At one point last year four of the top ten albums in Britain were Beatles recordings and the number-one album was a collection of songs by Vera Lynn, who was then 92 years old.

去年某一时点上，英国10佳专辑中的4个都是披头士乐队的专辑，而排行第一的专辑则是薇拉•琳恩的歌曲专辑，当时这位歌手已经有92岁了。

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That friendship ended acrimoniously when Jackson outbid McCartney when the Beatles' publishing catalogue came up for sale in 1985 - essentially, Jackson now owned all of McCartney's 1960s songs.

他们二人的友谊以一种水火不容的方式结束：当1985年披头士的出版目录公开拍卖时，迈克尔·杰克逊的出价高过麦卡特尼，最终拿下了麦卡特尼六十年代所有的歌曲版权。

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In the summer of 1968, as they were recording the songs that would appear on the "White Album," the Beatles invited famed war photographer Don McCullin to photograph them.

1968年夏，当时他们正在录制“白色专辑”里的歌曲，Beatles邀请著名的战地摄影师唐•麦库林为其拍照。

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As a member of the Beatles, he wrote hundreds of songs that changed popular music forever.

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Here the Beatles sing one of those songs, "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

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He wrote one of the Beatles' most famous songs, "When I'm Sixty-Four."

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He released more than 25 albums, and other songs he recorded include versions of Bob Dylan's Just Like a Woman and the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun.

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At the time McCartney and writing partner John Lennon wrote their songs, they retained only a portion of the rights in the publishing company created by the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, and London music publisher Dick James. (The company was called Northern Songs, a nod to the Beatles' Liverpudlian roots.) The company went public in 1965.

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The 90-minute show uses a soundtrack of songs re-mastered and remixed by Beatles producer George Martin and his son, Giles.

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