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Are You a Beatles Fanatic? Then You’ll Want to Read These Unpublished Interviews About the Making of Sgt. Pepper

November 20, 2017November 19, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beatles, George Martin, Sgt. Pepper

Reverb.com has acquired some unpublished interviews with the people who worked with the Beatles in the making of the Sgt.

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The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Artwork Has Been Updated to Reflect Deaths in 2017

November 8, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, Chris Barker, Musician Deaths, Sgt. Pepper

After all the horrible losses in the music world last year, British artist Chris Barker created an updated a version

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Random Music News for Saturday, June 3, 2017

June 3, 2017June 2, 2017 Alan Cross 1 Comment Beatles, Beyonce, Brad Pitt, Chris Cornell, Coachella, Eagles, Guns 'N Roses, GWAR, Kathy Griffin, Manchester, Pemberton Music Festival, Radiohead, Sgt. Pepper, Them Crooked Vultures, Vince Gill

Do you get those annoying calls from people who want to clean your furnace ducts? I got nine yesterday. NINE.

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A Big Beatles Anniversary: It was 50 Years Ago Today That the Sgt. Taught the Band to Play

June 1, 2017June 1, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 50th Anniversary, Beatles, Sgt. Pepper

On June 1, 1967, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, one of the most important and influential

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EXCLUSIVE: The REAL Sgt. Pepper Was a Canadian Cop. How a Police Assignment with The Beatles Created a 50-Year Mystery

May 31, 2017July 1, 2021 Alan Cross 11 Comments Beatles, John Lennon, OPP, Paul McCartney, Randy Pepper, Sgt. Pepper, Thomas Shaw

Was the Beatles’ Mythical Bandleader, Sgt. Pepper, Actually a Real-Life Canadian Police Officer? The Beatles are the most-studied, best-documented musical

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Random Music News for Tuesday, May 30, 2017

May 30, 2017May 29, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Album sales, Apple Newton, Audiobooks, Beatles, Brazil, Donald Trump, Karaoke, Microsoft, Music sales, PTSD, Roger Waters, Sgt. Pepper, Streaming, William Shatner

I just heard that my favourite sci-fi novel (actually, it’s part of a trilogy) of the last two decades, The Three-Body Problem

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Random Music News for Monday, May 29, 2017

May 29, 2017May 28, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beatles, Elvis, Gillian Anderson, Gregg Allman, Husky, James Brown, Kenya, KISS, Ontario 150, Ontario Place, Pemberton, Sgt. Pepper, Tupac

It’s Memorial Day in the US and a bank holiday in the UK, but there’s still music news for May

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Random Music News for Friday, May 26, 2017

May 26, 2017May 25, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Barry White, Beatles, Clive Davis, Eric Clapton, Handmaid's Tale, Headstones, Hugh Dillion, Katy Perry, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Pemberton, PodSearch, Sgt. Pepper, Smartphones

The Wife has me scheduled to do all kinds of flower planting this weekend. Lovely. And now, the music news

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Two Beatles-Branded Turntables in Time for the 50th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper

April 29, 2017April 28, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, Turntables

June 1 will mark fifty years since the Beatles released their groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Along

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It Was About Fifty Years Ago Today That Sgt. Pepper Tried to Teach the Band to Play This

April 27, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beatles, Sgt. Pepper

June 1 will be the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the dividing line between

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Random Music News for Thursday, April 13, 2017

April 13, 2017April 12, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alt-J, Babylon Zoo, Beatles, Ben-Hur, Cocaine, Dead Weather, Headphones, Leonard Cohen, Pakistan, Rave, Sgt. Pepper, Trip-hop, Where Are They Now

The words “Houston, we have a problem” were uttered on this day in 1970. Now, the music news for April

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