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The man George Harrison thought of as a second father--and whom he called “the godfather of world music--Ravi Shankar, has died at age 92.
The renowned sitar player taught George to play the ancient Indian instrument, and thus had a great impact on the Beatles’ music in the latter half of their career—and by extension, the Beatles’ fans and late Sixties culture. But Shankar had started collaborating with Western musicians from the classical and jazz worlds as early as the 1950s.
The Indian prime minister's office confirmed his death and called him a "national treasure."
Shankar won three Grammy awards and was nominated for an Oscar for his musical score for the movie "Gandhi."
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The copy of “Double Fantasy” John Lennon signed for his killer hours before his death is up for auction.
The record John signed for Mark David Chapman on Decemeber 8, 1980 was found outside the Dakota apartment building in New York City. The album was used as evidence against Chapman, then returned to the man who found it. The album was last up for sale in 2003, when it went on sale for $525,000—or 327,357 pounds.
Chapman was denied parole for a seventh time earlier this year.
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Former Wings guitarist Henry McCullough is reportedly doing much better after suffering a heart attack in early November. Examiner.com reports that McCullough’s former Wings bandmate, Denny Seiwell, says he has been in contact with the family, and they report that Henry is improving, and there is hope he will recover completely. In the immediate wake of the heart attack, there had been erroneous reports that McCullough had died. McCullough was part of Wings for 18 months starting in 1971, and it’s his guitar solo on “My Love” from the Red Rose Speedway album. |
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Paul McCartney is set to fulfill a “personal ambition” and appear in the final print edition of British comic, The Dandy. When he learned that the comic would only be available online after the December 12th issue, Paul wrote a letter to the comic’s creators, saying, “The Dandy was a favourite comic of mine when growing up in Liverpool and each week I would look forward to the exploits of Desperate Dan and his other comic book colleagues."
He continued: "In 1963, when asked what my personal ambition was, I replied – to have my picture in The Dandy! I hope it's not too late!"
Print Editor of The Dandy, Craig Graham, said: "When the decision was taken to stop printing The Dandy and take it online earlier this year, it really was a case of now or never. Sir Paul wrote a lovely letter to us, wishing The Dandy well and hoping it wasn't too late to make an appearance. How could we refuse?" details
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In a pre-Thanksgiving show at New York's Madison Square Garden, Sean Lennon joined Aerosmith to play "Come Together". John's younger son traded vocals with Steven Tyler and guitar licks with Joe Perry and Brad Whitford. The band recorded the song for the 1978 movie, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band", which starred Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees. John himself famously played the song on statge at Madison Square Garden for the One to One benefit concert in 1972. 
In a new interview with The Independent in the UK, Paul McCartney says that John Lennon's public image as tough and sarcastic is a very incomplete picture of the man. Says Paul: “There is this period of John which is all pre-Beatles, pre-huge fame, pre-drugs – and it is another John completely – that was always there right until the end. He got much sweeter, too, once he settled in New York. Once he was reunited with Yoko, and they had Sean, he became this sweet personalty again then when he was more comfortable with himself. But the acerbic John is the one we know and love, you know, because he was clever with it, so it was very attractive. But, for me, I have more than a slight affection for the John that I knew then, when we were first writing songs, when we would try and do things the old songwriters had done. I slightly regret the way John's image has formed, and because he died so tragically it has become set in concrete. The acerbic side was there but it was only part of him. He was also such a sweet, lovely man – a really sweet 
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If you were lucky enough to see the Beatles in concert, Apple wants to hear from you about your experience. The Beatles' company is collecting stories and personal video footage from fans around the world, looking to put together a feature-length documentary film about the band's travels during the Beatlemania period--officially October 1963 (when the phrase was first coined) until the Beatles' final concert in August 1966. 
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Counterculture reporter Howard Smith's 1972 interview with John Lennon & Yoko Ono can be heard in its entirety now on Amazon and iTunes.