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35 Years Ago: George Harrison Tries But Fails to Salvage ‘Somewhere In England’

35 Years Ago: George Harrison Tries But Fails to Salvage ‘Somewhere In England’

It took an unspeakable tragedy to get George Harrison‘s Somewhere in England onto the charts, and even then the album couldn’t be saved.Finally released on June 5, 1981, the project

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Imagine: John Lennon Meets Prince (and Morrissey)

Virtual reality is all the rage: Facebook’s has Oculus, Google has Daydream. But the real revolution in tech happened years ago, when a former radio broadcaster named Robert Monroe recorded

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Beatles were a knockout for Muhammad Ali in 1964 | Centre Daily Times

It was four against one when “The Greatest” met the soon-to-be greatest rock band of all time, but Muhammad Ali had no trouble knocking out all of The Beatles with

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Paul McCartney: The Biography review – the gospel according to Macca

Paul McCartney gave his “tacit approval” to a man he always hated to write his biography. Philip Norman wrote the essential and brilliant Beatles biography, Shout! (1981), which portrays McCartney

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Prince Breaks Beatles’ Billboard Chart Record As Fans Continue To Buy His Music

Since the death of Prince on April 21, fans have flocked to see Purple Rain on the big screen, attending

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Paul McCartney embraces virtual reality to recall the Beatles’ best recordings | Music | The Guardian

When we think of the Beatles, we think of black-and-white television footage, 45s playing on a turntable, and their reluctance

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The Beatles: Revelations of ‘Paperback Writer’ and ‘Rain’ | Something Else!

As the 50th anniversary of the Beatles saga rolls on, it recently reached a major milestone: a half century ago

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Ringo Starr responds to Lou Reed calling the Beatles ‘garbage’ | syracuse.com

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The late Lou Reed, Syracuse University alum and frontman for The Velvet Underground, once called The Beatles

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Paul McCartney summer tour predicted to be one of season’s top 10 hottest shows | Examiner.com

An advance forecast of this summer’s most popular concert tours says Paul McCartney will be one of the 10 acts

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Paul McCartney Says Oasis Screwed Up Claiming To Be Bigger Than The Beatles — Australia’s Music News Authority | News |

Noel Gallagher made the comments in a 1996 interview with MTV when Oasis were at the height of their popularity, having seen their first two albums top the U.K. charts.Paul

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