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...What do you miss about John Lennon and George Harrison? -Curtis Baker, Sagerton, TexasFriendship. Hanging out. Working together. The love-I miss that. We were brothers. It was like losing brothers...
...1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Björk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that the 9/11 attacks were a work of art. Stunned by the uproar, he apologized. Stockhausen...
...auction houses this month, where once-in-a-lifetime shopping opportunities abound. In the first liquor auction since Prohibition at Christie's in Manhattan, a 1926 single-malt Macallan scotch went for $54,000; that's more than $2,000 per oz. (30 mL). Elsewhere, a lock of John Lennon's hair brought $48,000, but Marie Antoinette's pearls and Orson Welles' Oscar are still available, both having failed to reach their minimum bids...
...remember Ringo. He was the comical one in the Beatles, lovable but expendable. He hitched a ride on the Lennon-McCartney express. Perhaps you believed he'd been knighted like Sir Paul. Maybe you assumed he'd retired. In fact, almost everything you think you know about Ringo is wrong, except that he's endearing. Lean and boisterous in tight pants, T shirt, sneakers and funky sunglasses, he could be mistaken for a 50-something in the first throes of an affair with a younger woman. It is true that Ringo is enraptured by a younger woman...
...Beatles did post-Beatles," says Geldof. (Geldof's assessment matches the broad consensus: none of them individually matched the Beatles' stratospheric standard.) One thing Ringo won't do is join Geldof in using his celebrity status to campaign for any causes. That, says Ringo firmly, was Lennon's province. Ringo believes in leading by example or, as he says of his vegetarianism, "I am the campaign...