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The Beatles Factoid of the Week: E Major
A Day In The Life is widely considered as the Beatles best recording. Take a listen. As you can surmise, the song is an amalgamation of songs, one written and sung by John Lennon and the other written and sung by Paul McCartney. There are several important factoids that go along with this song. [...]
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Beatles Factoid of The Week: Tomorrow Never Knows
Cover of Revolver [UK] We could have let David Mason’s demise be the factoid of the week, but since that was officially an RIP, I must step up with an official factoid of the week. We are chronologically at Revolver in our brief survey of the Beatles’ catalog. While Revolver was not my first Beatles [...]
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Beatles Factoid of The Week: In My Life
John Lennon’s little biographical ditty is widely regarded as among the Beatles’ best recordings ever. Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison considered it among their favorite Beatles’ tunes. When the Beatles recorded “In My Life” on Oct 18, 1965 during the Rubber Soul sessions, they left the bridge out. Some time later, Lennon asked George [...]
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The Beatles: Factoid of the Week.
My son is graduating from university in a matter of weeks. His final quarter’s class work includes a class entitled roughly, The Music of The Beatles. If they had such a class when I was in school, I certainly never found it in the register of class offerings. Remember those things? If there is one [...]
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John Lennon’s 70th
birthday would have been today. He was born October 9, 1940 in Liverpool. Most of his catalog has been been digitally remastered and re-released this past week in commemoration of this anniversary. Even Google is getting in the act today. Related articles Yoko Ono and EMI Partner With YouTube To Celebrate John Lennon’s 70th Birthday [...]