Beatles in the News: Zak at the Cavern, 'Eleanor Rigy' for Parkinson's Charity LP and a Comic Book World Where the Fabs Never Broke Up
Zak Starkey, Ringo's son, said playing Liverpool's Cavern Club last week was "surreal."
Via the Liverpool Echo:
Zak, who has also been part of Liverpool bands the Lightning Seeds and the Icicle Works, brought his supergroup Mantra of the Cosmos to Liverpool for two gigs at the Cavern on Sunday. Made up of Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays), Zak, Andy Bell (Oasis, Ride) and Bez (Happy Mondays), the band's new single 'Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous)', which features Noel Gallagher, was released exclusively at the Cavern.
Zak told the ECHO: "It was very surreal. I was s***ting it - proper s***ting it until I got on there and it was amazing. The music is like holy music isn't it.
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Model Actress Whatever, an upcoming comic book series penned by English writer Kim Newman is set in a world where the Beatles never broke up.
When Chrissie Chambers (model actress whatever) discovers her soap opera character is about to be killed off, she finally stops dieting and discovers hitherto untapped supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, Chrissie's aunt – former national heroine Lady Shade – goes missing. Afraid for Jasmine's safety and itching to costume-up, Chrissie and her ghost-possessed best friend Loulee break into Devil's Dyke, the asylum where Jasmine works as a therapist with the most dangerous cutthroats (supervillains) in Britain… only to find the inmates have taken over… Chrissie debuts successfully as a cloak (superheroine), but who will become the arch-nemesis of Lady Shade II? In Chrissie's timeline, the Beatles didn't split up and recorded a hallucinodelic album in 1972 – Never Mind (strictly, Never Mind the Beatles) – which literally changed the world. Set in an alternative 2020s London, this hugely entertaining, darkly humorous superhero tale is packed with Newman's trademark wit, and comes with wickedly sharp edges.
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The Who's Pete Townshend is helming a benefit album to raise money for Parkinson's disease that will include a 'a reimagined, R&B version" of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby.
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