Entries Tagged as 'Beatles'

John, Paul, George and Lego

October 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Combining the boy’s favorite thing in life, and mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xUijgqZ-xM

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Silly questions

September 9th, 2009 · No Comments

In which LiveScience asks: Why is 09/09/09 so special?
Ridiculous question. Because Beatles Rock Band comes out today! And isn’t the president speaking tonight or something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBDOolcs9g

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How the Beatles became a video game

August 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Fascinating stuff, with one of the coolest headlines I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism:
“While my guitar gently beeps.”
Playing music games requires an intense focus on the separate elements of a song, which leads to a greater intuitive knowledge of musical composition. “When you need to move your body in synchrony with the music in […]

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It was 40 years ago today

August 8th, 2009 · No Comments

 
The famous Abbey Road pic was shot, that is. Graced one of the greatest rock albums of all time, in my always-modest opinion - and helped launch the whole Paul-is-dead business.
This is the meat of side 2. Just five years after “A Hard Day’s Night,” by the way. Which makes it all the more amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYLghfrzz4

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The Beatles at the Cow Palace, 1964

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Holy mother of God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43FlYypxTYI

You know, you read about the Beatles, you try to get a sense of what it was like - but the screaming here, the mania, it’s just indescribable.
What must it have been like to be up on that stage, waves of adulation - screams - flowing over you. And you think, OK, […]

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