Pop music phenoms come and go, fall in and out of favor and sometimes fade into total obscurity. Very few remain relevant a decade removed from their initial success, and you can count on maybe two hands the number of artists who can knock out a new song or reissue and top the Billboard charts 50-plus years after their debut.
And then there's The Beatles.
From the moment they scored their first number one hit in the U.K. with 1963's "From Me to You," The Beatles drew on their multitude of musical influences — blues, country, rockabilly, and the sui generis soul sounds pulsating out of Motown — to create perfectly constructed, infectiously catchy singles that earwormed their way into the fabric of your being. Within three years of breaking big in the U.S., they released the pioneering folk-rock LP "Rubber Soul," flirted with psychedelia and raga on the expansive "Revolver,...
And then there's The Beatles.
From the moment they scored their first number one hit in the U.K. with 1963's "From Me to You," The Beatles drew on their multitude of musical influences — blues, country, rockabilly, and the sui generis soul sounds pulsating out of Motown — to create perfectly constructed, infectiously catchy singles that earwormed their way into the fabric of your being. Within three years of breaking big in the U.S., they released the pioneering folk-rock LP "Rubber Soul," flirted with psychedelia and raga on the expansive "Revolver,...
- 2/21/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Several people over the Beatles’ time together gained the title of “the fifth Beatle.” One of the first was American DJ Murray the K. Here’s how the DJ worked his way into the inner circle of the Fab Four and dubbed himself the fifth Beatle.
Murray the K was at the Beatles’ first press conference in America
After the Beatles began to blow up in America, the band’s manager Brian Epstein quickly arranged a trip for John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr to visit the states. Upon landing, the boys were swiftly ushered to their first big American press conference. While there, the fab four recognized Murray the K, who’s described as a “fast-talking, slightly abrasive American disc jockey” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines in The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of The Beatles. Murray was dressed in a colorful sports jacket and porkpie hat.
Murray the K was at the Beatles’ first press conference in America
After the Beatles began to blow up in America, the band’s manager Brian Epstein quickly arranged a trip for John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr to visit the states. Upon landing, the boys were swiftly ushered to their first big American press conference. While there, the fab four recognized Murray the K, who’s described as a “fast-talking, slightly abrasive American disc jockey” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines in The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of The Beatles. Murray was dressed in a colorful sports jacket and porkpie hat.
- 7/21/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The box was about two feet high and made out of wood, a rudimentary but useful tool to allow Jerry Blavat to get an unencumbered view of his dancers at bars and clubs that didn’t have a proper stage. In his later years, Blavat, a diminutive but supremely influential DJ, placed the box in the middle of the dance floor, hopped upon it like a king on his throne, and began what to some might be considered a shtick, but to those in Philadelphia was the soundtrack of their...
- 2/9/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
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