OK Computer is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Radiohead(pictured), released on 16 June 1997 in the UK by EMI subsidiaries Parlophone and Capitol Records. The band made a deliberate attempt to distance themselves from the guitar-oriented, lyrically introspective style of prior works like The Bends. OK Computer's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic range of influences laid the groundwork for the more experimental style Radiohead adopted beginning with their next album, Kid A. Although record label executives feared the progressive album would be difficult to market, it reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and became the band's highest album entry on the American charts at the time, debuting at number 21 on the Billboard 200. The album's lyrics, depicting a world fraught with rampant consumerism, social alienation, emotional isolation and political malaise, are often interpreted as having prescient insight into the mood of 21st-century life. (Full article...)
... that letters written by Abigail Franks(pictured) to her son in England are peppered with family gossip, local politics, and observations on the state of Judaism in 18th-century colonial New York?
... that arson in royal dockyards was one of the last four crimes in the United Kingdom to carry the death penalty?
The interior of St Christopher's Chapel at Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden. Along the back of the chapel is the 'Teddy Bear Choir', a line of teddy bears provided by families. In the foreground is the 'prayer tree', featuring messages of hope for sick children.
