The Beatles at The Cavern Club

Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda, GCIH • OMC, February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955 was a Luso-Brazilian^[2] samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Mick Jagger and John Lennon at the Rock n Roll Circus

Louis Armstrong plays a song for his wife while in Egypt in 1961

 Louis Armstrong plays a song for his wife while in Egypt in 1961. The Sphinx seems to be enjoying it too. He’s not singing along because he doesn’t know the words.

Chet Baker in a recording session, Los Angeles, 1953, photo by William Claxton

 

The Final Photo...

 This really says it all, doesn’t it? It’s clear from this shot that John, George, Paul, and Ringo are completely over being in The Beatles. Not only are they dressed completely differently than one another, a subtle hint at the way they’ve grown apart, but they don’t look happy to be around one another.

Think about photos of The Beatles from early in their career. The young lads from Liverpool looked as if they had the world on a saucer and they were ready to drink it up. In this final photo it’s as if they’d all rather be somewhere else.

In their final performance the boys put on quite a show at the top of Apple Records, but that was it. No goodbye, no see you later, these four groundbreaking artists just went their separate ways.

Music Fact 2016

Billie Holliday

Judy Garland, 1941

Adam Levine

Adam Levine

Adam Noah Levine (born March 18, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the front man and guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5. He is also a coach on the American talent show The Voice. Levine, whose brother is openly gay, is an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights. In 2011, he made a video on Maroon 5's official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project. In January 2012, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the "unnamed Los Angeles restaurant's backing of Proposition 8".

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing to “They All Laughed” in Shall We Dance  (Mark Sandrich, 1937)

Adam Levine

Chet Baker in concert, 1954, photo by William Claxton

Ella Fitzgerald, New York, 1949, photo by Herman Leonard

Louis Armstrong, 1946

Mick Jagger and John Lennon at the Rock n Roll Circus