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"Nobody Told Me" is a song by John Lennon. The B-side features Yoko Ono's "O' Sanity"; both are on the Milk and Honey album. The promo video for the single was made up of clips of footage from Lennon's other videos, as are most posthumous Lennon videos.
The lyrics reference the yellow idol in J. Milton Hayes' poem The Green Eye of the Yellow God. Another line in the song is "There's UFO's over New York and I ain't too surprised". In the liner notes to his 1974 album Walls and Bridges, Lennon wrote: "On the 23rd August 1974 at 9 o'clock I saw a U.F.O. - J.L." The lines "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed / Most peculiar, mama" are in contrast to the old adage "My mother told me there'd be days like this."
Recorded but left incomplete shortly before his death in 1980, the song was later completed by Lennon's widow Yoko Ono in 1983 and released as the first single from Lennon and Ono's album Milk and Honey in 1984. The song was originally written for Ringo Starr to include on his 1981 album, Stop and Smell the Roses, but due to Lennon's death, Starr decided not to record it.
"Nobody Told Me" was Lennon's last new single to reach the UK top 10, peaking at number 6 (although a reissue of "Imagine" reached number 3 in December 1999). The single was also Lennon's last US top 10 hit, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 6 on the Cashbox Top 100, and was his third single to enter the US top 10 posthumously.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Nobody Told Me
Mark. said:
"Nobody Told Me."
Alan J answered:
Nobody Told Me.
Dave wrote:
Nobody Told Me. A posthumous single from the 1984 Milk and Honey album. Half the album's tracks are songs Lennon didn't think were worth putting on an album and half were throwaway rubbish by Yoko Ono who could neither play, write, nor sing. Double Fantasy was the last Lennon album I purchased (prior to his murder), although I recorded it on cassette so I could leave out the Yoko songs. Another Lennon compositions charted in 1995, Free as a Bird (#5), although it was credited to The Beatles instead of being considered a Lennon single.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
Mac Mac responded:
Nobody told me
Jacqueline wrote:
Something like "...never thought there'd be days like these" No shit.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Nobody Told Me
Daniel in The City said:
Nobody Told Me
DJ Useo wrote:
"Nobody Told Me". A killer song. I still miss John very much.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Everybodys Talking
Deborah responded:
I'm going with "Instant Karma." The cadence of the lyrics in the hint fit.
Took a dog to the vet today, and walked them a couple miles in the light rain. Everyone we spoke with was very friendly and kept a minimum of 6' away. We did a 60 min. bike workout in our livingroom (it was too wet to ride outside). We're staying as busy as we can; meanwhile, my in-box is filling up with merchants who are changing their sales practices in light of current events. Living the dream, indeed…
David of Moon Valley replied:
Nobody Told Me………...that it was gonna be like this…hoopeedoopee….
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
"Nobody Told Me", but an online search for those lyrics gave me the answer.
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• Irish tenor John McCormack adored Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, and early in his career he bought a photograph of Mr. Caruso and forged on it an inscription from Mr. Caruso to himself. Later, he met Mr. Caruso and told him about the forgery. Amused, Mr. Caruso produced another photograph of himself and wrote this real inscription on it: "To McCormack, very friendly, Enrico Caruso."
Awards
• As a teenager, Ella Fitzgerald lived on the streets of Harlem. One day, although she was wearing ragged clothing and had gone without a bath for weeks, she entered a talent contest at the Apollo Theater. The audience loved her, and she won first place, but she never received her prize. The prize was the opportunity to sing at the Apollo Theater for a week, but theater management thought that Ella was too physically dirty to be an entertainer. Soon afterward, Ella became recognized as a great jazz vocalist.
• The theme song of the United States Navy is "Anchors Aweigh," whose music was composed by Navy Academy bandmaster Charles A. Zimmerman. Every year, bandmaster Zimmerman was given a medal by the graduating class in recognition of the excellence of "Anchors Aweigh." According to the official Annapolis history, because of his many medals bandmaster Zimmerman would have drowned instantly if he had ever fallen overboard.
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• Singing at outdoor concerts while wearing fabulous, elegant gowns does have a downside. In 1995, at Radley College, soprano Leslie Garrett discovered that her dress, because of its width, would not permit her to use a portaloo (in America, the term is "portapotty"). For the first half of the concert, she sang with her legs crossed. In the meantime, the concert organizers set up a tent, complete with a bucket, for her use during the interval (in the USA, the term is "intermission").
• Famous violinist Szymon Goldberg had some unusual talents. Once, he was disturbed during a concert by some background noise, so he stopped playing and requested a wrench. He went backstage, fixed a continuously running toilet, and then resumed playing.
Big Breaks
• Movie clichés sometimes come to life. Opera singer Mary Garden started her career at the top. She was in Paris studying singing, and she attended an Opera-Comique rehearsal of Louise and fell in love with it. She acquired a copy of the score, and began studying it intensively. She attended performances of the opera, and she took notes on where the singers stood on stage and all the details of acting she could jot down. On Friday, April 13, 1900, she received a note telling her to go to the Opéra-Comique, where she received the news that the woman who regularly sang the title role of Louise was ill and might not be able to perform, and so she was given a ticket and asked to sit in the audience that night just in case she were needed. Act 1 passed well, as the title character sang little in it, but during the intermission the star singer rushed out of the opera house. Ms. Garden took her place, made a huge hit, and signed a well-paying contract at the Opéra-Comique.
• Buffy Sainte-Marie became a professional folk musician by accident. She had learned to play a second-hand guitar as a child, and in 1963, during a visit to New York City, she sang and played for fun at a coffeehouse in Greenwich Village. A music critic for The New York Times happened to be in the audience, and he gave her a glowing review. Soon she was performing concerts and making records. Despite her long-term success, Ms. Sainte-Marie says, "I never expected to last more than a year or two."
Mostly sunny day, but supposedly there's more rain on the way.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a RERUN"The Unicorn', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by a RERUN'Carol's Second Act', then a RERUN'Tommy'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 2/28/20) are Tyra Banks and Coyote Peterson.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 2/18/20) are Justin Bieber, Billy Crystal, and Ben Schwartz.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH'Indebted', followed by a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
On a RERUN (with a FRESH open) Jimmy Fallon (from 2/3/20) are Andy Samberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Finneas.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 3/5/20) are Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, James Taylor, and Glen Sobel.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 12/9/19) are Tony Shalhoub and Ne-Yo.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'A Million Little Things'.
On a RERUN (with a FRESH open) Jimmy Kimmel (from 3/9/20) are Vin Diesel, Aidy Bryant, and Thundercat.
The CW offers a FRESH'Katy Keene', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Outmatched', then a FRESH'Deputy'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Live PD: Wanted', then a FRESH'60 Days In'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Perfect Storm', followed by the movie 'Taken', then the movie 'Batman'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Code of Honor
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Last Outpost
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Where No One Has Gone Before
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lonely Among Us
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Justice
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Battle
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Hide and Q
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Haven
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Big Goodbye
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Code of Honor
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Last Outpost
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Where No One Has Gone Before
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lonely Among Us
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Justice
[8:00PM] ELYSIUM (2013)
[10:30PM] TOTAL RECALL (2012)
[1:04AM] KNOWING (2009)
[4:02AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Battle
[5:01AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Hide and Q (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 3 hours of old 'Top Chef', followed by a FRESH'Top Chef', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Baywatch', followed by the movie 'Bad Moms', then a FRESH'Better Things', and 'Breeders'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then a FRESH'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion'.
IFC -
[6:00A] That '70s Show
[6:30A] That '70s Show
[7:00A] That '70s Show
[7:30A] Machete Kills
[10:00A] Mortal Kombat
[12:15P] Watchmen
[3:45P] Mission: Impossible III
[6:45P] Homefront
[9:00P] Transporter 2
[11:00P] The Taking of Pelham 123
[1:30A] Mission: Impossible III
[4:29A] Brockmire - Favorable Matchup
[4:59A] Year of the Rabbit - Hostage
[5:31A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Camping Out (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] Mommie Dearest
[10:30am] Victor Frankenstein
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo - Senorita Mambo
[3:00am] Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo - Mambo No. 5
[4:00am] Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo - Monsoon Mambo
[5:01am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider', followed by the movie 'Mad Max: Fury Road', then the movie 'X-Men: First Class'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 12/2/19) is Adam Scott.
On Wednesday, the Footloose star helped launch the "#IStayHomeFor" PSA, based on the concept of six degrees of separation, encouraging everyone who can to stay home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"Hi folks. You know me, right?" Bacon, 61, said at the start of the video. "I'm technically only six degrees from you," referring to the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," based on the six degrees concept that everyone is connected through six steps.
"Everyone of us has someone who is worth staying home for - and I'm staying home for Kyra Sedgwick," his wife, the actress, whom he married in 1988.
Bacon tagged Jimmy Fallon, Elton John, Demi Lovato, Kevin Hart, David Beckham and Brandi Carlile to kick it off, but added, "I encourage YOU ALL to join in too!" There have already been a lot of sweet responses.
Oprah Winfrey has not been arrested - she's in self-quarantine like many others amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Early Wednesday morning, the TV icon and OWN honcho took to Twitter - where her name was trending - to slam the false internet rumor that she had been arrested for a role in a global sex trafficking ring.
Winfrey, 66, called it an "awful FAKE" rumor and "NOT TRUE." She said she hadn't "been raided, or arrested." In fact, she just been at home "sanitizing and self distancing with the rest of the world."
False reports circulated claiming Winfrey's Boca Raton, Florida, home had been raided and the talk show queen had been arrested. It included photos and video from outside the house and details about the home being cordoned off by authorities while it was raided and underground tunnels were searched. It claimed "Hollywood pedophiles" were arrested at the "child trafficking location." (Winfrey has quite a real estate portfolio, but it does not include property in Florida.)
According to the Washington Post, the fake story was started by the far-right group QAnon, which is known for spreading outrageous conspiracy theories by an alleged "deep state" against President Donald Trump and his supporters. The fake info then spread quickly on social media - some say because people are at home in isolation, due to the coronavirus, with time on their hands.
Things are...bad, right? There's a deadly disease spreading across the planet. The world's governments and health organizations are struggling to catch up. Most people are isolated to their homes hoping to curb the panic, events are cancelled, and gathering places are almost all closed.
It sounds like the plot to a sci-fi novel but it's not. It's our lives. And while it's obviously difficult to find bright spots in this sudden, scary new world, one may be coming from author George R.R. Martin. Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire series became the wildly popular HBO series Game of Thrones, was famously working on the sixth book in the series, The Winds of Winter, for the entire duration of the HBO show. The better part of a decade, in other words. Now that the show is over, though, his book still isn't done-and the delays have long since become a running joke among fans.
And yet, now because of covid-19, Martin is observing a self-quarantine and spending the time, you guessed it, writing.
"I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day," Martin wrote on his blog. "Things are pretty grim in the Seven Kingdoms…but maybe not as grim as they may become here."
You can read more about Martin's current state of mind, including all the precautions he's personally taking, in his blog post.
They'll be there for you when the rain starts to fall, but not even the Friends cast can beat the coronavirus. The highly anticipated reunion that was set to film this month has been delayed due to the pandemic, THR reports.
All six of the NBC sitcom's stars-Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer-as well as series creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman were set to film the unscripted special, which was to help launch the new HBO Max streaming service. Sources tell THR that no new production date has been set, though they hope the special can still air when the service launches in May. That is if we all haven't fallen into an End of Days situation by then, of course.
As the cast did while filming the actual sitcom, all six negotiated their reunion deals together and will earn more than double their former per-episode fee-which means between $2.5 million and $3 million-for the special, according to THR. But don't you worry about those poor actors. Even if they are unable to film the special, residual monies will continue to roll in as HBO Max is to be the exclusive streaming home for the series in the U.S., much to Netflix's chagrin.
Glastonbury 2020 has been cancelled what would have been its 50th anniversary festivals as it became the latest big event to fall foul of coronavirus.
Tickets for this summer's festival will be vaild for the 2021 event.
A post on Twitter announced the news, saying: "We are so sorry to announce this, but we are going to have to cancel Glastonbury 2020. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Full statement below and on our website. Michael and Emily."
Their statement said: "Clearly this was not a course of action we hoped to take for our 50th anniversary event, but following the new Government measures announced this week - and in times of such unprecedented uncertainty - this is now our only viable option."
Glastonbury, which draws around 200,000 people to farmland in Somerset, was due to take place from June 24-28.
Millions of California's Bay area residents can still legally light up as cannabis facilities are exempt from a cornonavirus lockdown that has shuttered most businesses in San Francisco and nearby cities.
Cannabis store managers say they have lines longer than local grocery shops and waiting room only. Most staff at a dozen stores reached Tuesday evening said they were too busy to talk to Reuters.
"Oh man, we're flooded. As soon as people heard we were still open, they started lining up," said Anthony Barajas, the general manager of Cana Culture in San Jose.
"Once all the toilet paper got sold out, they knew they needed some relief," he said.
Cats, the 2019 digital effects horrorshow musical that now feels like it was released in a different century, is back in the news. This is partly because it's swept this year's Razzie Awards, partly because it's now available through VOD for anyone looking to spice up their nightmares with exciting new imagery, and partly because Cats is just the sort of cinematic accomplishment that will live forevermore in our culture, returning to the discourse at the slightest provocation.
Case in point: The #ReleaseTheButtholeCut hashtag that's currently trending on Twitter, which, as a strikingly unnerving combination of words, we all knew in our heart of hearts must have something to do with Cats.
The origins of this choice hashtag stem from Ben Mekler voicing out collective desire to enjoy a "tell-all book about the making of Cats." In response, Jack Waz tweeted that "a VFX producer friend of a friend" worked on the monumental project of "[removing] CGI buttholes that had been inserted months before" from the movie's final release. "Somewhere out there," Waz claims, "there exists a butthole cut of Cats."
Is this true? Well, late last year director Tom Hooper did say that pre-release work had been done to alter the characters' design. While this probably referred not to the entirety of the CGI finalizing effort, but to the monkish effort of blurring out cat anuses en masse, it really doesn't matter either way. The concept of an earlier version of Cats filled to the brim with mutant feline-human assholes has winked its single eye at the world and the world has responded with incredible enthusiasm over the possibility of any minor chance that they might see the digital anuses of catified versions of distinguished thespians like Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellan.
The hashtag now spreading (don't dwell on that word choice) around the internet is evidence of this. Aside from all endless supplies of nihilistic, horror-craving everyday freaks clamoring for its release, even celebrities like Rian Johnson and Paul Scheer have joined up in an effort to get the powers that be off their butthole-containing asses and release The People's Cut.
A fantastic fossil found in Belgium is offering new insights into the ancient birds that gave rise to the ones still around today.
The researchers who analyzed the fossil, a team led by paleontologist Daniel Field from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, have dubbed it "Wonderchicken," but their formal paper on the subject, published today in Nature, refers to this early bird as Asteriornis maastrichtensis.
"We report a new crown bird from the Late Cretaceous of Belgium," the authors declare in the new study. "The fossil is between 66.8 and 66.7 million years old-making it the oldest unambiguous crown bird fossil yet discovered-and provides important insight into the extent of Mesozoic neornithine diversification before the end-Cretaceous mass-extinction event, 66.02 million years ago."
By "crown bird," the scientists are referring to the group of birds from which the common ancestor of all living birds is descended. Super early birds, like Archaeopteryx, Fukuipteryx, and Jeholornis, emerged between 145 million and 120 million years ago during the Jurassic, but these feathered avian dinosaurs scarcely resemble the birds who now hang out in our backyards. For example, these ancient "basal" birds, as they're known, required a long time to mature, boasted long tails, and lacked a pygostyle-a plate located at the tip of the backbone, which modern birds use to prop their flight feathers.
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