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Weds 23rd July (updated 0030, 0700, 1930)
www.ringostarr.com updated Meanwhile Ringo Starr's website has been updated with a gig review & a new video update BEATLES - BERNSTEIN WANTS TO CLOSE SHEA STADIUM... AGAIN Former BEATLES promoter SID BERNSTEIN wants to hold one more performance at New York's doomed Shea Stadium, after he was snubbed for BILLY JOEL's final concerts there last week (beg14Jul08). www.paulmccartney.com updated Paul McCartney's website has been updated to include photographs from his Quebec concert Paul McCartney: Bigger Than Jesus? Check out a short video of Paul McCartney's arrival at his Quebec gig, with pen in hand! Paul McCartney has the security detail of a king in Quebec. Even with that, five motorcycle cops, two police cruisers and countless bodyguards on foot ... Susan Lee catches a cab with a woman who’s happy to show off her knowledge of The Beatles to Liverpool’s band of tourists LIKE every other taxi driver Debbie Kenyon had to swot up on the knowledge in order to make the grade. But hers wasn’t a test about street names or routes – instead it was all about The Beatles. | John Lennon sketches fetch £25000 A signed exhibition catalogue by John Lennon containing risque sketches he drew of his wife Yoko Ono in the late 1960s has fetched £25,000 at auction. Lennon signed the catalogue for his exhibition entitled the Bag One for American journalist Sandra Shevey when she interviewed him and Ono in New York in 1972. BEATLES producer Sir George Martin has been wined and dined by the prime minister at his country retreat. Gordon Brown revealed the influential arranger and composer has been on the guest list at Chequers over the past year. He joined a weekend party to celebrate British achievements in arts, popular culture and sports. www.imaginepeace.com updated
Finally Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace website has been updated with news of an auction for a signed Grammy Awards programme by Yoko. | TCA 2008: Sir George Martin's On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives There aren't many people in today's music world that you could call a living legend, but Sir George Martin is definitely one of them. If you're not familiar with the Grammy award winning and Oscar nominated Martin, he's the creative force that produced, co-produced, and arranged the music on all of The Beatles' original recordings, which includes every Beatles hit you've heard over the years. • Fans can vote for Shea's best moments Four and a half decades of baseball can generate memories anywhere, but in the quirky, cavernous confines of Shea Stadium, the list seems unending. Which is why the Mets announced on Tuesday a new interactive promotion to decide once and for all the greatest moment in Shea Stadium history. The Smithereens to Release "B-Sides The Beatles" on September 2, 2008 KOCH Records is happy to announce the release of "B-Sides The Beatles," The Smithereens' highly anticipated follow up to their critically acclaimed 2007 release, "Meet The Smithereens." The album will be released on September 2, 2008. It's no secret that The Smithereens grew up listening to The Beatles. Their album "Meet The Smithereens" paid homage to the group's landmark Capitol debut album by lovingly re-recording "Meet The Beatles" in its entirety. This time The Smithereens dug through their treasure of early Beatles singles and selected a dozen of Beatles B-sides. Live music treat for Beatles fans BEATLES fans will be treated to a live performance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney tribute duo John and Paul at JJ's, Al Bustan Hotel, Adliya, next Wednesday. |
Tues 22nd July (updated 0700)
McCartney night of Beatles classics Paul McCartney belted out a song list laden with Beatles tunes before a pumped-up crowd at a free concert as part of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebrations. McCartney opened the show with his Wings-era hit Jet and greeted the French-speaking crowd in their native language. The crowd erupted and the band turned it up a notch by ripping into the Beatles classics Drive My Car and All My Loving and his 2007 song Only Mama Knows. Organisers estimated around 200,000 people watched the outdoor show on the Plains of Abraham. See also an update at www.paulmccartney.com Paul McCartney’s oratorio to be sung by Asheville Choral Society The Asheville Choral Society’s Oct. 12 performance of Paul McCartney’s oratorio Ecce cor Meum (Behold my Heart) will, at this point, be its first performance in the Southeast and only the second one in the United States, the society announced Monday.
| How the Beatles funded the CT scan Money from Beatles record sales helped fund the invention of the CT scan (also known as CAT scan), a medical tool used to take three dimensional photographs of the insides of people's bodies. As recounted on the blog Epidemix, the story starts with Godfrey Hounsfield, a researcher at EMI back in the 1950s. THE Orchestra has been at the fulcrum of some of the greatest musical moments of Capital of Culture year so far, most especially in its forays away from the purely classical and into the world of pop. Just two of the highlights have been the launch night showcase at the Echo Arena at the dawn of the year and the magnificently dextrous collaboration with Elvis Costello on their home turf a month ago. You can see our review at THAT WAS ME, ED's BIT REVIEW: Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band @ Chateau Ste. Michelle Ringo Starr got by with a little help from his friends Saturday night at Chateau Ste. Michelle. | 'Beatles' author to visit libraries Dave Schwensen will visit several Cuyahoga County Public Library branches to discuss his book, "The Beatles in Cleveland: Memories, Facts & Photos About the Notorious 1964 & 1966 Concerts." Copies will be available for purchase and autographing. Covering the White Album is no easy task It's the Mount Everest of challenges for musicians playing Beatles music: "Revolution 9," the bizarre sound collage on the band's 1968 "White Album." A picture of devotion to Linda If there is one overriding theme that comes over powerfully when talking to Mary McCartney it is how strong a bond of love and respect she had, and has, for her mother Linda. The late American photographer and businesswoman and her husband, the former Beatle, Paul, famously had one of the most enduring love affairs of modern times: she was the proverbial great woman standing, if not behind, then beside, a great man. |
Mon 21st July (updated 0030, 0700)
Ringo's 'All Starrs' tour provided Beatles sound and more The legacy of the Beatles filled the lush grounds of Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville Saturday night, under clear, cool skies. Only one of the Fab Four was there — the ever-lovable Ringo Starr — and less than half the songs in the show were from his former band. But those were the songs the mixed crowd of young and old came to hear, and they loved them. THE TOUCH OF THE FAMOUS IN FLORIDA
The collection includes over 350 items and contains classics such as a 1953 Seeburg Model G juke box and a number of vintage electric guitars. And that’s just to get started. Then the serious stuff will appear.
| McCartney's set satisfies with mix of old and new
The publicity seekers and agenda makers complaining about the inappropriateness of Paul McCartney's appearance on the Plains of Abraham to help celebrate Quebec's 400th anniversary will have egg on their faces today as they hear about the wall of cheers that greeted McCartney as he played a free open-air show last night to more than 200,000 people on the Plains. Battles historical and fabricated evaporated as McCartney quickly won over a highly excited crowd with a simple "Bonsoir les quebecois! Bonsoir toute la gang!" after opening his set with an exhuberant Jet. See also Paul McCartney rocks huge crowd for Quebec City's birthday party | McCartney fans sang along to the 1960s Beatles hit Baby you can drive my car during the sound check as thousands converged on the site of Paul McCartney's free concert to celebrate Quebec City's 400th anniversary. Serge Bélisle, of the Quebec City police, said about 200,000 or more spectators were expected. "It's a North American happening," Bélisle said. "Everything is going well." See also Thousands gather in Quebec for McCartney concert & Tens of thousands converge on Plains of Abraham for Paul McCartney ... AND OF COURSE HENRY THE HORSE DANCES THE WALTZ
WAS helping my 11-year-old daughter with her homework when she mentioned that in history she was doing the 1960s and had to find out about some bloke called John Lennon. |
PAUL McCARTNEY IN QUEBEC
Sun 20th July (updated 0800)
John Lennon Biopic In The Works A further report on the new Lennon film The early life of ex-Beatle John Lennon will be turned into a movie based on a controversial book by his half-sister. Billy Joel Sends Off Shea With A Little Help From His Friends This article from Cinema Blend includes the set list from the final show at Shea Stasium. Roll on the documentary. I have to confess that I’m neither a New Yorker, nor a Billy Joel fan. But you couldn’t have picked a more perfect guy to send off New York’s Shea Stadium in the sort of style that the structure which has made so much history throughout the years -- with everything from baseball to the Beatles -- demands. MERSEYBEAT STORY TODAY
| Fans already lined up for McCartney's Quebec show
Fans started lining up Saturday to get a chance to see Paul McCartney up close when the legendary musician performs in Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebrations Sunday. About 200,000 fans are expected to attend the show set on the Plains of Abraham. Some fans travelled from afar to get a chance to see the former Beatles star. See also The British invasion revisited Get the Best Seats to See Paul McCartney With Cogeco on Demand Cogeco Cable (TSX:CCA) announced today that the show Paul McCartney will be giving on Sunday, July 20, as part of Quebec City's 400th Anniversary Celebration, will be available on Cogeco On Demand. | Fab Faux will rock Deer Valley with Beatles classics Even if you were lucky enough to attend a live Beatles concert, you didn't witness performances of "Eleanor Rigby," "Penny Lane" or "Hey Jude." Those tunes, and many other memorable Beatles hits, were written after the group's last public tour. The Beatles made their music in recording studios after 1966 - in sessions that included a growing orchestra of classical musicians. Ringo Starr Reveals Teen Tear-Away Past
Former Beatle Ringo Starr was part of an armed gang when he was growing up. The rocker, who earlier this month (07Jul08) asked people to pray for peace and love throughout the world on his birthday, confesses that he and his friends used to carry razor blades to deliberately harm other people. Yoko Ono's exhibition to be held in Warsaw 19.07.2008 Yoko Ono’s exhibition ‘FLY’ is to be staged at the Centre for Contemporary Art in
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Sat 19th July (updated 0830, 1000)
Paul McCartney Joins Billy Joel at Shea Stadium
(Billy Joel, left, performing in what was advertised as the last concert at Shea Stadium, was joined by Paul McCartney.)
It takes a lot to upstage Billy Joel at Shea Stadium.
But late on Friday night, nearly three hours into a career-spanning performance advertised as the last concert at Shea before it was to be demolished, Mr. Joel seemed happy to turn over the spotlight to Paul McCartney, who, he said, had just flown in from London.
The sold-out crowd of 55,000 people let out an ear-splitting roar as Mr. McCartney sang the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There,” with Mr. Joel singing backup and, fitting his reputation as a self-deprecating rock star, looking on from his piano as if he were just another fan himself. See also Joel closes on high note & Billy Joel leads all-star concert at NYC's Shea Stadium
Lennon childhood film gets grant
A film about John Lennon's early life is among seven projects to be given lottery-funded development grants by the UK Film Council. Nowhere Boy, based on a book by his half-sister, is being developed by Matt Greenhalgh who wrote Control, a biopic of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. It will get £35,500 of £322,000 being awarded to established film-makers. Yoko Loses Lawsuit; 'Expelled' Back In Theaters
If you are like me and you didn't get a chance to see Ben Stein's controversial documentary before it was pulled from theaters due to a lawsuit brought by John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, you may have another chance in the coming months. |
If everybody's quite finished laughing at the Quebec sovereigntists who are denouncing their visitor Paul McCartney as an "Anglo-Saxon idol" bent on replaying the battle of the Plains of Abraham in concert form, we have a modest point to make about the subject. Paul let in the camera for the band rehearsals this week and this is what we found... Pete Best Band performance gets closer
It’s official: Benton is now listed on the tour information portion of Pete Best's Web site. |
(John Lennon: The Life - Philip Norman - October 07, 2008) Phillip Norman wrote one of the first and still one of the best Beatles histories ("Shout!," 1981), and though he claims to have corrected many "inaccuracies and misjudgments" from that earlier work, there just isn't much new to say about the group's historic, hysterical popularity or John Lennon's role in it. MERSEYBEAT STORY TOMORROW
Summer Movie Classics -Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Join the Florida Theatre every Sunday for Summer Movie Classics. Enjoy great selections from cinematic history in the beautiful setting of one of Jacksonville's own classics! |
Fri 18th July (updated 1100)
Ringo, the "lovable" Beatle, rocks on
As he embarks on his 10th and latest tour with his "All Starr" band, former Beatle Ringo Starr is well rehearsed and ready to rock. At 68, the world's most famous drummer is hitting 31 cities in the United States and Canada, including Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville on Saturday. As he typically does on tour, he is filling the shows with hits, many of them songs that he originally sang with the Beatles, as well as his solo smashes, while sharing the spotlight with other members of the All Starrs including Edgar Winter, Billy Squier, Colin Hay and others. George Harrison's Sister Planning Beatles Museum In Branson George Harrison's sister Louise Harrison is backing a plan to open a Beatles-themed museum in Branson, Missouri. Marty Scott, who portrays George Harrison in the Liverpool Legends tribute band, which Louise Harrison manages, told the Branson Daily News that the museum will be housed in the Starlite Theatre, where the band is in residence, and may be open as early as this fall. Fab Faux Set the Beatles "Psychedelia!" for 9/20 NYC As you plan your Fall Preview coverage, I hope you'll keep this special event in mind: On September 20th, at New York's historic Radio City Music Hall, The Fab Faux will celebrate their 10th Anniversary with “PSYCHEDELIA!" - a performance of The Beatles' 'Psychedelic Years'. | John Lennon life story to be told in film The film, to be titled Nowhere Boy, is expected to challenge the conventional account of Lennon's childhood. From the age of four, Lennon was raised by his Aunt Mary "Mimi" Smith, who became his guardian after complaining to Liverpool Social Services about his mother Julia, Mimi's sister. Mimi disapproved of Julia, whom she accused of "living in sin" after becoming pregnant by another man while Lennon's father Alf was away fighting in the Second World War.
(A young John Lennon with his mother Julia) The film, to be titled Nowhere Boy, is expected to challenge the conventional account of Lennon's childhood. From the age of four, Lennon was raised by his Aunt Mary "Mimi" Smith, who became his guardian after complaining to Liverpool Social Services about his mother Julia, Mimi's sister. Mimi disapproved of Julia, whom she accused of "living in sin" after becoming pregnant by another man while Lennon's father Alf was away fighting in the Second World War. See also Imagine John Lennon's childhood: Nowhere Boy heads for big screen Fan who saw Beatles play Shea's first concert will see Billy Joel ... Pat Fakhoury was at the first-ever concert in Shea Stadium - and Friday night she will be at the last. Fakhoury was just 9 in 1965 when she, a girlfriend and a teenage pal made the trek from Brooklyn to see those first performers - a British group with funny haircuts who called themselves the Beatles. Not that she saw or heard anything.
| McCartney: Give peace a chance for concert
Ex-Beatle and perennial love-advocate Paul McCartney summoned Quebec nationalists on Thursday "to smoke the pipes of peace" over their opposition to his free concert this weekend. Several artists and politicians have been questioning McCartney’s participation in Quebec City’s 400th anniversary celebration because of his British roots. But McCartney told Radio-Canada he was unmoved by their claim his presence evokes painful memories of Britain’s conquest of New France in 1760. "I think it’s time to smoke the pipes of peace and to just, you know, put away your hatchet because I think it’s a show of friendship," he said. Veteran rockers set for windfall
Ageing rock stars and session musicians will keep receiving royalties for their old recordings for the rest of their lives under a European Union plan. Performers currently lose the rights to their recordings after 50 years.
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Thurs 17th July (updated 0015, 0700, 1730)
Sir Cliff Richard pins hopes on law that will keep cash rolling in ... The rock dinosaurs of the 1960s are in line for a spectacular windfall after the EU announced plans yesterday to extend musicians’ entitlement to retrospective royalties from 50 to 95 years.
Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard and Roger Daltrey have all campaigned for what the record industry calls “the Beatles extension”, which will guarantee most artists royalties covering their entire careers. Macca 'to play first Israel gig' SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY is set to play a historic first gig in Israel — where THE BEATLES were banned more than 40 years ago.Macca, 66, is on the verge of signing a deal to play to 250,000 in Tel Aviv this September. Worried advisors are hammering out a strict security plan. American English brings Beatles tunes to Downtown Alive! Not a band to rest on its laurels, American English, The Beatles tribute band, is expanding its musical repertoire. The group will perform "The Beatles Concert That Never Was 1972" at the International Beatles Week Festival in Liverpool, England, in August. Locally, American English will perform Friday at Downtown Alive! | John Lennon Songbook Tonight/Tomorrow A very special evening of songs by the one of the world’s greatest songwriters. This evening will be a rare opportunity to hear songs including Imagine, All You Need is Love, Jealous Guy, I Am The Walrus, Day In The Life, I Should Have Known Better and many more, accompanied by full symphony orchestra and sung by top guest vocalists. Subscribers to Videotron's illico Digital TV service will be thrilled to learn that they will be able to watch the eagerly anticipated Paul McCartney concert LIVE on Indigo from the comfort of their living rooms on Sunday evening, July 20, and on illico on Demand as of the next day. The concert on the Plains of Abraham is part of Quebec City's 400th birthday celebrations. Beatles road show returns to Weston RE-LIVE the long-lost days of John, Paul, George and Ringo as the Beatles Road Show returns to the Winter Gardens on July 26 and 27. Feldmans Recreate Lennon + Ono Love-in For Peta Veggie Ad LOST BOYS star COREY FELDMAN and his wife SUSIE have recreated JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO's famous peace `bed-in' for a new People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) campaign poster. The two vegetarians are asking fans to `Give Peas a Chance' in the new ad in an effort to promote meat-free living. The `Give Peace a Chance' photo Lennon and Ono posed for during a 1969 demonstration in Montreal, Canada has become one of the most iconic peace images of all time. | Paul McCartney's website has been updated with a short Q&A about the Quebec show. Firstly, it's been just over a month since the Independence Concert - millions of people watched it on TV and the Eastern Block press are still writing about the show; how do you feel about it looking back? Montreal band the Stills thrilled to be playing at Paul McCartney gig As musical stamps-of-approval go, they don't come much bigger. An estimated 200,000 people who are expected to flock to the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City on Sunday to catch Paul McCartney in concert will also get a chance to hear Montreal band the Stills - courtesy of the knighted ex-Beatle. Billy Joel Finishes What the Beatles Started Billy Joel on Wednesday night began to finish what the Beatles started in 1966. He played the first of two shows at Shea Stadium, the last live music act before the cesspool of a sporting arena finally closes this fall. "Top 5 Rock & Roll Hoaxes Ever The truth is out there… |
Weds 16th July (updated 0830, 1700)
Mrs Best And The Beatles or Mother Of Mersey Beat Roag Best is busy writing the book which is the predecessor of "The Beatles, The True Beginnings" The book starts with Mo Bests upbringing in India, her wild encounters, of which there were many. What was going on with the family, of which there was much, her coming to Liverpool, and her influence on not only The Beatles, but the other groups i.e. Merseybeat. Fan who met Fab Four on last night of Beatlemania
THIS WEEK sees the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine film premiere, and one man from Belsize Park has a special reason to celebrate.
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| McCartney's free Quebec concert ruffles sovereigntists. Several prominent Quebec artists and sovereigntists are complaining about Paul McCartney's highly anticipated concert this coming weekend, accusing the former Beatle of "Canadianizing" the city's 400th birthday celebration. A group of politicians and artists, including Parti Québécois culture critic Pierre Curzi and filmmaker Pierre Falardeau have lent their name to an open letter that denounces McCartney's free July 20 concert on Quebec City's Plains of Abraham.
Fifth Beatle Pete Best releases first solo album 40 years on The 'fifth Beatle' Pete Best is to release his first solo album - more than 40 years after he was famously kicked out of the band.Haymans Green is a collection of songs about his life as the original drummer in the Fab Four before they reached worldwide acclaim. One track - Broken - describes his pain at being ejected from the most successful band in history. 'Billy the Kid' rides into Shea It was Oct. 15, 1986, and Christine Kelland was making her way toward Madison Square Garden. The then-20-year-old was in New York City to see her first Billy Joel concert. "Everyone was going ballistic," she recalled this week. It was the same night the New York Mets clinched the pennant after a marathon 16 innings against the Houston Astros in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series. See also Billy Joel shows will mark end of era at Shea BILLY JOEL - JOEL TURNS HISTORIC GIGS INTO A MOVIE BILLY JOEL is turning his historic concerts at New York's Shea Stadium this week (begs14Jul08) into a documentary. | Limited Edition John Lennon Shirts Available now - Only 350 Made ...
(Limited Edition Lennon Not Lenin Shirt) Perpetual Vogue and http://www.TattooApparel.com are pleased to announce that we now have both designs of the Limited Edition John Lennon Shirts from English Laundry in stock. These two hand sewn button front shirts pay homage to John Lennon. One is called Give Peace a Chance and the other is called Lennon Not Lenin. Color it gone: Spectrum will be torn down in 2009 The building where the Broad Street Bullies hoisted Lord Stanley's Cup, Bruce Springsteen played his first arena-headlining gig and circuses and ice shows thrilled and delighted countless children of all ages will soon disappear from South Philadelphia. By the mid-1970s, the Spectrum had established itself as one of the nation's leading sports and entertainment facilities, hosting concerts by all the top rock acts of the day, including the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney & Wings, as well as several by Frank Sinatra. Beatles tribute band to play fundraising show A BEATLES tribute band is hoping it won't be a Hard Day's Night when they perform in the UK for a South Tyneside-based charity. The Premier Beatles, from Hungary, are booked to play at the Little Haven Hotel, South Shields, in aid of the National Victims' Association Fab Four recreate Beatle magic McCartney impersonator Ardy Sarraf was understandably nervous. Here was his musical idol - an honest-to-Pepper, real-life Beatle - signing copies of his new children's book at a Los Angeles bookstore. |
Tues 15th July (updated 0700, 2030)
George Martin Reflects On 'Sgt. Pepper' In LA
Beatles producer George Martin offered a fascinating look into the group's creative process during a multimedia presentation for members of the National Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences Friday at Los Angeles' Bovard Auditorium. Just 86 the 'Fifth Beatle' stuff "God, can we get away from The Beatles for a moment?" Sir George Martin had had enough. The 82-year-old music icon – introduced to TV writers as the man who had sold 1 billion records – was fed up fielding questions about John, Paul, George and Ringo. Martin was at the PBS portion of the television critics' press tour to promote On Record: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, an ambitious, eight-hour documentary series set to premiere in the fall of 2010. Toronto-based Wildheart Entertainment is behind the venture, with Kevin Spacey booked as narrator. Brook Park: Author of Beatles book visits library Dave Schwensen will discuss his book, "The Beatles in Cleveland: Memories, Facts & Photos About the Notorious 1964 &1966 Concerts," 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 16 at the Brook Park Library. | Review: Ringo's All Starr juke box
Ringo Starr should find a new Fave Five, create a new Facebook page or raid someone else's Rolodex. His 10th incarnation of Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, which performed Monday at the sold-out Mystic Lake Casino Showroom, is full of B- and C-list two-hit wonders who have toured with him before. What they delivered was an emotionally fun but musically underwhelming 130-minute show. The seven-man band, which performed like a classic-rock jukebox, managed to sound underrehearsed and tired at the same time. Everybody’s Talkin’: Imagine seeing John Lennon’s art A trip to Jackson County on Friday will offer an unusual experience that Beatles fans might particularly appreciate. Three sketches drawn by John Lennon in his pre-Beatle days can be seen during a special 5 to 7 p.m. viewing at the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts, 2001 N. Ewing St. in Seymour. Social workers plan Bed In strike The staff at certain Czech non-profit organisations want to go on Bed In strike they would hold without leaving their beds, in protest against what they call the state's failure to solve problems social services are faced with, Pavel Novak, head of the Fokus association, told CTK Monday. 10 MAGAZINE COVERS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD Which Beatles related cover made the Top 10? | Imagine How Much My John Lennon Portrait Will Raise For Charity ARTIST Peter Howson hopes to raise thousands to help autistic people by giving a valuable painting of John Lennon to charity. Howson's daughter Lucie, 21, has the autistic spectrum disorder Asperger's syndrome and he was diagnosed with a milder form of the condition in 1993, when he was 34. He has now donated the Lennon painting, one of a series he did of the former Beatle, to the charity ENABLE. Another of the series was sold for £50,000 recently. The nation’s only Beatles museum is set to open in Branson by March 2009, if not sooner. (Louise Harrison & the Liverpool Legends) Louise Harrison, George Harrison’s sister and founder of Liverpool Legends, a Beatles tribute band, is opening the museum. It’s kind of unfortunate that most people think of Yoko Ono as the woman responsible for breaking up the Beatles. If you appreciate envelope-pushing ladies, you probably know there’s a little more to her than that.The staff at certain Czech non-profit organisations want to go on Bed In strike they would hold without leaving their beds, in protest against what they call the state's failure to solve problems social services are faced with, Pavel Novak, head of the Fokus association, told CTK Monday. |
Mon 14th July (updated 0030, 0700, 1830)
The rise and rise of the private gig Rod Stewart and Robbie Williams come at €1.25 million each. The Rolling Stones played a Texan billionaire's 60th birthday bash at the Hard Rock hotel in Las Vegas for a sweet €4.4 million. Paul McCartney sang for American TV executive Wendy Whitworth for €630,000. Sting did Bill Gates's New York Supper Club for €315,000. The world according to Ringo Starr Former Beatle Ringo Starr celebrated his 68th birthday this summer, but he looks and sounds the same as he did a decade ago. The drummer-singer says he sees no end in sight for his music career, as fans of all ages continue to flock to his biannual outings with the ever-evolving All-Starr Band. Beatles Comparisons Have Struck The Wrong Chord ALL hell broke loose on my radio show at the weekend when I advanced the daring proposition that, er, the Beatles were... fab. OK I went further and claimed they were the fabbest four ever, but you'd think that would command a national consensus. Not so. Callers steamed in with rival claims which went from the sublime - Bob Marley and the Wailers - to the ridiculous. | Beatles' widows honour producer George Martin. There's also a photo gallery at this website The widows of former Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison led an all-star tribute on Saturday to Sir George Martin, the producer who moulded the Fab Four into the world's most important pop music force.
(George & Yoko) Martin, 82, received the Grammy Foundation Leadership Award, in recognition of his humanitarian and charitable efforts, during a dinner and concert featuring the likes of singer Tom Jones and rock guitarist Jeff Beck. See also Beatles producer Martin honored in Los Angeles Ringo Starr Unfazed By Childhood House Demolition Former Beatle Ringo Starr is unfazed by the proposed demolition of his childhood home in Liverpool, England. | Daily News Deja Vu: Beatles at Shea Stadium
(The News' coverage of the 1965 show.) Billy Joel didn't start the fire, but he will be the last artist to light up Shea Stadium, with his two "Last Play at Shea" concerts on Wednesday and Friday. Joel is the fifth musician to perform multiple dates at Shea. He's also the only musician to perform at both Shea and Yankee Stadiums - Joel played two shows at the Bronx ballpark in 1990. The Mets' stadium, which is in its final season, may not have the mystique and aura of the Yankees' park, but it does beat its Bronx counterpart in one thing - great concerts. Graeme Hamilton: Yes it's true, Paul McCartney loves Quebec' The smoke has cleared from last week's skirmish on the Plains of Abraham. |
Sun 13th July (updated 0930)
Ringo gets back into flower power
RINGO’S head has regrown after it was chopped off a hedge sculpture of the Fab Four. The topiary version of the Mop Tops at Liverpool South Parkway station was attacked in April. It was apparently done in revenge for comments the real Ringo made in a TV interview with Jonathan Ross when he said he missed nothing about his home town. 'Bigger than Jesus? The Beatles were a Christian band'
John Lennon famously claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, even predicting that Christianity would "vanish and shrink".But 28 years after his death, in an interview being broadcast for the first time, he claims that on the contrary, he hoped to encourage people to focus on the Christian faith. Despite his familiar image as a hippy icon who invited us to imagine a world without religion, Lennon says he was "one of Christ's biggest fans" and felt emotional in church. You can listen again to the Sunday Raio programme here | There's 'limited edition', 'special collector's edition', and 'could auction it at Sotheby's edition'. The definition gets blurry as New York department store Bloomingdale's announces it is coming out with a Beatles iPod, loaded with every song from the Fab Four's catalog.
(Beatles Ipod althought the report doesn't mention anything about it containing any remastered versions of the Beatles catalogue) Here's the thing: they're only making 100 of them Billy Joel ready for final concerts at Shea Stadium
(Billy Joel) Billy Joel doesn't pause after hearing how tickets to his upcoming Shea Stadium shows - "The Last Play at Shea" - were being resold online for several thousand dollars apiece, with some being priced at nearly $100,000. | The Stills To Open For Paul McCartney Sir Paul McCartney has enlisted The Stills to help him celebrate Quebec City's milestone birthday. Review: John Lennon Songbook, Philharmonic Hall (Here's a preview of the John Lennon Songbook concerts held next Thurs & Friday at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.) BOB Eaton, who has become something of a resident director at the Royal Court (Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels; Stags And Hens; On The Ledge etc) first came to Liverpool in 1981 to run the Everyman Theatre. The world was still in shock from the murder of John Lennon four months earlier. Merseybeat exhibit opens in city A new exhibition marking 60 years of Merseyside's contribution to popular music has opened in Liverpool. The Beat Goes On showcases generations of artists who have influenced the area's musical identity, from The Beatles to The Zutons. Memorabilia on show includes a bed sheet from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Bed-in for peace" demonstration in Montreal in 1969. He wears a mop-top wig on stage more than 140 days of the year and goes by the name "George," but Tom Work has plenty to say about portraying the "quiet Beatle" and the fame that 1964...The Tribute has amassed in its own right as an impossible Fab Four dream. |
Sat 12th July (updated 0030, 1000)
Beatles Day: rip-roaring oldsters...
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(British music producer George Martin poses with with the Grammy Award he won for Best Surround Sound Album and Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for The Beatles "Love" at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in this file photo from February 10, 2008.)
(Tom Murray) | George Martin goes 'On Record' with documentary Nearly six decades after his start in the recording industry, legendary producer George Martin is at work on a documentary about the history of recorded music. Martin secured a place in that history not only as producer of almost all of the Beatles' recordings, but as a mentor to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Beyond his formidable track record with the Fab Four, he also has worked with Gerry & the Pacemakers, Jeff Beck, America, Cheap Trick and other acts. He's won six Grammy Awards, including two for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and is a recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Opening night video update added. Women involved with John, Ringo coming to Beatles event The largest Beatles festival in Canada is returning to the Sunshine City next month with more special guests and events. Details were announced Thursday at the Orillia Opera House for the second annual Orillia Beatles Celebration. Organizers brainstormed after the inaugural festival last year to come up with a list of events and attractions for the Sept. 19-21 happening. The committee has once again managed to line up some Beatles VIPs: May Pang and Nancy Lee Andrews. Beatles fans meet fab four snapper A FAMOUS photographer who snapped The Beatles in the year before they split unveiled his pictures to fab four fans in Bucks. Former Sunday Times photographer Tom Murray captured the group in July 1968. The shots, known to fans as the mad day out' session, were displayed at the Chalfont Art and Framing Gallery, Little Chalfont where Mr Murray met fans.
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GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
Almost four decades ago, John Lennon and Yoko Ono piled Timothy Leary, Petula Clark, Dick Gregory, Allen Ginsberg, Tommy Smothers and many more into a Bed-In in a Montreal hotel room and recorded what may be the most famous protest song of all time using nothing but four mikes and an Ampex four-track. On Thursday, the hand-written lyrics to that immortal song, "Give Peace a Chance," were auctioned off by Christie's for the tidy sum of $833,654.
Money may not be ably to buy you love, but evidently it can buy you peace. Scratch that: It can buy you love too. Wired News
Fri 11th July (updated1030)
Beatles drum skin, Lennon lyrics star at auction The hand-painted drum skin that appeared on the sleeve of the Beatles' ground-breaking 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" sold for $1.1 million at auction on Thursday, four times its estimate. Billed as the "world's most famous drum skin", it was the star lot of Christie's rock and pop memorabilia sale in London, and eclipsed the other highlight, John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for hit song "Give Peace a Chance". Charities benefit as Fab Four fiesta mops up cash
The Backbeat Beatles THE first-ever Beatles Day saw mop-tops and classic tracks draw fans from across Liverpool. For 24 hours, Liverpool was immersed in wigs, and fans revelled in Fab Four nostalgia, as part of a fund-raising drive for Alder Hey Imagine and Liverpool Unites. Organisers deemed the day a massive triumph. See also Beatles Day: In my life ... we love them all Beat Goes On celebrates Liverpool's musical heritage 'We think of it as a blockbuster exhibition,' announces co-curator Paul Gallagher, in reference to Liverpool's imminent look into the story of popular music in the city. 'In terms of size and commitment, it's absolutely massive; but such is the wealth of Liverpool's musical talent and heritage, we could theoretically have doubled it.' Forty years after it was released, The Beatles' iconic record, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," continues to hold musicians in its thrall. When the BBC organized a project to celebrate the album's anniversary in June 2007, Scottish rock band Travis, which will play at B1 on Wednesday, was happy to be involved. | Beatles Sgt Pepper drumskin in record sale
The drumskin from the LP cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was expected to fetch between 100,000-150,000 A private collector paid over four times more than expected for the drumskin which was the centrepiece of the legendary cover design by Peter Blake. At the same sale, two of the instruments that survived Who legend Pete Townsend's guitar-smashing era fetched more than £46, 000 between them. His cherry-red 1967 Gibson SG Special, used by him from the early Seventies to the early Eighties, went for £32, 450. Second Beatles Celebration announced The largest Beatles festival in Canada is returning next month to the Sunshine City. Details were announced July 10 at the Orillia Opera House for the second annual Orillia Beatles Celebration. Organizers brainstormed after the inaugural festival last year and have come up with another exciting schedule of events and attractions, to take place downtown Sept. 19-21. Revealed: The secret Beatles tapes LET me tell you about the magical mystery of the missing "Fab Four". Almost 30 years ago, Radio City commissioned the most incredible documentary series about The Beatles. It was made in America and featured never-before-heard interviews with the band, their friends and family. It went out once in 1982 and then was stored away for safe keeping. |
