From: the.wise.one@abel.co.uk   
      
   University launches MA degree in The Beatles   
      
   (Agencies)   
   Updated: 2009-03-04 11:15   
      
      
   LONDON – A university in Liverpool has launched a Master of Arts degree   
   in The Beatles, the city's most famous sons, and called the   
   qualification the first of its kind.   
      
   Liverpool Hope University says on its website that the course entitled   
   "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society" consists of four 12-week taught   
   modules and a dissertation.   
      
   "There have been over 8,000 books about The Beatles but there has never   
   been serious academic study and that is what we are going to address,"   
   said Mike Brocken, senior lecturer in popular music at Hope.   
      
   "Forty years on from their break-up, now is the right time and Liverpool   
   is the right place to study The Beatles.   
      
   "This MA is expected to attract a great deal of attention, not just   
   locally but nationally and we have already had enquiries from abroad,   
   particularly the United States."   
      
   The university said it was the first postgraduate taught course on The   
   Beatles in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world.   
      
   The Fab Four were born and raised in Liverpool and went on to become   
   arguably the most successful pop band of all time.   
      
      
   http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-03/04/content_7534665.htm   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)