Beatles beat the Bard as cultural reference point
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Arts & entertainment: Shakespeare's 400-year reign as the world's primary transmitter of the English language ends.
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A suburban basement where The Beatles played some of their earliest gigs was given protected heritage status by the British government Friday.
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BBC radio deejay John Peelâs influence has travelled far and wide. RS MURTHI remembers those static-filled nights tuning in to the manâs offbeat programmes.
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As one of the Bard of  Avon&#39;s most popular tragedies, &quot;Romeo and Juliet&quot; has been  interpreted in incarnations as eclectic as Franco Zeffirelli&#39;s  reverential 1968 film, Baz Luhrmann&#39;s 1996 modern-day update,  musical variations like &quot;West Side Story&quot; or the gay-themed  off-Broadway production &quot;R J.&quot;
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By PAUL REVOIR  IT'S 40 years since they were shaking the world in their mop-top prime.   But the Beatles could soon be topping the charts again after the ending of a legal battle which could pave the way for legal downloads of their music.
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Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr clowned around and marveled at their band's amazing impact in an interview Tuesday on CNN's "Larry King Live."
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A touring song-and-dance performance uses musical sounds recorded by Icelandic engineers in the 1960s who worked with the decades-old, room-size computer. Older IBM-heads are loving it.
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Songs from the sixties dominate a list of the 500 greatest songs ever.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Where were you when you heard John Lennon was killed? I remember it vividly, angling at the curve on Sunset Boulevard by the Hamburger Hamlet on the Strip and heading for work at the old Hollywood Reporter offices. Ever since then, the question for all us early Beatles fans: Why?
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This musical traipses through the Beatles songbook and finds blissful innocence.
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La vita di Janis Joplin, la storia dei Beatles e del rock psichedelico. Ecco i libri musicali da sfogliare sotto l'ombrellone ascoltando le note dall'Ipod
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In 2001, Martin Amis, Rick Moody and other authors and artists gathered in New York to honor a peer they regarded as a giant of the times. They compared him to Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Arthur Rimbaud. They called him a bard, a shaman and a master of "art as revenge."
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By Eric Pfanner  The two warring Apples - one makes computers and iPods, the other manages The Beatles' business interests - said Monday that they let it be, ending a long-running trademark fight over their shared name.
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VLODROP, Netherlands  - Practitioners gathered at the Dutch home of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Thursday for a memorial and recalled the achievements of the late guru to the Beatles who brought transcendental meditation to the West.
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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will pay tribute to their native city when Liverpool becomes European Capital of Culture next year.
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Paul McCartney, George Harrison and the songs of John Lennon can all be found in the top 15 of the U.S. pop album chart, the biggest confluence of ex-Beatles in years.