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The long and winding road to the end of The Beatles

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From Rolling Stone, one to read with your coffee. They had so much material to record, and so much distaste for each other, that they were recording in three studios, sometimes 12 hours a day. Each of the Beatles treated the others as his supporting musicians – which made for some spectacular performances and some explosive studio moments: Lennon storming out on the tedium of recording McCartney’s “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”; Ringo quitting the group for almost two weeks after Paul berated his drumming on “Back in the U.S.S.R.”; Harrison bringing in his friend, guitarist Eric Clapton, just to win rightful consideration

Which are your five “must listen” albums you would recommend?

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Via Zee on G+: If you had to pick a maximum of five albums that you think people just have to listen to (irrespective of their taste in music) because virtually every track is a winner and it’d be difficult for anyone to truly dislike them…which would they be? I’ll bite, but I’ll do it here and cross-post to G+ Amarok, by Mike Oldfield (Amazon). There’s lots to choose from by Mike Oldfield, and a lot of people will be familiar with Tubular Bells, but there’s far more to the man behind the remix of the Blue Peter theme. Amarok is by no

This turntable.fm is a nice idea, it would be a shame if we had to sue you

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Questions you should always ask of any music based start-up. Can you listen to The Beatles on it? Given the draconian licensing from Apple Corp. on the music of the Fab Four, it’s unlikely that any music on demand service will be able to play their music. If they say in their presentation, yes you can, then alarm bells should start to ring. By the time that Turntable.fm popped up on my radar, they had taken the first steps to try and be legitimate in the eyes of the music industry by geo-locking the service to US. It also follows