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  • Her records, Grieg, Handel, the Beatles, Art Garfunkel, Bach, Liszt, thrown everywhere.†   (source)
  • Howell played "Octopus's Garden," by the Beatles, on her record player.†   (source)
  • It didn't sound exactly like the Beatles, but it wasn't bad.†   (source)
  • I remembered that day at Abbey Road Studios, when my envy led me to set rancor in the hearts of John and Paul and break up the Beatles.†   (source)
  • It has a Christian summer camp whose founder, David Noebel, outlined the dangers of rock 'n' roll in his pamphlet Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles.†   (source)
  • The Beatles were all the rage, and women entered the workforce in droves.†   (source)
  • The Beatles or Bob Dylan or The Mamas and the Papas blasted from stereos.†   (source)
  • And finally, the most revealing sign of all, always a dead giveaway: when she hit her stride, and the words came so easily she had to fight to hold them back long enough to get them on the page, she always put on the Beatles, and they sang her to her epilogue.†   (source)
  • And they anticipated some of the flash and crowd-pleasing fervor that would accrue, not too many years later, to Elvis, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.†   (source)
  • He was almost thirteen, five months older than I. His English was better than Tatiana's because he'd memorized the lyrics of almost all the Beatles songs.†   (source)
  • No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's Ninth, Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Beatles' White Album?†   (source)
  • Second, because he is a piano prodigy and takes great pleasure from music, he can be rewarded with anything from the Beatles to Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Let it be, let it be, like the Beatles sang.†   (source)
  • A British rock-and-roll band named the Beatles is releasing their first album.†   (source)
  • The Beatles died for me at that very moment, long before they ripened into the definitive voice of my generation.†   (source)
  • What I'll see is a picture of a mother horse with a foal; or I think of "Herbie, the Love Bug"; scenes from the movie Love Story; or the Beatles song "Love, love, all you need is love …"†   (source)
  • Misty had made up a whole list of songs that Sally Jean was supposed to play in sequence as I opened my gifts: "Sixteen Candles," "Only Sixteen," "You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful," and the Beatles' "Birthday.†   (source)
  • It sure sounded great when the Beatles and Rolling Stones sang about it.†   (source)
  • ...we thought the Beatles were rank and that Elvis was tuff,   (source)
  • In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Beatles as #1 of the Greatest Artists of All Time.
  • Most of the Beatles songs were written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
  • The name "The Beetles" was suggested as a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets. Then it was spelled "The Beatles" to reflect musical beat.
  • I think of the Beatles, since I've just seen them in Meredith's room.†   (source)
  • Nobody can be as big as the Beatles because the Beatles already gave it a "context."†   (source)
  • "Yeah, no." She reached into his jacket and slipped the Beatles tape into his T-shirt pocket.†   (source)
  • And eventually the Beatles made a connection not just with Bruno but with other club owners as well.†   (source)
  • His story is almost as well known as the Beatles'.†   (source)
  • It was an old 45 record that had the Beatles' song "Something.†   (source)
  • The Beatles thump from the wall between Mer and me, and I remember my first night here.†   (source)
  • The Beatles, for the most random of reasons, got invited to go to Hamburg.†   (source)
  • In the end, the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles.†   (source)
  • The Beatles ended up traveling to Hamburg five times between 1960 and the end of 1962.†   (source)
  • Joy and Gates and the Beatles are all undeniably talented.†   (source)
  • Without Hamburg, the Beatles might well have taken a different path.†   (source)
  • The Hamburg crucible is one of the things that set the Beatles apart.†   (source)
  • It had strip clubs," says Philip Norman, who wrote the Beatles biography Shout!†   (source)
  • It's the Beatles.†   (source)
  • I kept going through the A's and then the B's—making my way through the Beatles and the Blind Boys of Alabama and Blondie—and I started to rifle through them more quickly, so quickly that I didn't even see the back cover of Billy Bragg's Mermaid Avenue until I was looking at the Buzzeocks.†   (source)
  • Maybe that's why Park kept laughing, even when they were talking about "Helter Skelter"—which wasn't the Beatles' funniest song, even before Charles Manson got a hold of it.†   (source)
  • Dear Prudence by the Beatles.†   (source)
  • Blackbird by the Beatles.†   (source)
  • Here is Pete Best, the Beatles' drummer at the time: "Once the news got out about that we were making a show, the club started packing them in.†   (source)
  • And the Beatles didn't recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week.†   (source)
  • The first interesting thing about the Beatles for our purposes is how long they had already been together by the time they reached the United States.†   (source)
  • If we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and Bill Joy and Bill Gates together, I think we get a more complete picture of the path to success.†   (source)
  • For the Beatles, it was Hamburg.†   (source)
  • Here is John Lennon, in an interview after the Beatles disbanded, talking about the band's performances at a Hamburg strip club called the Indra: We got better and got more confidence.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, the time that elapsed between their founding and their arguably greatest artistic achievements, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beatles [White Album], is ten years.†   (source)
  • The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, came to the United States in February of 1964, starting the so-called British Invasion of the American music scene and putting out a string of hit records that transformed the face of popular music.†   (source)
  • Let's test the idea with two examples, and for the sake of simplicity, let's make them as familiar as possible: the Beatles, one of the most famous rock bands ever; and Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men.†   (source)
  • Feeling somewhat better, he went back to the kitchen and heard the melancholy notes of the Beatles' "Yesterday" coming from a small radio on the windowsill.†   (source)
  • His first album alone has already sold more than the Beatles and Elvis Presley did in their entire careers combined, and the televised concert is expected to have the largest viewing audience in history.†   (source)
  • But it had old-school style and had attracted a lot of famous demigods over the years, like the Beatles and Alfred Hitchcock, so I figured we were in good company.†   (source)
  • The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan--"Lay, Lady, Lay," you don't need a brass bed to understand it.†   (source)
  • I tried to distract myself with other songs: the Beatles, my current favorite CD, old 1980s hits from my childhood.†   (source)
  • Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band," which led into "Here Comes the Sun," and eventually, after five or six songs, the Beatles broke into "Hava Nagila," and the crowd went wild, everyone singing along and trying to dance.†   (source)
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