Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's conceit is that the original Sgt. Pepper and his three sidemen were heroic World War I bandsmen who returned to their town of Heartland and, after full lives, bequeathed their instruments to the four little boys who would grow up to become the second Sgt. Pepper band. These are Frampton, a sweet-faced youth with wilted blond hair, and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the brothers who are the Bee Gees...
...Harvard University Band is having its 55th birthday party this weekend, and over 200 alumni bandsmen and their families are returning to Cambridge to join in the celebration...
Returning bandsmen will march in Saturday morning's parade through Harvard Square and play during the halftime show of the Harvard-Penn football game...
...18th century, the ministry nonetheless agreed last week not to buy any more skins. What happens when the present supply runs low? Well, there is a company near London that makes synthetic skins for $40 (v. $300 for a good leopard skin and $550 for a tiger), but the bandsmen may not have to stoop to that just yet. "There must be thousands of skins from the old raj days being used as rugs or knocking around in attics," said Colonel Rodney Bashford, director of the Royal Military School of Music. "We hope that their owners will leave them...
...slice of that crabmeat on dark that you ate last night before you took your Hist 153 exam this morning, maybe Jesus Christ himself/herself visited you last night whilst you were unaware, but anyway it's there)? Well, cast a glance over the festive scene: rows of bandsmen on little perches behind what looks like chariots without wheels, but with macabre sequins pasted all over the front; up front a handsome guy with lots of teeth falling out the edges of his mouth, and with wavy hair rolling jerkily over his skull, all bathed in grease, or maybe...