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The Fender Stratocaster Bob Dylan used to "go electric" back in 1965 is going up for auction soon.
The 1964 sunburst Fender Stratocaster will be auctioned later this year after Dawn Peterson, who has owned the guitar for 50 years, decided to part with the iconic musical memorabilia. Peterson appeared with the instrument on US TV show History Detectives earlier this year and has been informed that she is likely to make a minimum of £333,000 from the sale.
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Check out "Why Don't We Do It in the Road," an award-winning short film that pays tribute to the crosswalk outside London's Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles shot the cover photo for their final LP.
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Check out the opening credits for "Beware the Batman," which starts July 13 on the Cartoon Network.
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The Daily Telegraph explores the innovative music of "Doctor Who."
Doctor Who’s sculptors of sound were free to be as radical as they liked, as long as they didn’t spend too much. Tristram Cary – founder of the first electronic studio at the Royal College of Music – summoned a clanking, growling atmosphere for the first appearance of the Daleks. Richard Rodney Bennett, a promising pupil of Pierre Boulez, created wild woodwind flourishes for the Doctor’s visit to 15th-century Mexico. The fiercely intellectual Carey Blyton composed lurching modern jazz themes on ancient instruments: humanoid reptiles emerged from the earth to a krumhorn accompaniment; the ophicleide heralded the appearance of the Cybermen. Dudley Simpson, a former conductor for the Borovansky ballet, employed water-gongs, car springs, a church organ and the first Moog synthesizer to create enormous soundscapes with a tiny band of session playersAnd here's a documentary of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, creator of the "Doctor Who" theme:
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