The week in TV: Broadchurch, The Politician's Husband and more - video review
Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews Broadchurch; The Politician's Husband; Playhouse Presents; The Wright Way; and MasterchefAndrew CollinsAndy GallagherCameron Robertson |
My favourite Beatles song: Something
Four readers tell us why they think Something, written by George Harrison, is the Beatles' best songWe continue our series in which readers tell us about their favourite songs from the Fab Four. If you'd like to take part in future weeks, simply visit this page and use the form to tell us about the Beatles song that means the most to you.This week's track of choice is Something, the second song on the band's 1969 album Abbey Road. Written by George Harrison, who also performs lead vocals, the track was supposedly inspired by Harrison's wife at the time, Pattie Boyd, although rumours abound as to its real origins, with Harrison himself once stating he was thinking of Ray Charles when he wrote it. A critical and commercial success, Something has been covered over 150 times, although Harrison picked James Brown's version as his personal favourite, keeping a copy in his jukebox. Lennon and McCartney both praised the song, with Lennon describing it as the best track on the album, and McCar |
Yoko Ono uses photo of John Lennon's bloodied glasses in plea for gun control
Artist tweets picture of glasses worn by singer when he was shot dead in 1980, and says US has become like 'war zone'Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – "You are water. I'm water. We're all water in different containers. That's why it's so easy to meet. Someday we'll evaporate together." – Yoko Ono has taken to the social network site to offer a more visceral message, tweeting an image of John Lennon's bloodstained glasses as part of a call for greater gun control.The 80-year-old artist and musician tweeted a picture of the glasses worn by Lennon on the night he was shot dead coupled with the message: "Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980." The photo, showing the glasses on a windowsill with New York's Central Park in the background, was the cover of Ono's 1981 album Season of Glass, her first recording after her then husband was murdered by Ma |
New music: Fainting By Numbers – Watching the Wheels
Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor starts another side project, teaming up with a German techno producer on a John Lennon coverReading on mobile? Click here to listenThe last single to be released from John Lennon's Double Fantasy album, Watching the Wheels – inspired by critics who questioned his decision to retire briefly from music to help raise his son, Sean – opens with the line "People say I'm crazy". Following his death, it was recontextualised as the line repeated by his killer Mark Chapman after he was held in police custody on murder charges. In the hands of Fainting By Numbers – who are made up of German techno producer Justus Köhncke and dance music polymath Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip – the opening lyric is given a kind of blank, almost robotic monotony, with the perky piano of the original replaced by the cold thrum of synths and electronic percussion. Released via Moshi Moshi, whose co-founder Stephen Bass first made Köhncke aware of Taylor's work in 2003, Watching the W |
