The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour’: Best Band, Worst Movie
The Beatles’ disaster of a pop musical, quirky, farce, road trip fantasy film that became Magical Mystery Tour begins with triumph.
Dave Van Dyke
John D. Van Dyke is a writer, academic, science educator, and failed rockstar. His essays have appeared in Skeptic, Roger Ebert’s Journal, The Chamber, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, and Michigan
History. In 2020, Van Dyke successfully nominated his hometown of Buchanan, MI to be Reader’s Digest’s “Nicest Place in America.” Van Dyke has been featured on internationally syndicated radio programs such as The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Our American Stories. The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Origin of the Viral Conspiracy Theory is Van Dyke's first book.
Don Felder’s Curious Pre-Fame Connection
With hundreds of millions of record sales and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, Don Felder’s curious connections to the southern rock pioneers of northeastern Florida have been largely ignored.
The Curious Connection of the Beatles and Nixon at Disney World
The story of how the radically different historical figures the Beatles, Richard Nixon, and Disney World intertwine is one of fascinating coincidence.
“Paul McCartney Is Dead”: The Hoax That Just Won’t Die
The “Paul McCartney Is Dead” hoax is so familiar to the public that it is taught in psychology courses to illustrate confirmation bias. Why won’t it just die, already?
A Supreme Disappointment: When the Supremes Met the Beatles
When Detroit’s top-of-the charts the Supremes met Liverpool’s top-of-the-world the Beatles in 1965, the awkward silence was deafening.