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Good ol Freda

For Freda Kelly,secretary to the Beatles and head of the bands fan club,work sometimes involved trailing the Fab Four to the barber shop,sweeping their locks from the floor and mailing strands of hair to adoring female fans. Kelly,one of the Beatles longest-serving employees,worked for the band for more than a decade but had never shared her stories publicly until now. She breaks her silence in a new documentary,Good Ol Freda. The documentarys title comes from the Beatles 1963 Christmas recording,in which George Harrison thanks their secretary in Liverpool,and they all yell,Good Ol Freda!

Chinas heavy-handed censors to face Ai Weiweis heavy metal

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei announced plans to release a heavy-metal album that he said would express his opinion just as he does with his art. The burly and bearded Ai said his 81 days in secretive detention in 2011,which sparked an international outcry,triggered his foray into music. Ais debut albumDivina Commedia,after the poem by Italian poet Danteis a reference to the Ai God nickname in Chinese that his supporters have given him. Two songs are about the blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng,whose escape from house arrest last April and subsequent refuge in the US Embassy embarrassed China and led to a diplomatic tussle.