The Beatles

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"The Beatles: Rock Band" -- finally, a video game even old people can get excited about
  • New Music

    The new album from Paul McCartney.
  • The "Sgt. Pepper" discussion continues

    Saturday's piece on "Sgt. Pepper" incited a storm of reader responses; this is what some of you had to say.
  • Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?

    The Beatles' magnum opus came out 40 years ago this week. Salon's David Marchese huddled with Gina Arnold to examine it anew.
  • Letters

    Movie fans protest: Stephanie Zacharek is wrong about "The Last Samurai"! Beatles fans protest: Thomas Bartlett is wrong about "Let It Be ... Naked"!
  • "Let it Be ... Naked": Nudity isn't always pretty

    The Beatles' last release has been de-Spectorized, but the original sounds better -- soupy strings and all.
  • Letters

    Readers sound off on Beatle battles and Bollywood box office.
  • The ballad of Paul and Yoko

    Think they buried the hatchet? Think again. The recent skirmish over songwriting credits was just the latest shot in a long-running war over John Lennon's legacy -- and the question of who was the coolest Beatle.
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  • And life flows on

    Rather than exploit his fame, George Harrison held fast to his convictions -- and complained about the taxes.
  • George Harrison and the Concert for Bangladesh

    He knew what he should do and he went out and did it. The result was the first, and perhaps the greatest, concert-for-a-cause ever staged.
  • He was in the band

    George Harrison didn't do anything except bring to every Beatles song exactly what it needed.
  • Without you

    George Harrison could be surly and cantankerous, but without him the Beatles would never have been themselves.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    The composer of "the first great piece of electronic music" influenced the Beatles, Miles Davis and numberless others. And he comes from Sirius.
  • John Lennon, 1940-1980

    First published two decades ago, this essay has lost none of its power. It stands as an eloquent tribute to one of the 20th century's most gifted artists.
  • The hero who never looked down

    The exemplar of everything good and bad about his time, John Lennon will forever loom over the unsettled legacy of an ambiguous age.
  • Remembering Dec. 8, 1980

    Robert Altman, Lucianne Goldberg, Roger Ebert, Larry Flynt, T.C. Boyle, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas and others recall how they felt when they heard the news of John Lennon's death.
  • Another "Hard Day's Night"

    Producer Walter Shenson tells how he gave director Richard Lester a ticket to ride. (The band just acted naturally.)
  • "In My Life: The Brian Epstein Story" by Debbie Geller

    An oral history of the real fifth Beatle shows the visionary genius of the man who discovered the Fab Four.
  • Anarchic youths

    Today the old Beatles flick "A Hard Day's Night" comes off as a satiric fairy tale, but it still has the vigor of a four-man hurricane.
  • "A Hard Day's Night"

    The great Beatles movie reminds us how much they gave -- and how much we took.
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