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Trump’s Fake Conservatism Won’t Make Me a ‘Political Orphan’

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/ReutersOn U2’s Rattle and Hum live album, just before the band plays “Helter Skelter,” Bono says something memorable: “This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We’re stealing it back.”Maybe someday we can say the same thing about Donald Trump’s Republican Party.I may be one of the few people who is holding out hope for repossession…
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Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie on his influences and going “beserk” watching Beatles on “Ed Sullivan”

On “Everything Fab Four,” the folk-punk rocker discusses music with timeless appeal, from Rolling Stones and beyond…
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This New Beatles Holiday Sweater Is Anything But Ugly

Let it be — and let it snow — with this officially-licensed Christmas collaboration from the Fab Four…
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Was John Lennon’s killer brainwashed by FBI? How cops on murder scene thought Mark David Chapman had been ‘programmed’

WHEN Mark Chapman fired four shots into John Lennon four decades ago there seemed little doubt who was responsible for the cold-blooded murder.

Immediately after the shooting outside the former Beatles star’s New York home on December 8, 1980, the killer dropped his gun and waited for the police to arrive…
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“Paul McCartney was one of my favorite bass players. I didn’t do him justice”: Paying tribute to the Beatles turned out to be a humbling experience for Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn

As a member of Booker T. and the MGs, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn cut an instrumental version of the Beatles’ Abbey Road. But the experience wasn’t all that satisfying…
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How the 1960s Gibson J-200 upset acoustic purists but remained King of the flat-tops in the eyes of the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Yusuf/Cat Stevens

The bridge was the one thing the purists just couldn’t cross, but those who did found an acoustic bursting with songs and a tone that could not be matched…
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The Beatles Hit No. 1 on an Airplay Chart for the First Time in Over 50 Years

“Now and Then” claims the top spot on Adult Alternative Airplay…
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Penny Lane sign returned 47 years after it was stolen by young, drunk Beatles fans

The Penny Lane street sign is back in Liverpool nearly five decades after a group of tipsy university students wrested it from its home beneath the city’s clear suburban skies…
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