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Something Else! columnist Kit O'Toole featured at this weekend's Fest for Beatles Fans

Something Else! columnist Kit O’Toole featured at this weekend’s Fest for Beatles Fans

O’Toole will part of panel discussions on Saturday and Sunday in Rosemont, Illinois.

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‘David invited him to do stadiums with us!’: Graham Nash on touring as Crosby, Stills Nash and … Fallon?

Fallon would work, he jokes, because “nobody would know he wasn’t Neil.”

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‘There is no future; it’s over’: Gene Simmons declares rock dead — but not Kiss

“Can you name me one superstar act these days?” he says. “You can’t.”

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‘It took us all by surprise’: Micky Dolenz still marvels over the Monkees’ comeback

One video, quite appropriately, shows them thawing from a deep freeze.

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Steve Cropper almost lost the Blues Brothers gig to Robben Ford: ‘I said – No, you won’t!’

Could there have been a different guitarist in that legendary band?

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David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar?: Michael Anthony mulls over the great Van Halen debate

He was in Van Halen with Roth between 1974-85, and Hagar from 1985–96.

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‘I think he’s woken us up’: A resurgent Queen looks ahead to future with Adam Lambert

Brian May says Lambert has given Queen a new lease on its musical life.

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‘It got to be a bit mad there’: How Yardbirds stalwart Jim McCarty found peace

“Everyone wants some peace of mind,” McCarty says, “even original Yardbirds.”

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Jon Herington chooses his favorite Steely Dan guitar solo: ‘So melodic, and the sound is fantastic’

“They hired so many amazing players,” he says. But which one was best?

'Two individual artists working together': Actually, they were never really 'Hall and Oates'

‘Two individual artists working together’: Actually, they were never really ‘Hall and Oates’

Turns out, Hall and Oates were hinting at solo careers to come from the first.