and that night, i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, george harrison and john lennon for three showsre british, to come out of nowhere and be everywhere was quite unbelievable. >> the beatles are a bunch of guys from liverpool. i mean, people in london would have looked down at liverpool back then, but liverpool was a port town, and these port towns become places where all sorts of contraband gets exchanged, and one of them at that point was great music. >> a lot of the sailors and people that were coming back from america were bringing back these records. some were pop records, some were called race records because they were by black artists. ♪ oh maybelline why can't you be true ♪ ♪ oh maybelline why can't you be true ♪ >> the level of influence that american rock and roll, blues, country and western, motown had on those kids growing up in england was really amazing. ♪ all my love, all my kisses, you don't know what you've been missing, oh, boy ♪ ♪ when you're with me, oh, boy ♪ >> so, i would listen to buddy holly and gene vincent and jerry lee lewis, fats domino, all of the great

john stood for john lennon and then the british tabloids added jihadi. he is from a well off pamly, and earning a degree in technology from the college of technology and enjoyed a life of privilege. today, one of the former teachers said she never saw signs of his future as a terrorist. sgli>> i am absolutely socked that it is him. it is just 100 miles away from where i thought that he ought to have been at the this stage in his life. >> this knife will become your nightmare. >> reporter: intelligence agents have been poring over the videos and images since the first video. emwazi's friends say that his path to radicalization may have begun in 2009 when he traveled to tanzania to go on a safari, but he was desane and traveled to the u.k. ta believe that he his true intention was to go to sewomalia. then he was detained again and gone to somalia. and then he detained again in 2010 and went to syria in 2012. >> the entire strategy in the last 13 years has increased alienation and only increased people feeling like they don't belong. >> reporter: the u.s. i

and a couple days before that i had heard the john lennon version.so i approached roger and i said, "hey man, if we come back down here with some recording equipment and some cameras, we'd love to record you and film you playing "stand by me". why roger? well the thing about music is that sometimes the best music in the world is just in the moment. its not always famous musicians or things you hear on the radio or

they have john lennon' as i believe hip or back writer on the back of his son's birthday card.ave the song wrong. you wrote one of the major it'll sits on the back of chilean lennon's birthday card it was one year old. >> doug holtz-eakin is nodding. >> i have seen this. he is not making it up. >> i make up everything now's. thank you. >> endangered black rhino born in the k last week. zookeepers name the cap which means "lovely" in nigerian. they are near extinction due to potion. a rhino sworn is worth more per gram than gold or cocaine. the rhino houses curtly closed off to visitors to give the pair some alone time -- currently closed off to visitors to give the pair some alone time. >> like maternity leave. >> olivia said, if you have pictures of baby animals, go with that. i agree. >> i would go to the bronx zoo. they have real rhinos you can look at and they are just way different. >> do you know what the powdered rhino horn is used for? >> to have to talk about it? >> it is used as a sex stimulant and asia. >> oh, really? >> a fountain of information. still to come in th

of all the music we listen to today, every great musician eric clapton, bob dylan, john harley john lennonrichards played guitars that follow this one. stuart: tom doyle, you were playing this was that owned by les paul? >> the first prototype. this is the one. stuart: arlen is right. that hit real launched the electronic guitar into the rock 'n' roll scene? >> it is the one that les always wanted and used on his commercials, the les paul and mary ford show for the listerine commercials. here is the first guitar prototype that he used and put it to the public on television. black and white you can see his fingers flying over the finger board, black piano finish, everything looks super on television. stuart: settle the argument eric clapton was a better guitarist than les paul. >> have you to understand, different era. tom, they were searching for something, too. i was searching and so they were. they have their thing, don't think it is it's great. stuart: as a player, the sound from the guitar, is it better than other guitars? place it in a sense of how good it is? >> ted mccarty, the pres

john lennon, paul mccartney jay-z and beyonce. and they advance. they're still in contention.luther king, rachel carson. martin luther king easily wins. jk roulg, harry potter and philip roth and martin luther king still going in the tournament in the final spot in the final four. tell you about that in a second. marie curry, dominant in the bracket. knocks off stephen hawking. and steven spielberg beats oprah winfrey, no match for marie curry. this gives you the final four in ultimate genius. this is the part where everybody can play a role. steve jobs versus lennon and mccartney martin luther king and marie curry on the other side. we are asking you to vote msnbc.com/geniusshowdown. who is a bigger genius. voting for the final four wraps up sunday. next week, we crown a champion. >> have you noticed that steve jobs creator of apple, is up against lennon mccartney? think about that apple records. >> interesting. jose. >> and lennon mccartney beats marx. >> any genius out there that can do that maybe steve jobs. >> weird. steve jobs apple, lennon mccartney. this is a conspirac

musical duos lennon and mccartney against jay-z and beyonce, 9-1 margin lennonand mccartney and sets up carl marx versus johnennonand mccartney. they pull that out. along with steve jobs they advance to the final four. >> all legendses, i wonder how many of those read the fountainhead. let's get to one more. this includes mlk. >> martin luther king and rachel carson, it's a landslide. j.k. rowling, and phillip roth rowling makes that. i want to see where you match up. i'm sure you would be at the top somewhere. >> i should say quickly, there is one more marie curie, the final one in the final four. those are the final four we're asking people to vote on right now to go to msnbc.com genius showdown and cast votes for that. >> that's fantastic. go online to vote and you can watch "up with steve kornacki" weekends at 8:00 a.m. on msnbc. stay with us over next week for the 7 days of genius. we'll be right back, everyone. you can call me shallow... but, i have a wandering eye. i mean, come on. national gives me the control to choose any car in the aisle i want. i could choose you... or i could choose her if i lik