Tag: Beatles

Liberal Arts Blog — “Good King Wenceslaus” — US Army Band, Bing Crosby, the Beatles

This week I decided to learn a little more about a carol that was not one that I had grown up with. It does however appear prominently in one of my favorite Christmas films, “Love Actually.” And it is really a big deal in both England and the Czech Republic, where Wenceslaus Square is on...

The Beatles and The Stones Weren’t Just Competitors, They Hated One Another.

Recently, I was asked the age-old question, “Beatles or Stones?” I’ve always taken the middle ground with questions like this and replied, “It’s a preference, not a contest.” But it reignited my curiosity about John Lennon’s 1970 Rolling Stone interview i...