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Sgt. Pepper, New Okkervil River, Live White Stripes, Nessie   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, June 04, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SGT. PEPPER TURNED 40 over the weekend.  Russ Smith has a general overview of the album's place in rock history for the Wall Street Journal, while Daniel J. Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, offers some scientific reasons for The Beatles' longevity.  The Daily Mail solves the mystery of John Lennon's medals.  NPR has an audio feature on the album, as well as covers of its songs.  The Beatles put up an official video clip on the Tube.  London Weekend Television's 25th Anniversary documentary -- featuring track-by-track breakdowns with Producer George Martin manning the board -- can be seen in full via Google Video, starting with the single of "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane" -- the first Fab single that failed to make No. 1 on the UK charts.

THE PIPETTES:  The band I will be seeing this week talk to Exclaim! about their self-fabricated image: "We're as influenced by the Spice Girls as we are the Sex Pistols." And they may have said that without realizing how much malcolm McLaren shaped the Pistols' image.

NEIL YOUNG:  An Aquarium Drunkard has posted a two-parter from A Perfect Echo -- an 8-disc set of high-quality recordings running chronologically from August 1967 to January 2001.  You can jukebox 'em via the ol' HM.

THE POLICE got a very bad review for the second gig on their reunion tour... from drummer Stewart Copeland, who called it a "disaster gig."

OKKERVIL RIVER has a new track from their upcoming album, "Our Life is Not a Movie" streaming at TheirSpace.  And if you've never heard the band, I would stream "For Real" there also.

THE WHITE STRIPES:  Jack White is playing Elvis Presley in upcoming comedy Walk Hard.  But the above clip is of the band's own "Effect and Cause" from Later with Jools Holland -- one of three clips posted at Stereogum.

BETTYE LaVETTE is backed by Southern rock combo the Drive-By Truckers on her new album, The Scene of the Crime, due Sept. 25th.  Patterson Hood's Dad -- a classic session man -- also joins in the fun.

NEKO CASE'S lingerie sold at auction for 300 bucks.  And no, I was not the winning bidder.

THE FRAY singer Isaac Slade may be the heir to a 15-million-dollar country mansion in the UK.

RYAN ADAMS has listed his Top Five Metal Songs -- and solicits yours -- on his blog.

LINDSAY LOHAN may be in rehab, but the uber-reliable News of the World has pre-hab pics of Lohan holding a knife to a friend's throat and sticking it in her own mouth to go with claims that her obsession with bedding famous men is also at the root of her drink and drugs-fueled madness.  Celebrity Babylon claims that Lohan's DJ pal Samantha Ronson was reportedly making a tidy profit selling Lohan to the paparazzi, including making the pit stop that allowed them to snap the passed-out Li-Lo shortly before she entered rehab.  And sometime beau Calum Best has reportedly persuaded Britney Spears to visit Lohan in rehab, though she may not appreciate it -- if her comments on Best printed in the NotW are true.

BRITNEY SPEARS, btw, may be wondering what her mom will be saying on The View June 6th, in light of reports the pop tart has cut off all ties with her family.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  :  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End topped the box office again, but it's 43 million represents a 62% drop -- about what Spider-Man 3 dropped in its second weekend.  Both had record openngs and will make money, but both may fall short of the all-time top ten domestic grossers.  Knocked Up came in second with 29 million (on a 30 million budget) and the top per-screen average.  FWIW, I enjoyed it, though I did not find it to be the gut-buster that other reviewers apparently did.  Nor did I find it quite as raunchy as other reviews led me to believe, though perhaps my raunch scale is skewed higher than most.  My guess would be it has legs, unless Ocean's 13 hits the same demo next weekend.  Shrek the Third was indeed third, with 26.7 million, dropping about 50%.  Mr. Brooks opened in fourth place with ten million and looks to be another sub-par outing for both Kevin Costner and Demi Moore.   Spider-Man 3 rounds out the Top Five with another seven million; it has now made 318 million in the US and another 525 million in the rest of the world.  The sleeper Waitress slipped to sixth, but made another two million in expanded release.  Gracie opened in seventh with 1.3 million.  Bug tumbled 62% from fourth to eighth, as boilerplate horror tends to do.  28 Weeks later slid to ninth place with a similar 1.2 million total.  Disturbia clung to the bottom of the Top Ten, having made 76 million US so far on its 20 million budget.

THE MTV MOVIE AWARDS winners are listed at ComingSoon.  And there's full coverage at MTV, natch.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Holmes tells Entertainment Tonight (tonight) she's "definitiely' ready to have more Tom-Kittens.  Holmes also says the role of stepmother is one she relishes (even though Nicole Kidman reportedly does not relish Holmes in that role).

KIERA KNIGHTLEY and SIENNA MILLER have become fast friends while shooting The Edge Of Love together.  Pics of the pair out on the town and doing the human wheelbarrow at the link.  And while Knightley has stated before that she hoped some of Miller's social skills would rob off on her, it seems Kiera played the good cop in this video of Sienna slagging the paparazzi.

THE FRENCH HOTEL is ticking off some of her fellow inmates even before she arrives at the LA County Jail, as they believe officials were making room for the starlet at the expense of other inmates already coping with crowded conditions in the 2,200-bed jail.  UPDATE:  The heirhead turned herself in late Sunday night; video at the link.

JOHN TRAVOLTA and Kelly Preston just announced they want to try for their third child - even while they fall under increasing pressure to publicly acknowledge the disability of their son, Jett.  Travolta's lawyer has begun to float the threat of defamation suits against those who mention it.

BRADGELINA:  Pitt reportedly is apparently peeved with Jolie's wacky brother James for blabbing about them to the press.

DAVID HASSELHOFF has dismissed allegations made by his ex-wife Pamela Bach that he has started drinking again.

JESSICA BIEL and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE had a down moment in a romantic weekend after JT got involved in a fracas with a guest sharing the same Manchester hotel.  BONUS:  Biel wishes she was as funny as the fake Biel Spiel blog.

TERROR in the US:  ICYMI, Four Muslim men, including a naturalized US citizen and former politician from Guyana, have been charged with conspiring to attack NYC's JFK Airport by bombing jet fuel supply tanks and a major fuel pipeline.  An informant was key to stopping the alleged conspiracy.  Though they discussed using dynamite, they had not obtained any explosives or moved beyond an early planning stage.  FBI agents feared but never confirmed the three men were linked to one of the most wanted al Qaeda leaders, Adnan Shukrijumah, known to have operated out of Guyana and Trinidad.  One suspect was arrested as he planned attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran.

IRAN:  Head UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei told the BBC that ""I have no brief other than to make sure we don't go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other."  In reality, his job is supposed to be to verify that safeguarded nuclear material and activities are not used for military purposes.  His comments will likely make some people distrust his work and thereby increase the possibility of a military strike, not reduce it.  Meanwhile, Iran's president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a "countdown button" to bring an end to Israel.  And Iran has increased arms shipments to both Iraq's Shiite extremists and Afghanistan's Taliban in recent weeks, according to senior US and European officials.

IRAQ:  The return of Moqtada al-Sadr from his four months of self -mposed exile in Iran has led to a spike in activity against his political leadership and the extremist elements of his fractured Mahdi Army.  In Baghdad, the Amiriyah neighborhood has been pacified, but the US casts a wary eye on its enemies-turned-allies.  The NYT has a leaked military assessment claiming the American and Iraqi forces are far short of their projected goals for the "surge" so far, due in large part to the performance of Iraqi police and army units.  That story seems more solid than the fishy Reuters claim that civilan casualties spiked by 29% in May.  Reuters has been using leaked numbers from Iraqi ministries that greatly understated civilian deaths in past months.  The numbers from iCasualties -- based on AP reports -- have been higher in past months and show an eight percent increase is more likely.

THE LOCH NESS MONSTER is back and there's video. A man has captured what Nessie watchers say is possible footage of the supposed mythical creature beneath Scotland's most mysterious lake.

MONSTER PIG UPDATE:  The pig is apparently not only not a hoax, but also a farm-raised pig named Fred.

KNUT UPDATE:  Berlin Zoo's celebrity polar bear cub is growing from a cuddly ball of fur into a shaggy, powerful predator who could soon pose a serious threat to his devoted human keeper who has nursed him from birth.

LEMUR FEVER:  Catch It!

COLLAPSE of the HONEYBEE?  Around the world, honeybees are vanishing en masse, leaving their humans engaged in a furious attempt to figure out the meaning of their exodus.  Jeff Pettis, who heads the Bee Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service at the Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, discusses various theories behind the collapse of colonies.

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