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Billy Joel shows will mark end of era at Shea
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comThere is a point in The Beatles' groundbreaking concert at Shea Stadium on Aug. 15, 1965, where John Lennon just busts out laughing. He speaks in gibberish, looks over at Paul McCartney, and then starts laughing again. It seemed fitting, considering...Tags: Major League Baseball, Paul McCartney, Rock and Roll Music, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix
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Billy Joel will be last Shea show
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe razing of Shea Stadium later this year marks the end of an era for baseball fans, but it's also closing the door on a chapter of pop music history that began in 1965 when the Beatles became the first pop group to play a concert at a U.S. sports...Tags: Billy Joel, Rock and Roll Music, Jimi Hendrix, Popular Music, Bruce Springsteen
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Kay Ryan is named poet laureate
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington.
The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical...Tags: Poetry, Rock and Roll Music, Jimi Hendrix, Natalie Cole, Sales
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Thanks for the memories: Readers share their Shea concert stories
THE BEATLES I was just two months shy of my 10th birthday when older cousins took me to the Beatles concert at Shea. I thought I was so cool in my polka-dot bell-bottoms, screaming along with all the teenage girls, almost getting arrested when a group of...Tags: Music Industry, New Jersey, Rock and Roll Music, Delray Beach, New York
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At last, closure for the Gits
Special to The TimesIn the summer of 1993, everything seemed to be going the Gits' way. Bypassed in the initial wave of interest in Seattle's grunge bands, the punk quartet was close to signing with a major label and had begun recording its second album. But on July 7, after...Tags: Patti Smith, Health and Safety at School, Crimes, Cancer, Rape
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'As You Like It' at Cal Lutheran University
Special to The Times"The times they are a-changin' " Bob Dylan sang in an era of political upheaval, and by adapting his melody to the song after the "All the world's a stage" speech in "As You Like It," the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company offers a decidedly contemporary take...Tags: John Wayne, Civil Unrest, Joni Mitchell, Arlo Guthrie, Rebellions
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'Shining Light' gives you a great seat to a Stones concert
Special to The Morning Call''Shine a Light'' has two maestros, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, and once they begin to mesh, around the third or fourth song, they put on a display of showmanship that erases the line between art and entertainment. The great rock 'n' roll bands of...Tags: Beacon Theater, Keith Richards, Allentown, Charlie Watts, Buddy Guy
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CONCERT REVIEW: Rickie Lee Jones
Everything about Rickie Lee Jones' gig on Wednesday at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia was as delightfully offbeat as the beatnik pirate herself. For one thing, it was the second of three straight Wednesday dates at the Painted Bride, part...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Battle flares over soul of New York's Chelsea
Los Angeles TimesThe Chelsea Hotel had a beleaguered look. A tenant had draped several banners across the legendary establishment's redbrick facade: "Stanley Bard Is My Hero," one banner proclaimed. The signs referred to the hotel's part owner and longtime manager who...Tags: Leonard Cohen, Tourism and Leisure, Rental Service, Personal Service, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York)
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Shakespeare in the sun
Times Staff WriterGOOD OL' Will Shakespeare never got to see his plays performed under the gorgeous Southern California sun. If he were to, he might be taken aback by the number of outdoor festivals held in his honor. This summer, nearly 20 companies from Santa Barbara...Tags: San Pedro, Bob Dylan, San Diego (San Diego, California), Petroleum Industry, Temecula
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