Dr Holly Tessler

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📣 Open Access ahead-of-print content from The Journal of Beatles Studies: new reviews and a poetic look at Beatles history.
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Happy new The Beatles Anthology Collection day to all who celebrate 🙌🎶What better time to listen back to @drhollytessler.bsky.social's podcast episode on the band's enduring legacy? Or if you want an even deeper dive, don't forget our new (online) MA on The Beatles, Heritage and Culture...

Congratulations! 🎉

Roll up, roll up! Scholarships available for MA The Beatles, Heritage and Culture at the University of Liverpool! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s...

Is Taylor Swift bigger than The Beatles? Experts weigh in Taylor Swift recently broke a record long-held by The Beatles, but experts tell Newsweek comparing the musicians is complicated.

Is Taylor Swift Bigger Than The Beatles? Experts Weigh In @newsweek.com with @drhollytessler.bsky.social 🎶

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Listen to Holly speak about Taylor Swift, The Beatles and music on @liverpooluni.bsky.social's Original Ideas podcast 🎙️

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Is Taylor Swift bigger than The Beatles? Experts weigh in Taylor Swift recently broke a record long-held by The Beatles, but experts tell Newsweek comparing the musicians is complicated.

Happy to have been a part of the conversation in this fun Newsweek article about the Beatles and Taylor Swift, along with my pal and fellow Journal of Beatles Studies Reviews Co-editor Richard Mills. @livunipress

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🎶 Meet the Editor Session at Rethinking Music Heritage
Chat with Holly Tessler, co-editor of The Journal of Beatles Studies, about your research and how to submit your work to the first open-access journal devoted to academic Beatles research.
👉 bit.ly/Journal-of-Beatles-Studies
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Happy Birthday John Lennon! 🎂

The Beatles legend would have turned 85 today. His legacy continues - and now, so does MA in The Beatles: Heritage & Culture, which is returning online! 🌍

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@liverpooluni.bsky.social’s Beatles MA returns in distance-learning format 🌐🎶🎓

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Listen to our resident Beatles expert @drhollytessler.bsky.social speak on Original Ideas podcast Episode 5: Popular Music 🎙️💡🎶

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Hi Nick, normally you'd need either an undergraduate award (in any subject) or the equivalent in relevant work experience. You can read about the degree and register interest here:
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University of Liverpool to bring back Beatles' master's degree The part-time, online MA course examines the lasting cultural and economic impact of the Fab Four.

It's been a long (and winding!) road, but I couldn't be happier to announce our Beatles MA is back! And it's online! Study the Beatles, Heritage and Culture from anywhere in the world.
Please share with all the Beatles scholars you know!
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Yes, indeed! Thanks so much!

News: Yoko Ono Lennon sponsors lunchtime concert series

NEWS | Yoko Ono Lennon, via Spirit Foundations, funds the Tung Lunchtime Concerts for 3 years 🎶

Now renamed the Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert Series, it launches 24 Sept with Remée, in partnership with BlackFest.

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Wishing Sir Paul McCartney a fab, gear and thumbs aloft birthday (he's bound to see this) 🎂. Celebrate by learning how the Beatles are studied as a cultural phenomena at the Uni with @drhollytessler.bsky.social in this groovy podcast. Ooooo! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uol...

It's always great fun to chat all things Beatles & Liverpool!

Welcome! 🎉

Marcus Russel

Fascinating? Definitely. Life changing? Maybe! Meet Marcus Russel, manager of Oasis, in conversation this Thursday at the Tung Auditorium 🎸. As you were.
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Welcome! 🎉

Welcome! 🎉

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Mark Billingham chooses George Harrison Crime writer Mark Billingham nominates the musician, singer and songwriter George Harrison

Absolutely delighted to be part of this brilliant episode all about George! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...