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Ringo was the Beatles’ secret ingredient and other revelations from Ron...
Are there any surprises left when it comes to the Beatles? Their music and history has been so thoroughly mined that superfans would argue no, and they may very well be right. But Ron Howard’s lively...
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‘Twilight is the loneliest time of day’: Robbie Robertson offers his...
Testimony: A Memoir By Robbie Robertson Knopf Canada 512 pp; $35 Who cares about rock anymore? Millennials aren’t listening to it; they’ve grown up with a soundtrack of hip hop and electronic music....
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Rod Stewart apologizes for staging mock beheading video that drew comparisons...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo1cDYXdFZ4&w=640&h=390] Rod Stewart has apologized for staging a mock beheading in the desert — a joke denounced as “sick” by the widow of a British aid...
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‘I buried Paul’: Your guide to the convoluted conspiracy theory that Paul...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which means it also marks the golden jubilee of the infamous “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory. This was...
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Girl power: How the fans whose tastes we’ve been most dismissive of may prove...
On Monday night, a terrorist bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, left 22 dead – including children (one as young as eight), and 59 injured. The bomb went off at the end of the...
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‘The clues exist in the work’: The American pop artist behind the most...
The cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, The Beatles’ best-selling album, has etched itself into British pop culture. Five decades on, the brightly coloured line-up of John, Ringo, Paul and...
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The absurdly violent and gay Beatles movie that never got made
In a box overlooking the Royal Albert Hall, The Beatles, dressed in drag, are aiming a sniper rifle at the speaker below. The Fab Four are in an alternate reality version of 1960s Britain where women...
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Decades after hosting The Beatles, an ashram in India hopes for a revival
RISHIKESH, India — In 1968, The Beatles and a crew of hangers-on traded hip London threads for kurtas and wreaths of marigold, trudging through dense forest to an ashram in Rishikesh, India, where they...
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U.S. and U.K. divided over what to do with captured ISIL fighters, including...
WASHINGTON — A dispute between the United States and Britain over what to do with ISIL foreign fighters captured on the battlefield is demonstrating the complexities arising in the aftermath of a...
View ArticleRingo Starr finally gets knighted, we can now all sleep at night
Ringo Starr (a.k.a. Richard Starkey) has finally, at long last, been knighted. The 77-year-old Beatles drummer, who released his 19th solo album Give More Love last year, had his moment on Tuesday at...
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