A community portal about The Beatles with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Beatles were a highly influential English rock band from Liverpool, Merseyside, England. They are the most critically acclaimed and...
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A community portal about The Beatles with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Beatles were a highly influential English rock band from Liverpool, Merseyside, England. They are the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful popular music band in history. The innovative music and style of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr helped to define the 1960s, and they continue to be held in high regard for their artistic achievements, their huge commercial success, their role in the history of popular music, and their contributions to popular culture. Although their initial musical style was rooted in the sounds of 1950s rock and roll, the group explored a great variety of genres, ranging from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelic rock.
All over the globe, there’s one question that can never be definitively answered, yet is constantly raised; “What is God?”. In the new documentarty, “ Oh My God ?” (in theatres November 13 via Mitropoulos Films ) filmmaker Peter Rodger explores the question with Ringo Starr and several others who show their spiritual viewpoint. This visual odyssey travels the globe with a revealing lens examining the idea of God through the minds and eyes of various religions and cultures, everyday people, spiritual leaders and celebrities. His goal: to give the viewer the personal, visceral experience of some kind of reasonable, meaningful definition of one ...
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Featuring: Robert Zemeckis | Paul McCartney | Ringo Starr So, Hollywood mega-mogul Robert Zemeckis is recreating the Beatles' Yellow Submarine for the 3-D big screen, and Zemeckis is crossing his fingers that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will appear in the remake! Zemeckis has pitched the idea to McCartney and Starr, but he says they "haven't gotten the word yet on??? whether they're interested [...] [From: Perez Hilton]
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Moviemaker Robert Zemeckis wants surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to play themselves in his planned remake of the Fab Four's animated classic Yellow Submarine. " />" class="middle" /> Read more!
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As Rolling Stone previously reported , director Robert Zemeckis and Disney brokered a deal that would allow them to re-submerge the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine , turning the 1968 animated film into a performance-capture 3-D digital production. What was at first a Hollywood rumor is now a fact as Zemeckis confirmed to MTV Movies Blog that he’s already working on the script, which he’ll also direct. However, one thing the Back to the Future director doesn’t know is whether Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr will participate in the film.
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MUSIC NEWS - UK singer/songwriter/composer, Dean Johnson used some "misplaced" lyrics written by BEATLE George Harrison to create a new song. The lyrics were written by Harrison in the late sixties, but never used by Harrison or the Beatles , but instead were given to the band's biographer Hunter Davies who filed and lost track of them. Davies came across the lyrcis recenlty and mentioned them in an interview on BBC Radio Merseyside. One of the on-air personalities, Spencer Leigh , passed the lyrics on to Johnson and suggested the songwriter use them as the basis for a new tune. The lyrics are said ...
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Author: peteblog1
Keywords: the beatles the beatles rock band john lennon john and yoko fall of light the beatles museum imagine liverpool john lennon tribute white white grand piano
Added: November 5, 2009
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono recording the anti-war anthem Give Peace a Chance with the Plastic Ono Band, the United Nations announced Tuesday that the proceeds from a new release of the song will raise funds for peacebuilding efforts in countries emerging from conflict.
Yoko Ono – the former Beatle’s wife and artistic collaborator – along with his sons, Sean and Julian Lennon have partnered with music industry...
So, Hollywood mega-mogul Robert Zemeckis is recreating the Beatles' Yellow Submarine for the 3-D big screen, and Zemeckis is crossing his fingers that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will appear in the remake!
Zemeckis has pitched the idea to McCartney and Starr, but he says they "haven't gotten the word yet on… whether they're interested [...]
Author: aceface1969
Keywords: Lennon accoustic beatles McCartney Starr Harrison stones faces yoko ringo stevie riks weller kinks the who Rod stewart
Added: November 4, 2009
A fresh wave of Beatlemania swept across the world last month with the release of Beatles Rock Band and the newly remastered Beatles catalogue, and the timing seems to have worked out quite nicely for Sam Taylor Wood's upcoming John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy.
LONDON - Editor Lisa Gunning recently cut the John Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy , which premiered at the 53rd BFI London Film Festival. The film by Sam Taylor Wood chronicles Lennon’s youth and stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Aaron Johnson as Lennon. It will be distributed in the US through The Weinstein Company early next year.
UNITED NATIONS — John Lennon's widow and two sons are donating the proceeds from the 40th anniversary release of the hit "Give Peace a Chance" to a U.N. peacebuilding fund used to help countries emerging from conflict, the fund announced Tuesday ...
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Lennon was known, especially during [[Beatlemania]], for his sense of humour. During live performances of...
Author: bedinsthlm2009
Keywords: BED-IN PEACE YOKO ONO LENNON JOHN DANIEL ANDERSSON ANDREA CSASZNI RYGH STOCKHOLM 2009 CLARION PERFECT PERFORMANCE DANCE IMAGINE
Added: October 30, 2009