Eric Burdon & the New Animals,Pink Floyd ,Twice As Much , Vashti Bunyan, Andrew Loog Oldham, Rolling Stones, all in under ten minutes!An excerpt from the Peter Whitehead film...
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Beatles 1963
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Beatles' Era - Tonight let's all make love in London...
Eric Burdon & the New Animals,Pink Floyd ,Twice As Much , Vashti Bunyan, Andrew Loog Oldham, Rolling Stones, all in under ten minutes!An excerpt from the Peter Whitehead film...
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Beatles' Era - Swinging London / 60's Fashion
This is 60's Fashion scene. Mary Quant and mini skirts and PVC coats from original old tv film.
Received: Macca's exlusive interview
Hello!
Thanks for the nice blog. I think you might be interested to know that on October 1st I'm going to post Paul's exclusive interview I - working for the large paper - was granted before the show in Israel. That's going to be on my site at http://dmme.net.
Regards,
DME
Thanks for the nice blog. I think you might be interested to know that on October 1st I'm going to post Paul's exclusive interview I - working for the large paper - was granted before the show in Israel. That's going to be on my site at http://dmme.net.
Regards,
DME
Received: “Never Without You”
Hi Beatles museum caretakers,
Awesome site – very clean, fresh and updated!
I thought you might be interested in some Beatles news for your site. A company called SongVest is auctioning off rights to “Never Without You” - the Ringo Starr tribute to John Lennon and George Harrison. The auction is going to be held online at SongVest.com between October 4th and October 18th.
I figured this might be of interest to your fans. If you’d like to learn more about “Never Without You” SongVest has information about the song and auction here:
http://www.songvest.com/index/listings/page131.htm
Have a wonderful weekend and happy Friday!!!!
Nate Towne
AUCTION DESCRIPTION:
Beatles fans have a unique opportunity to own something never before thought possible. Thanks to Ringo Starr’s longtime producer and collaborator, Mark Hudson, a piece of history has been made available to be shared with those who love Ringo and the Beatles most: their fans.
“Never Without You” is Ringo Starr’s very personal tribute to his lost band mates, John Lennon and George Harrison, written soon after Harrison’s death. The song appears on Starr's twelfth studio album, the 2003 release “Ringo Rama.” Starr engaged the services of some of his famous musician friends including Willie Nelson, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Shawn Colvin, and Timothy B. Schmitt for the album. “Never Without You” features guitar virtuoso and rock icon Eric Clapton on lead guitar.
The song also appears on Live At Soundstage, Photograph, The Very Best of Ringo Starr, Photograph, and The Very Best of Ringo Starr (DVD), 5.1 The Surround Sound Collection.
Awesome site – very clean, fresh and updated!
I thought you might be interested in some Beatles news for your site. A company called SongVest is auctioning off rights to “Never Without You” - the Ringo Starr tribute to John Lennon and George Harrison. The auction is going to be held online at SongVest.com between October 4th and October 18th.
I figured this might be of interest to your fans. If you’d like to learn more about “Never Without You” SongVest has information about the song and auction here:
http://www.songvest.com/index/listings/page131.htm
Have a wonderful weekend and happy Friday!!!!
Nate Towne
AUCTION DESCRIPTION:Beatles fans have a unique opportunity to own something never before thought possible. Thanks to Ringo Starr’s longtime producer and collaborator, Mark Hudson, a piece of history has been made available to be shared with those who love Ringo and the Beatles most: their fans.
“Never Without You” is Ringo Starr’s very personal tribute to his lost band mates, John Lennon and George Harrison, written soon after Harrison’s death. The song appears on Starr's twelfth studio album, the 2003 release “Ringo Rama.” Starr engaged the services of some of his famous musician friends including Willie Nelson, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Shawn Colvin, and Timothy B. Schmitt for the album. “Never Without You” features guitar virtuoso and rock icon Eric Clapton on lead guitar.
The song also appears on Live At Soundstage, Photograph, The Very Best of Ringo Starr, Photograph, and The Very Best of Ringo Starr (DVD), 5.1 The Surround Sound Collection.
Received: "And I Love Her"
Hi!
Love your Beatles blog, and would like to say thank you for some of the great stuff you have posted there.
One thing caught my eye, in reference to your write-up of the U.S. Rarities album, wherein you speculate about the extended ending on "And I Love Her", that it may be a Capitol invention.
I can report to you that in 1979, I bought a cassette copy of the soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night on the United Artists label, and that it contained this curiousity. This puzzled me, because a previously-bought copy of this on Stereo LP did not have such an ending.
So, if anything, it may have been a UA creation, and not a Capitol one, as this was some four or five years before it surfaced on Rarities. Additionally, I do not believe that Capitol had yet bought the rights to release the UA album at that time, because I remember first seeing the soundtrack on the Capitol label somewhere around 1987 or so, just a couple of years before it was superseded by Capitol in favour of the British catalogue.
Hope you find this helpful,
Glenn R. Lockhart.
Love your Beatles blog, and would like to say thank you for some of the great stuff you have posted there.
One thing caught my eye, in reference to your write-up of the U.S. Rarities album, wherein you speculate about the extended ending on "And I Love Her", that it may be a Capitol invention.
I can report to you that in 1979, I bought a cassette copy of the soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night on the United Artists label, and that it contained this curiousity. This puzzled me, because a previously-bought copy of this on Stereo LP did not have such an ending.
So, if anything, it may have been a UA creation, and not a Capitol one, as this was some four or five years before it surfaced on Rarities. Additionally, I do not believe that Capitol had yet bought the rights to release the UA album at that time, because I remember first seeing the soundtrack on the Capitol label somewhere around 1987 or so, just a couple of years before it was superseded by Capitol in favour of the British catalogue.
Hope you find this helpful,
Glenn R. Lockhart.
Message From Paul To Israel
Sir Paul McCartney has landed in Israel and told reporters it was really him after a newspaper speculated that the former Beatle would send an imposter.
Fans were eager to catch a glimpse of Sir Paul ahead of his first concert in the country.
Check out Paul's message straight from rehearsals in London to the people of Tel Aviv...also enjoy the guitar due between Paul, Rusty and Brian!
Paul and the band play the Friendship First Concert in Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel, on the 25th September 2008.
Paul Mccartney interview, Part 1
Paul Mccartney interview by Ilan Lukatch and Danny Kushmaro from Channel 2 news, Israel
Paul Mccartney interview, Part 2
Paul Mccartney interview by Ilan Lukatch and Danny Kushmaro from Channel 2 news, Israel
Beatles' Memorabilia
Beatles plateCeramic plate manufactured by Washington Pottery Ltd, Hanley, England, 1960s. Decorated with head and shoulder portraits of John, Ringo, Paul and George, facsimile signatures and text 'The Beatles'.
Beatles tableclothUnusual 1960s linen tablecloth with images of the Beatles and their facsimile signatures. Manufactured by Ulster, Ireland.
The day John met Paul...
It was in a sleepy Merseyside village that music changed forever when John Lennon met Paul McCartney.
By Paul Coslett
The centre of Woolton village has changed little since the day over half a century ago when John Lennon and Paul McCartney met at the church fete on 6 July 1957.
The church hall (above) where the two first met is still in use, although the stage that John Lennon and the rest of the Quarrymen performed on is absent, now dismantled and in storage.
Lennon and McCartney were introduced by mutual friend Ivan Vaughan after the Quarrymen’s evening performance in the church hall.
St Peter’s Church has organised several events to commemorate the meeting of John and Paul including performances from the surviving members of The Quarrymen and a musical festival featuring young local acts.
Prior to the evening meeting McCartney had watched The Quarrymen perform in a field behind St Peter’s Church.
The spot where Paul saw John and the Quarrymen perform in the afternoon, which features in the famous black and white photograph of Lennon wearing a checked shirt playing guitar, is now the site of Bishop Martin School.
By Paul Coslett
The centre of Woolton village has changed little since the day over half a century ago when John Lennon and Paul McCartney met at the church fete on 6 July 1957.The church hall (above) where the two first met is still in use, although the stage that John Lennon and the rest of the Quarrymen performed on is absent, now dismantled and in storage.
Lennon and McCartney were introduced by mutual friend Ivan Vaughan after the Quarrymen’s evening performance in the church hall.
St Peter’s Church has organised several events to commemorate the meeting of John and Paul including performances from the surviving members of The Quarrymen and a musical festival featuring young local acts.
Prior to the evening meeting McCartney had watched The Quarrymen perform in a field behind St Peter’s Church.
The spot where Paul saw John and the Quarrymen perform in the afternoon, which features in the famous black and white photograph of Lennon wearing a checked shirt playing guitar, is now the site of Bishop Martin School.
Returning to St Peter's in 2007 the surviving members of the Quarrymen Len Garry, Rod Davis and Colin Hanton (above) recalled that day back in 1957.
"I was in there messing about on the drums," remembers Colin Hanton.
"One of the boy scouts was playing the bugle and Ivan Vaughan came in with this other dark haired lad that I didn't know, and they stood for about five or ten minutes talking to John."
The band then played an evening performance in the church hall with McCartney stood next to the stage watching.
Lennon accidentally impressed McCartney because of his habit of making up lyrics where he hadn't been able to make out the words when listening to the original.
Rod Davis says this happened with one particular song "We were playing this number and we'd had lots of problems trying to get the words of the songs.
"We were still schoolkids and we didn't have any money anyway.
"So John would fill the gaps in occasionally 'Come come go with me, down down to the penitentiary'. We did a lot of songs about trains and jails so that worked.
"Apparently Paul said how cool John was because he was throwing in these old blues lyrics and he thought he was improvising the words.
"But in fact we always sang it that way because we never got them right in the first place."
The actual lyrics of the song, Come Go With Me were 'Come go with me, please don't send me 'way beyond the sea'.
"All Together Now" to be released October 20th
Apple Corps Ltd./Cirque du Soleil have confirmed an October 20 release of the feature-length documentary ‘All Together Now’ on DVD, which will be marketed and distributed worldwide by EMI Music. The DVD release follows acclaimed film festival screenings across North America, including a sold out opening night U.S. premiere at the Silverdocs Festival in Washington D.C. where the Washington Post observed that "All Together Now" "cuts into the heart of [LOVE].""All Together Now" has screened at a number of festivals in the U.S. and across Canada in 2008, and accolades have followed. The film's U.S. debut opened the American Film Institute's Silverdocs festival in Washington DC in June where Rolling Stone praised the film's sweeping visual style and "many insightful interviews." Screenings were as enthusiastically received at the Cinevegas festival in Las Vegas, where it was called "remarkable" by Las Vegas Magazine, and the Hotdocs festival in Toronto, where Variety noted that "All Together Now" "wowed audiences."
It will be screened in London at the 16th Raindance Film Festival on October 9th.
The documentary details the story behind the unique partnership between The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil that resulted in the creation and 2006 launch of LOVE, the stage production still playing to packed houses at The Mirage in Las Vegas, and the experimental Beatles soundscape album of the same name which garnered two Grammy Awards for producers Sir George and Giles Martin. The film is dedicated to the memory of Neil Aspinall, former CEO of Apple Corps and an Executive Producer of the DVD.
"All Together Now" faithfully recounts how the LOVE project came into being, borne from the personal friendship between George Harrison and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte. George saw how the twin talents of Cirque du Soleil and The Beatles could be fused into something new and totally original.
The director, Adrian Wills, traveled between London, Montreal, and Las Vegas recording early meetings between the Cirque du Soleil & Apple Corps Ltd. creative teams, as well as filming contributions from Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison discussing how The Beatles' music can be used in a different way. Noting the uniqueness of these interactions Wills explains, "What surprised me the most was how human the whole process was."These early stages of the project were all filmed, as were the first rehearsals at the Mirage Hotel theatre in Las Vegas, which was completely rebuilt with a one-of-a-kind sound system and complex round staging to house the LOVE show. Sir George and Giles Martin, the show's Musical Directors, were involved every step of the way with the remarkable Cirque du Soleil creative team, performers and backstage staff.
It wasn't all "plain-sailing" and there has been no attempt to disguise some of the disagreements that took place along the way regarding how some of the songs would be portrayed visually. These creative differences, a necessary part of the overall process of bringing LOVE to its most vibrant life, illustrate the participants' love and respect for the music and vision of The Beatles.
In addition to their roles within the main film, Sir George and Giles, along with engineer Paul Hicks, also feature in a bonus feature titled "Changing The Music" which reveals in fascinating depth how the music was created and the challenges they faced. They explain how they sourced some of the individual instruments and effects and how they were encouraged to experiment.
DVD contents:
‘All Together Now’ documentary (84:00)
Bonus Features:
“Changing The Music” (22:00): An in-depth look at the decision to rework and remix the Beatles music for the show
“Music In The Theatre” (09:00): A look at the process of creating the LOVE show’s unique audio design in the theater
“Making ‘LOVE’” (10:00): A backstage pass to explore the design of “LOVE,” including the art direction, costumes, props, screen imagery and the use of The Beatles’ voices in the stage production and soundtrack.
DVD technical details
1 x DVD-9
PAL and NTSC
All regions
To pre-order your copy of “All Together Now” click on the store links below:
UK: Beatles Store £15.99
US: Best Buy $19.99
Monopoly - The Beatles Collector's Edition Is Launched
One of the world's most popular board games, Monopoly, has been customised to celebrate the history and music of The Beatles. No longer are there hotels and houses, but listening parties and concerts; the hat, the iron, the shoe and other regular playing tokens are replaced with The Walrus, Here Comes the Sun, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Strawberry Fields, Octopus's Garden, and Rocky Raccoon. Each throw of the dice could take you to Abbey Road, a Ticket To Ride, or on a Magical Mystery Tour...
Uk advertising text:
The world's most legendary rock-n-roll band teams up with the world's most popular board game to bring you the ultimate Beatles experience. The Beatles Collector's Edition of Monopoly celebrates the music that revolutionized rock-n-roll in the 20th century.
This completely customized game features Apple and Abbey Road Studios along with every album released by the Beatles, allowing fans to create their own private music anthology.
Collect the 'White Album', 'Revolver', 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and more as you go, using six collectible tokens that symbolize unforgettable songs: Hammer ('Maxwell's Silver Hammer'), Strawberry ('Strawberry Fields Forever'), Walrus ('I Am The Walrus'), Sun ('Here Comes The Sun'), Raccoon ('Rocky Raccoon') and Octopus ('Octopus's Garden').
Each throw of the dice could take you to Abbey Road, grant you a 'Ticket To Ride', or send you on a 'Magical Mystery Tour'...
Licensed by Apple Studios, this is The Beatles' first officially-approved board game.
Us advertising text:
The Beatles Collector's Edition of Monopoly celebrates the music that revolutionized rock-n-roll in the 20th century. This Completely customized game features Apple and Abbey Road Studios along with every album released by the Beatles allowing fans to create their own private music anthology. Enjoy and sing along to the timeless music that has transcended generations as you collect the White Album, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and more.
Game Features:
-Six custom pewter tokens including: The Walrus, Here Comes the Sun, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Strawberry, Octopus's Garden, and Rocky Raccoon.
-The familiar Monopoly game play allows Beatles fans to own and trade some of the greatest icons in Beatles history.
-Traditional Houses & Hotels are renamed Listening Parties and Concerts.
The Beatles Collector's Edition of Monopoly celebrates the music that revolutionized rock-n-roll in the 20th century. This Completely customized game features Apple and Abbey Road Studios along with every album released by the Beatles allowing fans to create their own private music anthology. Enjoy and sing along to the timeless music that has transcended generations as you collect the White Album, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and more.
Game Features:
-Six custom pewter tokens including: The Walrus, Here Comes the Sun, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Strawberry, Octopus's Garden, and Rocky Raccoon.
-The familiar Monopoly game play allows Beatles fans to own and trade some of the greatest icons in Beatles history.
-Traditional Houses & Hotels are renamed Listening Parties and Concerts.
Sold at the Beatles.com's UK and US stores at £32.99 or $39.95.
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