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on August 04, 2026

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Mike Nesmith 1967: The Beatles are better

Here's a fun article from Aug. 5, 1967, published on the Minneapolis Star Tribune website: "Monkee admits Beatles are better." When Mike Nesmith of the rock group, the Monkees, wants to hear good music, he goes to a record store and buys Beatles’ records. “Don’t buy us if you want good music,” he advised as he lounged in his suite in a downtown St. Paul hotel Friday. “our music is sort of inane, banal. The Beatles give the kids the good stuff.” Dressed in blue jeans, cowboy boots and a green velvet shirt, Nesmith talked freely about the Monkees, their past and present. “Do you remember our second album?” he asked, waving a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses. “That was all tripe.” It was until after that album that the group began accompanying themselves on guitar and drums, he recalled. “WE’RE LIMITED in musical ability,” he said. “We have to over-dub, but those are really my fingers strummin’ on the records."

Vintage "Hey Jude" LP promo poster

"It's Getting Very Near the End"

Among the final promo pics of the Beatles.

Review: Paul McCartney in Missoula Aug. 5, 2014

Paul McCartney's performance at Grizzly-Washington Stadium in Missoula this week was unique in a variety of ways. It was his first-ever performance in Montana. It was the first-ever performance by a Beatle in Montana. And, despite being held in one of the smallest venues of his current tour, it was the biggest-ever concert in Montana. Attendance for the sold-out show was just over 25,000. The Rolling Stones sold out the same venue in 2006, but the stadium has added an additional 2,000 seats since then. Also, the Stones' stage was bigger than Paul's and crowded out more of the available seating. This was also the first time I had the chance to bring my kids to a concert by Paul, who I'd seen twice before. Both are big Beatles fans - either by nature or nurture, I'm not sure - and, as my wife noted, watching their faces throughout was even more fun than watching the show, which - not uniquely - was fantastic. At 72, Paul still puts on a committed, and ...

Sean Lennon is a Dad

Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl have announced the birth of their first child, Aurelius. “Okay so…Charlotte and I would like to announce that we have indeed created a Human Bean!” Sean said on social media. “His name is, Aurelius! Thank you!” "We made a human! Am convinced DNA is agentic alien quaternary code,” Kemp Muhl wrote via her own post.“The sleep deprivation only adds to the surrealism…Burping technique tips welcome. Been playing him Aphex Twin and Stravinsky. Meconium is crazy.” Aurelius is Yoko Ono's third grandchild. Her daugher, Kyoko Chan Cox, has two children.

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