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Rubber Soul was the hint of the magic that was to come.

This music is nearly 50 years old and it still sounds great. That is testament enough for me that the Beates are one of the most significant bands of the 20th Century, despite what any detractors might say. No point in criticising the recordings in the light of what modern technology can now achi...

@rafhenlow I didn't say I disbelieved in God. Just the infantile explanationssome people come up with to explain his Universe. Personally I find the evolution story a far more satisfting explanation. If for no other reason, that it is not finished. Religious bound people always presume that their...

One of Cole Porter's best ever songs. Truly beautifully cleaver lyrics and the melody is just totally sublime.

I defy anyone watching this scene of a truly wonderful film not to be utterly transfixed with a feeling of utter pleasure and joy at what is arguably one of the finest choreographed and totally appropriate pieces of dance in the whole history of musical theatre. Gene Kelly was never better than h...

The dissenting Judge's opinion at the conclusion of this trial was perhaps the most telling and in fact damning about the whole period of Nuremberg in a purely legalistic sense. The charge of victors justice, which was levelled at the Allies was perhaps a tad justified. What cannot be denied is ...

I recall going to school the following morning and all the playground was buzzing with "did you see Thunderbirds last night". Utterly brilliant for its time. Of course modern technology sort of makes it look a little silly these days. But you have to remember that a) this was for kids and b) it w...

Just 'effin hilarious.

Sometimes sport transcends the mere confines of its rules of play to become a form of art, where just to see it played by true experts at the peak of their talent is sheer joy. I was a fairly young man in 1973 and not really into Rugby Union as a game, having not played it at school. I remember w...

Brilliant!

Oh! Boy... Could that man sing. Perfect diction, timing and delivery. The epitome of cool sophisticated charm. There will never be another like him. Truly one of the greatest musical performers that there has ever been. Not a bad actor as well.

I think we can all recognise inspirational genius when we see it. The final couple of minutes of Blackadder Goes Forth has more poignancy and hard hitting truth to it than a thousand factual accounts of the real conflict in some dry academic history book. I love the line by Blackadder when he say...

The red Poppy wasan utterly inspirational symbol which has come to mean so much to so many. One slight contrary observation that I have always felt though where the rememberance of our dead of war is concerned. I have often felt that in using the word GLORIOUS on the Cenotaph in Whitehall - how i...

Required viewing because it gets to the heart of what the Murdoch scandal is really all about. Who runsthe country? The people we elect or those that tell us who to elect.

This is definitely like listening to Radio Caroline circa 1968. Dusty Springfield lives on. Great song.

She's a sort of cross between Alison Moyet and Janis Joplin, which isn't a bad combination. Great voice and exponent of this genre. Good solid songs with decent lyrics, expertly delivered and produced.

Illuminati? Where's this gig then?

Are they playing a New World Order Theatre?

The guy is up to his neck in this scandal, because he knows quite well what has been going on. And even if he didn't he is incompetant.

Those who persist with these: "the Moon Landings were a fraud arguments", are a peculiar bunch of gainsayers. I suppose that those who engage in such activity are so consumed by cynicism that they live in a world of utter paranoia where conspiracy theories are a sort of comfort to them and which ...

Thanks celebwatson94. I was just surfing Youtube and came accross this and was reminded pleasantly of when I first heard Lincoln's Gettysburg Address many years ago. There's a nice line in that film with Nicholas Cage - National Treasure when he says "people don't talk like that anymore" when ref...

Although this story is fiction historically it is still very impressive. The historical characters these two great actors are portraying were without doubt two of the greatest characters themselves in all of medieval Europe. I love the line in part of the movie when Eleanor says "Every family has...

In jest, Ron Manager is basically summing up my boyhood...

Saturday Afternoon - was football.

Pity it's been bloody destroyed, by people who, in an attempt to rescue it from the dark forces of hooliganism, have merely placed it into the hands of even darker forces of commercial and personal greed.

A truly wonderful adaption of the story, which has quite rightly been placed amongst the most highly regarded and loved novels written by that giant of English literature Jane Austen.

This was made with such skill and regard for that novel, I don't think it has or ever will be bettered. Beautifui...

Totally brilliant. What is sort of surprising is that the satire being presented here has a certain resonance to today's asinine officialdom and their absurdities at times.

A totally beautiful song sung by one of America's greatest ever singers. Barbara Streisand was without doubt Miss Showbiz. Absolutely brilliant...

Streisand was possibly the last of that "Golden Generation" of singer/actresses who made the Hollywood Musicals such a wonderful American Art Form. Her portrayal of that other legend of the musical theatre Fanny Bryce was simply supurb in this film. A truly great perfomance. A very special enter...

I can smell the barbecues and taste the warm beer and hear the chirping of birds just listening to this charming song. We need to celebrate what's good about this country as this song does, more I feel. The simple pleasures evoked in the lyrics are a reminder that we truly do live in blessed Isle.

As concise an explanation as to why WW1 started as I have ever heard. Especially the last bit about it being bollocks. Ha! Brilliant stuff...

The script is brilliant and the acting superb. It's a film that ranks as one of the "must see" variety. Burton displays all his skill and control as a broken down clergyman, with great performances also by Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner. I think Tennessee Williams liked writing about flawed complic...

Saw her in concert in Brum England recently. She is just amazingly beautiful and has a great voice. Such perfection in one person is a blessing that she gladly shares with all who appreciate her music and her personality.

A total angel.