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August 18, 2009

Why the Beatles Broke Up:
The Story Behind Our Cover

Over 365 days, 65 pieces of text and exactly 1,440 pages of notes: Mikal Gilmore on his new investigation into the Fab Four's fall
August 18, 2009

Rolling Stone's Essential Beatles Coverage
September 19, 2008

COVER Cover Story: Forty Years of Beatlemania

A look back at the Beatles' debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show." By David Fricke (RS 942 - February 19, 2004)
April 15, 2008

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: The Beatles

"The Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else," writes Elvis Costello (RS 946 - April 15, 2004)

Recordings and Reviews

The Beatles: Stereo Box Set

As you probably know by now, the remastering of the Beatles catalog was carried out with the caution of translating the Dead Sea Scrolls. Happily, the results justify the obsessive care. These 14 stereo remasters — from Please Please Me (1963) to Let It Be (1970), with a two-disc Past...

2009 RS: 5of 5 Stars

Love

2006

Let It Be... Naked

2003

Yellow Submarine Songtrack

1999

The Beatles Anthology: 3

1996

The Beatles Anthology: 2

1996

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Biography

The impact of the Beatles — not only on rock & roll but on all of Western culture — is simply incalculable. As musicians, the Beatles proved that rock & roll could embrace a limitless variety of harmonies, structures, and sounds; virtually every rock experiment has some precedent on Beatles records. As a unit the Beatles were a musically synergistic combination: Paul McCartney's melodi...

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