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How Terribly Strange To Be Seventy (Daily Telegraph, 27 April 2012)
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Category: Random Pieces
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You don't realise that you're knocking on a bit until some delectable young woman on the Tube stands up and offers you her place. "What, me?" your smile tries to joke, as you pull yourself immediately more athletically upright. "No thank you. How strange that you should think I might be so old. It must be the white hair. A family trait. I've had it since...oh, just the other day when I was forty. And, besides, don't you know that seventy is said to be the perfect age these days..."
Why Pop Girls Top The Young Rich List (Daily Telegraph, April 13, 2012)
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You only had to see the audience, predominantly female, swaying and singing together in their massed legions at Adele's televised Royal Albert Hall concert last week, to know where the big money is in young British pop music these days. It's in the bank accounts of the top half dozen girl singers in the country.
Sons Of The Beatles - Don't Do It, Boys (Daily Telegraph, April 5, 2012)
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Category: Beatles File
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There are many advantages in having a supremely talented and successful parent. Money is rarely a problem, and family access to those who might be helpful in a career cuts a lot of corners. But, when Paul McCartney's only son, James, let slip this week that he and some of the sons of the other three Beatles had discussed getting together to form a second generation Fab Four, it occurred that the gods of fortune might be playing games with them.
That Sgt Pepper Cover, 2012 Version, (Daily Mail April 3, 2012)
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Category: Beatles File
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When the Beatles' album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album was released in 1967 at the very height of their fame, it was a wonder of its age - and not only for its songs.
Almost as important was its packaging - that ornate, folding sleeve that showed the four Beatles in fancy dress at the centre of a flowery, hippy montage of characters from Karl Marx to Bob Dylan, Oscar Wilde and Laurel and Hardy.
How To Make A Monster Flop (Daily Mail, March 23, 2012)
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There's something eerie about sitting perfectly alone in a large cinema. It's as though something terrible has happened somewhere else and you are the only one who doesn't know. That's how it felt this week, anyway, as I bought my ticket and sat down to watch the new Disney epic John Carter.
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