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Revolution None: The Beatles’ ‘Wide Album’How the Beatles fell into avant garde hell with 1968’s unreleased Wide Album. [25 November 2008] Birthday: The Beatles’ White Album 40th AnniversarySide Four: The potential breakthrough and the impending breakup, the final side celebrates the Beatles' artistic experimentation -- and the creative contradictions that signaled their eventual end. [21 November 2008] Part 2: Janis Ian to Jimi Hendrix (1966-1970)Music truly is the universal language. The best songs of protest are passed around, from movement-to-movement, era-to-era; its singers gaining multilingual fluency along the way. [17 July 2007] Reflections of a Renaissance Man: An Interview with Paul McCartneyFrom Astaire to T-Pain, from Little Richard to de Kooning, McCartney talks to PopMatters and covers it all, including his uncertainty about what kind of send-off he'd like. [25 June 2007] Sgt. Pepper at 40, from A to ZIt was 40 years ago today -- to be precise, June 1, 1967, in Britain, a day later in the former colonies of America -- that the Beatles changed the world. [1 June 2007] Best Reissues of 2006At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 20 reissues of 2006. Stay tuned tomorrow and Thursday for ongoing genre top 10s with our coverage culminating in the year's best musical events on Friday. [23 December 2006] ColumnsNow He’s 64: A Late Lennon LandmarkSixty-four-year-olds aren't what they used to be, and if John Lennon were still alive, he would probably not be living the quaint parlour scene played out in McCartney's ditty. [27 October 2004] (more Anglo Visions) Reviews
George Harrison: Let It Roll: Songs by George HarrisonNot quite the definitive tribute that rediscovered George deserved, Let It Roll is a patchy albeit always listenable collection [19 June 2009] 
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1966-1970When the viewer is presented with portions of interviews with a panel of experts—including Beatles friends and biographers, journalists, broadcasters and eminent musicologists--things really pick up. [1 December 2008] 
The Beatles: LoveThe companion piece to the Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, George and Giles Martin's remix project affirms newfound thematic correlations within the Beatles' catalog. [15 December 2006] 
The Beatles by Bob SpitzSpitz conquers the sensibilities of common logic by telling us a story we know by heart as if we'd never heard it. [16 December 2005] 
The Beatles: The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1They are the greatest pop culture phenomenon of our lifetime and the ongoing artistic touchstone for rock music. But by the 21st century, the Beatles have become synonymous with music industry greed; they are a cash cow milked annually for the progressively lactose-intolerant. [12 January 2005] 
The Beatles: White AlbumBetter known as The White Album, it's the 30th anniversary of the seminal 1968 Beatles record and Capitol Records is celebrating with a limited edition... [1 January 1995] Blogs
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