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  The Guardian

  TV tonight: Billy Connolly, Keith Moon and trucks full of snakes

  TV tonight: Billy Connolly, Keith Moon and trucks full of snakes . The Big Yin regales us with tales from his 50-year career in showbiz. Plus: The Fear Index. Here’s what to watch this evening

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  Herald Scotland

  Billy Connolly: Night I hit a photographer and The Herald caught me

  WHAT happens on tour stays on tour has been the mantra of performers from Sinatra to The Rolling Stones. Not for Billy Connolly though...

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  Liam Gallagher shares picture of bruised face after ‘falling out of helicopter’

  The rock frontman compared himself to the late The Who drummer Keith Moon.

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  The Telegraph

  Sleaford Mods, South Facing Festival, review: as if Philip Glass met Johnny Rotten at a squalid rave

  The ornamental lake at Crystal Palace in south-east London has a storied musical history. Between 1961 and the Nineties, a lakeside stage in this natural amphitheatre hosted concerts by everyone from the London Symphony Orchestra and Pink Floyd to Elton John and Vera Lynn. Bob Marley played his last London concert there. At 1972’s Garden Party festival, Who drummer Keith Moon reached the stage by hovercraft and later rowed back across the water dressed in military regalia to serve tea and cake t

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  Seven-year-old UK schoolgirl who loves Def Leppard and Metallica is so talented at rock DRUMMING!

  A seven-year-old schoolgirl who loves bands like Def Leppard and Metallica is so good at rock drumming her mum has branded her a "little Keith Moon". Anabell Tang first wielded drumsticks aged four and has come on leaps and bounds ever since - even representing Britain in drumming this year. Remarkable footage shows the pint-sized percussion player reeling off a string of incredible solos by her favourite bands, which include Def Leppard, Metallica and Nirvana. She has already attracted consider

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  The Telegraph

  From Pink Floyd to Bob Marley: the crazy history – and 2021 rebirth – of a brilliant rock venue

  After years of silence, one of Britain’s greatest music venues will rock again this summer. A new annual festival is to launch this August at the Crystal Palace Bowl, the beautiful lakeside space that in its heyday hosted everyone from Pink Floyd to the Pixies, before falling into disuse. “It’s a legendary space, and it seems such a waste to not use it,” South Facing festival programmer Keith Miller told The Telegraph. “It’s a natural amphitheatre. Some of the greatest acts of all time have play

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  The Independent

  How Quadrophenia immortalises and scrutinises mod culture

  Brighton residents know the sound well – the stentorian rattle of engines, as a fleet of Vespas and Lambrettas zip down the promenade. It feels odd for a moment, as if there’s been a rip in the space-time continuum and a little of the Swinging Sixties has trickled out. But it’s tradition here. On sunny weekends, mod aficionados gather in the city to fraternise, evangelise, and compare the number of mirrors on their scooters. Brighton was a favoured hang-out spot for the original mods, who’d trav

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  The Telegraph

  Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood:'There were times I could have been more careful. There were close calls'

  The darker parts of Ronnie Wood’s life read like a long list of things you shouldn’t do. In Hollywood he freebased cocaine; he was rescued off the coast of Rio de Janeiro from a burning boat ahead of a Stones concert on Copacabana beach; in the Caribbean he was almost implicated in a serious cocaine bust, and on more than one occasion he’s had to jump out of the way of Keith Richards firing his handgun. Many of his friends, including Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins and Amy Win

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  The album cover that ‘stank of urine’ – and helped The Who to ignite 1970s hard rock

  Pete Townshend was at the forefront of a new generation of rockers who had been to art school and thought profoundly about the visual impact of their work. The Who’s most recent album cover, WHO (2019), was designed by Peter Blake (the artist who created Sgt Pepper for The Beatles) and pays tribute to their pop art roots. The Who Sell Out (1967), meanwhile, was a witty advertising industry pastiche that involved singer Roger Daltrey sitting in a bath of cold baked beans, which he claims gave him

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  Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood review – something to behold

  Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood review – something to behold. Whether interrogating Chekhov or Jane Austen, the New Yorker literary critic has the eye of a great novelist

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