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...million viewers and made them an overnight phenomenon, Harrison spent his days holed up in the Plaza Hotel with a high fever while the fab other three paraded around town, wowing the world's press with their vitality and wit. Then it was on to Washington for a concert at the Coliseum before more than 7,000 screaming fans. "It was bloody awful," Harrison told biographer Geoffrey Giuliano. "Some journalist had apparently dug up an old quote of John's that I was fond of jelly babies and had written about it in his column. That night we were absolutely...
...wasn't long before the other Beatles shared that opinion, and the band's last public concert was at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on Aug. 29, 1966. (The city had wanted to give the group a ticker-tape parade, but the boys nixed the idea. They were terrified by the crush of Beatlemaniacs and thinking not only of John F. Kennedy's assassination but also of death threats the Beatles had received in the wake of Lennon's recent "We're more popular than Jesus" comment.) With the end of live performance, the band, and Harrison in particular, moved...
...true conviction that the world could become a better place is hard to find among the members of our generation. John and Yoko refused to get out of bed in the name of world peace; Harrison was a man of action, organizing the first celebrity benefit concert to alleviate famine in Bangladesh in 1971. His deep conviction in the power of inner peace and spirituality is a remnant of a time when people believed that it was possible to change the world by loving thy neighbor. In losing Harrison, we lose a part of our parents. The world is without...
Watching the harvard-radcliffe dramatic Club’s production of The Who’s Tommy feels much like standing front and center at a high-energy rock concert. An intense buzz of electricity runs through this production; from beginning to end, the audience is swept up by the quintessential rock opera, which extols the themes of freedom and individuality...
With Gusmorino at the helm, the council has experienced what has likely been its most whirlwind semester ever. After racking up so many victories, including moving the curfew for parties in House public spaces to 2 a.m., organizing Fallfest in the Quad, helping to stage a sold-out concert with the band Dispatch, building a website to help students to find the best deals on books and awarding the first-ever Marquand Prize for superior advising—some council members are wondering what is left to be done...