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Print In the months before John Lennon and Yoko Ono entered Abbey Road Studios in London to start work on what would become the album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” the couple were renting a home on Nimes Road in one of L.A.’s fanciest neighborhoods, Bel-Air. The Beatles were still the most famous group in the world but were in the midst of breaking up, with members traveling to and from London to finish “Abbey Road,” work on various solo projects for their label Apple Records and argue about release schedules and royalties. Living along a curvy lane behind walls that afforded comp...

George Harrison is pictured in the back seat of a car as he leaves the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Feb 4, 1977. (National Archives, Anefo collection/Suyk, Koen) If you happened to be inside a hospital early in the pandemic, you might have heard these words floating through the corridors — "The smiles returning to the faces. Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here." They're lyrics from "Here Comes the Sun," George Harrison's 1969 classic about the resurrection from the dead of winter. Across the country, hospitals played The Beatles' song ov...

Mick LaSalle February 1, 2021Updated: February 1, 2021, 9:40 am Stanley Tucci is not a movie critic for The Chronicle. Photo: Jim Cooper, Associated Press Dear Mr. Mick: How do you juggle two high-powered careers — as The Chronicle movie critic we love, and as Stanley Tucci, movie actor, cook and author? James Cline, Berkeley Dear Mr. James: In the late 1980s, I saw Stanley Tucci in a movie for the first time, and I got a very bad feeling. He was about my size and coloring, my ethnicity, and he was already pretty bald. At this point, I wasn’t, although that delightful proces...

Interview: Ikara Colt interview by tom maxwell Fuck you! Fuck all of you reading this right now (especially you) and fuck all the unimportant bands muddling my brain with loose thoughts and incoherent ideas. You all take away from the brilliance that is England’s Ikara Colt by making this meager journalist describe a sound so pure and eye-opening. The fact is my music library is now cluttered with bands that I don’t even remember and don’t want to remember and all because kids have dreams of being rock stars. That shit is as frustrating as it is tiring. The fact is about 98% of the shit...

Phil Spector, music producer convicted of murder, dies at 81 after contracting COVID-19 [Los Angeles Times :: BC-SPECTOR-OBIT-1ST-LEDE:LA] LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but spent his final years behind bars after shooting and killing an aspiring actress in his Alhambra mansion, has died in a hospital after becoming infected with the coronavirus. He was 81. Spector died Saturday of natural causes, said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The medical...