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What is the true story about The Beatles’ rise to fame? | Progressive Culture | Scholars & Rogues

I mentioned in my last essay that Larry Kane’s book When They Were Boys seemed problematic to me because Kane seemed to lack empathy with The Beatles even though he

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Negron: Imagine Love, Baseball & Rock and Roll – NY Sports Day

Negron: Imagine Love, Baseball & Rock and Roll Ray Negron Negron: Imagine Love, Baseball & Rock and Roll By Ray Negron Pin It Updated: January 6, 2017 I was recently

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Take a musical memory tour with producer Peter Asher – The Morning Call

His entry into show business was a film role, playing a son of then-Hollywood megastar Claudette Colbert in a movie made near the twilight of her storied career.For a time,

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How the Beatles’ First Manager Sparked Rock’s Greatest Myth | Observer

History is a playground-abused soccer ball, touched by 88,000 grubby fingertips.Multi-dimensional, vastly panoramic, and full of lies and optical illusions, history can never be tacked flat to the wall: I

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Beatles’ first manager Allan Williams dies aged 86 – BBC News

The man credited with discovering the Beatles and who became the band’s first manager has died at the age of

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Allan Williams dead: Beatles’ first manager dies at 86

Allan Williams, the club owner known for discovering the Beatles and serving as their first manager, only to part ways

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German singer-songwriter Knut Kiesewetter dies at 75 | News | DW.COM | 29.12.2016

Esteemed musician Knut Kiesewetter, who once played alongside The Beatles, has died at the age of 75. He was famous

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All you need: A chat with Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn | The Salt Lake Tribune

No matter how much you think you know about The Beatles, Mark Lewisohn probably knows more. Hundreds of books have

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Yoko Ono joins Bill Murray for Wes Anderson’s new animated film, ‘Isle of Dogs’ – AOL Entertainment

Yoko Ono will join the cast of Wes Anderson’s next film, the animated Isle of Dogs, alongside Bill Murray, Jeff

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Former Beatles gig promoter Sam Leach dies at 81 – Liverpool Echo

A key figure in the early years of The Beatles has died, it was announced today.Former concert promoter Sam Leach had been suffering from cancer and died at his Liverpool

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