Interest in John Lennon’s personal life goes back to early ’60s Beatlemania, when a waggish producer on the Ed Sullivan Show captioned a shot of the then-moptop, “Sorry girls, he’s
It was 60 years ago today (April 14th, 1963) that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones first met. The Beatles, who were new on the scene in London, had heard
In this new series, we interview renowned session musicians, giving them a moment in the spotlight. It’s 1975 Brooklyn and 22-year-old musician Mark Rivera is loading his car with a
A world without The Beatles’ imprint and influence isn’t worth considering. However, if John Lennon and Ringo Starr’s teenage selves had their way, the budding musicians would have started a
It was a sweet slice of cultural history and, at the same time, evidence of an unlikely clash of English social classes. The discovery of a tape recording of an