… I can tell by your eyes That you've probably been cryin' forever And the stars in the sky Don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror
… I don't wanna talk about it How you broke my heart If I stay here just a little bit longer If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart? Oh, whoa, heart
… If I stand all alone Will the shadow hide the color of my heart? Blue for the tears, black for the night's Fears the stars in the sky Don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror
… I don't wanna talk about it How you broke my heart If I stay here just a little bit longer If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart? Oh, my heart
… I don't wanna talk about it How you broke this old heart If I stay here just a little bit longer If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart?
Oh, my heart My heart Oh, my heart
Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.
Today, The Morgans and The Grandma have been resting after a night of endless dancing.
This evening, the family wants to go to the Hippodrome, one of London's most famous casinos, to have a good time and play a little time: how much money? how many games? how many hours will they be there? No one knows.
Cristina Morgan has broken another heart. This time Connor MacLeod's one,the most famous Scottish immortal, whom she has wished all the luck in the world and may he remain forever young.
Before enjoying this promising evening, the family has been studying a little English grammar with Countable & Uncountable and May.
Tomorrow, the family is going to travel to Maunché in Normandy, where they are going to visit Mont Saint Miché and to neighbouring Brittany where they will visit Penn-ar-Bed (Finistère), Aodoù-an-Arvor (Côtes-d’Armor), Mor-Bihan (Morbihan) and Ill-ha-Gwilen (Ille-et-Vilaine).
The Hippodrome is a building on the corner of Cranbourn Street and Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, London.
The name was used for many different theatres and music halls, of which the London Hippodrome is one of only a few survivors. Hippodrome is an archaic word referring to places that host horse races and other forms of equestrian entertainment.
The London Hippodrome was opened in 1900.
It was designed by Frank Matcham for Moss Empires chaired by Edward
Moss and built for £250,000 as a hippodrome for circus and variety
performances. The venue gave its first show on 15 January 1900, a music
hall revue entitled Giddy Ostend with Little Tich. The conductor was Georges Jacobi.
Entry
to the venue was through a bar, dressed as a ship's saloon. The
performance space featured both a proscenium stage and an arena that
sank into 400 tons, when full, for aquatic spectacles. The tank featured
eight central fountains, and a circle of fountains around the side.
Entrances at the side of the auditorium could also be flooded, and used
for the entry of boats.
Shows
included equestrian acts, elephants and polar bears, and acrobats would
dive from a minstrels' gallery above a sliding roof, in the centre of
the proscenium arch. The auditorium featured cantilevered galleries,
removing the columns that often obstructed views in London
theatres, the whole was covered by a painted glass retractable roof,
that could be illuminated at night. The building included the
headquarters of Moss Empires.
In
1909, it was reconstructed by Matcham as a music-hall and variety
theatre with 1340 seats in stalls, mezzanine, gallery and upper gallery
levels. It was here that Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake received its
English première by the Ballets Russes in 1910. The Albert de Courville
revues were performed here from December 1912.
The Hippodrome hosted the first official jazz gig in the United Kingdom, by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, in 1919.
Its reputation was for revue and musical comedy, among them The Five O'Clock Girl, the West End production of Vincent Youmans' hit Broadway musical Hit The Deck (1928) and also Mr. Cinders, both in 1929; Ivor Novello's Perchance to Dream in 1945 with Margaret Rutherford; and the revue High Spirits in 1953 with Cyril Ritchard and Diana Churchill.
Julie Andrews made her stage debut here at the age of 12. From 1949 to 1951 it was the London equivalent of the Folies Bergère.
The original interior was demolished in 1958, and Bernard Delfont had theHippodrome converted into the nightclub The Talk of the Town. It featured appearances by many of the popular artistes of the time.
In 2009, the lease on the Hippodrome
was acquired by Leicester-born father and son entrepreneurs Jimmy and
Simon Thomas, who began an extensive restoration programme taking the
Hippodrome back to Matcham's original designs for use as a casino and
entertainment venue. During the planning stage, the adjacent Cranbourn
Mansions building became available and plans were redrafted to
incorporate this former gentlemen's apartment block into the design,
doubling the eventual floorspace and linked using a new structure sited
within the existing light well between the two buildings.
Investment
in the building reportedly came to over £40 million, the funds being
raised by the Thomas family from the sale of a number of bingo halls
prior to the UK smoking ban, which made it illegal to smoke within an
enclosed workplace, on 1 July 2007.
The Hippodrome Casino was opened on 13 July.
The
venue on opening included four floors of gaming, including a Gold Room
casino sited in the original basement with access directly into
Chinatown to the rear of the building, Heliot restaurant, six bars, a
smoking terrace and The Matcham Room cabaret theatre. The restoration
and construction of the casino was followed on the blog of LBC presenter
Steve Allen.
In
January 2013, the casino was awarded Best Land-based Casino at the
Totally Gaming Awards, which also gave Jimmy Thomas a Life Achievement
award for his contribution to the gaming and entertainment industries.
On 4 March 2013, Simon Thomas announced the opening of Pokerstars LIVE, a collaboration between the Hippodrome
and Pokerstars, the world's largest online poker website. While
initially on the fourth floor, in 2020 Pokerstars LIVE moved to the
third floor where it currently resides.
The Matcham Room at the Hippodrome Casino is currently the home of Magic Mike Live London.
In 2020, construction was completed on an expansion of the fourth floor smoking area to include gaming, and the creation of The Rooftop, a new bar and dining space, on the fifth floor.
Today, The Morgans and The Grandma arrived in Liverpool to spend two days visiting the city and witnessing the UCL match between Liverpool and PSG live at Anfield.
The family had breakfast with TheBeatles, old friends of The Grandma with whom they talked about love and musical tastes.
The Grandma told a very interesting story about AlanLomax and Rosalíawhose indisputable works gives incalculable value to oral tradition and the classics.
After the visit, the family has been reviewing English grammar with Adverbs of Manner and State Verbs. They have also created templates for writing essays.
This evening, The Morgans will be special guests in the Anfield stadium box from where they will cheer on Liverpool and remind them that they will never walk alone. The whole family is very excited about this event, well not everyone, with the exception of Andrea Morgan, who doesn't like football.
Liverpool
is a city in Merseyside, North West England. It is located on the
eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, adjacent to the Irish Sea, and is
approximately 286 km from London. The name comes from the Old English lifer, meaning thick or muddy water, and pōl, meaning a pool or creek, and is first recorded around 1190 as
All You Need Is Loveis a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967.
It was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The song was Britain's contribution to Our World, the first live global television link, for which the band were filmed performing it at EMI Studios in London on 25 June.
The programme was broadcast via satellite and seen by an audience of over 400 million in 25 countries. Lennon's
lyrics were deliberately simplistic, to allow for the show's
international audience, and captured the utopian ideals associated with
the Summer of Love. The single topped sales charts in
Britain, the United States and many other countries, and became an
anthem for the counterculture's embrace of flower power philosophy.
Our World coincided with the height of the Beatles'popularity and influence, following the release of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.Rather than perform the song entirely live, the group played to a
pre-recorded backing track. With an orchestral arrangement by George
Martin, the song begins with a portion of the French national anthem and
ends with musical quotations from works such as Glenn Miller's In the Mood, Greensleeves, Bach's Invention No. 8 in F major, and the Beatles' 1963 hit She Loves You.
Adding to the broadcast's festive atmosphere, the studio was adorned
with signs and streamers and filled with guests dressed in psychedelic
attire, including members of the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Small
Faces. Brian Epstein, the Beatles'manager, described the performance as the band's finest moment.
All You Need Is Love was later included on the US Magical Mystery Tour album and served as the moral for the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. Originally broadcast in black-and-white, the Our World performance was colourised for inclusion in the Beatles' 1995 Anthology documentary series.
While the song remains synonymous with the 1967 Summer of Love ethos and provided the foundation for Lennon's legacy as a humanitarian, numerous critics found the message naive in retrospect, particularly during the 1980s.
Since 2009, Global Beatles Day, an international celebration of the Beatles' music and social message, takes place on 25 June each year in tribute to their Our World performance.
In the decades following the record's release, Beatles
biographers and music journalists criticised the lyrics as naive and
simplistic and detected a smugness in the message; the song's musical
content was similarly dismissed as unimaginative.
Love, love, love Love, love, love Love, love, love
There's nothing you can do that can't be done (love) Nothing you can sing that can't be sung (love) Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game (love)
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