Sgt Pepper’s harpist plucked at the heartstrings
Harpist Sheila Bromberg played in England’s great orchestras, but one night with Paul McCartney changed everything.
Harpist Sheila Bromberg played in England’s great orchestras, but one night with Paul McCartney changed everything.
Upstaged by the dot.com crash of 2000, the world-famous donor to opera companies ended up a convicted criminal and in jail.
Hitler’s favourite architect Albert Speer argued for decades that he knew nothing of the Holocaust, but a recently discovered letter tells another story.
Ernest Hemingway thought young Jack Hirschman’s writing was so good it was like his, but said he wouldn’t make a living from it.
Former ASIO agent Molly Sasson was an interpreter at Nuremberg and well remembers so-called ‘good Nazi’ Albert Speer.
Obsessed by JD Salinger’s famous novel, Mark Chapman saw himself as its main character and on a mission.
Paul Fenn was a fierce competitor on the field and in the newsroom – and he proved a long-term winner at both.
Charlie Watts’ signature style was hardly textbook, but it won him many admirers among fellow drummers.
Don was the driving force when the Everly Brothers started writing their own hits, but success couldn’t keep them united.
With a richly textured voice and soul, Tom T. Hall captured the simple moments and turned them into snapshots of our lives.
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