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Slaughtering rock's sacred cows

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Nirvana all get a smack-down from fellow musicians in a recent Guardian feature.

New Music

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

The new album from Paul McCartney.

The "Sgt. Pepper" discussion continues

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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?

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

Meet the Beatles (again)

By David Amsden — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

At the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death, a handful of writers attempt to tell us something we don't already know about the Fab Four.

Letters

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

By Thomas Bartlett — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

Letters

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

Readers sound off on Beatle battles and Bollywood box office.

The ballad of Paul and Yoko

By Gilbert Garcia — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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.

Real Life Rock Top 10

By Greil Marcus — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

And life flows on

By Ira Robbins — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

George Harrison and the Concert for Bangladesh

By Bill McKibben — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

By Gary Kamiya — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

George Harrison didn't do anything except bring to every Beatles song exactly what it needed.

Without you

By Stephanie Zacharek — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

Karlheinz Stockhausen

By Paul McEnery — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

By Roger Ebert — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

By Gary Kamiya — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

By Stephen Lemons — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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"

By Michael Sragow — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

By Charles Taylor — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

Anarchic youths

Read by Michael Sragow — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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"

By Stephanie Zacharek — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

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

Madonna: Color my material world

By Amy Reiter — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

Strange requests from the transcendental cowgirl; "Spaceman" Lee claims Dubya's a puffin' partyer. Plus: Bill Gates shakes a plenty funky tail feather!

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Weekend, Nov. 17-19, 2000

"The Beatles Anthology"

By Frank Houston — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PDT

An entrancing collection of anecdotes, confessions and memories, straight from the mouths of John, Paul, George and Ringo.