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Youthful impatience kept me from participating in one of the most important pop culture events of the 20th century -- and I'm glad.

1968, The Beatles release the single "Hey Jude" that eclipses Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" as the longest single to receive Top-40 airplay by nearly a minute at 7:06 it is the first release from newly formed Apple Records and becomes The Beatles' biggest hit, going to number one around the world the recording took two days and involved a 36-piece ...

As far as living rock 'n' roll legends go, it doesn't get much bigger than this.

As far as living rock 'n' roll legends go, it doesn't get much bigger than this.

Thursday, August 27, San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino welcomes two legendary showmen, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, to the San Manuel stage.

"King of Rock and Roll" As the titles attest, by the time of these comeback attempts in 1970, a 71, and a 72, Little Richard still had an audaciously flamboyant sense of his musical importance.

"King of Rock and Roll" As the titles attest, by the time of these comeback attempts in 1970, a 71, and a 72, Little Richard still had an audaciously flamboyant sense of his musical importance.

From the cheerily upbeat version of Little Richard's Rip It Up that begins the show to the hummable account of Eddie Cochrane's posthumous No 1 Three Steps to Heaven that follows the curtain call, music plays a central role in the success of the Oxford Shakespeare Company's production of Romeo and Juliet in the lovely setting of the walled garden ...

A year after releasing their mind-blowing masterpiece, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band," the Beatles were about to turn the rock 'n roll world on its ear again.