Paul McCartney won over music fans around the world with his genius-level songwriting skills. Kenny Lynch was not one of them. At least not immediately. The British entertainer once called Paul and John Lennon idiots, but that didn’t prevent him from working with Macca a decade later for the Wings album Band on the Run.
Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, and several British celebrities on the cover of the Wings album ‘Band on the Run’ | Pa Images via Getty Images Paul McCartney and John Lennon were ‘bloody idiots’ according to Kenny Lynch
The Beatles wrote enduringly popular tunes. Albums such as Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Clubs Band are stuffed with all-time classics. Many of those hits came from Paul and John since they were the dominant songwriters in the band.
Yet, in 1963, they needed time to grow as songwriters.
They asked for Lynch...
Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, and several British celebrities on the cover of the Wings album ‘Band on the Run’ | Pa Images via Getty Images Paul McCartney and John Lennon were ‘bloody idiots’ according to Kenny Lynch
The Beatles wrote enduringly popular tunes. Albums such as Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Clubs Band are stuffed with all-time classics. Many of those hits came from Paul and John since they were the dominant songwriters in the band.
Yet, in 1963, they needed time to grow as songwriters.
They asked for Lynch...
- 2/20/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Mark Harrison Dec 24, 2016
A Christmas treat from 1995: but does anyone else remember The Forgotten Toys?
Over the years, British animation has given us a few good television specials in the Christmas season, including classic cartoons like The Snowman, stop-motion treats like Wallace & Gromit and more recent CG-animated Julia Donaldson adaptations like The Gruffalo and the upcoming Stick Man.
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A lot of these specials enjoy annual exposure in the Christmas telly schedules, winning over different generations of viewers. Ironically, a less remembered special is The Forgotten Toys, which first aired on Children's ITV on Boxing Day in 1995. Directed by Graham Ralph, the original half-hour special is adapted from James Stevenson's The Night After Christmas, starting with two toys waking up...
A Christmas treat from 1995: but does anyone else remember The Forgotten Toys?
Over the years, British animation has given us a few good television specials in the Christmas season, including classic cartoons like The Snowman, stop-motion treats like Wallace & Gromit and more recent CG-animated Julia Donaldson adaptations like The Gruffalo and the upcoming Stick Man.
See related Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch plays down talk of show ending Sherlock series 3: 111 things we learned from the special edition DVDs Sherlock: The Abominable Bride review
A lot of these specials enjoy annual exposure in the Christmas telly schedules, winning over different generations of viewers. Ironically, a less remembered special is The Forgotten Toys, which first aired on Children's ITV on Boxing Day in 1995. Directed by Graham Ralph, the original half-hour special is adapted from James Stevenson's The Night After Christmas, starting with two toys waking up...
- 12/9/2015
- Den of Geek
In John Michael McDonagh's exhilarating and angry satirical drama, a priest faces a deadly high noon with a murderous, damaged parishioner
John Michael McDonagh could yet be the Anthony Mann or the Fred Zinnemann of modern Irish cinema. He is at home in Ireland's Wild West, and makes the Knocknarea mountain of County Sligo look like northern Europe's answer to Monument Valley. His lawman here is Brendan Gleeson, playing Father James Lavelle, an embattled priest facing a high-noon confrontation with one of his flock. Gleeson is craggy, troubled, burdened, drolly resentful part Gary Cooper, part Pat O'Brien, part Clement Freud.
Calvary is a different proposition from his black comedy The Guard, from 2011, in which Gleeson played a highly unconventional cop. It's bleaker and dourer and less anti-clerical than you might expect. There are fewer laugh lines and zingers. Occasionally it looks as if it is straining for maturity. The...
John Michael McDonagh could yet be the Anthony Mann or the Fred Zinnemann of modern Irish cinema. He is at home in Ireland's Wild West, and makes the Knocknarea mountain of County Sligo look like northern Europe's answer to Monument Valley. His lawman here is Brendan Gleeson, playing Father James Lavelle, an embattled priest facing a high-noon confrontation with one of his flock. Gleeson is craggy, troubled, burdened, drolly resentful part Gary Cooper, part Pat O'Brien, part Clement Freud.
Calvary is a different proposition from his black comedy The Guard, from 2011, in which Gleeson played a highly unconventional cop. It's bleaker and dourer and less anti-clerical than you might expect. There are fewer laugh lines and zingers. Occasionally it looks as if it is straining for maturity. The...
- 4/10/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out
Edited by Ted Thompson with Eli Horowitz
Yes, you read that right -- The title of this book really is 52 words long. Much of the McSweeney's stable delights in the strange, and this collection of short stories takes it to the level of unconventional tall tale. Even the dust jacket is a little bit different. On the inside is the beginning of a short story by Lemony Snicket, and readers were invited to finish it, fold up the jacket, slap a couple stamps on it and send it in. The winner was picked some time in 2006, with their...
Edited by Ted Thompson with Eli Horowitz
Yes, you read that right -- The title of this book really is 52 words long. Much of the McSweeney's stable delights in the strange, and this collection of short stories takes it to the level of unconventional tall tale. Even the dust jacket is a little bit different. On the inside is the beginning of a short story by Lemony Snicket, and readers were invited to finish it, fold up the jacket, slap a couple stamps on it and send it in. The winner was picked some time in 2006, with their...
- 12/24/2009
- by Dustin Rowles
More than 400 mourners including U2 frontman Bono and funnyman Stephen Fry turned out to pay their respects to late writer/broadcaster Sir Clement Freud at his funeral on Friday.
The former politician, whose grandfather was legendary psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and his brother artist Lucien Freud, died earlier this month at the age of 84.
Freud was laid to rest with a memorial service in London on Friday afternoon, which would have been his 85th birthday, with members of the entertainment industry mixing with politicians and journalists to pay tribute to the veteran star.
British prime minister Gordon Brown read an address during the service.
Freud is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jill, five children - including PR guru Matthew and successful broadcaster Emma - and 17 grandchildren.
The former politician, whose grandfather was legendary psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and his brother artist Lucien Freud, died earlier this month at the age of 84.
Freud was laid to rest with a memorial service in London on Friday afternoon, which would have been his 85th birthday, with members of the entertainment industry mixing with politicians and journalists to pay tribute to the veteran star.
British prime minister Gordon Brown read an address during the service.
Freud is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jill, five children - including PR guru Matthew and successful broadcaster Emma - and 17 grandchildren.
- 4/25/2009
- WENN
Stephen Fry and Bono were among mourners paying their last respects to broadcaster Sir Clement Freud at his funeral today. The TV and radio personality and journalist of 55 years died at his desk on April 15 at the age of 84. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told those gathered at the church off London's Fleet Street that Freud was "a national treasure" and "institution", reports the BBC. Sir (more)...
- 4/24/2009
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
British writer, broadcaster and former politician Sir Clement Freud has died at the age of 84.
Freud, whose grandfather was legendary psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and his brother artist Lucien Freud, died on Wednesday at his home in London.
The cause of death has not been disclosed.
He was born in Berlin, Germany but raised in Britain after his family fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s, and he served in the British Army during the Second World War.
After the war, Freud opened his own restaurant in London and became one of the U.K.'s first celebrity chefs, writing a number of newspaper columns and books about food.
In the 1960s he became a household name in the U.K. thanks to a string of successful dog food commercials in which he starred alongside his bloodhound Henry.
In the 1970s Freud entered politics and spent 10 years as a Liberal Member of Parliament, before returning to broadcasting, with regular appearances on a BBC Radio 4 comedy show.
His varied life and career also includes a brief musical interlude - Freud lent his recognisable voice to a track on Wings' 1973 album Band on the Run. Sir Paul McCartney also chose him to appear on the album cover.
Freud is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jill, five children - including PR guru Matthew and successful broadcaster Emma - and 17 grandchildren.
Freud, whose grandfather was legendary psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and his brother artist Lucien Freud, died on Wednesday at his home in London.
The cause of death has not been disclosed.
He was born in Berlin, Germany but raised in Britain after his family fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s, and he served in the British Army during the Second World War.
After the war, Freud opened his own restaurant in London and became one of the U.K.'s first celebrity chefs, writing a number of newspaper columns and books about food.
In the 1960s he became a household name in the U.K. thanks to a string of successful dog food commercials in which he starred alongside his bloodhound Henry.
In the 1970s Freud entered politics and spent 10 years as a Liberal Member of Parliament, before returning to broadcasting, with regular appearances on a BBC Radio 4 comedy show.
His varied life and career also includes a brief musical interlude - Freud lent his recognisable voice to a track on Wings' 1973 album Band on the Run. Sir Paul McCartney also chose him to appear on the album cover.
Freud is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jill, five children - including PR guru Matthew and successful broadcaster Emma - and 17 grandchildren.
- 4/16/2009
- WENN
Sir Clement Freud has died at the age of 84. The broadcaster passed away yesterday evening at his London home, a statement from his family said. A Liberal MP from 1973 to 1987, Sir Clement was the grandson of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Just A Minute. Comedian and colleague Tony Hawks told BBC Breakfast: "I had listened to the show as a boy, so meeting him was like meeting a hero. "You (more)...
- 4/16/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Clement Freud has died at the age of 84. The broadcaster passed away yesterday evening at his London home, a statement from his family said. A Liberal MP from 1973 to 1987, Freud was the grandson of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Just A Minute. Comedian and colleague Tony Hawks told BBC Breakfast: "I had listened to the show as a boy, so meeting him was like meeting a hero. "You (more)...
- 4/16/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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