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Carnival Of Light
"Carnival of Light" is an unreleased avant-garde recording by the English rock band the Beatles. It was commissioned for the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave, an event held at the Roundhouse in London on 28 January and 4 February 1967. Recorded during a session for the song " Penny Lane", "Carnival of Light" is nearly 14 minutes long and contains distorted, echo-laden sounds of percussion, keyboards, guitar and vocals. Its creation was initiated by Paul McCartney's interest in the London avant-garde scene and through his connection with the design firm Binder, Edwards & Vaughan (often called BEV, and headed by the partners Doug Binder, Dudley Edwards and David Vaughan). Since the event, "Carnival of Light" has rarely been heard, and does not circulate on bootlegs. For McCartney, the piece came to hold significance in his efforts to be recognised as the first Beatle to fully engage with the avant-garde, over a year before John Lennon recorded "Revolution 9". In 1996, McCar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Gill (artist)
Robert Charles Gill (January 17, 1931November 9, 2021) was an American illustrator and graphic designer. Biography Robert Charles Gill was born on January 17, 1931, in Brooklyn, New York. Gill played the piano at summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to pay his school tuition. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (1948–1951), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1951), City College of New York (1952, 1955). When he graduated he became a professional graphic designer in New York City. Gill acted as a film title designer in several films, including several films of Ray Harryhausen. In 1960 after an interview in a New York hotel room for a job in London, he moved to the UK to work for Charles Hobson. April Fool's Day, 1962, Gill, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes established Fletcher/Forbes/Gill design studio, the forerunner of Pentagram. F/F/G soon outgrew their small studio and moved into a huge Victorian former gun factory on a canal. They started th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology 2
''Anthology 2'' is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 18 March 1996 by Apple Records as part of ''The Beatles Anthology'' series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the 1965 sessions for ''Help!'' to the sessions just prior to their trip to India in February 1968. It is the second in a trilogy of albums with '' Anthology 1'' and ''Anthology 3'', all of which tie in with the televised special ''The Beatles Anthology''. The opening track is " Real Love", the second of the two recordings that reunited the Beatles for the first time since the band's break-up. Like its predecessor, the album topped the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart and has been certified 4× Platinum by the RIAA. The ''Anthology'' albums were remastered and made available digitally on the iTunes Store on 14 June 2011, individually and as part of the ''Anthology Box Set''. Content "Real Love", as with "Free as a Bird", is based on a demo made by John Lennon and given to Paul Mc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. She has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music" with her Doctor Who theme having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital. Biography Early life Derbyshire was born in Coventry, daughter of Emma ( Dawson) and Edward Derbyshire.Breege Brennan, Master's Thesis in Computer Music, Dublin, 2008. of Cedars Avenue, Coundon, Coventry.Christine Edge, Morse code musician: How Delia crashed the sound barrier', ''Sunday Mirror'', 12 April 1970, p. 8. Her father was a sheet-metal worker.Article by Kirsten Cubitt "Dial a tune" in The Guardian newspaper, 3 September 1970. She had one sibling, a sister, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unit Delta Plus
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. She has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music" with her Doctor Who theme having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital. Biography Early life Derbyshire was born in Coventry, daughter of Emma ( Dawson) and Edward Derbyshire.Breege Brennan, Master's Thesis in Computer Music, Dublin, 2008. of Cedars Avenue, Coundon, Coventry.Christine Edge, Morse code musician: How Delia crashed the sound barrier', ''Sunday Mirror'', 12 April 1970, p. 8. Her father was a sheet-metal worker.Article by Kirsten Cubitt "Dial a tune" in The Guardian newspaper, 3 September 1970. She had one sibling, a sister, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalk Farm
Chalk Farm is a small urban district of north London, lying immediately north of Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden. History Manor of Rugmere Chalk Farm was originally known as the Manor of Rugmere, an estate that was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor was one of five which made up the large Ancient Parish of St Pancras. Rugmere is thought to mean ''the Woodcock's Pool''. Henry VIII bought part of the manor, detaching it to form the north-eastern part of what would become Regent's Park, the remainder subsequently become more commonly known as Chalk Farm. Both the detached area and the remainder remained part of the parish of St Pancras. In 1786 the estate was sold to Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton, it was described as ''commonly known as Chalk Farm''. The term ''Rugmere (or Rug Moor)'' appeared to have endured for some time as a field name. Etymology The origin of the name is disputed: it certainly does not derive from the soil, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roundhouse
The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England. The building was erected in 1846–1847 by the London & North Western Railway as a roundhouse, a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was used for that purpose for only about a decade. After being used as a warehouse for a number of years, the building fell into disuse just before World War II. It was first made a listed building in 1954. It reopened after 25 years, in 1964, as a performing arts venue, when the playwright Arnold Wesker established the Centre 42 Theatre Company and adapted the building as a theatre. The large circular structure has hosted various promotions, such as the launch of the underground paper ''International Times'' in 1966, one of only two UK appearances by The Doors with Jim Morrison in 1968, and the Greasy Truckers Party in 1972. The Greater London Council ceded control of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Sounes
Howard Sounes (born 1965) is a British author, journalist and biographer. Biography Born in Welling, South East London, Sounes began his journalistic career as a staff reporter for the ''Sunday Mirror''. He broke major stories, including one of the most notorious murder cases in British criminal history: that of Fred and Rosemary West. Sounes reported that the house at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester was the grave site of nine young women, with more victims buried nearby. He went on to report the case for the Sunday and ''Daily Mirror'', and upon conclusion of the trial he published his book ''Fred & Rose''. Sounes wrote a biography of American poet, novelist and short-story writer Charles Bukowski, becoming so engrossed in the subject that he resigned from his newspaper job to devote himself to the project. '' Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life'' was published in 1998 by Grove Press in the US and Canongate in the UK. Sounes also wrote a companion book in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ellen
Mark Ellen (born 16 September 1953) is a British magazine editor, journalist and broadcaster who lives in West London. Early life Ellen was born in Fleet, Hampshire, England. Whilst at Oxford University in the 1970s, he briefly played bass alongside Tony Blair in college band Ugly Rumours, a band that according to Ellen was created primarily to meet women. Career After graduating, he wrote for ''Record Mirror'', ''NME'' and '' Time Out'' before signing up as Features Editor of '' Smash Hits'' in 1981, where he became the editor in 1983. He was the launch editor of '' Q'', the re-launch editor of '' Select'' and the launch managing editor of '' Mojo''. He later became the editor-in-chief of EMAP Metro overseeing 14 consumer magazines, but he left Emap after 16 years to join the independent publishing company Development Hell in 2002. He also has a long broadcasting career which includes contributions to BBC Radio 1 as stand-ins for David "Kid" Jensen and John Peel. He prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Many Years From Now
''Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now'' is a 1997 biography of Paul McCartney by Barry Miles. It is the "official" biography of McCartney and was written "based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews undertaken over a period of five years", according to the back cover of the 1998 paperback edition. The title is a phrase from McCartney's song "When I'm Sixty-Four", from the Beatles' 1967 album '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. The book was first published in the United Kingdom in October 1997 by Secker & Warburg. Background and content McCartney and Miles began working on the project shortly after McCartney's 1989–90 world tour. According to Miles, the "core" of the book resulted from 35 taped interviews held between 1991 and 1996.Miles, p. xiii. Irked at the reverence afforded John Lennon following the latter's murder in 1980, McCartney sought to alter the perception that Lennon had been the true creative leader of the Beatles. In this way, the book was an ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Miles
Barry Miles (born 21 February 1943) is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subjects of the 1960s London underground and counterculture. He is the author of numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared in leftist newspapers such as ''The Guardian''. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the independent newspaper ''International Times''. Biography In the 1960s, Miles worked at Better Books, which was managed by Tony Godwin. Godwin was friends with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with whom he would exchange Penguin books for City Lights publications. In 1965 Allen Ginsberg gave a reading at Better Books that led to the International Poetry Incarnation, a seminal event co-organised by Miles. In 1965, Miles and his wife, the former Susan Crane,Jonathon GreeObituary: Sue Miles ''The Guardian'' (website), 13 October 2010. introduced Paul McCartney to hash brownies by using a recipe for hash fudge that they had foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, lying 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross. Traditionally the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone, it extends east to west from Regent's Park and Primrose Hill to Edgware Road, with the Swiss Cottage area of Hampstead to the north and Lisson Grove to the south. The area is best known for Lord's Cricket Ground, home of Marylebone Cricket Club and Middlesex CCC, and is a regular international test cricket venue. It also includes Abbey Road Studios, well known through its association with the Beatles. Origin The area was once part of the Forest of Middlesex, an area with extensive woodland, though it was not the predominant land use. The area's name originates, in the Manor of Lileston, one of the two manors (the other the Manor of Tyburn) served by the Parish of Marylebone. The Manor was taken from the Knights Templar on their suppression in 1312 and passed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychedelic Art
Psychedelic art (also known as psychedelia) is art, graphics or visual displays related to or inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations known to follow the ingestion of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and DMT. The word "psychedelic" (coined by British psychologist Humphry Osmond) means "mind manifesting". By that definition, all artistic efforts to depict the inner world of the psyche may be considered "psychedelic". In common parlance "psychedelic art" refers above all to the art movement of the late 1960s counterculture, featuring highly distorted or surreal visuals, bright colors and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons) to evoke, convey, or enhance psychedelic experiences. Psychedelic visual arts were a counterpart to psychedelic rock music. Concert posters, album covers, liquid light shows, liquid light art, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling colour patterns of LSD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
