Sir George Martin
On Jan. 3, 2012, Sir George celebrates his 86th birthday.
He produced a large cross section of artists during his long career. Cilla Black, Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cheap Trick and America are among the more well known.
But there were many many others. Here’s […]

 
This post was inspired by selenak story In the Bleak Midwinter the Ringo and Little Richard incident is referred to by the lads. It got me thinking about other Beatle’s rumors. I decided to share the ones I found interesting (and/or) amusing.
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In the new issue of MOJO (on sale next Tuesday, September 27), we celebrate the life and times of the great George Harrison. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pattie Boyd, Jeff Lynne, Olivia Harrison and many more join us in paying tribute to a man millions adored, but few truly knew.
Elsewhere in this month’s mag, you’ll find in-depth features on PiL, Beirut, […]

The band Traveling Wilburys.
“Living in the Material World: George Harrison,” a biographical book authorized by his widow, Olivia, featuring rare pictures and memories of the Beatle’s life from his family and friends, will be published this fall by Abrams, it was announced today.The 400-page book, to coincide with the Martin Scorsese documentary about the former Beatle, will […]

Sorry about the anticlimactic predictability of this, but I really had no other choice. The greatest artist of the last fifty years is the Beatles and no reasonable argument can be made otherwise. Sure, you can prefer the style of another act more or be more devoted/obsessed with someone else or even think another […]

Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton,
Talking in our beds for a week.
The newspaper said, “Say what you doing in bed?”
I said, “We’re only trying to get us some peace.”
–John Lennon, “The Ballad of John and Yoko” (1969)
It was 1969, and the Vietnam War was raging. Protests, riots and societal turmoil were ripping at the […]

Forget that I’m presently stoned and you, more than likely, are not. Let me run this past you.
The Beatles are the single greatest rock band in the history of humanity. Their brief eight-year run yielded more gold (and platinum) than any other band that has ever existed, before or since. Their music not only sold […]

A Canadian student has become the first person in the world to land a degree in “Beatlesology” from a Liverpool university.Former Miss Canada contestant Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy was one of the first students to sign up for MA course in in Beatles Studies at Liverpool Hope University.Twelve students joined the Master of Arts course two years […]

Dec. 8, 1980. That’s a date every Beatles fan over 40 remembers: the day John Lennon was shot and killed. We all know where we were and what we were doing when we found out. It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years - harder still to believe it happened at all.
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George Harrison, the “quiet” Beatle and spiritual explorer died on this day nine years ago in his Los Angeles home following a battle with cancer.
Harrison’s wife, Olivia Harrison, and son Dhani, 24, were with him and said a quiet prayer over his body. Within hours of his death, true to his unostentatious nature, he was […]