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The Absences of “Yesterday” (a world without Beatles)
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The Beatles’ Grand Symphony: The White Album
What should have been cut? What should have remained? What would have made this the perfect one-disc Beatles release? Those questions have long accompanied evaluations of The Beatles a.k.a. The White Album, originally issued as a numbered, two-disc 12-inch vinyl … Continue reading
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Micky Dolenz solo concert: Victory Lap and Bucket List
Micky Dolenz knows what makes a performance tick. For his Chicago show at City Winery (June 13) Dolenz reached way back to his Monkees audition number (“Johnny B. Goode”) and carried on through to his latest tunes (“You Bring The … Continue reading
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The Rolling Stones Exhibitionism: Five by Five
The more you know going into The Rolling Stones Exhibitionism the more you’ll take out of it. It’s at Chicago’s Navy Pier, with tickets on sale through July. Here are a handful of items to spark your navigation, including a … Continue reading
Behind a Fabricated Beatles History
For stories about the Beatles, the line “It was 50 Years Ago Today” is destined to serve as a repeated hook for the better part of this decade. Most immediately, it was, in fact, also the title of an international … Continue reading
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The Untold Story of the “Untold Story” of the first Beatles recordings (by Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik)
Suppose, for the sake of a better story, you chose to deliberately ignore “inconvenient” facts and details that “got in the way”? In the case of the Beatles, that has happened repeatedly over the past fifty years. With professional pride, … Continue reading
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The Beatles on TV, Live in Your Living Room
The musical dam was already breaking when The Beatles stepped onto The Ed Sullivan Show stage on February 9, 1964. On Billboard’s charts, the group had the country’s top single (I Want To Hold Your Hand). A pair of albums … Continue reading
Nibbles Before the Binge: Sampling Mark Lewisohn’s “Tune In”
Entertainment Weekly (October 18, 2013 issue) included Mark Lewisohn’s The Beatles All These Years: Tune In as part of a “long, longer, longest” photo feature displaying this season’s thick biography book spines side-by-side-by-side. Tackling these is the print equivalent to … Continue reading
At last! After all these years, the Mark Lewisohn Beatles biography (part one)
“The Beatles’ Boswell.” That’s how the late Ray Coleman, long time editor of the British music weekly Melody Maker, once described Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. The comparison to 18th Century writer James Boswell, whose biographical work on Samuel Johnson defined … Continue reading
A Gift for McCartney’s 70th Birthday
Sir Paul McCartney certainly does not need a physical birthday gift from each of his fans. Instead there are electronic best wishes posting opportunities everywhere, from Facebook to paulmccartney.com. However, this is an ideal excuse to give yourself a gift. In … Continue reading
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Walter "Wally" Podrazik 