Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, was in love with John Lennon from the first time they met at the Cavern Club in 1961. << MORE >>

It was a momentous evening that night at the Delmonico hotel for both Dylan and the Beatles. Their first meeting established a relationship that would last beyond the break-up of the Beatles.<< MORE >>

Ringo recently celebrated his seventieth birthday (7/7/1940) with a day-long bash at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. The evening of music concluded with a surprise appearance by his old friend and band mate, Paul McCartney.<< MORE >>

James Jamerson played bass on almost every hit Motown produced during its glory years in Detroit. << MORE >>

By Martin H. Rots

I knew it was over when I heard the commercial for the first time on WABX. The station had gone through some management and ownership changes. There were more commercials after the change and they weren't for a head shop or the Grande Ballroom anymore, they were for corporate sponsors...on ABX, home of the Air Aces and truth in radio.

When they first started ...

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By Martin H. Rots

I've always liked summer songs.

You know the kind I mean. Songs that take you back to long ago carefree summer days. Certain songs can be related to people, events and milestones in your life. Even forty years later, music can trigger specific memories. Perhaps it was a certain boy or girl you once loved when a song was popular that you never ...

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By Martin H. Rots

By 1969, the duo of Simon and Garfunkel were falling apart.   Paul Simon was beginning to wonder if his partner's commitment was to their music or his new found passion, acting.   Before the recording of Bridge Over Troubled Water was finished, Garfunkel was on his way to Mexico to film

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By Martin H. Rots

Years back, I was recovering from the flu lying in bed and watching Oprah Winfrey. Normally, I don't follow Oprah. It's not that I dislike her, it just that...well you know, it's not very manly, but I was home alone and sick.

No one would know.

They'd been advertising it on television all day. Pete Best, the original drummer from the Beatles was going to ...

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By Martin H. Rots

In the late sixties, local bands played an important social function. As in any social situation, there is always an entity at the top of the food chain, one band that was better than the rest, the band that played the local, prestigious gigs. In the town where I grew up that position was held by a band called the Früt.
 

As a teen, I moved from southern California to a ...

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Is My Boy Lollipop the most prominent example of double entendre to ever make the top forty? Released in 1964, at the height of the British Invasion, the song was ubiquitous. First recorded by fifteen year old Barbie Gaye in 1956 as My Boy Lollypop, it was given to Millie Small to record by Chris Blackwell of the then fledgling, Island Records. << MORE >>