Consumos web. 01/19/2017

• ¿Cuál es exactamente el interés del gigante Bayer en Monsanto, el mayor productor de semillas del mundo? - BBC Mundo

  Tras la posible fusión, algunos analistas especulan sobre la posibilidad de que Bayer decida prescindir del nombre de Monsanto.

  tags: agrotóxicos transnacionales transgénicos crisis alimentaria

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Consumos web. 01/18/2017

• Sir Peter Blake's biggest ever collage will cover the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel during its restoration | London Evening Standard

  The 100 figures include 30 celebrity “fans” of the hotel group, including Dame Helen Mirren and Jerry Hall, as well as the surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney.

  tags: Beatles beatleart beatlepeople arte de vanguardia beatlealbums

• Singer Brenda D leaves legacy of film, music - Longview News-Journal - Longview, TX

  "George was a really good friend of Brenda's," Haymes said. "He said to me, one time (when she and I were) playing in Miami, Florida, he said, 'You know what? You son of a gun, you married the girl of my heart.'

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople GeorgeHarrison

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Consumos web. 01/17/2017

• Cilla Black statue unveiled as Cavern Club celebrates 60 years - BBC News

  "The Beatles didn't launch The Cavern - The Cavern launched The Beatles," she said.

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople beatleplaces

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Consumos web. 01/16/2017

• John Lennon's Austin Princess from the "Imagine" Documentary Will Be Part of Barrett-Jackson Auction : Auto News : Auto World News

  1956 Austin Princess. The black hearse-looking limousine was owned by the legendary John Lennon of the British rock band "The Beatles." The car was even featured in the "Imagine" documentary film.

  tags: Beatles JohnLennon beatlethings

• Sixties star Billie Davis set to swing into town - Shields Gazette

  I knew Brian Jones well as we lived in the same house before he joined the Stones.

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 01/14/2017

• 'Magic' Alex Mardas, Sham Technological 'Guru' to the Beatles, Dies at 74 | Billboard

  But then there were others, like the electronic brooches that made noise and flashed in no particular order, the artificial sun using laser beams and the invisible curtain that used ultrasonic vibrations to screen the Beatles from their fans.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 01/13/2017

• Beatles poster artist Tony Booth dies aged 83 - BBC News

  Mr Booth was hired by Beatles manager Brian Epstein and started off making "a few posters and show cards for his shops" before moving on to hand-painted concert posters.

  tags: Beatle beatleart beatlepeople

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Consumos web. 01/08/2017

• Fake borrowers at Florida library probed - BBC News

  Following the computer system's recommendations to ditch unread books would mean libraries re-purchasing titles they had only just thrown out, he said.

  tags: libros industria cultural decadencia cultural

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Consumos web. 01/07/2017

• The true story of The Beatles: Never apologize, it’s a sign of weakness…When They Were Boys by Larry Kane | Progressive Culture | Scholars & Rogues

  Each has a story to tell – and an ax to grind.

  tags: Beatles beatlebooks

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Consumos web. 01/05/2017

• George Michael saved John Lennon's famous piano so it would stay in Liverpool - Liverpool Echo

  He then donated it to the Beatles Story museum in Liverpool so that it would stay in Lennon’s home city forever.

  tags: Beatles JohnLennon beatlepeople beatleplaces beatlegear

• McCartney extrañaba a Los Beatles

  Seiwell indicó que McCartney copió su estilo para tocar la batería en "Band On The Run": "Me gustó lo que hizo en ese disco porque tocó todas mis partes de batería"

  tags: PaulMcCartney

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Consumos web. 01/04/2017

• How 'The Beatles' brought together rival politicians in India

  the father gets up on stage and croons a classic Beatles track. What's more, he — the state's chief minister — is joined by his political rivals in the performance.

  tags: Beatles beatlesongs

• Allan Williams, First Manager of the Beatles, Dies at 86 - The New York Times

  It was at the Jacaranda that Lennon wrote one of his earliest songs, “One After 909,” and it was there that Ringo Starr, then a member of a far more successful Liverpool group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, first heard the group he would eventually join.

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople beatleplaces

• Murió el descubridor de los Beatles | Beatles, Facebook, Inglaterra, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Redes sociales, Twitter

  Mark Lewisohn, escribió en Twitter: "Sin Allan Williams, no habrían estado en Hamburgo. Y sin Hamburgo, no habría habido Beatles".

  tags: Beatles beatlepeople beatleplaces

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