Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Want to wear an authentic bit of 60s clobber? You can (and for not much cash) with the Stamp Out The Beatles sweatshirt. George Harrison was pictured in one in 1967, so you could say it's Beatles' approved (although this...
ßench (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
"John Lennon controversially declared they were bigger than Jesus, and the levels of fan hysteria and devotion they engendered made them synonymous with the youth culture of the swinging 60s. But a Cambridge University historian today argues that the Beatles were not heroes of the counter-culture but capitalists who cynically exploited youth culture for commercial gain. David Fowler claims: "They...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
John Harris: Ignore the cult studs' blether: the Beatles were as counter-cultural as they wanted to be – they were musicians, not capitalists
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Why the Beatles never did Vegas
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Ask Me Why" was one of four songs that the Beatles played at Abbey Road Studios during their first recording session on June 6, 1962. Afterward, George Martin judged that this abundantly tender song...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Blog, Blog Me Do... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wednesday, 9 October, 1963 The Beatles tape an appearance on the BBC radio comedy program, “The Ken Dodd Show” at the BBC Paris Studios in London. Although The Beatles knew fellow Liverpudlian Dodd (having appeared at one of his local charity shows two years ago), they didn’t participate in any of the comedian’s sketches. The only [...]
Uncover The Internet (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Golden Slumbers just started playing on Pandora as I’m listening to it and getting some work done. It’s a beautiful song, but the problem is I can’t help but always think of this juggler when I hear it. Very impressive human talent if you ask me. You may have seen juggling that’s more difficult, but I [...]
The PETA Files (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
eeoc / CC Aw, McDonald's—it's having a pretty rough week! First, a McDonald's in Liverpool decided to "acknowledge the outstanding contribution the Beatles made to both local and global culture" by using photographs of the band to decorate its walls. Our beloved Sir Paul McCartney, like me (great minds and all …), thought McDonald's might really just have wanted to use the Beatles to sell hamburgers,...
Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise (Free subscription) | yesterday
I count myself alongside The Beatles and Tiger Woods – not because I have anything close to the raw talent of any of them – but because we’re all paid to do our hobby. Like them I’m extremely fortunate of course and today I was reminded of how much I love doing what I do. Sure there are some things I don’t enjoy like doing my expenses but that’s a small price to pay. Why was I reminded today? I had...
I Read the News Today: All Beatle News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Could this be the post-modern record that we’ve been waiting for Paul McCartney to make for years. I haven’t been this excited, and waiting in anticipation for a record like this in a really long time. It’s still kind of strange that Paul has to hide his arty experimental side behind another name. It’s almost weird [...]
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A report on the "clever capitalists who cashed in on the mood of the 1960s" — Jagger and Lennon wanted money not revolution: study . Says the author of the study, "The Beatles... did about as much to represent the interests of the nation's young people as The Spice Girls did in the 1990s." Subscribe in a reader
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Popular wisdom has it that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were spokesmen for a generation of baby boomers searching for change. But Cambridge University historian David Fowler says it just isn't so.
WhyFame (Free subscription) | yesterday
Longtime vegetarian Sir Paul Mccartney is urging a boycott of the behemoth fast food chain McDonalds after a branch in Liverpool, England displayed a photo of him with his former Beatle bandmates. The Beatles hail from Liverpool, where all the original bandmates first met in the late 1950s. Instead of being flattered that he was being honored, or... [ More on WhyFame.com ]
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
This morning I received a text from a friend of mine who reminded me that it's John Lennon's birthday. "Listen to the Beatles," he said. So I did. Lennon would've turned 68 today, and he still makes headlines: For instance,...
