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...even audibly in public concerts, they retreated to the recording studio and proved themselves artists. Norman re-creates the excitement of these sessions, when the imaginations of Lennon and McCartney met electronic technology; for a few years, the sounds that emerged from a studio on London's Abbey Road dazzled intellectuals, teeny-boppers and nearly everyone in between. At the same time, the end was nearing. Epstein was dead, an apparent suicide; the Beatles were quarreling, no longer that the whole group was big enough for its parts. Writes Norman: "Each, in the stupendous collective adoration, felt himself...
When she marries Charles, some time late in July and probably in Westminster Abbey, Diana, who will then be 20, will begin sharing his responsibilities. "I was about that age when I started," says the Prince. "It's obviously difficult to start with, but you just have to plunge in." His duties consist, principally of letting himself be seen, not to mention photographed and interviewed, at factories, schools, small-town gatherings and state func tions. That routine will not change much when he finally becomes King-upon his mother's death or abdication...
Shootout at the abbey...
Inside their turreted, Norman-style abbey in Ulster's County Armagh one evening last week, Sir Norman Stronge, 86, and his son James, 48, had just retired to the library after dinner. The baronet, once speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament and a former head of the Black Order (a staunch Protestant group), was relaxing in his ancestral home when suddenly the great wooden doors of the 18th century castle were blasted open by a violent explosion. Through the breach burst eight gunmen. The masked and heavily armed terrorists shot the victims through their heads, set off incendiary bombs...
...canvas. The ideological pressures and upheavals of the decade made the four Beatles stand out in even sharper contrast to each other. John became much more political, George more spiritual, Paul seemingly more larky, and Ringo more social. In the more than two years between Sergeant Pepper and Abbey Road, Lennon and McCartney wrote, separately and still (but more tenuously) together, some of their greatest songs (Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, and Strawberry Fields Forever). But if the turmoil had an immediate, productive side, it also took an inevitable toll. In 1969, after the completion of Abbey Road...