`Sgt. Pepper': It was 40 years ago today
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The Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, the Fray and other popular rock groups have joined to record songs from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in honor of Friday's 40th anniversary of the Beatles' epochal album.
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MONTEREY, California  - Nearly 40 years after helping pioneer jazz fusion with Miles Davis, guitar maestro John McLaughlin still faces harsh critics who dismiss such technically demanding, electronically charged music as "steroidal" or even a "pestilence."
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DJ Spooky assembles his compilation celebrating Trojan Records' 40th birthday, and he finds countless parallels between the Jamaican reggae scene in the 1960s and '70s and the digital mashup ecosystem of today. Spooky elaborates in this Wired News interview.
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The world record for hot peppers has been broken!
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It's almost 40 years since Roger Daltrey first hollered, "Hope I die before I get old" and captured the anger and frustration of his generation.
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RISHIKESH, India -- With their iconic long hair and necklaces of Indian marigolds, the Beatles journeyed to this city in the foothills of the Himalayas in the late 1960s. They were at the height of their fame, but they came to escape material wealth and the pressures of celebrity.
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More than 40 years after last performing in their home city, the Beatles are as central to Liverpool's economy as ever.
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Record producer Joe Boyd lived through the '60s and by his own admission, hasn't forgotten a thing. Now he's written about it.
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Pete Seeger has for many decades been writing and performing songs exploring what one community or generation owes another.
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Songs from the sixties dominate a list of the 500 greatest songs ever.
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At the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the cityÂs main concert hall, a 40-year effort to exorcise an echo finally succeeds.
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Below the deck of his shrimp boat, W.G. Smith recounts the story of his big catch more than 40 years ago.
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Rod Stewart tops the  Billboard charts after 25 years.
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âWeâre a happy family,â the Ramones used to sing in one of their better-known songs. With a twenty-one year life span, who could argue?
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Recently discovered TV footage of The Beatles from 1964 is to be broadcast on a US award show.
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The first stretch of the M8, which revolutionised motoring in Scotland, celebrates its 40th birthday.
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A 1969 encounter between a  14 year-old Beatles fan and John Lennon has inspired "I Met the  Walrus," a five-minute Canadian film contending for an Oscar  for best animated short.