This month marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ first trip to America. I remember how depressed my family was following President Kennedy’s assassination, but how excited my siblings and I were to see The Beatles on our black-and-white television in February 1964. Their coming marked the beginning of the British invasion! Since that legendary episode of The Ed Sullivan…
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Money, Fame, and Influence: HBO’s Documentary on Former Beatle George Harrison (Part 3)
What’s the true measure of success and influence in life? What criteria should be used to determine this judgment? I think it’s safe to say that by most standards The Beatles were definitely successful as a popular music band. According to Wikipedia, The Beatles’ record sales stand at an incredible 2.3 billion units worldwide. This statistic clearly makes the Fab…
Money, Fame, and Influence: HBO’s Documentary on Former Beatle George Harrison (Part 2)
Is it possible that people are actually searching for God even when they are not conscious of it? Christian thinker St. Augustine (AD 354–430) thought so and made this provocative comment in his classic autobiography the Confessions:
Money, Fame, and Influence: HBO’s Documentary on Former Beatle George Harrison (Part 1)
Students in a college ethics course I was teaching once asked me if I would like to be rich, famous, and influential. I replied, “Only if the money, celebrity, and power could come as a result of me being just, wise, and good.” Recently released on HBO, George Harrison: Living in the Material World is a multi-part documentary by filmmaker…
