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...nothing in popular music, and particularly dance, has known any success unless associated with one or another of the rhythmic discoveries of the Negro." Beatle music (known as "the Mersey sound") and even Beatle accents are actually Anglicized imitations of Negro rhythm and blues once removed. Says Beatle John Lennon: "We can sing more colored than the Africans...
Born. To Peggy Lennon, 26, second oldest of Lawrence Welk's four bubbly Lennon Sisters, and Dick Cathcart, 40, the champagne orchestra's lead trumpeter: a daughter, their first child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...only an institution but a business-and their profits are strictly fabmost. This week they joined the rank of the financial mighty when one of their firms was listed on the London Stock Exchange. The corporation: Northern Songs Ltd., sole publisher of the songs of Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Northern Songs offered 1,250,000 shares at an initial price of $1.08 each, and the scramble to pick them up was likely to reach Comsat proportions...
Northern Song gets no share of the millions that pour in from Beatle concerts and records, but the copyrights to the 56 Lennon-McCartney songs yield it about $1,400,000 a year in royalties. "McCartney and Lennon," boasts Dick James, the company president, "are going to be the Rodgers and Hammerstein of the future." Security analysts who want to chart the stock had better put away their tables and keep a close watch on the youngsters' Beatlemania...
History and Literature: The disintegration of the pre-modern framework of stability, as evidenced in such uniquely modern creations as Joyce's Ulysses and Lennon's In His Own Write, and, more negatively, in the Second World...