This month marks the 35th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in America, an event that sparked the "second British Invasion" of 1964-67. Soon after their historic appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, a string of British bands sought their fortune on the US pop charts, as American youths clamored for singles, clothes, and anything else hip and new from the old country. This new site from the...

The flags are flying at half-mast in Liverpool today. Most famous for his role as the Beatles' guitarist, George Harrison, musician, film producer, and writer, died yesterday at friend Gavin De Becker's house in Los Angeles; he was with his wife and son Dhani. Harrison had been treated for throat cancer in 1998 and, this year, for lung cancer and a brain tumor. He was the youngest of the Fab Four...