Mercury Pies 2009
A few months back we asked a few of our favourite music websites and blogs to share their thoughts on who should be nominated for this year’s Mercury Prize. Thirte...
Mercury Prize – And the winner is…[#2: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] The second week of September dawns and the eyes of the music world begin to focus on London’s Grosvenor Hotel, and the judgin...
How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
[#3: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] In August 1962, I made a little film with four unknown kids playing in a Liverpool cellar. I was a very raw recruit to TV, workin...
Filming the Beatles American InvasionIn February 1964 I got a call from Granada Television saying that The Beatles were arriving at Idlewild airport in New York in two hours, and would I like to make a film of them...
Tweet the Beatles
image inspired by the cover of Meet the Beatles! On Saturday night at 8.35pm BBC Two are showing a new documentary called The Beatles on Record which uses rare archive footag...
Countdown to Beatles Week
BBC TV’s Beatles Week begins on Saturday 5 September, so all fans of the Fab Four should cancel their evening engagements or make sure they know how their PVRs or dusty V...
Celia Sheen and her ThereminThe original score for Schnittke’s Nagasaki Oratorio, the first work in last night’s Prom 52, calls for a musical saw. In subsequent performances, though, a Theremin...
Cello insights on the Radio 3 blog
Over on the Radio 3 blog we’re covering the BBC’s giant annual music festival The Proms (classical music’s Glastonbury) in some detail. We’ve got two mu...
Next Generation Leadership in MusicA new study, released by the US Department of Education, found that many types of online education for a college degree are better at raising student achievement than face-to-fa...
Is Downloading Music Sustainable and Green?A new study by research teams from Carnegie Mellon University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University verifies that downloading music cuts energy consumpt...
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