulously thought through.
Plastic Ono Band, released in December 1970, was John Lennon’s first solo album after the breakup of The Beatles earlier that year. It was a far cry from the tuneful reassurance of Paul McCartney’s one-man-studio-band album
McCartney, and the polished abundance of George Harrison’s triple album
John Lennon and me: From the Beatles in Hamburg to the Plastic Ono Band
Klaus Voormann recalls his days as a member of The Beatles inner circle, and playing bass for John Lennon s solo project after the demise of the Fab Four
John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Picture courtesy of the Lennon estate
Mon, 03 May, 2021 - 21:13
Richard Purden
Klaus Voormann first laid eyes on John Lennon in Hamburg’s red-light district while watching The Beatles the autumn of 1960. As he stood watching the band thrash out their rudimentary rock n roll to a crowd of sailors, drunks and sex workers, one impression stood out about Lennon: “He was a cocky rocker.”
Dismiss old-timers at your peril – they’re dominating the charts, and our culture
This week s veteran chart-toppers, like Tom Jones and The Who, could teach young artists a thing or too about being fearless
30 April 2021 • 6:00pm
At 80, Tom Jones is expected to achieve his first number one since 1999 with album Surrounded By Time
Credit: Rick Guest
Chart-watchers will be forgiven for doing a double take when they look at the new album chart this evening. The top 20 is rammed with pensioners.
At 80, Tom Jones becomes the oldest ever man to have a number one album. He is also the oldest artist to top the charts with an album of new material (in pure age terms, Dame Vera Lynn pipped him to it aged 92 in 2009 with a greatest hits album). Jones’s album, Surrounded By Time, is his first chart-topper since 1999 – and, he said, he is “thrilled beyond words” at the news. Also entering the chart at number 11 is John Lennon (who died in 1980 but would be 80 if alive) wit
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.