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Delaney Bramlett Dead At 69

December 28th, 2008 by pjwa | No Comments | Filed in News

by Paul Cashmere

Delaney Bramlett, a friend and fellow musician with greats such as Eric Clapton and George Harrison, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 69.
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2008 silliest stories — Heather Mills Pouring Water (Independent.UK)

December 28th, 2008 by pjwa | No Comments | Filed in News

Good hair day for McCartney’s lawyer
It was billed as the divorce battle of the decade – a multimillionaire Beatle separating from his money-grabbing wife. But when Heather Mills discovered that she had not obtained the divorce settlement she had hoped for (a “mere” £24.3m), she decided to take her revenge – on Paul McCartney’s barrister, Fiona Shackleton. Observers witnessed Mills pouring a bottle of High Court water over the unfortunate lawyer. The former glamour model later said she had “baptised” Shackleton. As it happened, McCartney’s legal team still had the last laugh. Shackleton had gone into the final day’s proceedings looking a little bouffant and emerged, thanks to Mucca, immeasurably sexier.

THE ENTERTAIMENT YEAR IN QUOTES (Ringo Starr) (BBC) : (more…)

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Imagine: Lennon in TV ad 28 years after his death

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Through the use of digital technology, the former Beatle urges people across the United States to support a campaign by “One Laptop per Child” to deliver tough, solar-powered XO laptop computers to the world’s poorest children.
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McCartney HMV Video

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Yoko Ono shines in her own right – Dec 14 / Apr 15

November 18th, 2008 by pjwa | No Comments | Filed in Events, News
December 14, 2008toApril 15, 2009

Moving eastward and backward from the Royal Academy’s Byzantium show comes Babylon or, perhaps, Babylon!   at the British Museum (020-7323 8181, 13 November-15 March). When Constantinople was a twinkle in antiquity’s eye, Babylonia was already a wonder of the world; a place of ziggurats, legal codes and Hanging…
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/coming-soon-yoko-ono-shines-in-her-own-right-1021249.html

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