sent to fill his hotel room with flowers to get him back into the studio yoko was on the scene john lennon's late to wife she was sort of getting creatively involved george martin who would stay at all of the other records up until that point was taking something of a backseat sitting at the back of the studio reading the reading the newspaper an eating chocolate some of the amec they have it that it was in the off them off the vessel jenin in india which inspired the songs dear prudence and sexy saidee but i think it's interesting from the beatles story because we get to see some of the real personalities at play in particular john lennon who with his song judea which was to his mother who he lost when he was a young boy young child is disarmingly poetic amusing the opening line of what i said. it is meaning less sums up his songwriting craft to distill an idea that's a motional and musical at the same time so this iconic white album is there are one track that really stands out to you well i really like julia but i think while my guitar gently weeps is an amazing song george harrison and h

the beatles story because we get to see some of the real personalities that play in particular john lennon who with his song judea which was to his mother who he lost when he was a young boy young child is disarmingly poetic amusing the opening line half of what i said. it is meaningless sums up his songwriting crofter to still an idea the same motional musical at the same time so this iconic white album is there a one track that really stands out to you well i really like julia but i think while my guitar gently weeps is an amazing song george harrison and he wrote a handful of songs for the beatles with their all great gems about song in itself is very interesting because it has eric clapton playing the lead guitar line on it he's uncredited on the record but he really does make the guitar cry and sing already because mark spinner for us thank you so much marc. just in sports is for you now in football a former shell see striker didier drogba has announced his retirement at the age of forty the ivorian one for premier league titles in the champions league in two glittering spells at chel

we all want to change the world john lennon wrote. in his song revelation. yet nam war and student unrest in paris and elsewhere dominated headlines lennon thought the time had come to make a statement. this special two months before the album came out one is a bit. the release version of revolution sounds a little more reflective. since nine hundred sixty full. albums. i think it's because so many different influences went into it the psychedelic stuff from india played a major part. of it just returned from got to work on this. because of. nine hundred sixty eight the beatles were here to get away from it all to meditate and look. left after ten days to escape the food in insects. couple of weeks later to take care of business george harrison and john lennon and writes music. on the album but they did. the rest. done yet anything but consistent by the time they recorded the. real title is simply the beatles the fact full were ready for it with tensions in part with their private lives. net insists that he can hear it the ex d.j. and radio announcer describ

and then john lennon. album but they didn't. get anything but consistent by the time they recorded the album his real title is simply the beatles the fact full were already fraught with tensions in part with their private lives. net insists that he can hear it the ex d.j. and radio announcer describes the white album as a kind of hodgepodge. neither john nor paul were listening to what either of them were writing or composing anymore but it hadn't ever been like that of. in fact the beatles worked on the white album or separate them together. eventually bring those down after him in the drumsticks disadvantage for two weeks. this is in my opinion it's the album that makes it very clear that they'll be splitting up soon after this season but it's good george harrison took advantage of the growing tensions between lennon and mccartney to move himself into the foreground. he contributed one of his very best songs while my guitar gently weeps playing my guitar i think it's outstanding it was the first time they ever let george harri

lapatus is not a huge name except for one thing that he had done, designed the white suit that john lennon is wearing in abbie road, not only handsome single-breasted blue suit but also the attitude of beatles upon it, for our generation the beatles were not a musical group but a celestial event. y'all can see i'm a very small man, short man, whenever i buy the suit it has to go to tailor and, indeed, we took it to a greek tailor down first avenue and he looked at it, try tried it on, you fit nice, fit nice, i was very pleased, left it there, martha went back to montreal to collect our goods, i don't know where we intend today put them in this space but she did, a week later i went back to pick up the suit and it was right that same week talking about celestial event when i looked up in the sky and saw yoko ono and i went to get the suit and i tried it on and made beautiful alterations and it fit nice. it fit nice and he put it on a hanger, suit hanger and put it inside the suit bag and zipped up the suit bag and handed it to me and i walked out with it over my shoulder, i had never been h

we all want to change the world john lennon wrote with a hint of sarcasm in his song revolution. war and student unrest in paris provided the backdrop to the beatles first. album. version took shape two months before the white album came out the release version is slower and more reflective. any it has been a people's fan since one thousand nine hundred sixty four he loves the white album . i think it's brilliant because so many different influences went into it the psychic delic stuff from india played a major parts just returned from rishikesh and got straight to work on this album. in india to get away from it all to meditate and look for new ideas. left after ten days to escape food and insects paul mccartney followed a couple of weeks later to take care of business george harrison and john lennon stayed on and wrote music. by the time they recorded the white album the fab four were already falling apart the beatles worked on the white album separately then together. even threw in the drumsticks and disappeared for two weeks george harrison took advantage of the tensions betw

i went up and i heard john lennon had been shot earlier that evening.d somehow out of those two fatalities, my own trivial and passing one some little tingle of implanted inside of ourselves as inviting as new york and its poetry was, the analogy of the city was every bit as real the hatruth is i never had another pair ofir suit trousers because the first is a little bit likeit the first time you have sex. you can do it again but you never get to do it over. it's always the same first condition. so i always do and i taught my children i'm walking around the streets of new york children to this day news from the waist down. [laughter] you think about it new york is like the opposite of the city in detail about the amber you can walk around in only one place all its. you can walk around for 37 years and the only one who knows his you it's the first story in the book is about my suit trousers. [applause] second story in the book has to do a little bit with food which is a subject i've written about a lot. it's a subject i think about a great deal in the co

john lennon famously said that if thereas no elvis, there was no beatles, and i think if there was noes, there was no almost anyone else elvis created the archetype of the rockstar. elvis, for reasons that are complicated, was able the blaze trails that desegregated not only the american music charts but to some extent america. it is hard to overstate his legacy, and on that point present trump may be correct rajini: president trump also talked about how elvis redefined the film indusy. bill: when you look at artists like prince formerly or beyonce today, the whole mission of rockstar as movie star, elvis began that. his legacy there is pretty clear. rajini: i was at gracend i made my first visit there a few weeks ago, and i could see how much of an impact he has on y.ople in america to tell us how much of an influence he has on fans decades after he died. >> i think one of the most interesting things about folks who visit graceland is their age. i saw a statistic where arp sing number of the folks visiting graceland are under the age of 30. it is clear that whether this io a situwher

insects paul mccartney followed a couple of weeks later to take care of business george harrison and john lennon stayed on and wrote music. by the time they recorded the white album the fab four were already forming a part of the beatles worked on the white album or separately then together. even threw in the drumsticks and disappeared for two weeks george harrison took advantage of the tensions between then and mccartney to spread his musical wings. one of his wife very best songs. while my guitar gently weeps became one of harrison's signature tune. no the white. trio. did use it. and the make to mix that makes it one of the band's most popular. and it really has this like a legendary status really just in the i mean it was so wildly experimental sarah you know they were they were really more or less at the at the creative apex of their careers as a band they wrote a lot of songs during that period that then appeared on the two later albums and there's there's an awful lot of there's a lot of pastiche on this album there's a lot of political statements and there's a lot of poetry but it's also

interesting lee it's a disarmingly personal record in places there's one song judea written by john lennon which is recollection of his that mother which is achingly beautiful the opening line of what i say is meaning less is really wonderful poetic avocation of his craft as a songwriter all right well celebrating fifty years of the white album marcus miller thank you so much for joining us. now it's been a long time coming but tourists in rome can now become digital time travelers and step back into the days of the roman empire rome reborn as the largest computer simulation in the world so far for years u.s. researchers have been digitizing all existing information and now they've recreated the entire city as it stood about seventeen hundred years ago. cutting edge computer technology that takes us back in time a bird's eye view of engine room around the year three twenty at this point in history the eternal city was at its zenith there were about one million inhabitants almost fifty thousand homes to amphitheaters twenty eight public libraries and thirty six triumphal arches. it was the

valley you want to see improve on the one hand some people say your supporters will say see even john lennon is saying this and he was there from the beginning he's he knows it inside out others might say hold on that makes jaron lanier a hypocrite because he made his name in this field he made his money out of it and now he's criticizing everyone else who's still in the business you know i was one of the earlier people to criticize what we're doing i started writing critical essays about this i wrote an essay in ninety two saying if we keep on going we're doing there might someday be these bots that would do battle with each other to influence people and could throw an election so i mean i think about this for a long time does that make me a hypocrite for sticking with it possibly but you know what if that's so use what i'm saying to your benefit see read the arguments if they're helpful if you find any power from them use and i really don't like whether i'm like who cares if i'm a hypocrite i'm just one person and i'm not running for office i'm not asking you for anything what i can give u

john lennon. just imagine for a moment, what will happen if the republicans keep the house and the senate. they will lose it. that's almost worth the price of admission. they are trying to scare you into voting democrat in the mid-terms and howard dean sick by celebrating the democrat's momentum after the synagogue shooting. >> the democrats are running against the president's message of hate which can be effective at times like this when the nation was turned upside down by this president. i am optimistic. i think there is a tendency to voting democratic particularly after the shootings in pittsburgh. >> sean: that's sick and twisted. we have to take everything howard dean says with a grain of salt. he is not known for being of sound mind around election time. >> we are going to south carolina and oklahoma and arizona and north dakota and new mexico. we are going to california, texas and new york. south dakota and oregon and washington and michigan. then we are going to washington, d.c. to take b

john lennon famously said "before elvis there was nothing".s 30s when he got the grammy as our lifetime achievement award. if he hadn't have died in 1977 aged a2, he may very well have got the presidential medal of freedom when he was still alive. is there a sense with the awarding of these metals, that we are going to see what kind of skills or talents donald trump will award going forward? of skills or talents donald trump will award going forward ?|j of skills or talents donald trump will award going forward? i think very much so. it is an interesting choice, and it does make you think that barack choice, and it does make you think that ba rack 0bama choice, and it does make you think that barack 0bama gave more medals than any other president, and only two years ago he was giving one to bruce springsteen. it makes perfect sense, springsteen is a democrat as well as a great talent, at one can imagine that if trump was minded to give to bruce, it pretty unlikely given their political differences, bruce would likely say no. it is the same wit

and sunglasses worn by john lennon >> some awesome items there.bother to buy them, but i'll be back in the states, fear not this time last year roughly i was lucky enough to go to the last ever live performance of aretha franklin. that jogged my memory. good timing on your part >> that was. indeed it was. leslie, great stuff. >>> the red sox may have used the slogan do damage during their playoff run but they probably didn't mean it like this the team took to the streets of boston yesterday following their world series win for the parade. a fan tried in a good way to throw a can of beer to the manager. you can see for him to drink it missed the mark, hit the world series trophy and damaged it the team says no harm, no foul play i guess he threw it hard, even if the people on the parade bus should be able to catch. they didn't. and there we go. the trophy was damaged thankfully not in a way that can't be repaired. >>> we are approaching the top of the hour. the team is getting ready for "squawk box. becky has a look at what's coming up. good mornin

first time i remember where i was the first time i was probably 12, the first time that i heard john lennon's imagine. i just thought this is a terrible song. i remembered thinking about this. it is just a pop song, a finger. a lot of people grew up on this. when we reach the last 30 years, one american administration after another, european governments, have bought into the idea isn't it possible for us to just have one law, one set of values and everybody will play by the rules as various american leaders have said, play by the rules, on the flip side of it, when you don't play by the rules, somebody -- he was the somebody? that became the mission of american troops with allied contingents. in yugoslavia, iraq, libya, afghanistan. that became a way of advancing a certain kind of world. that kind of world is completely undesirable. it is not desirable. it is a utopian fantasy. utopian fantasy means they can't possibly work. if it could maybe work is not desirable. i will try in a few minutes to give you a sense. the idea of a world of diverse nations, we can compare it to the kind of economi

insects paul mccartney followed a couple of weeks later to take care of business george harrison and john lennon stayed on and wrote music. by the time they recorded the white album the fab four were already forming a parts the beatles worked on the white album or separately then together. even threw in the drumsticks and disappeared for two weeks george harrison took advantage of the tensions between then and mccartney to spread his musical wings. one of his wife very best songs. while my guitar gently weeps became one of harrison's signature. no the white. trio. and the mc tick mix that makes it one of the band's most popular album and. this really is great right now it does i know it's an iconic album is really has this mythical status you know it was just so wildly experimental i mean they were more or less at the height of their creative powers as a as a band together they wrote a lot of songs at this period that then made it on to their two later albums so there's a lot of prestige a lot of political statement on this album and a lot of poetry it has to be said but it's also an album that.

paul mccartney followed the couple of weeks later to take care of business george harrison and john lennon stayed on and wrote music. by the time they recorded the white album the family four were already falling apart the beatles worked on the white album separately then together bring out star even threw in the drumsticks and disappeared for two weeks george harrison took advantage of the tensions between then and mccartney to spread his musical wings. one of his wife very best songs. while my guitar gently weeps became one of harrison's signature. now the white. officer and trio. ultimately did use a. mic to mix that makes it one of the band's most popular. and carrie might add also very mythical yeah it really is it was it was such a wildly experimental album you know the beatles were really more or less at their at their creative peak it was a real swerve of styles for them they wrote a lot of songs during that period that then appeared even on their two later albums and so there's a lot of there's a lot of pastiche on this album there's a lot of humor a lot of political statements an

valley you want to see improve on the one hand some people say your supporters will say see even john lennon is saying this and he was there from the beginning he's he knows it inside out others might say hold on that makes jaron lanier a hypocrite because he made his name in this field he made his money out of it and now he's criticizing everyone else who's still in the business you know i was one of the earlier people to criticize what we're doing i started writing critical essays about this i wrote an essay in ninety two saying if we keep on going what we're doing there might someday be these bots that would do battle with each other to influence people and could throw an election so i mean i think we're hear about this for a long time does it make me a hypocrite for sticking with it possibly but you know what if that's so use what i'm saying to your benefit see read the arguments if they're helpful if you find any power from them use and i really don't like whether i'm like who cares if i'm a hypocrite i'm just one person and i'm not running for office i'm not asking you for anything wha

show," he said he didn't want to run for president because he was fighting for the people, and john lennonrse, and yoko were on that "mike douglas show" with him. - would you ever consider runninfor president? - no. everybody says, "vote," and they think of presidential candidate. what you have to do is sgap back and help ze people and trying to get themto ee citizenship as a profession. - did you think about doing it? - no. in fact, i rebuked it. ho yeah, because, days, if you had any political ambitions, it weakened your advocacy. ve increasingly, big ment is becoming a handmaiden of big business, and it's hard to tell the difference between the two. but then, starting when the democrats were persuaded they could raise money from corporate interests, about 80, you could see the decline of congressional hearings, the decline of regulatory eorcement. - nader has taken a consistent line throughout his career that both partiese too behon to corporate interests. his own views are so outside the establishment, so hostile to corporate influence in american politics, he doesn't really see huge d

maria: glasses of the late john lennon, these are cool, what makes them so special?y before mtv or music videos, these are fantastic glasses, iconic made in japan with patents, we estimate them 10 to 20,000, several thousand dollars at the auction this weekend. maria: very cool, let's look at keith richards jacket here. [laughter] maria: it's really cool. this is going to go, what's the story behind the jacket? >> that's amazing jacket we call worn by keith richards of rolling stones. maria: he must have been so small, look how small the jacket is? >> absolutely, petite, tinny in 60's, if you add photographs of celebrities that impacts the value. maria: you have items from great late aretha franklin, he wore the hat, didn't she? let's do hat before the dress. >> the hat for royal family. estimated 1,000 to 1500 fantastic monumental hat, should sell very well, she's getting a lot of riespc, maria. maria: she sure is. tell me about this. >> wore in 1981, performance in new york city, outfit, beautiful vest with the romper underneath and what's amazing there, if i can s

>> yeah, i never would have touched it before because it was john lennon's song, but it was -- it's pure love and togetherness and it's what this country needs now. >> reporter: she's anticipating more love in her life as well as she'll soon be a grandmother again courtesy of stepson josh brolin. >> talk about the first time he ever called you mom. what do you remember about that? >> well, i love him. i don't want to share his secrets, but it was thrilling, it was thrilling, and i always wanted more children and -- but i couldn't have more. so we're a closer family now. >> reporter: at 76, in a career that since the 1960s has been rich with achievement in music and film on both sides of the camera, her creativity continues to flower. >> you broke down the doors. part of how you did it was insisting on creative control. >> yeah. >> and you took a lot of grief for that, didn't you? >> i did. i did. i did. because it wasn't fashionable. it wasn't proper for women to be in control, and i'm strong in my views. i have a vision of things, the way they should be. >> how proud are you for fightin

>> yeah, i never would have touched it before because it was john lennon's song but it was -- it's pures country needs now. >> reporter: she's anticipating more love in her life as well. she'll soon be a grandmother again courtesy of stepson josh brolin. >> and he talked about the first time he ever called you mom. what do you remember about that? >> well, i love him. i don't want to share his secrets, but it was thrilling. it was thrilling and i always wanted more children and -- but i couldn't have more and so we're a closer family now. >> reporter: at 76 in a career that since the 1960s has been rich with achievement in music and film, on both sides of the camera, streisand and her creativity continue to flower. >> you broke down the doors. part of how you did it was insisting on creative control. >> ha, ha, ha. yeah. >> and you took a lot of grief for that, didn't you? >> i did. i did. i did. because it wasn't fashionable. it wasn't proper for women to be in control, and i'm strong in my views. i have a vision of things, the way they should be. >> how proud are you for fighting and

hibs boss neil lennon was struck by a coin, while the hearts goalkeeper claims he was punched byafan. i'll be back with more on those stories after half—past. thank you, johnest rate will stay at 0.75%. it also confirmed economic growth had risen to 0.6% in the third quarter. but it's warned that the outlook for the economy depends significantly on brexit and the uk's future trading arrangements with the eu. the bank's governor, mark carney said, depending on what form brexit takes, interest rates could move "in either direction". the economic outlook depends significantly on the nature of the eu withdrawal, in particular the form of new trading arrangements between the eu and the uk, whether the transition to this is abrupt or smooth, and how households, businesses and financial markets respond. whatever happens, monetary policy will act to ensure price ability and subject to that, support the economy during the transition. mps have criticised what they're calling a delay to a planned crackdown on fixed—odds betting machines in bookmakers shops. labour claims a cut in the maximum stake from £100 to £2 had been put back by six months. it has prompted specu