The signs for Liverpool’s Penny Lane are often decorated with graffiti: names, dates, well wishes to the Beatles who immortalized the street in their 1967 hit. This month, though, the scrawlings changed: the word “Penny” eviscerated with black paint and “racist” scrawled above the signs. An old theory linking the …
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In 1968, John Lennon was going through it. He was having trouble sleeping and desperately horny, while meditating at an ashram. So, he decided to write “I’m So Tired.” The lyrics — “You know I can’t sleep, I can’t stop my brain / You know it’s three weeks, I’m going …
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Very early in his career, Howard Stern realized that he could only get so far in radio by being a standard disc jockey.”I didn’t want to be the guy spinning records,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I had too many friends who went down that route and they were great announcers …
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