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A reveler with the iconic Yellow Submarine painted on her face participates in the Beatles-themed street party, "Sargento Pimenta," Portuguese for "Sergeant Pepper," at the Aterro do Flamengo urban park in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 20.

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Revelers sing during the Beatles-themed street party, "Sargento Pimenta," Portuguese for "Sergeant Pepper," at the Aterro do Flamengo urban park, in Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 20. The group that organizes the party gives the Beatles repertoire a Brazilian tweak, adapting "All My Loving" to the peppy beat of a traditional Carnival "marchinha," and infusing "Hard Day's Night" with a Rio funk sound.

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A reveler puckers up during a Beatles-themed street party,

English speakers got their moment in the Carnival sun on Monday as a wild, Beatles-themed street party let them shake it up, baby, with a samba swing to "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," a Rio funk inspired "Hard Day's Night," and "Hey Jude" spiked with an infectious upbeat energy. 

"Sargento Pimenta," Portuguese for "Sergeant Pepper," is one of more than 400 raucous street parties that spring up throughout Rio de Janeiro during Carnival season.

-- The Associated Press contributed to the blog post

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A couple kiss in a crowd gathered to participate in the Beatles-themed street party, "Sargento Pimenta," Portuguese for "Sergeant Pepper," on Feb. 20.

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A stranger attempts, unsuccessfully, to convince a party-goer dressed as a ballerina to stay with him, as the other two similarly dressed friends run off during the Beatles-themed street party, "Sargento Pimenta," Portuguese for "Sergeant Pepper."

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From Rio de Janeiro to Venice revelers took to the streets in colorful costumes.

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Ten years ago today, George Harrison died at age 58. To mark the occasion, we've collected a few classic images of the legendary musician and excerpted his bio from our friends over at Rolling Stone.

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George Harrison in Hamburg, Germany, in April, 1961.

Known first as "The Quiet Beatle," George Harrison was a great songwriter who had the misfortune to be surrounded by two stone cold geniuses whose work often obscured his talents. Yet Harrison compositions such as "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" are as good as anything the Beatles ever recorded. And with his solo debut All Things Must Pass, he stepped completely out of the shadows of his Beatle band mates to reveal himself a powerfully spiritual songwriter with an expansive sense of melody. Harrison was also a gifted, fluid guitarist and hugely influential in introducing the Beatles — and, by extension, the entire Sixties generation – to Eastern religion and musical influences.

Before all that, Harrison was a teen guitarist in thrall to Britain's 1950s skiffle revival — a working class kid with a band called the Rebels. It was Paul McCartney, a schoolmate one year ahead of Harrison, who invited the 15-year-old to jam with the Quarrymen, a group led John Lennon. (Harrison had come three years behind Lennon at his previous school.) This band would become the Beatles — and Harrison would himself become, like Lennon and McCartney, one of his generation's great seekers. His response to fame, however, was to direct that search inside of himself

Read the full bio here.

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Harrison on stage during The Beatles' 1964 tour of the United States.

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Harrison attends a UNICEF gala in Paris in December 1967.

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Harrison in 1975, on the grounds of his home, Friar Park, near Henley-on-Thames, south Oxfordshire, England.

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Harrison in 1987.

What are your memories of Harrison? Were you a fan of his music after The Beatles? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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A new series of unpublished images has been unveiled in London. The photos are headed for auction in New York on July 20.

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The Beatles stand with their backs to the camera in 1964.

Photographer Mike Mitchell shot the images when he was 18 years old, and have been sitting in his basement collecting dust for 40 years. The collection is comprised of 50 lots of unpublished and never-before-seen photographs of the Beatles' first visits to the US in 1964.

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Paul McCartney, left, and John Lennon in 1964. The works were unveiled on Friday, June 10 at Christie's auction house in London, Britain and will go up for auction in New York on July 20.

Mitchell was handed a press pass to the Beatles first concert in the U.S. at the Washington Coliseum in 1964. This was just two days after they made their breakthrough on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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Ringo Starr of the Beatles plays drums during a concert in 1964. This picture, taken by the photographer Mike Mitchell when he was 18 years old, is part of a collection comprising 50 lots of unpublished and never-before-seen photographs of the Beatles' first visits to the US in 1964.

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George Harrison of the Beatles plays guitar during a concert in 1964. The complete collection is expected to reach nearly $100,000 US.

"I heard the music and I had to be there," Mitchell told Reuters. "Things were much different back then," he told Reuters on Friday. "There was no big security presence, the press wasn't corralled and I was free to sort of embrace my own ambition."

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Photographer Mike Mitchell stands by some of his photographs of The Beatles where they are being exhibited at a hotel in London, Friday, June 10.

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