Lost and Found: Vintage Beatles Interview

Important lesson: you really should clean out your garage every 40 years or so. There's no telling what you might find there.

While rummaging around in a London garage recently, a British film buff stumbled on an interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney that was recorded just after The Beatles returned from their first US tour in 1964. There it was, in a pile with dozens of other rusty film cans -- unmarked, and apparently untouched since shortly after it was recorded by Scottish Television 44 years ago.

You can hear a piece of it and learn more about it on the BBC website. Listen, read, then get out there and clean out that garage!

Ringomania
Ringo Starr, the oldest Beatle, turned 68 this week and celebrated with an impromptu gathering on a Chicago street. He listed "peace and love" as his fondest birthday wish, flashing the two-fingered peace symbol of the '60s, a time when such an occasion would have surely attracted more than the 200 or so people who happened by at the time. Ringo and his All Starr Band are currently on a summer tour of the US.

It is no small irony that on the day he turned 68, Ringo got the news that the Liverpool house that was his home from birth to age four is going to be torn down. A petition drive delayed the demolition, but it was determined that there wasn't enough of a Beatles connection to save the house on historical grounds. So it, and most of the other houses on Madryn Street, will soon become fodder for a Liverpudlian landfill.

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