On This Day, July 1, 1967: The Beatles hit #1 with ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’

On This Day, July 1, 1967 …The Beatles hit #1 with their eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured such classic Beatles tunes as the title track, "With a Little Help From My Friends," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "When I’m Sixty Four," "Lovely Rita" and "A Day in the Life."Sgt. Pepper's was The Beatles eighth #1 album and spent 15 weeks at the top of the charts in the U.S. It went on to win […]

July 1, 2025

Entertainment

In brief: ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ official trailer and more

The official trailer for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale has arrived. Focus Features released the trailer for the third and final film in the movie series on Monday. The movie, which arrives in theaters on Sept. 12, follows the Crawley family as they enter the 1930s, embracing all of the change that comes with a new chapter of life ...The Bachelor has been given another rose. Deadline reports that ABC has renewed the reality dating competition show for its landmark […]

July 1, 2025

Entertainment

Cynthia Erivo to star in, produce ‘Saturation Point’ film adaptation

Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesCynthia Erivo has found her next project.The Wicked star is set to produce and star in a film adaptation of the Adrian Tchaikovsky sci-fi thriller Saturation Point, Deadline reports.Saturation Point follows Dr. Jasmine Marks, who leads a search and rescue mission into "The Zone" — a select part of rainforest close to the equator that has a climate inhospitable to intelligent life.As part of her journey, Dr. Marks discovers that The Zone is even deadlier […]

July 1, 2025

Music

Call me the birthday girl: Blondie’s Debbie Harry turns 80

Dia Dipasupil/Getty ImagesCelebrations are in order as Blondie's iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry is turning 80 on Tuesday.Harry co-founded Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York in the ‘70s. The band hit it big in 1979 with the release of their third studio album, Parallel Lines, a top-10 hit in the U.S. thanks to songs like "Heart of Glass," their first #1 single, "One Way or Another" and "Hanging on the Telephone."The band went on to have four #1 singles, have sold over 40 million […]

July 1, 2025

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