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...journalist Laton McCartney relates in his 1988 book, Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story, Bechtel workers were overworked, illegally paid in script, and compelled to live in dangerous, unsanitary conditions. Meanwhile, Bechtel played the corporate interest game, hiring powerful Jobbyists who successfully derailed the efforts of then-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes to initiate an investigation of the firm...
...middling bassist, may seem a long shot for rock immortality. He died at 22, months before the group, which he had earlier quit, cut its first record. But according to Backbeat, Stu was the dreamboat heart of the combo and John Lennon (Ian Hart) was its soul. Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell) and George Harrison (Chris O'Neill) only whined and purred, respectively, while Lennon and Sutcliffe did the heavy lifting. John, you see, was Liverpool's own angry young man and the sole creator of this proto-punk, ur-grunge band (don't you love revisionism?). And Stu, preening moodily...
...those same people are cuddling up in front of the TV to watch, teary-eyed, as Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney finally embrace, or to see miniseries like "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City." a romantic tribute to 1970s San Francisco...
Michael Jackson owned the rights to the Lennon and McCartney composition, Capitol Records owned the original masters, and so for $500,000 Nike was allowed to use the actual voices of the Beatles...
...They were chart heavyweights but a little slight in the Serious Interest department: too light, too pop, too California. Then came Pet Sounds, a 1966 album that got glowing notices, heavy sales and -- crucial for the band's hipness quotient -- an awed response from the Beatles, particularly from Paul McCartney...