“There I was, with them as they were hustled from one custom’s checkpoint to another last Saturday afternoon.”

“We believe in selling peace … nobody says to give up Christianity because Christ died.”

“John Lennon held out hope. He imagined, and however quietistic he became he never lost that utopian identification. But when you hold out hope, people get real disappointed if you can’t deliver.”

"When John and Paul married they married hard. It was as if their ambivalent relationship to the sexuality of rock and roll fi­nally caught up with them. Men in groups gave way to couples"

Inside: Paloma Picasso's purse, Joel Steinberg's jail cell, Andre Soltner's refrigerator, Phil Simms' locker, Eileen Ford's living room, Helen Gurley Brown's desk drawer, John Lennon's FBI File, Charles Busch's closet, Radu's medicine chest & Sheila Metzner's bedroom, among other places you don't belong

The Seventh (or Eighth) Annual Pazz and Jop Critics Poll

Jesus crucified on an East Village fire escape, John and Yoko sell their album, an early punk-rock sighting, and other Yule celebrations

Fifty years ago this week, the Voice reviewed the “White Album” and “Beggars Banquet,” two records that caused a raft of trouble

Music Monday: The lads from Liverpool watch what they say