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       From BBC News       By Samira Ahmed,      Edited by  Amal Udawatta        IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, The Beatles pictured in 1963, the year they played a concert in a school theatre in Stowe, Buckinghamshire The earliest known full recording of The Beatles playing a live concert in the UK, at the point they were becoming the biggest band in the nation, has been revealed by BBC Radio 4's Front Row, almost exactly 60 years after it was made. The hour-long quarter-inch tape recording was made by 15-year-old John Bloomfield at Stowe boarding school in Buckinghamshire on 4 April 1963 when the band played a concert at the school's theatre. They had been booked by fellow pupil David Moores, who had written to manager Brian Epstein. Epstein, perhaps recognising the connection to an important Liverpool family - the Moores family owned the Littlewoods football pools and retail business - agreed to the booking for a fee of £100, and Moores raised the funds by selling

 From BBC  News Edited by Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, PA Burt Bacharach was one of the last of the great popular songwriters of the 20th Century. Together with Hal David, he created songs that became standards in their own right. They were classy, catchy, commercial and musically complex, and scores of them became hits during a career that lasted more than 50 years. His songs transcended the rock era; never fashionable but never out of fashion. Songwriting great Burt Bacharach dies aged 94 Burt Freeman Bacharach was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1928 but grew up in New York, where his father was a well-known newspaper columnist. He developed an interest in jazz as a teenager, often blagging his way into many of New York's jazz clubs while technically under age. He studied music in Montreal and California and found himself hanging out with composer John Cage, who was a major influence. IMAGE SOURCE, NASA Image caption, By the end of the 1960s Bacharach had written dozens of hit

  By Robin Levinson-King BBC News, Edited by - Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, PABLO PICASSO / GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK Image caption, Woman Ironing (La repasseuse) by Pablo Picasso. Paris, 1904. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York In 1938, fearing for their lives amid rising Jewish persecution, Karl and Rosi Adler fled Nazi Germany for then-unoccupied Europe. In order to pay for their short-term visas, they sold one of their prized possessions - a 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso called Woman Ironing. That painting eventually made its way into the collection of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Now, the heirs of the Adlers want the painting back. "Adler would not have disposed of the painting at the time and price that he did, but for the Nazi persecution to which he and his family had been, and would continue to be, subjected," lawyers for the heirs wrote in a lawsuit filed in a New York City court last week. Several Jewish organisations and non-profits are