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Articles tagged "the beatles"

ShortTakes Review

Various Artists: Easy Beatles

by Evan Sawdey

[24.Apr.08] :. Beatles covers redone as unabashed pop fluff, somehow retaining the original songs' rigidity in the process.

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News

Release of historic ‘lost’ Beatles recordings halted

by Jay Weaver [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Apr.08] :. A London company representing The Beatles won an initial legal battle on Wednesday to stop a Miami Lakes business from releasing rare live recordings of the group at a German club in 1962. Apple...

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Sgt. Pepper’s troops storm N.J. Beatles fest

by Richard Cowen [The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)]

[31.Mar.08] :. All you need is love for thousands of Beatles fans to come together - although it certainly helps to have cash or a credit card. The Fab Four’s magical history tour made its annual stop at...

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Fab forms: Northwestern University displays images of rare Beatles lyrics

by Louis R. Carlozo [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[27.Mar.08] :. EVANSTON, Ill. - Growing up in Liverpool, the Beatles took pieces of all the pop music they could find - country, Motown, rhythm and blues, rockabilly - and turned it into rock immortal. But as for...

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Beatles sue to stop release of ‘lost’ recordings

by Jay Weaver [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Mar.08] :. Despite newfound fame from their hit single “Love Me Do” in fall 1962, the Beatles agreed to return for a few final gigs at a German club where they had performed as a fledgling...

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Book Review

Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald

by John Bergstrom

[29.Oct.07] :. In spite of some troubling, reactionary views, the late MacDonald's song-by-song analysis of the Fabs' music remains a Top Five acquisition.

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All My Loving

by Stuart Henderson

[18.Sep.07] :. Tony Palmer's 1968 made-for-BBC "masterpiece" looks decidedly more suspect today.

 

The Beatles by Bob Spitz

by Zeth Lundy

[16.Dec.05] :. Spitz conquers the sensibilities of common logic by telling us a story we know by heart as if we'd never heard it.

 
 
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