Beatles

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Intertextuality and Influence Elaine Feinstein
All You Need has a title that EF had used before, to close a poem For the Beatles, and borrowing from one of their songs: old / impersonal rewardless easy / drum drum drum...
Intertextuality and Influence Monica Furlong
She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God.
Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton.
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She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...
Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
The Knack . . . and How to Get It, a highly successful film directed by Richard Lester and based on AJ 's popular play, was released.
Lester also directed movies for the Beatles .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Literary responses J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter first appeared in Britain with no great fanfare, though The Scotsman hailed it the month after publication for being non-slick, for its unassailable stand for the power of fresh innovative story-telling,
“The Decade in Review 1997-2007”. MuggleNet.
and the...

Timeline

February 1963: The Beatles (formerly the Silver Beatles...

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February 1963

The Beatles (formerly the Silver Beatles and before that the Quarrymen) first reached number one in the charts with their record Please Please Me.

26 December 1967: Television aired the Beatles' satirical programme...

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26 December 1967

Television aired the Beatles ' satirical programme The Magical Mystery Tour. Its mix of masks, disguises, and jokes included a woman doing strip-tease.

April 1970: The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney,...

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April 1970

The Beatles (John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison , and Ringo Starr , the immensely popular music group from Liverpool), decided to split up.

1979: Life of Brian, a film parodying a biblical...

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1979

Life of Brian, a film parodying a biblical epic on the life of Christ, was made by the Monty Python group.

8 December 1980: Mark David Chapman gunned down singer and...

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8 December 1980

Mark David Chapman gunned down singer and song-writer John Lennon (one of the former Beatles ) on Central Park West, New York.

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