{"id":541,"date":"2011-06-29T05:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2011-06-29T05:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:09:23","slug":"two-years-of-musoscribe-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/29\/two-years-of-musoscribe-the-beatles\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years of Musoscribe: The Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog, I\u2019m taking the opportunity to look back over some of the more than five hundred blog entries I\u2019ve posted. I\u2019ve conducted interviews, written essays and reviewed new albums, reissues and DVDs. Like many people of my generation, <strong>The Beatles<\/strong> are my favorite group. Here\u2019s a collection of Beatles-related writing I\u2019ve done over the last couple of years.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/beatles_vs_stones.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">The      book <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=402\"><em>The Beatles vs. The Rolling      Stones<\/em><\/a> revives that age-old rivalry with wit and style.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>John Borack<\/strong>\u2019s wonderful book <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=474\"><em>Life is What Happens<\/em><\/a> looks at <strong>John Lennon<\/strong> from the points of      view of music and memorabilia.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">I saw      Paul McCartney in concert in 2010. Here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=292\">concert review<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">The      box set <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=363\"><em>Collaborations<\/em> <\/a>compiled      the work that <strong>George Harrison<\/strong>      and <strong>Ravi Shankar<\/strong> did together.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">After      George passed away, his friends put together the amazing, moving,      entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=489\"><em>Concert for George<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=322\"><em>John Lennon Rare and Unseen<\/em><\/a> is a      cut above most DVD projects of its ilk.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">I      worked with <strong>Ken Brown<\/strong> on an      unpublished manuscript covering his time with proto-Beatles group <strong>The Quarrymen<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=455\">Here\u2019s the lowdown<\/a>      on that unreleased project.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Modern      instro-soul\/funk group <strong>Soulive<\/strong>      released their take on the Beatles on an album called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=309\"><em>Rubber Soulive<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">But <strong>Booker T &amp; the MGs<\/strong> did it      first (and best) on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=521\"><em>McLemore Avenue<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Lots      more Beatles-related stuff. Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=47\">nine more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\" class=\"body\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" valign=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" \/> Twitter<\/a><br \/>\nand get notified when new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog, I\u2019m taking the opportunity to look back over some of the more than five hundred blog entries I\u2019ve posted. 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