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"I got it because we got drunk and it was just a really funny idea and my friend said he’d do it for free."
"I sat on it for a couple days and was finally like, 'Man, I’m gonna get a butthole tattoo that says "Let It Be" with a bumblebee …
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I've got blisters on my short fingers!
"Blistering attacks upend Trump’s pivot to statesman mode."
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Of all the Beatles songs, which one is most streamed in digital media?
I heard the answer on the car radio today (on the Beatles channel), and it was surprising, but you can work out the logic of it, once you know. I won…
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"I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.'"
"It was a gun magazine. I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something." The reference, w…
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It was 50 years ago today: The Beatles released "Revolver."
It's hard for me to express the brilliance of that moment. I feel helpless and tears come to my eyes, so let me turn this over to my wonderful so…
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Old and new rituals.
CNN reports that the Vatican announced the Pope's death by email and also has this detail of a decidedly old-fashioned ritual: The Vatican's…
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"Everybody's talking about change now."
Obama's all: John McCain is stealing my meme: That's today in Terre Haute, Indiana. ADDED: Everybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dra…
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"The rock band is composed of electromechanical instruments that make music with rocks by throwing them through the air, slapping them and making them vibrate."
"The song that they're playing, Here Comes the Sun , is biographical, describing the daily experience of a rock sitting on the ground."…
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George Martin — the brilliant producer who made The Beatles The Beatles we know — has died at the age of 90.
If there are death triads, he fits with Nancy Reagan, who made Ronald Reagan the Reagan we know. (Didn't she?) The NYT has a lovely obituary, wri…
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The 14-minute long Beatles recording, "Carnival of Light," will finally be released, after 41 years.
How bad can it be? ... distorted guitars and drum-beats, gargling, church organs, and Sir Paul and John Lennon yelling: "Are you all right?"…
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Unfortunately, the Jefferson Airplane sounds pretty bad, and Jean-Luc Godard's camerawork is execrable.
But this NYC wake-up concert from a rooftop in 1968 had all the elements of greatness. (The famous Beatles rooftop concert in the movie "Let …
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"I had a sense that it was this intense adventure story. I equated it to Apollo 13 or even Das Boot."
"They lived through this incredibly intense period, where they’re under all this scrutiny, all this pressure. The logistics are wild and, in som…
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Paul Newman has died.
We knew he was dying, but it is sad to know he's gone. I'll have more in a few minutes, but here 's a press report. Please talk about you…
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"Despite the hardships of waking early, plunging into the polluted river water and the relentless crush of the crowds..."
"... pilgrims from all over the world described feeling spiritually uplifted and amazed by the scale of the event." 120 million participate…
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The gods beneficently bestow text upon the humble people.
NPR reports: In an unusually metaphysical copyright case, a German court has ruled that an American psychologist — and not Jesus Christ — is the auth…
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When John Lennon is 64.
I see from an ad on page D2 of the paper NYT, that a gallery in New York is having a show of John Lennon's artwork titled "When I'm Sixt…
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"What was the ambition and the goal?"/"Oh! To elevate the rock and roll song!"
"What I mean by stupid, I mean, like, The Doors.... I never liked The Beatles. I thought they were garbage."
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"A more obviously historic site in Duluth is the Armory" where "Dylan caught Buddy Holly's tour two days before Holly's fatal plane crash."
"Dylan was at the front of the crowd and spoke later of making eye contact with Holly, a moment fans in Duluth think of as a kind of mystical pa…
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Picture yourself with a psychedelic record...
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" turns 40 this weekend. How strange this makes me feel! "It was 20 years ago today...,&quo…
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"Shoplifters."
"The extraordinary and original Ivor Cutler..." I ran into that quite by chance, and I don't know why I'd never heard of this man,…
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