Professor Mary-Lu Zahalan is the author of Cultural Capital: The Beatles in Canada, the story of how Canada actually 'broke' the Beatles in North America a year before they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in America.



In 2011, she received her MA (with Distinction) in The Beatles: Popular Music and Society from Liverpool Hope University – the first masters level program in the world to concentrate on the Beatles.



Mary-Lu is a professor at Sheridan College outside Toronto where she created and heads the Commercial Vocal Department in the Music Theatre program.

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She lives outside Toronto with her husband, Chris, near her two daughters, and enjoys traveling, theater and family.