February 10 1964 – Beatles are Teen-Age Dream

It’s hard to explain what makes the Beatles so wonderful because I Don’t completely understand why I think they are. Anti-Beatleites simply cannot understand why other people are crazy about the Beatles, who arrived here from London Friday. “Good heavens!” they exlaim. “They’re not even good looking” As if that …

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September 12th 1972 Ringo and Maureen Fly Out

Wearing dark glasses and an Edwardian Jacked but still recognisable ex-Beatles Ringo Starr left London’s Heartrow Airtport to fly to New York Monday Accompanying him was his wife Maureen, who appeared to supporting the opposition by wearing a T-Rex tee-shirt. Ringo has been busy starring Merlin the Wizard in the …

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John Lennon’s Last interview

December 8 1980 john lennon

Just hours before his death, John Lennon talked at length with radio personality Dave Sholin about his work and his hopes future “While there’s life there’s hope” “Lennon said during the three-hour final interview in his New York apartment. His wife, Yoko Ono, also took part. Sholin, 34 executive producer …

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December 8 1980 – Murder Was Also a Fan

John Lennon’s accused murderer sat quietly in a hospital prison ward Wednesday as officials tried to piece together the conflicting identities of drug-user “born-again” Christian, jilted lover and child of a broken home that apparently drove him to kill the man he most admired. Mark David Chapman, a 25-year-old unemployed …

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Beatles and Beyond

Beatles and Beyond

Beatles won a new audience for mass music and left the hit parade with a musical example that will be hard to forget. “The Beatles have done it again” rings the cry after each new hit. What the Beatles do agin and again is show that pop music can be …

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