Beatle news briefs: Reponse to McCartney Ticketmaster sale problems issued; W-A-Beatle-C

Liverpool Hope University isn't the only British institution offering a course on the Beatles. Venerable Oxford University has announced it is offering a one week course from Aug. 2-8 called "The Beatles, Popular Music and Sixties Britain." The course will examine the musical development of the Beatles and other '60s British groups. It takes a British stance in discussing events in politics, society, and the arts from the era. Only 10 spaces are still available and reservations must be made by March 23rd.  The tuition is £995.00 Pounds Sterling (roughly $1,360 U.S.), which includes tuition, lodging at Oxford University and meals in the Great Hall  (the dining hall at Christ Church College used in the Harry Potter film). If you enroll online through 12 p.m. GMT March 23, the price is £800, a 20% reduction. Air fare and other transportation costs is not included. For more information, email ipoxex@conted.ox.ac.uk. Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 270427. Web site: http://international.conted.ox.ac.uk.

The Musicradio 77 index page (a great website, by the way) has a picture of WABC DJ Ron Lundy, program director Glenn Morgan and Ringo Starr in 1974. If you haven't seen it, check out Musicradio 77's Beatles page with sound files taken from vintage airchecks from the heydays of Beatlemania when WABC (W-A-Beatle-C, as it was called) covered the Beatles' stay in New York live on the air. The files includes a 1965 interview with the Beatles done live from the Warwick Hotel with Cousin Bruce Morrow and Dan Ingram. The site also has a section for competing New York station WMCA, home of the Good Guys. There's a Beatle section in that area, too, with promos done by John Lennon. (Thanks to Rob Leonard.)