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How Bob Dylan and George Harrison bonded while writing a hit

    How Bob Dylan and George Harrison bonded while writing a hit

Shortly after concluding his world tour, Bob Dylan totalled his 500cc Triumph Tiger 100 while driving to manager Albert Grossman’s house in Woodstock. Dylan would later explain that the so-called

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The Beatles’ Earliest Known U.K. Concert Recording Is Unearthed – Billboard

    The Beatles’ Earliest Known U.K. Concert Recording Is Unearthed – Billboard

A 60-year-old recording of the Beatles, said to be the earliest full taping of the Fab Four on home soil, has come to light.The gig took place on April 4,

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George Harrison Helped Save Monty Python’s The Life Of Brian | News | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

    George Harrison Helped Save Monty Python’s The Life Of Brian | News | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

George Harrison was many things across his life. A guitarist. A songwriter. A Beatle. But he was also an incredible cinephile, and when the financial backer of Monty Python’s The

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Exploring the solo work of The Beatles – The Post

    Exploring the solo work of The Beatles – The Post

After the messy breakup of The Beatles in 1970, all four artists continued to create music, each branching off into their own style. Here’s how each member fared outside the

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The moment Ringo Starr saw John Lennon for the final time

    The moment Ringo Starr saw John Lennon for the final time

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like

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John Lennon’s two word response to potential Beatles reunion – Liverpool Echo

    John Lennon’s two word response to potential Beatles reunion – Liverpool Echo

The Beatles’ 1970 split was a bitter one, with emotions running high.Each of the band members began working on their

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The John Lennon solo hit Paul McCartney secretly co-wrote

    The John Lennon solo hit Paul McCartney secretly co-wrote

The ending of The Beatles plays out like a musical Greek tragedy. After each of ‘The Fab Four’ started to

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The Ringo Starr album John Lennon called “embarrassing”

    The Ringo Starr album John Lennon called “embarrassing”

Ringo Starr is primarily famed as the drummer of The Beatles, for both good and bad reasons. From the likes

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The Beatles: How a schoolboy made the band’s earliest known UK concert recording

    The Beatles: How a schoolboy made the band’s earliest known UK concert recording

The earliest known full recording of The Beatles playing a live concert in the UK, at the point they were

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Royston Ellis, Bridge Between Beat Poets and the Beatles, Dies at 82 – The New York Times

    Royston Ellis, Bridge Between Beat Poets and the Beatles, Dies at 82 – The New York Times

Royston Ellis, a British Beat poet who rose to fame with spoken-word performances to a rock ’n’ roll accompaniment, including gigs with the Beatles and Jimmy Page before they were

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