Tomorrow Never Knows

On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 19,000 British soldiers were sent to their deaths - forced to march into a flurry of machine gun fire, and shot by their own officers if they refused. War reduces humans to cannon-fodder. Remember that this #RemembranceDay.

"I went to the Cirque du Soleil tribute to the Beatles and I was sitting in the second row, bawling. I tried not to be vocal, but I was so blown away when I saw that hologram of the four Beatles walking onstage, that just took me. The reality of the thing brought me to my knees . . . that just wiped me out. "I love all the songs that they've done. I started finding my voice around the time the Beatles started playing and I bought everything they recorded. I learned all of their songs and taught them to my students in junior high school in Washington DC. When I made the transition from teaching in the classroom to entering the fray as a recording artist, I was listening to the Beatles. Everybody was listening to the Beatles. "They created a lot of discussion in the black community, particularly in the black community of music. Because during those days we had a lot of doo-wop groups and we had Chuck Berry and we had Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and James Brown. And it seemed to me that when these guys came busting out of England, they busted out with all that influence. You could hear Chuck Berry, you could hear Otis Redding. You could hear it. It was wonderful. When I did 'Oh Darling' [on Let It Be Roberta] I thought it was a throwback. I thought 'Oh Darling' is a blues. I don't care how you look at it — it has blues (chord) changes. I didn't change any of the chords, I just sang it like it was a blues. "The Beatles wear me out, they're too talented. Their music is so important, not only because the songs are easily accessed by even the layman's ears, but also by musicians. I could hear in the melodies a brilliance like Schubert. They were so far ahead of their time. "In my life I’ve had the opportunity to cover so many beautiful, beautiful songs, with great melodies. And the Beatles have the largest collection of those songs for me. My passion [for their music] comes from the magical genius of the greatest songwriters of all time. Love, inspiration, friendship and my own life's lessons come together when I sing the songs they created." --#RobertaFlack #Roberta #Soul #Jazz #RandB #TheVoice #Grammys #HallsOfFame #TheBeatles #Songs #Original #Influence #GOAT Sources: National Post, 2012; Soul&Jazz&Funk, 2012; The Guardian, 2015; Liner notes, 'Let It Be Roberta'

THIS IS PCSO ALICE DOBSON, A 31-YEAR-OLD POLICE COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICER FROM BRADFORD WHO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF PASSING CONFIDENTIAL POLICE INFORMATION TO A MAN INVOLVED IN A BRUTAL MACHETE ATTACK THAT LEFT A VICTIM WITH HIS HAND SEVERED. DOBSON WAS FOUND GUILTY OF SHARING DETAILS OF A POLICE INVESTIGATION WITH RAHEES KHAN, 43, ONE OF FIVE MEN CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY TO MURDER TWO MEN. A MAN LOST HIS HAND IN THIS HORRIFIC ATTACK, WHILE A POLICE EMPLOYEE WAS FEEDING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION TO ONE OF THOSE BEHIND THE PLOT. SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP PROTECT THE PUBLIC, NOT BETRAY THE TRUST PLACED IN HER. AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO THE UNIFORM!

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"We were driving through Colorado [and] we had the radio on and eight of the Top Ten songs were Beatles songs. In Colorado! 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' all those early ones. "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid . . . but I kept it to myself that I really dug them. Everybody else thought they were for the teenyboppers, that they were gonna pass right away. But it was obvious to me that they had staying power. I knew they were pointing the direction where music had to go. "In my head, the Beatles were it. It seemed to me a definite line was being drawn. This was something that never happened before . . . "They were fantastic singers. To this day, it's hard to find a singer better than Lennon was, or than McCartney was and still is. I'm in awe of McCartney. He's about the only one that I'm in awe of. He can do it all. And he's never let up. He's got the gift for melody, he's got the gift for rhythm, he can play any instrument. He can scream and shout as good as anyone, and he can sing a ballad as good as anyone. And his melodies are effortless, that's what you have to be in awe of . . . he's just so damn effortless. I just wish he'd quit [laughs]. Everything that comes out of his mouth is just framed in melody. "As for Lennon . . . John has taken poetics pretty far in popular music. A lot of his work is overlooked, but if you examine it, you’ll find key expressions that have never been said before to push across his point of view. Things that are symbolic of some inner reality and probably will never be said again. "America should put statues up to the Beatles. They helped give this country’s pride back to it. I think they're the best." --#BobDylan #Dylan #Songwriter #Author #Icon #Influence #Pulitzer #NobelPrize #Oscars #HallOfFame #Beatles #TheBeatles #Impact #Singers #GOATs Sources: Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll; Rolling Stone magazine, 2007; Playboy, 1978; Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Howard Sounes

These are the faces of some former Thames Valley Police officers dismissed over child abuse offences. The very people entrusted to serve and protect the public, especially its most vulnerable, became the very people children needed protecting from. A sickening betrayal of trust.

🚔 THIS IS PC JED OSMOND A DISGRACED HAMPSHIRE POLICE OFFICER WHO DOWNLOADED SICKENING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGES! CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS ONE YEAR OLD! BABIES BEING RAPED AND SEXUALLY ABUSED! MORE THAN 100 INDECENT IMAGES FOUND ON HIS PHONE! HIS PUNISHMENT? JUST 13 MONTHS IN PRISON, SUSPENDED FOR 18 MONTHS! NO IMMEDIATE JAIL TIME! THE JUDGE SAID HE HAD SHOWN REMORSE! A POLICE OFFICER SWORN TO PROTECT THE VULNERABLE — CAUGHT WITH IMAGES OF CHILDREN SUFFERING UNIMAGINABLE ABUSE! HE WALKED FREE FROM COURT! THIS JUSTICE SYSTEM IS A JOKE