Ana Leorne is a Paris-based trilingual music journalist. Formerly digital media at MTV Portugal and associate editor at The 405, she contributes regularly to Beats Per Minute and hosts Comète Sauvage at Pigalle Paris Radio while finishing a PhD in Pop Culture. Cat lover and vinyl enthusiast, other writing interests include film, politics, philosophy, social dynamics, and psychology: she is the author of Dear Dr Freud: David Bowie Hits The Couch for David Bowie - Critical Perspectives.
John Lennon asked The Beatles for a "divorce," and he got his wish. After the group's breakup in 1970, quarreling and competition were the norm between himself, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. In Lennon's case, this tension added to a slightly tainted reputation derived from the public's disappointment upon The Beatles' end, his unpopular marriage to Yoko Ono…
In 1970, Let It Be, the documentary chronicling The Beatles' final studio album of the same name, hit theaters worldwide, providing a blunt answer to the whys and the hows for those who might still be in denial about the group's inevitable separation. The film unmercifully exposed numerous cracks in their interpersonal relationships, only letting us see fragments of what…
After 1969 symbolically brought the decade to a frightful close, with the escalation of war in Vietnam, the Manson murders and Brian Jones's death kicking off a series of untimely losses for Pop, 1970 arrived as a slap in the face, designed to wake counterculture up from its fantasist dream for good. As the Beatles made their separation official and irrevocable…
A couple of years ago there was a petition circulating online demanding that the Vienna International Airport be renamed after Falco. Although it failed to gather the required signatures for a name change to be even considered, its main argument was virtually indisputable from a Pop culture point of view, probably drawing inspiration from Liverpool's own John Lennon International. Agreed,…
The single mix of "Never Forget," the last track extracted from Take That's third studio album Nobody Else, appropriately begins with "Tuba Mirum" from Verdi's Requiem followed by an intro by the Henllan Boys Choir. Their last LP before disbanding in early 1996, Nobody Else (and "Never Forget" in particular), would mark the departure of Robbie Williams, who left the…
