Friday procrastination: link love – Darwin, dogs, and dictionaries
What Rebecca has been reading.
“I Want to Hold Your Hand,” 26 December 1963
For many of us in the British Commonwealth, Boxing Day can bring back memories of visiting family and friends, even as modernity transforms the date from an opportunity to exchange gifts between one another into one on which you return gifts at shopping malls. For Americans, it’s an anachronism.
Sowing the Seeds of Beatlemania
The origins of Beatlemania.
“Hey Jude” and the Death of Sixties British Pop
Gordon Thompson looks at the end of 60’s British Pop music.
The Revolution Within
Gordon Thompson looks at a unique revolution.
It’s The Music, Stupid!
Colin Larkin discusses how we listen to music now.
Lost in Music: The OUP Ball 2007
Some photos from the OUP Ball 2007.
On Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Play with The Beatles.
Lives Across The Pond: A Tribute To John Lennon
John Lennon in the Oxford DNB.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Quiz
Part One
A pop music quiz.
All-time worst music albums
Everyone has an opinion on the best pop music albums of all time. Call us pessimists, but at OUP, we were wondering, what are the worst albums? Luckily, we have the best resource for all things music, Colin Larkin editor of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. He tells us what makes his ears ring.