While you were sleeping: Beatlemania, pot, and a bear with a unique world view

We hope you had a good rest. Here’s some things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
Belief in yesterday: From the moment Sir Paul took the stage to face a sold-out Bell Centre and launched into A Hard Day’s Night — as perfect a musical representation of Beatlemania as he and John Lennon ever wrote — the belief in yesterday was evangelical in its fervour. Immortals like Lady Madonna and Eleanor Rigby were side by side in the set list with more debatable efforts