Here Comes The Gong

BEATLES FILM IN LINE FOR GRAMMY AWARD

- James Desborough

THREE music icons, Sir Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen, attend a star-studded awards bash but it's a creation linked to Paul's former band that is likely to win a precious Grammy tonight.

An eye-popping animation for The Beatles song I'm Only Sleeping may scoop a gong, although neither Sir Paul or drummer Ringo Starr will collect it.

The film - combining 1,300 oil paintings was released with the special edition of 1966 album Revolver, and animator Em Cooper will pick up the statuette, should it win Best Video.

Cambridge-born Em said: "I began with the thought that this would simply be John [Lennon] drifting in and out of sleep, peppered with surreal moments, dipping into the history of The Beatles.

"But the meanings of the film soon began to spread out, encompassing The Beatles' anti-war feelings and reflecting on our place in the world."