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1. Beatles -- Bands
   The Beatles were without any question the most popular, most influential of all rock groups. Their influence expressed itself first of all in the simple sociological dimensions of their success, unmatched in pop-music history. But the band ... managed almost singlehandedly to transform the innocent entertainment of rock-and-roll into the artistically self conscious pretensions of rock.
2. The Beatles -- Bands
   The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are among the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed popular music bands in history, and their innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s. The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time. In the United Kingdom, they released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one. This commercial ...Read More >
3. Hootie & the Blowfish -- Cracked Rear View
   Hootie & the Blowfish's mainstream pop variation of blues-rock brought the band to the top of the charts in 1995. Formed at the University of South Carolina, the group features lead vocalist/guitarist Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld; the name refers to two friends of the band, not Rucker and the group itself. Cracked Rear View, the group's first album, was released in the fall of 1994 and a single, "Hold My Hand," worked its way into the Top Ten by the beginning of 1995. Its success propelled the album to number one, as well as launching a second hit, "Let Her Cry," which was quickly followed by "Only Wanna Be With You." Cracked Rear View had become a massive success by the fall of 1995, going platinum several times over. By the time the group released their second album, Fairweather Johnson, in the spring of 1996, the debut had sold 13 million copies in the U.S. alone.
4. Yellow Submarine -- Music Ally
   Although the Yellow Submarine is a milestone in animation, little has been written about the people who actually created this classic. At the time of the film's release a lot of credit was given to producer Al Brodax who turned out to be an executive producer with King Features, the company that paid for the production. He shared writing credit with Lee Minoff, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal. The Beatles got music credit of course and Heinz Edelmann, a German speaking Yugoslavian or Czech graphic artist, was recognized as the film's talented designer.
5. John Lennon -- Music
   John Lennon may or may not have been the best of the Beatles, but he certainly was the most unpredictable. His political and social views changed approximately twice as fast as his haircut (and you know how fast that one was changing), and his music is probably the most inconsistent you ever could imagine. Experimental unlistenable albums are interspersed with brilliant introspective chef-d'auevres which, in their turn, are interspersed with primitive political statements, and so on. Picking up a John Lennon album on a CD store rack is the exact equivalent of playing blind man's buff - and making the wrong choice can seriously deteriorate your feelings towards the man, while making the right choice might convert you for life even if you never liked the Beatles in the first place.
6. Kate Hudson -- Kurt Russell
   In 2000, Kate Hudson married Chris Robinson, a frontman for The Black Crowes. She gave birth to their son, Ryder Russell Robinson, on January 7, 2004. The couple lived in a house that was once owned by director James Whale and traveled together during Hudson's film shoots or Robinson's music tours. In August 2006, Hudson said they were separating.
7. Paul Merton -- Sarah Parkinson
   After being married to Caroline Quentin from 1991 to 1998 Paul fell for Sarah Parkinson, a TV producer. She became his wife in 2000 after the couple had an unofficial blessing in the Maldives. Three years later Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer and the couple tied the knot officially in East Sussex. The bride and groom both wore white. Paul, a Beatles fan, wore a Sergeant Pepper style jacket, while Sarah wore a vintage embroidered dress and left the church on a white horse called Zebedee.
8. George Harrison -- Eric Clapton
   George Harrison knew his place, and his restrained brilliance certainly enhanced the Beatles's sound. It was George who played lead guitar; Lennon played rhythm. But George was not a Hendrix-styled technician. He did not play the guitar with his teeth and he did not break new ground like his best buddy, Eric Clapton. But listen to the Beatles' songs and play close attention to the guitar. Totally economical and tasteful, just enough to develop the song, bunting when the team needed a run, hitting one into the gap when they needed more baserunners, belting a home run when the Beatles really needed one.
9. Thomas the Tank
   Thomas the Tank or Brio wooden train set is an outstanding educational toy. Visit the Scrap Yard for a "smash"ing good time. Includes Lorry and 2 pieces of crushable magnetic scrap cargo. Meet up with Thomas The Tank at the scrap yard. Ages 3+.
10. The Goon Show -- Comedy
    The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 in the BBC Home Service and sometimes rebroadcast on the BBC Light Programme. The first series, aired between May and September 1951, went out as Crazy People, with Radio's Own Crazy Gang: The Goons as its subtitle.

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