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John Lennon and George Harrison electric guitar to be auctioned
A Vox electric guitar said to have been played by John Lennon and George Harrison, jewelry given by Elvis Presley to associates and an autographed pillow Michael Jackson threw to a fan from a Paris hotel window are among a bevy of rock ‘n’...
Tags: Entertainment, Times Square, Eric Clapton, David Cassidy, The Eagles (music group)
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Beatles debut album released 50 years ago
It was 50 years ago today….a Beatles album came out in the U.K. That would be the Fab Four’s debut album, “Please Please Me,” released March 22, 1963. To mark the occasion, the Beatles official website is posting the five-minute...
Tags: The Beach Boys, George Harrison, United Kingdom, Charles Mingus, Paul McCartney
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CNBC looks at reality beyond Wall Street in new prime-time shows
Does cable TV’s business-news leader CNBC have what it takes to make it in prime time? We'll find out on Tuesday night when the network, known for attracting millions of affluent, educated viewers during the day with its minute-by-minute live...
Tags: Entertainment, CNBC (tv network), Television Industry, AMC (tv network), Television
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Celebrity wardrobe hits and misses of 2012
Special to the Los Angeles TimesStrike a pose If you're Madonna and you plan to stage the most fashionable Super Bowl halftime show in years, there's only one way to kick it off: Perform the 1990 smash hit "Vogue" as classic Vogue covers are projected on stage. The Queen of Pop's...Tags: American Music Awards, Drew Barrymore, Fashion Trends, Celebrities, Stephen Harper
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Grammys 2013: Siblings in sound, Jesse and Joy are always in sync
She's a little bit country. He's a little bit rock 'n' roll. It figures, doesn't it? But musical siblings Jesse and Joy Huerta, who'll be chasing a Grammy Award on Sunday in the Latin pop album category, differ from Donny and Marie Osmond in more ways...
Tags: Entertainment, Carole King, Mexico, Aretha Franklin, Music Theater
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Shakespeare and the Alabama Shakes: Grammy glory for the Bard?
“What’s in a name,” quoth the Bard of Avon in “Romeo and Juliet.” In the offices of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, one of the deep South’s flagship theater companies, marketing director Meg Lewis has been trying to...
Tags: BBC, Entertainment, Bruce Springsteen, Alabama (music group), Lou Reed
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Pop Art: Astrid Kirchherr and the Beatles
Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960 when they were five lads from Liverpool pounding out marathon shows at a club in a seedy part of her native Hamburg, Germany. She fell for the bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe, and found the others — John...
Tags: Entertainment, Photography, NPR, Ringo Starr, Radio
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Beatlemania hits North Hollywood's Laemmle theater
Robert Zemeckis' feature directorial debut, a sing-a-long and a celebration of John Lennon are among the highlights of Beatles Fest this weekend at the Laemmle Noho 7 theater in North Hollywood. The mini-film festival is part of a city-wide...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Entertainment, Ed Sullivan, Music Theater, Julie Taymor
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Henry Grossman's fab moments with the Beatles
It began in 1964 as a Time magazine photo assignment for Henry Grossman to cover the Beatles' debut appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." It developed over the years into a deep friendship between Grossman and the group, one that allowed him rare access...
Tags: David Ben-Gurion, George Harrison, Julian Lennon, Paul McCartney, England
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'Backbeat' creators go beyond the standard musical theater fare
Searching for his way into the new musical "Backbeat," which examines the Beatles' early days (and nights) in Hamburg, Germany, David Leveaux asked himself what he called "the Jerome Robbins question." It's a tactic he picked up in 2004 while overseeing...
Tags: Entertainment, Iain Softley, Battles (music group), Music Theater, George Harrison
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Tony Sheridan dies; singer backed by Beatles on 'My Bonnie' was 72
The first song the broader world heard from the Beatles wasn't one of the pop-music gems that seemed to flow so effortlessly from the pens of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, nor was it any of their versions of American R&B and blues songs that were a...
Tags: Entertainment, Ringo Starr, Norwich, Music Industry, The Ed Sullivan Show (tv program)
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Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Community' on NBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 10 - 16, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES "Community" The gang tries to get to the...
Tags: Entertainment, Jim Rome, Eric Clapton, Josh Henderson, Jim Carrey
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