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By June Sawyers | August 23, 2009
The Beatles' London: A Guide to 467 Beatles Sites Interlink Books, $20: It appears that the Beatles left their collective footprints on every inch of London. With this remarkable guide, authors Piet Schreuders, Mark Lewisohn and Adam Smith have certainly done their homework. From Soho and Islington to Chelsea and Kensington, as well as the outer regions, the guide features detailed information on where the Beatles lived and played and where some of their most well-known photographs were taken.
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By The Washington Post | July 10, 2009
ALLEN KLEIN, 77 Managed Beatles, Rolling Stones Allen Klein, a cunning record executive whose clients included the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and who was known as the "toughest wheeler-dealer in the pop jungle," but whose ego and temperament also contributed to the breakup of the Fab Four, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Klein was an accountant by trade and fell into musician and record company management by accident. Through his company, Abkco, Klein built his reputation on shrewd attention to financial detail.
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By Robert Lloyd | June 26, 2009
HOLLYWOOD - - Michael Jackson was the first great pop star whose career was shaped by television - not merely showcased by it, like those of Elvis Presley and the Beatles - and inseparable from the medium. He was indebted to it and influenced it in turn. Across his four-decade career, he was often someone to listen to, but he was always - for better and sometimes for worse - something to see. A lifetime of pictures came back into focus Thursday, as cable news outlets ran bits of old videos and Facebook bloomed with links to YouTube clips.
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By Chris Kaltenbach | May 8, 2009
A two-time Oscar winner and four lads from Liverpool will be on the big screen at Baltimore's Senator Theatre this week, as owner Tom Kiefaber continues to mark the coming end of his family's 70-year run as operators of the city's last vintage, single-screen movie house. John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean stars Paul Newman as what, in the loosest of possible terms, could be called a frontier lawman. The 1972 farce turns the traditional notion of Western justice administered by tough, moral lawmen on its ear - Newman's Bean is a no-account crook until events in southwest Texas conspire to back up his whims and foibles with the force of law. (Roy Bean was a genuine historical figure who billed himself as "The Law West of the Pecos," but Huston's film makes few claims to historical accuracy.
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By Ben A. Shaberman | April 29, 2009
On April 19, I went to see the Beatles' Help! at the Senator Theatre - a $5 matinee. In a sad way, Help! could be the Senator's theme song right now: Help, I need somebody, Help, not just anybody, Help, you know I need someone, Help! But that might be looking at the situation a little too optimistically. The Senator's one-screen business model suited the Beatles' era better than today's. Perhaps Requiem for a Dream or Bye Bye Birdie would be more thematically fitting. Fact is, our society is going through swift, cataclysmic change, and the Senator is just one of many victims, including newspapers, American car companies, video stores and land-line telephones.
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By susan reimer | December 29, 2008
I like the way Malcolm Gladwell thinks. Let me rephrase that. I like the way Malcolm Gladwell makes me think. The New Yorker essayist and frizzy-haired thinker of deep thoughts has just published his third book on how to look at the world from an unexpected angle. It is titled Outliers: The Story of Success, and in it Gladwell shoots down that particularly American theory that success is a Horatio Alger combination of brilliance and determination. Those qualities certainly help. But Gladwell uses his special brand of pop sociology and a collection of intriguing anecdotes to postulate that timing has as much to do with success as grit and brains.
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November 17, 2008
Paul McCartney dips into the vault and pulls out a new (old) Beatles track LONDON: Paul McCartney says it's time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day. McCartney says he wants to release "Carnival of Light," a 14-minute experimental track the Fab Four recorded in 1967 but never released. The band played the recording for an audience just once, at an electronic music festival in London. It reportedly includes distorted guitar, organ sounds, gargling and shouts of "Barcelona!"
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July 24, 2008
George Michael After a 17-year hiatus, British rocker George Michael returns to North America on the third leg of his "25 Live" tour, his first visit to the States since 1991. Hits like "Faith" and "Monkey" made Michael a star, and his wild lifestyle kept him in the headlines for much of the '80s and early '90s. His newest release, Twenty Five, features new songs, including a duet with Beatles legend Paul McCartney, and old hits. Michael performs on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Verizon Center, 601 F St. N.W., Washington.
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By Mary Johnson | July 16, 2008
Forever Plaid, the latest musical from Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, is not a tribute to Scotland but a salute to 1950s pop music. While some in the audience will recall family Sundays with The Ed Sullivan Show, others will rediscover the pre-Beatles age when gentle guy groups like the Four Aces and Four Freshmen climbed to the top of the charts. Debuting in 1990 off-Broadway, Stuart Ross' Forever Plaid weaves '50s and '60s pop music into a story of four high school friends who sang at local celebratory events and dreamed of making it big. On their way to their first big gig on Feb. 9, 1964, their car was broadsided by a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles' debut on the Sullivan show.
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By MARY JOHNSON | April 9, 2008
The South County Community Concert Association closed its season with a concert that rocked the walls of the Southern High School auditorium. Revolution: The Beatles Tribute packed in a large audience, some of whom were major Beatles fans while others concluded they were fans only when they realized how many of the songs they knew. "I loved seeing the joyful response to familiar Beatles music that the performers played and sang so capably. It seemed we were really hearing the Beatles play and appreciated the music even more from hindsight," said longtime SCCA volunteer Betty Knupp.