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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Revolver with the digital release of the video for “Eleanor Rigby”

A year ago last month, I welcomed former UK Prime Minister Theresa May to a community center tucked under a bridge in rapidly-changing south London. She was there to meet younger and older neighbors who were enjoying a quiz hosted by the charity I run, and to launch the world's first ever government-level loneliness strategy. As May mingled with octogenarians and millennials and shared local trivia over tea and biscuits, her strategy was being met with a mixture of derision, gratitude and curiosity. For critics, loneliness was nothing more than a natural and episodic personal emotion — an unavoidable part...

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The words, familiar to countless millions around the world, are among the most poignant in popular music: 'Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name; nobody came.' Set to a haunting melody by Lennon and McCartney and backed by a string octet masterfully arranged by George Martin, the song broke new ground with its heartrending refrain: 'All the lonely people, where do they all come from?' Its funereal orchestration and bleak message of isolation, depression and desolation were a far cry from the upbeat hits the public had come to expect from The Beatles -...

A British man who kept a detailed diary on his lawn mowing for the past 20 years, has had his information included in a study on global warming. Seventy-seven-year-old David Grisenthwaite's painstaking records on his lawn cutting were included as part of a study on global warming by the Royal Meteorological Society, the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday. Grass is growing for one month longer than it did 20 years ago, due to climate changes, according to the study. I didn't see it as being anything significant, but the data was passed on to the Royal Meteorological Society and they graphed...