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The Beatles’ Brilliant Friendship March 20, 2025
John Lennon described what Bowie did in his glam rock days as “just rock ’n’ roll with lipstick on”. I was in the lipstick camp. But if Ziggy was from Mars (magical realism with a dash of science fiction) and the Beatles were from Liverpool (trippy s...
The Vanishing Genius March 19, 2025
Sixty years ago this month, The Beach Boys Today! appeared in record stores across the country. The Beach Boys were, in 1965, one of the very few American rock acts to stand up to the British Invasion; they were not only pumping out top ten hits but ...
End of the Roadie May 29, 2024
Could there have been any life—apart from being one of the actual Fab Four—greater than that of someone in the inner circle of the Beatles? Mal Evans didn’t think so....
Where the Rubber Soul Meets the Road January 29, 2024
Hey you! Beatles fans! I want a show of hands. How many of you believe that the following story—it comes from Philip Norman's new biography, George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle—has the faintest scintilla of a possibility of being somewhere close to...
