A Different Kind of Encore
# **A Different Kind of Encore** The stadium was a single, roaring organism, a sea of raised phones and singing voices. But from the stage, Paul McCartney’s eyes, sharpened by …
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The Crown, Borrowed and Earned: How Pink Became a Queen for a Night
# **The Crown, Borrowed and Earned: How Pink Became a Queen for a Night** The air in London’s Wembley Stadium for the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert was thick with a …
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The Clash of Crowns: When Lady Gaga’s Jo Calderone Summoned a Queen
# **The Clash of Crowns: When Lady Gaga’s Jo Calderone Summoned a Queen** The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards stage was not a stage; it was a theater of deliberate, …
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The Echo in the Static: Unpacking the Hanover Grand Myth
# **The Echo in the Static: Unpacking the Hanover Grand Myth** **October 10, 1967.** The venue: The Hanover Grand, London. The occasion: A launch party for The Beatles’ new boutique …
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BEYOND THE TOUR: McCartney & Starr Announce a Global Residency of Music, Memory, and Legacy
# **BEYOND THE TOUR: McCartney & Starr Announce a Global Residency of Music, Memory, and Legacy** The rumors were true, but the scale was wrong. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr …
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The Miracle of the “Ay-Oh”: How Freddie Mercury Conjured a 72,000-Voice Choir from Thin Air
# **The Miracle of the “Ay-Oh”: How Freddie Mercury Conjured a 72,000-Voice Choir from Thin Air** The July sun had baked Wembley Stadium for hours. By late afternoon on July …
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The Song That Defied Gravity: The Unbearable Bravery of “The Show Must Go On”
# **The Song That Defied Gravity: The Unbearable Bravery of “The Show Must Go On”** There are songs about heartbreak, and then there are songs that are the sound of …
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The Space Between the Notes: The Night Wembley Became a Living Room
# **The Space Between the Notes: The Night Wembley Became a Living Room** It was the kind of hallowed silence that isn’t empty, but full. The kind that feels heavier …
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The Man After the Run: McCartney Breaks the Silence on the Silence
# **The Man After the Run: McCartney Breaks the Silence on the Silence** For decades, the narrative of The Beatles’ end has been framed by its noisy, public aftermath: the …
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THE ENGINEER OF WONDER: BRIAN MAY’S NAME NOW STANDS WHERE LEGENDS DWELL
# **THE ENGINEER OF WONDER: BRIAN MAY’S NAME NOW STANDS WHERE LEGENDS DWELL** It is a rare kind of influence that builds its monument not in a single, deafening moment, …
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