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London Records The Rolling Stones, Now!: An Overlooked, Career-Bending Record
Fifty years ago, the record was the band's first solid effort to show it could go toe-to-toe with the blues greats.
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Arallyn!/Flickr The Purest Halloween Music Ever Written
Halloween deserves music fit for jangling bones and moldering souls. Halloween deserves Camille Saint-Saëns’s 1874 classical masterpiece, Danse Macabre.
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United Artists The Deep Art of A Hard Day's Night
A cinematic masterpiece disguised as a generic rock-and-roll film turns 50.
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Jim Henson Company The (Occasional, Restrained, Soulful) Glory of Drum Solos
With a dose of humility, a symbol of rock-music pretension becomes a humane, powerful thing.
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Flickr user zachflanders (edited) Beethoven's Punk-Rock 8th Symphony
200 years old today, it remains a gonzo, satirical, life-affirming masterpiece that never quite got its due.
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AP 50 Years Later: The Greatest Beatles Performance of All Time
Months before the The Ed Sullivan Show, the band played a seven-song set for Swedish radio that settles any doubt about their electrifying live presence.
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The Greatest Baseball Novel Ever Written: Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al
The 1916 book traces the misadventures of a struggling pitcher through the letters he writes home to his friend Al.
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Illustration by Josue Evilla 1963: The Year the Beatles Found Their Voice
Listening to a young band rapidly assimilating and remixing genres it would soon transcend
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The Greatest British Film Ever Is 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'
Colonel Blimp—newly re-released by the Criterion Collection—packs emotional depth and a touch of magic as it tells the story of two men's true friendship in wartime.
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Sax at Dawn: The Dazzling Lost Songs of Jazz Pioneer Coleman Hawkins
The first icon of the genre's most iconic instrument gets his due in a new collection.
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The Beatles' Most Beatles-y Film Barely Even Featured the Beatles
'Yellow Submarine,' which is being re-released this week, encapsulates the band's ethos better than any of their other movies
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What Wayne Gretzky Learned From an Embarrassing 1982 Defeat
Revisiting the Miracle on Manchester, 30 years later
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The Who Made the Best Rock Opera Ever, but It's Not the One You Think
Forget 'Tommy' and 'Who's Next.' A new reissue of 'Quadrophenia' spotlights rock's greatest attempt at music with a story line.
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Why the First 'Star Wars' Is Still the Best 'Star Wars'
'Empire Strikes Back' thrills, but 'A New Hope' transports
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How Bob Dylan Sounded Before He Was a Star
His latest bootleg release, "The Witmark Demos," showcases his vocals while he was trying to make it
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Happy 100th Birthday, Akira Kurosawa
As the centenary of the acclaimed director's birth approaches, an appraisal of his lesser-known films
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The 5 Best Kurosawa Movies You Haven't Seen
There's more to the director's filmography than 'Seven Samurai' and 'Ran.' Other films worth watching.
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Pitchers’ Duel
Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, and Hall of Fame standards in the steroid era
