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Imagine being on the brink of stardom, but after your first big Hollywood premiere, you and your date are escorted out the back door. Imagine landing a role opposite Harrison Ford--the No. 1 box-office draw in the world--but your manager says the new "love of your life" may cost you the juicy part. Imagine--miracle of miracles!--that you get the lead anyway, but the studio hits the roof when rumors spread that you're pregnant with this new love. Now imagine that a $70 million investment rides on your performance--and on your love life...
Skiffle music--a sort of jug-band clatter ideally suited to inexpensive and homemade instruments--was all the rage, and in 1957 Lennon formed a band called the Quarrymen. By the following year, the group had been joined by McCartney and his school friend George Harrison, then just 14. In 1960, calling themselves the Silver Beatles, and with drummer Pete Best in tow, they sailed to Germany to play the riotous red-light-district bars of Hamburg, drink Herculean quantities of beer and gulp down handfuls of illicitly energizing pills to keep them stage ready seven nights a week...
...over. McCartney began making records with his wife in a new band. Harrison followed his Indo-mystical inclinations as far as he could until fans lost interest. Ringo made occasional records, movies and television commercials. And Lennon moved to New York City, where he had always wanted to be, and ironically became that most English of figures, the reclusive eccentric. He was shot down in 1980, and the Beatles were nevermore. Except for their music, which is eternal...
...time of Elvis Presley's pre-eminence, no doubt hoping to turn back the Mongols. It didn't quite work, and in efforts to maintain his commercial viability, Sinatra would eventually record Presley's hit Love Me Tender as well as works by Paul Simon (Mrs. Robinson), George Harrison (Something) and Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now). The results were often awkward--this is the Sinatra people like me used to make fun of. But listen with more knowing ears: when Sinatra sings "You stick around, Jack, it might show" on Something, you get the feeling not that he's hoking...
...just a schoolboy, but representing his late father John Lennon at the Beatles' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a decade ago, Sean Lennon bluntly reminded an audience, which included George Harrison and Ringo Starr, that his famous genes shouldn't be confused with real achievement. "I'm pretty proud to be up here," said 12-year-old Sean, "for basically doing nothing...