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Legendary songwriter Jerry Leiber dies at 78
Jerry Leiber, who with partner Mike Stoller wrote iconic rock ‘n’ roll songs such as “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” Stand By Me” and “Love Potion No. 9,” died Monday. He was 78. And while we often...
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Cheap Trick roars through ‘Dream Police’ at Greek
What a rousing, refurbished blast from the past Cheap Trick staged Friday night for an almost capacity crowd of enthusiastic fans at the Greek. Over the years the long-running rockers from Rockford,...
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Interview: Paul Simon on songwriting, Bo Diddley, George Harrison and more as...
Paul Simon speaks just as he writes. For line after line he may appear to dart down random tangents, always engagingly, often poetically, sometimes inscrutably. Suddenly his elliptical thoughts will...
View ArticleRolling Stones, Gene Autry, Bill Cosby, Santana recordings land Grammy Hall...
Click here to view the embedded video. Last year they put in 30 titles. This year, only 25, bringing the total number of recordings ensconced in the Grammy Hall of Fame to 906. What was selected this...
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George Harrison iPad app arrives next month
Click here to view the embedded video. An exclusive iPad app surveying the quiet Beatle’s six-string treasure trove is due to drop on iTunes just in time for what would have been his 69th birthday....
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Album reviews: Paul McCartney tries standards, Roberta Flack tackles Beatles,...
Kisses on the Bottom, Paul McCartney’s cheekily titled new set of standards (plus two originals), isn’t the first such set from a Beatle. Ringo was way ahead of Rod Stewart’s curve back in 1970, when...
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Photos of iconic rock billboards on display in O.C.
Robert Landau lived with his father in an apartment above the old Tower Records on the Sunset Strip as the ’60s came to a close, marveling each time he traveled up and down that stretch of Sunset...
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Restored ‘Yellow Submarine’ sailing back in May
It was back before Y2K that the surreal 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine first got a remastered re-release, paired with a new Songtrack that for the first time remixed a handful of...
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Pacific 2012: Reconnecting to Beatlemania through the eyes of a child as the...
Beatles tribute band the Fab Four at Pacific. Photo: Christine Cotter, for the Register. Click the pic for more. My son Sam will be 4 on Labor Day and already he’s a budding Beatlemaniac. Without...
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Remastered ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ due in October
Messrs. McCartney, Harrison, Lennon and Starr in a still from the ill-fated ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ (1967). Early June brought the re-release of a gloriously remastered Yellow Submarine on Blu-ray and...
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