Tributes to the Who, George Martin

THERE ARE "once-in-a-lifetime" tribute and trophy shows most every weekend in Los Angeles, but Saturday night had been circled on the calendar for weeks by fans of the British Invasion as an evening of amazing confluence. Crosstown events promised to bring the surviving members of the Beatles to USC at the same time that the Who was plugging in to play at UCLA.

By Geoff Boucher and Randy Lewis

July 14, 2008