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London Aug. 14, 1964 A Hard Day's Night, starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - the Beatles - is one of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made solely for purposes of exploitation. Scorning plot, 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon it affects to study...
...cultural icons are waging a courtroom battle over a fruit. Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, wants Apple Computer to remove its bitten-apple logo from its iTunes music store. A lawyer for Apple Corps, which is co-owned by Paul McCartney, RINGO STARR, George Harrison's estate and Yoko Ono, downloaded a Coldplay song from iTunes to show a London judge how Apple Computer uses its logo to sell music, in violation, the lawyer said, of a 1991 agreement that it would stay out of the music business. Apple Computer's lawyer responded that "even a moron...
...mass of research in support of the conclusion, broadly speaking, that Lennon was a drug-addled, attention-hungry rageoholic who picked fights and cheated on his wife; Paul McCartney was a smarmy, manipulative charmer; and George Harrison was dour and sour. Before you lose faith entirely, it turns out Ringo really was just a lovable goofball...
...early chapters of The Beatles are irresistible; they have the hypnotic effect of a film clip run backward, the separate pieces of a single whole coming together from the hard-luck streets of Liverpool. All four Beatles were hard cases of various kinds, but Ringo takes the prize. Poor, sickly and essentially fatherless, he took up drumming as therapy while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis, pounding on his bedside cabinet using two cotton bobbins for drumsticks...
WHAT, NO SIR RINGO...