John Lennon Power To The People Box Set Review

Sean Ono Lennon produces expansive 9-disc boxset documenting John and Yoko's most incendiary period. Read MOJO's review and the tracklisting in full.

Gannon employee fired, others disciplined for 'deeply troubling' Kirk killing reactions University President Walter Iwanenko announced the actions on social media and in an email to staff. The university did not name the employees.

Here’s another one for you: Gannon University in Erie, PA: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

As the academic year slides into gear, let us remember some classic wisdom: “Many long established committees are little more than memorials to dead problems.” —Anthony Jay. #academics #leadership

Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music With her buttoned-up style, work with the UN, and name like a plucky character in a certain English wizard series, Delia Derbyshire may not seem a likely pioneer of experimental electronic music.

Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music

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OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

#hannaharendt

“And we know, or should know, that every dictate of power is an open invitation to violence.” - Hannah Arendt, on national socialism #hannaharendt #fightthepower

A copy of the poet, Rainer Maria Rilke's book, 'The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke' stood next to a white milk jug vase filled with pale pink wild roses.

After all, life is not even close to being as logically consistent as our worries; it has many more unexpected ideas and many more facets than we do.

— Rilke, The Poet's Guide to Life

#BookSky #MyBookShelf

Sorry—your pull quote is a tangled mess. What has been co-opted? Pop culture? Huh? The traditional art object? Huh? And should we believe that the avant-garde is an impulse that somehow stands outside history? Are we discussing religion or art?

Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand In a letter dated May 31, 1960, Flannery O'Connor, the author best known for her classic story, 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' (listen to her read the story here) penned a letter to her friend, the play...

Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand

YouTube video by John Thomas Allcock Paul McCartney "Step Inside Love" demo with NO Cilla Black.

This was a nice thing to come home to. Paul's double tracked demo for Step Inside Love in a huge upgrade from what we've had before. youtu.be/tO3vnIWDa3g

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

#3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

“A proclivity for impatience is by far the most serious problem confronting me in my work” —Sonny Rollins, Notebooks

Three shelves on two bookcases. Fiction alphabetised by author surname from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Shaman" through Will Self "Cock & Bull".

Live in these books for a
while, learn from them what seems to be worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be repaid you thousands and thousands of times . . .
▫️Rainer Maria Rilke, 1929

🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌍

💙📚 💙📚🖋

Thank you so much for putting this band in my ears. Love it.

Beautiful nuances revealed here with his vocal attack. Love it. Makes me hear the track fresh.

2 Beatles Songs from ’90s to Be Remixed with AI for Clearer Vocals by John Lennon, Says George Harrison’s Son <p>Two songs by the Beatles, originally released in the 1990s, are set to be remixed using artificial intelligence to enhance John Lennon’s vocals, Dahni Harrison, son of George Harrison, revealed dur...

New version of the Beatles' Anthology on the way later this year?
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The Making Of The Band’s Music From Big Pink In memory of The Band’s Garth Hudson, who has sadly passed away aged 87, MOJO retraces the making of the group’s seismic 1968 debut.

“Garth was the consummate musician. He had so much knowledge, so many different kinds of music in his mind, memory and experience that he could draw upon…”

In memory of The Band’s Garth Hudson, who has died aged 87, MOJO revisits the making of the group’s seismic 1968 debut, Music From Big Pink.

My fave carol too! Have you heard Chrissie Hynde’s version on the Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas record? Guaranteed to break your heart. Bonus: guitar solo by Richard Thompson

The most delightful part of the reunion was seeing that Ringo still has his chops! #Bealtes

In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse When the witty and wry English fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ in 1995, only 39% of Americans had access to a home computer. According to the Pew Research Center, the…

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Epistemological collapse—yes, that’s a striking way to describe the widespread loss of faith in institutions, experts, journalists, and of course, teachers. Is it too great a leap to link this to a decline in reading? I’m way less skeptical than I used to be.

Now here’s a blistering rock song that is rarely covered well, and the vocal track highlights why. Not many can hit those parts convincingly—which maybe why Booker T.’s instrumental version succeeds where others should not have dared venture.

Yes, where there is genuine reading, there must be hope!

“Thought and plot are not so important as some would make them out to be. The object of any work of art is the transference of emotion; talent is the gift of conveying that emotion”—James Joyce #jamesjoyce

Look out kid: ecstatic reactions to Bob Dylan biopic mean Timothée Chalamet may break Oscars record The actor gives ‘the performance of the year’ in A Complete Unknown according to one early reviewer. If Academy voters agree, he would be the youngest leading actor winner in Oscars history

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I was deeply concerned about this film, after a trailer full of make-out scenes with Joan Baez. But perhaps there is hope??

Thanks for sharing this lovely vocal. It’s always striking—the amount of effort and focus and skill that went into these tracks. Wonderful to hear Lennon’s full investment in his partner’s song.

Pure gold! And there he goes again, with the cheeky mockery after Paul sings.

Great photo. And Paul deserves more credit for his hip fashion.

He Played with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who -- A New Documentary Tells His Story Nicky Hopkins was classic rock's most important session musician — a new documentary, 'Session Man' pays tribute to his behind-the-scenes genius

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The Session Man is streaming. Really looking forward to this doc about Nicky Hopkins, piano man extraordinaire. Anyone seen it yet?