Emily Maitlis
Six years ago I took my son, Milo, to Bucharest for his birthday. In the baking July sun, seeking shade, we crouched on the kerb in front of the presidential palace. And I played him the footage of the crowds on that bitter December morning of 1989 as Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena emerged on to the balcony. The speech Ceausescu gave, or tried to give, on 21 December was his last. And it was extraordinary. Ceausescu used his balcony address to reassure, cajole, bribe the crowd. But it turned against him as he stood there. This footage state TV rolling live at the time became the physical, televisual embodiment of power seeping away from a president. The leaders and their bodyguards are above them, removed. But it is those on the ground who now control the narrative that will end his days. We watch Ceausescu’s face as it begins to understand that. He and his wife tried to flee the next morning but they were caught, ‘tried’ for genocide and subversion of
Paul McCartney Ranks Ringo Starr Among Top Three Rock Drummers I d go Ringo [Starr] top he s something else, he told SiriusXM s
The Howard Stern Show. Second, I d go Bonzo [Led Zeppelin s John Bonham]. And third, [the Who s] Keith Moon. That s mine. I m going from that generation. Those are pretty good drummers, those boys.
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Host Stern opened that conversation by recalling a recent on-air chat about the greatest rock drummers. That unspecified roundtable included his own pick for Bonham and someone else s selection of Rush s Neil Peart.
Elsewhere in the Stern interview, McCartney reflected on John Lennon s insecurities and the formation of their first band, the Quarrymen.
Paul McCartney says Elvis is the 2nd coolest person he d ever met News 18/12/2020
Sir Macca has said Elvis Presley was the second-coolest person he d ever met, recalling how the King of Pop was an inspiration behind the iconic Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band .
The Beatles and Presley had only ever encountered each other once on 27th August 1965, under mutual agreement that no photos or recordings would be made. McCartney and his bandmates each shared diferent memories of the moment, although they all agreed that it started off a little awkward.
In a new interview on The Adam Buxton Podcast, McCartney was asked to name the coolest person he ever met. My wife … she is very cool, he replied, adding that he hoped she was listening. However, speaking like that, I have met Elvis Presley, who was darn cool. Because this was pre his Las Vegas and the rhinestone suit [period], this was
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HBO’s new Bee Gees documentary sheds new light on one of rock’s most underrated and impactful bands
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Over the years the Bee Gees story hasn’t been told with quite the same reverence as, say, the Beatles’.
But Frank Marshall’s “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” airing now on HBO and HBO Max gives the brothers Gibb their just due.
The nearly two-hour, authorized documentary combines loads of rare footage and insightful new interviews with sole surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb as well as one-time labelmate Eric Clapton, admirers such as Justin Timberlake, Nick Jonas, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Noel Gallagher, Bee Gees band members, producers and recording engineers and others. It doesn’t skirt the darker aspects of the group’s history, but it mostly sheds light on how impactful and underrated they are even with worldwide record sales estimated at more than 200 million over the course of 55 y