9 h. ago New album commemorates 50th anniversary of the Great Mull Air Mystery

Mystery still surrounds death of Spitfire pilot and renowned violinist, 50 years on

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4 d. ago 'Dazzling' 1980s' movie trilogy added to Disney+ which fans say is one of the 'best ever'

The series which marks its 50th anniversary this year launched a TV actor into movie superstardom

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8 d. ago Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos album review – as supple and coherent as ever as the ACO celebrates 50

Tognetti/Australian Chamber Orchestra(ABC Classic)Under Richard Tognetti the ACO has established itself as world-class and this 50th anniversary live recording of these two great concertos are a wonderful souvenir of a remarkable groupOver the past quarter of a century the Australian Chamber Orchestra has become a regular visitor to Europe, establishing itself as one of the world’s foremost chamber bands. The group was founded in 1975, and this pairing of perhaps the two greatest violin concertos in the repertory is being released to mark the ACO’s 50th birthday. The soloist and conductor in both works is Richard Tognetti, who has been the orchestra’s leader and artistic director for the past 35 years.Both recordings are taken from concerts given in Sydney’s City Recital Hall, the Beethoven concerto in 2018, the Brahms last February. The close recorded sound very faithfully reproduces the intensely involving approach of the ACO when heard in the flesh, with its amalgam of modern pla...

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1 week ago Richard Branson's final picture with beloved wife Joan as he says 'heartbroken'

Richard Branson purchased a private island, which he has said he owes to Joan, two years after the couple met - they were set to celebrate their 50th anniversary in only three months time

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1 week ago Richard Branson's final picture with beloved wife as he says 'everyone needs a Joan'

Richard Branson purchased a private island, which he has said he owes to Joan, two years after the couple met - they were set to celebrate their 50th anniversary in only three months time

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1 week ago Richard Branson's heartbreaking last picture with wife Joan days before tragic death

The Virgin boss has paid tribute to his 'wonderful' wife Joan after she died just three months before their 50th anniversary

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1 week ago Richard Branson's heartbreaking final picture with Joan days before tragic death

Richard Branson has paid tribute to his 'wonderful' wife Joan after sharing the sad news that she had sadly died just three months before their 50th anniversary

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1 week ago Brian May speaks out on financial struggles with Queen after 'very bad situation'

Marking the 50th anniversary of Queen's chart-topping song Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian May reflected on how the song marked a pivotal turning point in the band’s career

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2 w. ago Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block report on CIA assassination plots

Release of report comes amid conjecture Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuelan presidentThe White House under Gerald Ford tried to block a landmark Senate report that disclosed the CIA’s role in assassination attempts against foreign leaders and ultimately led to a radical overhaul in how the agency was held to account, documents released to mark the 50th anniversary of the report’s publication reveal.The documents, dating from 1975, were posted on Thursday by the National Security Archive, an independent research group, as it sought to highlight the report’s significance amid conjecture that Donald Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, amid a massive US military build-up against the country. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death

Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Nordoff and Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards’ 50th Anniversary Ceremony to Take Place at Iconic London Venue

Nordoff and Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards’ 50th Anniversary Ceremony to Take Place at Iconic London Venue  Billboard

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2 w. ago ‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right?

Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascismMingorrubio municipal cemetery, which sits where the suburbs of north-west Madrid fade out into the countryside, must have been something of a comedown for a man who was originally laid to rest with a 150-metre-high cross for a headstone and four enormous bronze archangels to watch over him.But six years after his remains were disinterred from the grotesque splendour of the Valley of the Fallen and flown by helicopter to Mingorrubio for reburial, Francisco Franco is at least in good company. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens

Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary, they’re seeing the light of dayIn September 1974, when they were hopeful teenage unknowns in Deptford, Squeeze created a concept album, Trixies, set in a fictional south London nightclub. Believing they had come up with a substantial work, they recorded the 10 tracks on a borrowed Revox tape machine and expected the world to fall at their feet. But nothing happened. “All our friends liked it,” says singer and lead guitarist Glenn Tilbrook, who turned 17 just before the recording. “But that was the only feedback we had.”The album was shelved, but less than five years later, the band began a run of classic hits, including Cool for Cats and Up the Junction, which had songwriting duo Tilbrook and fellow guitarist and vocalist Chris Difford hailed as heirs to Lennon and McCartney. Now, aft...

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3 w. ago Messi and Argentina's soccer team are special guests for Angola's independence anniversary

Lionel Messi and the world champion Argentina soccer team are expected to be special guests this week as Angola celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence from Portugal

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3 w. ago Retired AP reporter helped cement the legend of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In a recent interview with the Associated Press, former reporter Harry Atkins recounts his experience covering the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the most infamous in all Great Lakes history, as family members and maritime history followers honor the 50th anniversary of the disaster

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