Article I read recently - wish I could enrol for something like this, but guess it's a bit late in life to exsperiment with such things
Naren

Associated Press
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:05 AM (London)
The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it is rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four.

Liverpool Hope University said Tuesday that its new master's program, "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society," would give students the opportunity to analyze music and culture through the band's work.

"There have been over 8,000 books about the Beatles but there has never been serious academic study and that is what we are going to address," said Mike Brocken, who is directing the program at the university, which is in the band's hometown in northwestern England.

Brocken said students would be expected to study the Beatles' songs, stardom, hometown and cultural impact through four 12-week courses and a dissertation.

Brocken said studying the band was really a way of examining society as a whole.

"If popular music is about anything, it's about people," he said. "If we look at popular culture, it simply provides us with a very complex mirror of ourselves."

are sir Beatles to behtareen tha, what is your opinion on Pink Floyd. What do you think was the reason behind the famous split (there are many stories around but which one do you believe)?. Would like your 2 cents on their experiment with sounds as well.

Today only I will send a mail to mdroy so that she can join these discussions with you.

Pink Floyd is one of my all-time favourite groups, no doubt - specially the way they used sound and psychedelic effects. Songs like 'Money', 'Dogs', 'Time', 'Echoes' and 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Part 2' are examples of this. Add to that great songwriting and the trademark singing of Roger Waters, and of course phenomenal instrumenation (David Gilmour's lead guitar is a class apart, but keyboardist Rick Wright and drummer Nick Mason were brilliant themselves).
The split was essentially caused by the ego hassles - with Waters gaining more control on songwriting, his rift with Rick Wright and the numerous arguments during the making of 'The Final Cut'. I recently read a biography of Floyd called 'Pigs Might Fly' by Mark Blake. It's a very detailed book, and it's updated till Wright's death last year. Two things have been brought out very well in the book - one is founder-member Syd Barrett's contribution and character, and the other is the infamous split. A must-read for Floyd fans.

Unknown Beatles Facts



The Beatles become millionaires in 1965.
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In 1964, Beatle-related products brought an
estimated $50 million (over $250 million in 1997
dollars) in the United States.
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On the day the Beatles arrived in New York for the 1st
time, radio deejays announced temperature in "Beatle
degrees" and time in "Beatle minutes".
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In Seattle, a female fan who was trying to get
backstage, fell 25 feet down a ventilation shaft and
dropped onto the floor at Ringo's feet. He asked her
if she was sure she was okay, but she ran from him and
disappeared in the crowd.
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In California, fans were seen eating the grass that
Ringo walked on. When he was asked what he thought
about this, he replied, "I just hope they don't get
indigestion."
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They rarely wore headphones in the studio.
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On "Love Me Do", John plays harmonica, which he says
he shoplifted from a store in Holland.
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After George came to the band, the name Quarry Men was
dropped and the band tried names as The Rainbows, or
the Moondogs, or even for one night, Johnny & the
Moondogs.
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Yoko Ono's name means 'ocean child'.
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George, 3 grades behind John, also attended Dovedale,
but they never met. George later moved on to the Liverpool
Institute in 1954, where Paul was a student one year
ahead of him.
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On the last day before break at the Institute, Paul
brought his guitar to class, stood on a desk, played
and sang 2 Little Richard songs: "Long Tall Sally"
& "Tutti Frutti".
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Paul still owns his first guitar.
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George was introduced to the Quarry Men by Paul and
became accepted into the group by the much older
John. The band could now practise at George's and
Paul's, but never at John's. Mimi wouldn't even let
George in the house after he showed up with a crew
cut and a pink shirt.
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When Beatlemania broke, a factory in a London suburb
started producing Beatle wigs, and claimed they
received orders from Buckingham Palace and Eton.
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George told a reporter that when they received
notification of the MBE awards by mail, they thought
that the official envelope and 10 Downing Street
return address meant they were being drafted.
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Brian Epstein reportedly asked Sullivan the night of
the first performance, "I would like to know the exact
wording of your introduction." Sullivan replied, "I
would like you to get lost."
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The Beatles received a telegram of congratulations from
Elvis, which was read on the air.
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In one scene of "Help!" The Beatles sing Beethoven's
"Ode To Joy" to calm a lion. Off camera, was a lion
tamer with a rifle ready.
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contributed by angelfire on BR

Thanks ID ji for sharing this

George Harrison's sprawling house in Watford, Hertfordshire, outside London was donated to the ISKCON and is called Bhakti Vedanta Manor.



the gardens



one of my favourite songs

Thanks IDji for the trivia on Beatles.I love their songs.