Paul McCartney: A Life

First things first:Here's a really funny look back at the career of the Beatles, from the year 3000. Check out the frog emperor.

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Drove to California for the holidays, dreams of sunshine and eucalyptus and Cali-tastic high temps in my head, and now we're here and it's raining and cold and there's a broken Radio Flyer wagon just outside the window.

David Bauder of the Associated Press writes a cool story about PMAL, along with the LA Times' longtime rock criticRobert Hilburn's "Cornflakes with John Lennon," a set of memoirs about his experiences ...

The guy we're going to call LeBon calls just after 9 p.m. and says he's running late. A family engagement ran long, now he's in his car looking for a place to park. Hassles upon hassles. You know the drill.

I spent too many years neck-deep in the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, both for professional purposes (maybe 10 percent of the time) and weird personal ones (the other 90). You already know what you know about the music itself, the harmonies and the lush instrumentation, etc. ...

When it comes to biographies, sometimes the first cut is the deepest. After all, people are still diving into Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson more than 200 years later, and it's unlikely that Beth Peters' ...

A biographer walks the middle line between praise and accusation in this mostly thorough look at a Beatle.

Paul McCartney played a big show last summer at NYC's Citifield, which occupies the space of NYC's Shea Stadium, and so now comes the massive cd/dvd package, and on Thanksgiving night an hour-long TVspecial which not only BOMBED (Leno got better numbers) but sort of deserved it.