Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should have a big crowd during the day," said Brittney L. St. Jermaine, a bartender at Shay's Pub and Wine Bar. "We got Murphy's on tap for the first time in honor of the holiday...
...most entertaining cuts show the Beatles' early gift for parody. You'll Be Mine, a Lennon-McCartney jape from 1960, suggests a Five Satins love song as it might have been tortured by a fourth-rate crooner in a Blackpool pub. John offers a basso-preposteroso spoken verse: "My darlin'...I looked into your eyes, and I could see a National Health eyeball..." The band brought the same proto-camp tone to covers of Three Cool Cats and Sheik of Araby, on a failed audition tape for Decca Records on New Year's Day, 1962. Raw and cheeky, the Beatles...
...remembered epiphany evokes a dry giggle, except when he's waxing wrothful on Beatlemania ("They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then they blamed it on us"). Paul sounds earnest and superficial, like a Tory spokesman, and Ringo is still the ideal, unflappable pub mate. Even the grating last years, when Paul would rag George about his guitar playing, or sneak in to redub Ringo's drum parts, are events to look back on in sorrow, not anger. From the grave, Lennon has to give perspective to the breakup: "It was a slow death...
Hill, who was arrested with three others in 1974 for his alleged involvement in the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, was brutally interrogated and repeatedly beaten by British authorities. As a result of fabricated evidence, Hill was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release at the age of 20. Hill spent 15 years in prison, five of them in solitary confinement. In April, 1994, after a lengthy court battle, he was exonerated of all charges...
...want it to be thought of as a pub because people's expectations of a typical pub are lower than the services that we will provide," Feiner said, stressing his promise of good food complimented by good beer...