In the latest edition of NPR’s excellent music program, All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen talks with Bruce Spizer , author of several books on the Beatles ,about the upcoming release of some early Beatles recordings. Extremely engaing discussion on the early popularity of the Beatles in America. They talk about, among other things, how [...]
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March 27, 2006
Still life with commentator and ‘Black’ humour
We attended two programs over the weekend - both involved some commentary on the current state of politics (in the US), although the approaches were quite different. Friday evening, we went to a program entitled ‘Still life with Commentators’, involving a multimedia presentation by the trio of Vijay Iyer, Mike Ludd and Ibrahim Quarishi. Saturday [...]
April 16, 2005
Swades and thoughts on Rahman
Finally watched Swades last night and I was pretty much disappointed. Frankly, it is a half-baked product. Ashutosh Gowariker takes an interesting plot, weaves an extremely ordinary story around it, shoots some scenes at NASA and Washington DC, throws in a few songs (in all the wrong places except perhaps for Yeh Jo Desh……) and [...]
