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Her 1984 cover of “Help!” has liberatory power appearing on her 1984 album “Private Dancer”.

Beyoncé asked four Black country artists to join her on a cover of “Blackbird” on her Grammy-winning 2024 album “Cowboy Carter”.

Junior Parker's 1971 LP “Love Ain’t Nothin’ but a Business Goin’ On” includes three Beatles covers.

Ray Charles performed his cover of “Eleanor Rigby” on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1968.

Tina Turner proved she knew what to do with a Beatles cover in the 1970s.

In 2010 Paste ranked Al Green's cover of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” as No 1 on a list of the 50 best Beatles covers.

Stevie Wonder later duetted with Paul McCartney on “Ebony and Ivory”.

The Supremes covered the Beatles often and quite well.

“I Want to Hold Your Hand” was one of the Fab Four’s first breakthrough hits.

The Temptations released a cover of “Hey Jude” on the 1969 LP “Puzzle People”.

Billy Preston was crucial to the “Let It Be” sessions.

The 1969 “Get Back/Don’t Let Me Down” single is credited to “The Beatles With Billy Preston”.

An 1884 painting of Grover Cleveland by Eastman Johnson was given to the Smithsonian in 1971 by Cleveland’s family

Separate portraits of first ladies are also commissioned

National Portrait Gallery didn’t start commissioning original works until 1994 when it hired Mr Sherr to paint George H.W. Bush

Official portraits are often hung a year or two later in a special exhibition America’s Presidents

National Portrait Gallery displays painted portraits of all U.S. presidents after they leave office

Critics called her a flat character but she is more complicated on the page

Beth is saintly and sweet in the original book.

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sewall Alcott was known as “the angel in the house” contracted an illness and died at 22.