Saturday, 15th November

I don't often read the business pages but flicking through an iconic picture caught my eye and I read on: "The set of six images from the Abbey Road sessions, including the zebra crossing image used on the front cover and the street sign used on the back are expected to fetch between £50,000 and £70,000 ..." Cheap! (The Times, p55).

Friday, 14th November

Children in Need took over R2 today.  It was All Request Friday.  On Simon Mayo's show you could pay a little extra to get Dr Mosh to introduce your choice - providing it was heavy rock, of course.  Simon helpfully explained that "Dr Mosh will not be introducing the likes of ... Paul McCartney, but Slayer - yes"

In an article in today's Times2 (p4) Emeli Sande talks about her life - the journalist lists her recent achievements including "capping off the BBC's coverage of London 2012 with her rendition of Imagine ..." 

Sunday, 9th November

Always takes me a couple of days to read Saturday's Times.  Today I read the Magazine and on p15: Paul, Linda and Stella on location in the desert. The family were in California with Wings recording their fourth album, Venus and Mars.

I caught a bit of Tom Odell's cover today on Graham Norton's R2 show - if I hadn't read the news earlier in the week I wouldn't have recognised it as a John Lennon song.  I'm looking forward to seeing the advert. I listened to the radio for most of the day - too wet to venture out.  No Beatles number in Tony Blackburn's chart show but he did introduce his first countdown as "long before the Beatles ... 1958".

Of course I also watched "Strictly".  And very glad I did.  Pixie Lott danced to When I'm 64. Tess Daly couldn't resist the temptation to say that she hoped the routine would get them A Ticket to Ride to Blackpool - next week's venue.

According to Rachel Campbell-Johnston "Warhol's ideas were more stimulating than his work, at least going by what's on show in Liverpool".  But at least she illustrated her article (T2, p12) with a big picture of the Prefab Four - Warhol's screenprint.

Thursday, 6th November

"John Lewis propels Beatles tune towards Christmas No 1" So starts a little article in The Times (p20).  It goes on to explain "One of the Beatles last songs could be catapulted to the top of the Christmas charts after being chosen as the soundtrack for John Lewis's festive television commercial".  And the song is .. Real Love written by John Lennon. But its to be sung by Tom Odell.