certainly not of john lennon. maryanne what have you got? of a toss-up between the chipmunks song and granny got run over by a reindeer. >> rich: in the studio we've heard that the whole chipmunks album belongs in that category. what have you got? >> all i want for christmas is annoying because they play it every three seconds. you're at the mall, you're at an ice skating center. everywhere. i shouldn't admit this on tv but i do like justin bieber's christmas album. i do like it. it will be used against me at some point. >> rich: robert what have you got? >> i'll go with favorite would be outcast. and the one that i hate the most is james brown, santa claus went straight to the ghetto, maybe because it's because my dad played it for the first 10 years of my life but if i never hear it again that would be my best christmas present. >> rich: a recent survey shows the top three most annoying songs, fell list navidad, chip monk song, that we were talking about, and number one, all i want for christmas is you, by mariah carey. i have to ask you,

john lennon. that's what they stand for.eam world. >> yeah , totally team world with >> yeah, totally team world with that song . that song. >> imagine there's no country. it's like no i don't want i want there to be a country. i want there to be a country. i want there to be always be in england. not that i like england. >> cracking song though. >> cracking song though. >> yeah he's listening. all the classics the telegraph, lewis and there's a story about the bbc so you can ignore the details of the story and just call it a state propaganda network. again >> well, know, it it makes >> well, you know, it it makes it easy considering never very it easy considering i never very much read stories. much time to read these stories. and just the four hours we and i've just the four hours we spend here evening. but spend here every evening. but you've distracting me . and you've been distracting me. and the of it i have the other side of it is i have adhd, so i use that speech. >> we should be given longer to read the stories. >>

. >> undeterred from his antiwar message, a few months later, tom would play the guitar on john lennon's give peace a chance, give peace a chance, and in 2008, nearly 40 years after the comedy hour was canceled, tom smothers was awarded an honorary emmy. i dedicate this, this emmy , to all people who feel compelled to speak out. steve martin, a writer on the comedy hour, saying tom smothers irreplaceable brilliance, benefactor to free speech in the age of television, and tom's brother dick saying our relationship was like a good marriage the longer we were together, the more we loved and respected one another. tom died at his home in california. he was 86. it is time now for a look at your thursday weather. >> millions of people are under flood watches in the northeast as heavy rain moves up the i-95 corridor. the worst downpours will be seen around new york city before the storm moves north around the morning rush hour, and some areas of pennsylvania, new jersey and new york could see more than three inches of rain over a 12 hour period. looking at today's high temperatures, 60s across

in their performance, slightly changed texts of world- famous compositions, for example, by john lennon and frank sinatra, took on a special meaning, because in the dugout near bakhmut on the ruins. the cultural center or the railway station in lyman, ukrainian heroes remind the world of the horrors of war, which can spread to their peaceful lives. at this hour, i have everything, i am about... until four, and just now the paragraph with yulia galushka will tell how a ukrainian generous conquered the whole world. chevrons approaching victory. but we arrived normally. nothing broke, everything, mom, come on, i'll dial later, sir, what are you doing, be careful, yes, yes, i'm kind of gentle, it's in the cans, and i, to be honest, i'm not very good, so mom is for you i cooked, i'll come, if you don't eat, i understood, plus, come on, we'll leave, and we 've reworked it a little, it's a really powerful thing. mattress, petrovich, what pizza did you order? no, it is. this is a really powerful thing, oh, i almost killed myself, they're going to put generators here on... horses, put a generato

in their performance, the lyrics are slightly changed worldwide famous compositions by john lennon and sinatra are acquired. of special importance, because both in the dugout near bakhmut and on the ruins of the cultural center and the railway station in lyman, ukrainian heroes remind the world of the horrors of war, which is ready to spread to their peaceful lives. tomorrow is a holiday evening, which ukrainians will celebrate, wherever they are, because christmas is about family and home, about what is most precious to each of us, may our warmth and love be with everyone who has lost their loved ones or their housing, because light will win, this is how this world is arranged, there are only a few hours left until the birth of christ, so let's praise him. him, the armed forces and ukraine. let's celebrate shevoronoi, approaching victory. do you hear this symphony? it is created by railway workers to lead you to your dream. dear passengers, we are waking up. ukrzaliznytsia works every day so that all holidays come on schedule. merry christmas and happy new year.

. >> before elvis, there was nothing , john lennon said. nothing, john lennon said. >> he did say andhe did say that, and i think he's elvis was actually he's i think elvis was actually he's i think elvis was actually he's one my fave he he's one of my fave brits. he was he didn't write was the one. he didn't write songs. was the one. he didn't write songs . it wasn't particularly songs. it wasn't particularly good a i could good on on a guitar. i could play, he could a guitar, play, he could play a guitar, but could take song but he could take any song and own it. >> started he was out >> he started it. he was out front. he was the first one to be punk, you like. you be a punk, if you like. you know, a rebel . know, he was a rebel. >> it a rebel, weren't you? >> it was a rebel, weren't you? i more of a rebel than i suppose more of a rebel than the sex in the 70s. the sex pistols in the 70s. >> ironically, years >> yeah. ironically, 21 years afterwards, pistols afterwards, the sex pistols arrived yeah, they arrived and. yeah, and they booed when they heard that elvis presley had died

. >> before elvis, there was nothing , john lennon said. nothing, john lennon said. >> he did say andhe did say that, and i think he's elvis was actually he's i think elvis was actually he's i think elvis was actually he's one my fave he he's one of my fave brits. he was he didn't write was the one. he didn't write songs. was the one. he didn't write songs . it wasn't particularly songs. it wasn't particularly good a i could good on on a guitar. i could play, he could a guitar, play, he could play a guitar, but could take song but he could take any song and own it. >> started he was out >> he started it. he was out front. he was the first one to be punk, you like. you be a punk, if you like. you know, a rebel . know, he was a rebel. >> it a rebel, weren't you? >> it was a rebel, weren't you? i more of a rebel than i suppose more of a rebel than the sex in the 70s. the sex pistols in the 70s. >> ironically, years >> yeah. ironically, 21 years afterwards, pistols afterwards, the sex pistols arrived yeah, they arrived and. yeah, and they booed when they heard that elvis presley had died

we spend $2 trillion a year on military budgets and i calculated that if we paid to the words of john lennon, imagine all the people living in peace and we were to allocate the same amount of money to space exploration withinhis, we would be able to send a cubesat towards evy star in the milky way galaxy. billions of them. antheans that another civilization could have done at within one century if they just had priorities that are more in intelligt an the ones we have right now engaging in conflicts. and if they just decided that there is much more real estate out there in interstellar space, yoknow, they could have reached us in less than a billion years. the time it takes to traverse the milky way galaxy and the important breaking news that most stars that are like the sun they formed billionsf ars befo the sun. we know that from the star formation history of the universe. so another civilization that preceded us by re than a billion years could have sent the package that reached our doorstep by now and all we need to do is step outside of our home and look around and, check if there is an

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officer: john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male.ler: the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. it was like in one moment the '60s and '70s got murdered. man: in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we're here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. graham: you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you dodon't reallyly know whwhere you'rere going to oo fromom that poinint, culturary oror musicallyly. announcer:r: for a whwhile it seeeemed theres nonothing new on the horizon. announcing the latest achievement in home entertainment. the power of sight -- video. the power of sound -- stereo. mtv, music television. [ rock music plays ] we are so excited about this new concept in tv. we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. [ music plays ] quinn: at the time the world was saying, we don't think anybody is going to watch videos over and over, but wewe knew wewe had sosomething spspecial. ♪ oohoh, my littltle pretty o

while you dreamed of harmonious, utopian john lennon reconciliation.atedly that the crisis of hatred and suspicion between the two peoples was too deep and tragic for such a dream come true. you mocked me and said i had a little faith. that i was restricting the horizon of my thinking and quote. what has changed since then. >> i no longer have my muse with me to witness, perhaps ask him if he would be ready to compromise on a more modest solution. but i do believe that time will have done for justice with him as well, with acknowledging that a modest option would've been more sustainable. >> one particularly poignant part of all of the rivers again and again where leon and kill me referred to israel in the west bank respectively as home, and not by the actual names of the places, and ask you about the significance of that because we are in this moment where names and what you call places has become such a flash point. >> i do believe that this state is, should and is a destiny of us both nations to share. we should coexist side by side, and what we wer

see john lennon murder without a trial.. >> and paramount plus get an inside look at the making of the best-selling album of all time with michael jackson's thriller at 40 and on paramount. plus, there's baby sharks. big movie beginning friday. well, you can always get my movie reviews and home video picks sent right to your phone's every week. >> just by texting the word, dean to 9, 7, 9, 9, 9, and i hope you have a great weekend in chicago. i'm dean richards. admit it right. when you heard baby shark that's on popped in your head and you broke out into the dance. i did. yeah, it's impossible not is the song of the year last some like but we are looking at a day today that might make you want to head back inside towards the middle of the day. right now you get a little sunshine there in san jose. >> nice to enjoy that for a little bit. rainfall is right on our doorstep. now you can see the bay area's pretty quiet at the moment, but we are seeing some showers making their way into northern sonoma as well as mendocino counti

. - i think he was the closest that his generation came to a john lennon. - yeah. - in that, you knowsee your hero kill himself-- it was devevastating.. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band fell apart after only making a couple records. yoyou know, what do yoyou do afterer that? [needldle drops] [acousustic guitarar strummin] ♪ ♪ - oasis, the verve, blur-- the brit-pop thing, it was like the hangover of grunge. "oh my god, my head's pounding, this has been insane, let's turnrn on oasis.s." [laughghs] - - ♪ and a after all ♪ ♪ you're e my wonderwrwall ♪ - they werere the oppoposie of nirvanana because e they wanteted fame. you knowow, nono matter hohow big they we, theyey wanted toto be bigger. - we knonow we're ththe best bd in thehe country, and it's as simple as that. and it's that simple. - the thing we admire about oasis, in a way, is that they've got no kind of... no forced modesty, you know. - i admire anybody who can just sort of go, "we're brilliant." and, i mean, it's like... anybody who's got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪

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jackson five "i saw mommy kissing santa claus" and paul mccartney's "wonderful christmas" took down john lennonstmas war is over". next up will be "let it snow". >> the final will be announced on friday and a lot of us in the newsroom are wondering where mariah carey's "all i want for christmas is you" is not in the competition. >> does the queen have some serious licensing -- i'm not playing that. >> they say she makes $2 million a year off of that song. >> it's risky because you make a holiday song, sometimes they're cheesy and people are, like, oh, gosh. >> she wrote it herself. >> she did? >> yeah. >> i didn't know that. >> there's your musical lesson for the day. >> that's why she gets all the money, because she wrote it. >> that makes me like it even more. >>> it might be the day to stay inside if you can, if you're off for the holidays, and listen to that music. we're going to get some heavy rain throughout the morning. let's get a check of the microclimate forecast. you might be noticing it's not as cold. this is a little bit of a warmer system, we're starting off with mid-50s and low 6

john lennon. a very fraught relationship between john and paul because paul was such, paul could do everything. paul could play every instrument . paul would even take over the guitar solo, which was supposed to be george's province. george was the lead guitarist, but paul would sometimes just he decided to play lead guitar and that was a very fractious thing between them for a long, long time. >> and you could only imagine . >> and you could only imagine. philip norman, how many great beatle songs we never had that would have been written by george harrison . he he really george harrison. he he really didn't have that opportunity, that outlet to generate more material . material. >> well, he did generate material , >> well, he did generate material, but it was it was rejected by john and paul. and so his first solo album, which was a triple album, one of the very first triple albums, all things must pass. it was really full of songs that he either had had rejected by the star chamber of lennon mc

finally, i would like to say john lennon roles, john lennon rocks. everybody have a great day.o to spokane, washington. mike on the line. caller: good morning. can you hear me? merry christmas. this is a great subject. i would like to bring something up. let's start with our government. have the white house, the capitol, the pentagon. we have a president, vice president, senators, congressmen, governors, mayors spread across the country. let's take the vatican. they are there on city. you have the pope. you have bishops, cardinals. you have priests and affiliates spread all over this country. let's take a third one. you have the mafia. you have all your little affiliates spread all over the country. each for nothing but corruption, power, and money. let's take the nations. the mafia pulse and extortion. the government people go around and offer their nations. what does -- donation spread what does the church do? donations. and witness protection. coverups. do we see the government doing this? of course. many times. have we seen it with the church and pedophile priests? left and

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sounds like an update the news story that update of the news story that john inspired to john lennoninspired to write in the life. write a day in the life. remember that? no. 6000 holes in blackburn, now blackburn, lancashire. yes. now they them now they have to count them all. now they have to count them all. now they many holes to be in. >> i'm just hip hop, 90s. hip hop, that's all. i'm very sorry. >> that's for part one. >> that's it for part one. coming in part two, bbc coming up in part two, bbc budgets have been hacked. quantum computing is wack. we will itself will hope it will sort itself out >> you're listening to gb news radio . radio. >> and welcome back to headliners. i'm simon evans, still joined by josh howie and nick dixon. so nick telegraph have news that might elicit a degree of schadenfreude from a rival station. but do we really want a corner cutting national broadcaster , i suppose, or do we broadcaster, i suppose, or do we even want one? >> so yeah, it's deeper. cuts loom at bbc is sunak prepares to block licence fee increase. it was going to go up from almost f

sounds like an update the news story that update of the news story that john inspired to john lennon inspired to write in the life. write a day in the life. remember that? no. 6000 holes in blackburn, now blackburn, lancashire. yes. now they them now they have to count them all. now they have to count them all. now they many holes to be in. >> i'm just hip hop, 90s. hip hop, that's all. i'm very sorry. >> that's for part one. >> that's it for part one. coming in part two, bbc coming up in part two, bbc budgets have been hacked. quantum computing is wack. we will itself will hope it will sort itself out >> you're listening to gb news radio . radio. >> and welcome back to headliners. i'm simon evans, still joined by josh howie and nick dixon. so nick telegraph have news that might elicit a degree of schadenfreude from a rival station. but do we really want a corner cutting national broadcaster , i suppose, or do we broadcaster, i suppose, or do we even want one? >> so yeah, it's deeper. cuts loom at bbc is sunak prepares to block licence fee increase. it was going to go up from almost

george, michael bought john lennon's piano . and bought john lennon's piano.s estate for this thing yesterday . and we this thing yesterday. and we forget, actually, that george michael is somebody we miss and mourn . he died on christmas day. mourn. he died on christmas day. >> he did remember in 2016. is it that long ago? >> there's always people you remember around, isn't there? and that's what i wanted to put to yvonne. i think we've got you back even if it's a long back is that even if it's a long time if it was just time ago or even if it was just last week? shane macgowan christmas seems to make it very difficult . difficult. >> it does indeed . at this time >> it does indeed. at this time of year, all those family gatherings and the christmas celebrations , they they remind celebrations, they they remind us, don't they , of people we us, don't they, of people we have lost, even if they even if we weren't bereaved this year, obviously for people bereaved this year, the feelings are going to be so much more intense. but but they remind us of people who w

but there are so many things, but he and john lennon wer pals he played guitar on "give peace a chanceyou said it it's because of these two gentlemen. >> yeah. >> and the thing was, i think they felt like we're just talking like our friends, they're representing a generation and television at least corporate tv was not ready for it >> a life very well lived. harry, thank you so much bald e. i've been talk >>> guys, just ahead, we are soaring with bald eagles i've been talking about this one all morning. what we could learn from the remarkable comeback of the iconic american bird >>> plus, 2023 has been a record-setting year for women driving the economy at the box office, on concert tours, and it's not just taylor swift and beyonce. what it all means moving forward. but first, these messages. ma, ma, ma— ( clears throat ) for fast sore throat relief, try vicks vapocool drops. with two times more menthol per drop, and powerful vicks vapors to vaporize sore throat pain. vicks vapocool drops. vaporize sore throat pain. go to old navy and you'll save a toboggan full of buckaroonies. it's a

for instance, if john lennon was was to in his time, have made a political statement.tical statement because he's he's like that. he's trendy and you know future thinking and whatever it is. but there'll be other celebs who'll be stand up comedians or whatever, and they'll not be allowed to have an opinion. >> and i don't think that >> yeah. and i don't think that anyone should be excluded from having on politics. having an opinion on politics. that's makes world go that's what makes the world go round. what runs the round. that was what runs the world. think it is so world. and i think it is so important have an opinion important to have an opinion on those things. i don't think it's right to say, celebrities right to say, well, celebrities mislead. is mislead. we know politician is mislead. we know politician is mislead. so why is there a difference? between either difference? there between either or? we've been proven, or? i mean, we've been proven, you know, got boris you know, we've got boris johnson lied in parliament. johnson who lied in parliament. so say so i

history, for example , at this table where visitors sit, betles once gathered, under glass is john lennon’sthis is a small baby bass guitar, on which paul macartney was asked to autograph after recording the next album, but the felt-tip pen did not write on the varnish coating. then linda, who was present at the recording, came up to him, handed him a screwdriver and said: the floor is crumpled! this is what paul makartny did! but the recording studio is a real treasure trove! and tablet, they even created the world’s first map of golden discs, you can listen to everything on world rock from the 18th century to the present, there are about 900 names of performers, you can listen to each of them at the same time and see which style belongs to another style, what on what influenced it in general, you can just spend a couple of hours in this thing, all this plays, everything is interactive, here is the long-awaited scene, in this hall. michael jackson’s costume and photo zone, you can repeat the famous photograph of the beatles, almost in the original, this is a real lantern from the crossing

john lennon, number one, the day after he died. well happen died.d it's all down, by the way, to what's the name of the girl singer and christy mccauley, right . sorry. mccauley, right. sorry. >> kirsty mccoll. kirsty mccoll, thank you very much indeed. >> thank goodness. kirsty mccoy here. yeah kirsty mccall, who sang it with him, was the arranger of the song as well because was all over the because he was all over the place. i mean, he got the residents though, today residents though, still today with people to make it with younger people to make it go number one. yeah everybody loves it. >> christmas time cause we're going but we do. it's going to return. but we do. it's almost the top of the hour we are bring you so much are going to bring you so much more chat the latest more chat and the latest evidence from the covid inquiry. >> a brighter outlook with boxing , the sponsors of whether boxing, the sponsors of whether on . gb news alex deakin here on. gb news alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news the c

you know, john lennon was shot in new york, in london. they've new york, not in london.sidents assassinated had assassinated. we only had spencer as a prime spencer perceval as a prime minister, and was back in minister, and that was back in 1812, got assassinated. and 1812, who got assassinated. and so he's happy with his life so if he's happy with his life in and think britain in america and i think britain is a much safer country, all all things presume has got an things presume he has got an armed private armed armed detail, a private armed detail he hires in america . detail that he hires in america. yes, he has no private armed detail but there's detail there, but there's no reason have same reason he can't have the same detail over here but without the guns. i've said, every guns. but as i've said, every visit makes as as visit he makes here, as long as he enough warning the he gives enough warning to the to the metropolitan he to the metropolitan police, he does protection. does receive protection. >> personally, much does receive protection. >> be personally, mu

john, you're absolutely right. that -- the sense of the chinese party is that. it's a classic lesson of markist and lennonism. that's why they have such hubris. that's domestic. i want to address the kind of narratives that the chinese communist party is trying to spread globally. one of the -- several once. but one is that the work product is just between china and the united states. united states -- >> what? >> the fundamental problem that fundamental contradiction of the word today is u.s. versus china. so that's why they want have a summit and make it as big as -- as -- as cosmic phenomenon. so they're trying to create a narrative -- >> did we have that sum it? >> we had that. that's why we fall into a trap. the reason why they want to hype this supremacy of the u.s.-china as the most important issue of the world is to hide the fact, the reality that it's not china versus the united states. it's china versus the rest of the world. so that's why -- china is incredibly notorious in this region. every one has that problem. taiwan, vietnam, philippines, you name it. but they try to portray all the things -- i