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  Tonic Trek: Exploring Europe Like a Viking

  By David Jenison | Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:00 AM ET

  made me look at photos of her cats, but there were also sharp-minded retirees who generously recounted memories of World War II and Korea, hearing The Beatles and Elvis for the first time and seeing now-classic films like "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Casablanca." Of course, there was th Read More

  More like this in: Travel, Europe, Germany, Transportation, Architecture, Vienna, Budapest, Amsterdam, Eastern Europe, Bratislava, Cruises
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  One Number with a Cane

  By David Jenison | Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:30 PM ET

  The Beatles getting run over by a grandma. That's what happened in England this week when 92-year-old Dame Vera Lynn topped the Arctic Monkeys and The Beatles to top the British charts.Yeah, really.Lynn, who is now Britain's oldest living chart-topper, accomplished this feat with he Read More

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  Won't You Come Out to Play?

  By Ben Corbett | Fri Sep 4, 2009 3:48 PM ET

  Shea Stadium, Abbey Road Studios, and the immortal Apple Corps “Let It Be” rooftop performance. Evolving from earlier "Rock Band" editions, The Beatles version allows six players and is the first to challenge players with a three-part vocal harmony.Giles Martin, son of Beatles produce Read More

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  The Brief 8/12: Beatle Bond, Cooler Cars, Precious Medal

  By Caroline Walker | Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:42 PM ET

  nice to see credit go where credit's due? The Post Office has the same idea, recognizing you frequent mailers. Consider yourself V.I.P.s. Bond with The Beatles, trace back your bloodlines, check out the newest and greenest in sorta-hot rods. It's all here, on the Brief.Cracking the lid off of Read More

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  Road Rules! Abbey Cover Turns 40

  By David Jenison | Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:00 AM ET

  the 40th anniversary of the cover shot to the band's 1969 classic. The event was organized by Richard Porter, a Beatles tour guide, who had Fab Four impersonators stroll across the intersection as fans looked on. The event naturally caused a bit of a traffic stir, though Brits aren' Read More

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  Black Panthers 1968

  By Ben Corbett | Sun Aug 9, 2009 9:50 AM ET

  Bingham cut his teeth as a newspaper photographer shooting Muhammad Ali. He was the guy who captured the famous frame of the boxer knocking out The Beatles in 1963, when he was still known as Cassius Clay. It's written that Bingham shot over a million frames of America's greatest fighter Read More

  More like this in: Photography, Democratic National Convention, GOOD Magazine, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
• Come Together... On Abbey Road

  By Courtney Rubin | Sun Aug 9, 2009 9:34 AM ET

  swarmed the now-famous London crosswalk, singing songs, laughing, and generally causing a major traffic jam.Yesterday, at 11:35 a.m. London time, The Beatles tribute band Sgt. Pepper’s Only Dartboard Band strode across the black-and-white striped asphalt (called a "zebra crossing" i Read More

  More like this in: London, Memorabilia, World, Entertainment, Europe, Music
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  Cheap Tricks Bugs Out

  By David Jenison | Thu Aug 6, 2009 3:00 PM ET

  is ready to get high with a little help from their friends.In late '07, the popular rock act hit NYC's Waldorf Astoria for a live performance of The Beatles' timeless classic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The concert featured the New York Philharmonic and special guests like Joa Read More

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  Beatlemania Returneth

  By David Jenison | Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  Band" game will hit stores and ultimately annoy kids as their baby-boomer parents and grandparents start wanting to share the game console. Second, The Beatles will release new re-mastered versions of their entire catalog. Now there's even a third item on the agenda coming out in late August.Fo Read More

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  That '70s Shot

  By David Jenison | Mon Jul 6, 2009 7:57 PM ET

  that document both the music, cultural, social and political scenes that dominated the 1970s, as well as a number of the rarest images of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones from 1964-66, taken by their U.S. Tour Manager Bob Bonis, and support an extremely important charity to preserv Read More

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