Female Vocalists: Mary Lu

Fab Four Dept: Mary-Lu Zahalan, a 53-year-old music instructor at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ont., was handed her diploma at a ceremony Wednesday in Liverpool before being ushered to the city's Penny Lane -- subject of one of the band's most famous songs -- for a photo session celebrating her landmark scholarly achievement, according to Vancouver Sun. "It's been a really intense 18 months doing the course, then the dissertation, and I'm working full time back home at the college," she said. "So I'm really chuffed -- very proud and excited to be the first to get this degree." A Canadian woman has been granted the world's first academic degree in The Beatles, having aced her master's thesis at Liverpool Hope University on why Canada was so quick to embrace the Fab Four in the early 1960s. "It's a great feeling to be the first of anything in the world," Zahalan, a 1983 Juno Award nominee as one of Canada's most promising female vocalists, said. As reported in the news.
@t juno award nominee, liverpool hope university