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This upcoming Wednesday, July 21, I’m lucky enough to be seeing the fabulous Ringo Starr in concert with his All Starr Band. A real live Beatle, right in front (well, eleven concert rows in front!) of me! Can you imagine? I know that I’m pretty damn excited. So excited, in fact, that I didn’t even [...]

Photo provided by Lacey, touched up by Samantha. Most fans think solemnly back on the day they heard the first Beatle had died as a turning point in their lives. He was such a brilliant entertainer, a beloved icon, a symbol of joy and hope, especially in America — and then he was gone, in [...]

The Beatles kicked off 1968 by making apologies for their 1967 mistake Magical Mystery Tour, then quickly disappeared to India, where they studied transcendental meditation under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul and Ringo largely treated the time in Rishikesh as a relaxing vacation — when Ringo wasn’t having fun (and was getting physically ill), he [...]

In Beatles history, 1966 has largely gone down as the year that Beatlemania began to self-destruct. A visit to Japan resulted in protests over the Beatles’ plans to play at Budokan, and exposed how normally screaming crowds had left them unable to skillfully perform their own songs live. A trip to the Philippines inadvertently turned [...]