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Prospective bidders tour Riverside's black box theater at the Fox Entertainment Plaza in April.

According to Roy Orbison, when he was first asked by Brian Epstein to tour England with the Beatles, he responded, "What's a Beatle?" Orbison was fresh off hits like "Only the Lonely," "Crying" and "In Dreams," and his popularity was rising fast in Britain, but he wasn't yet used to Mersey Beat bands with such goofy names.

Name another human being with more songs in the modern vernacular than Paul McCartney.

On Saturday, May 25, at 7 p.m. the Wakefield Opera House Performing Arts Committee will host The Best of Times Jazz Quartet.

In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia.

In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia.

Abbey Road on the River is scheduled for Thursday through Monday at areas along the Ohio River in downtown Louisville.

She became the world's most famous go-go dancer, dancing at the Condor for 22 years.

Pianist Lorie Line was in sixth grade when she listened to The Beatles for the first time.

"Everything about America changed after Kennedy was shot. We lost our innocence," Evans said.

Riverside has announced a series of five "tribute band Thursdays," free preview events at the new Fox Entertainment Plaza's black box theater - but if you haven't already reserved a spot, you won't be getting in.

From grooving to the Beatles to Frisbee golf; it's all about getting kids moving in physical education at the Union Elementary School in Montpelier.

Roly Keating, British Library CEO, culture minister Ed Vaizey and Hunter Davies, the donor of the items.

The handwritten lyrics to Strawberry Fields Forever will sit next to the Magna Carta in the British Library's Treasures Gallery Beatles biographer Hunter Davies has donated letters and lyrics by John Lennon to the British Library as part of a new tax relief scheme.

Tim Piper returns to Los Angeles with " Just Imagine ," an extraordinary rock 'n' roll celebration of the life and music of John Lennon .

The 71-year-old singer-songwriter known for such hits as " A Natural Woman" and "You've Got A Friend" is being awarded the nation's highest prize for popular music in a concert Tuesday.

A custom-made electric guitar played by the late John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles sold at a New York auction on Saturday for $408,000, said officials with the company behind the event.

To folks of refined taste, Marshall Crenshaw is nothing less than a pop-rock icon.

A few years ago Malcolm Gladwell made the "10,000 hour rule" famous in his book Outliers .

The massive production, which requires 31 trucks' worth of equipment, includes lasers, huge pyrotechnics and state-of-the-art video displays, according to the website of the former Beatles star.