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.
On This Date in 2001: George Harrison died of brain cancer in a Hollywood Hills mansion that was once leased by Paul McCartney . He was 58 years old. I’ve been thinking of The Beatles and George (my favorite Beatle) so much lately, not only with the recent Beatles on Record special that was on the History Channel a few days ago, and the 39th anniversary of the release of All Things Must Pass , but also having spent a significant amount of time yesterday downloading all of the Beatles 16 CD... Read Full Story
Singing hits from his Beatles and Wings heyday is a bittersweet experience for Paul McCartney . While he revels in performing such classic songs, each tune ignites memories of his deceased bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison , and his late wife Linda McCartney .
At a launch of his new CD and DVD set Good Evening New York City , which he recorded during a three-night stint in New York’s Citi Field, Sir Paul, 67, was asked if his concerts were in some way a tribute to his fellow... Read Full Story
Former Doctor Who lead Christopher Eccleston will be playing John Lennon in an upcoming British television drama commissioned by BBC Four about the life of John Lennon between 1967 and 1971. To further the Doctor Who connection, former Torchwood star Naoko Mori (who played Tosh on the show) will be playing Yoko Ono.
There is a lot of crossover between Doctor Who fans and Beatles fans, so there is sure to be some interest in the series. The roles I know Eccleston best for are those of the... Read Full Story
1960 – The Beatles perform at the Kaiserkeller Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany.
1961 – The Beatles perform at Hambleton Hall, Huyton, Liverpool.
1962 – The Beatles in the recording studio, Studio Two, EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, London, recording for their second single. They record “Please Please Me” in 18 takes, and it is selected for the A-side of The Beatles’ new single. Then they record 6 takes of “Ask Me Why” for the flip side (they had recorded this song previously... Read Full Story
Live Nation and iTunes just announced a partnership to sell live digital downloads from concerts at various Live Nation venues. Eliot from Wired’s Epicenter blog has a bit more info on the new offerings , which also include concert video as well as audio:
The new section represents another breakthrough in the promising area of live digital music, which has been hampered by complicated rights issues even as other forms of music proliferate legally online…Live Nation recorded the shows... Read Full Story
There was a huge pop star, a tennis phenom, a top fashion designer, a key U.S. diplomat and three Beatle wives. But the biggest ovation at Monday's Glamour Women of the Year awards, a star-studded affair at New York's Carnegie Hall, went to 81-year-old poet Maya Angelou, whose soaring words on the power of womanhood brought many to tears and nearly everyone to their feet. Women, Angelou told the crowd in her speech, "are rainbows in the clouds." "I am grateful to be a woman," said Angelou... Read Full Story
1960 – The Beatles perform at the Kaiserkeller Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany.
1961 – The Beatles perform a nighttime show at the Cavern Club, Liverpool.
1962 – The Beatles perform at the Majestic Ballroom in Birkenhead.
1963 – The Beatles second album “With the Beatles” (Parlophone PMC 1206 mono/PCS 3045 stereo) is released in the U.K. Tracks: “It Won’t Be Long,” “All I’ve Got to Do,” “All My Loving,” “Don’t Bother Me,” “Little Child,” “Till There Was You,” “Please Mr... Read Full Story
MTV Games and Harmonix released the second major batch of downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band on Tuesday.
Each one allows you to complete one of the albums that is partially represented on the disc already. Last month, they added the rest of the tracks from Abbey Road , and you’ll have the rest of Rubber Soul in December. This week, it’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band tracks that weren’t on the disc.
Guitarists will find that they’re playing multi-instrumentalist on... Read Full Story
Sean Lennon was a celebrity before he even started a recording career -- no, scratch that, he was a celebrity before he had even been born. As the son of legendary Beatle John Lennon and avant-garde musician Yoko Ono, the guy is obviously no stranger to the limelight. And this is probably why he didn't choose to go the route of mainstream pop like his half-brother Julian did. Instead he cleverly positioned himself between pop and experimental, earning positive critical reviews and securing... Read Full Story
1960 – The Beatles perform at the Kaiserkeller Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany.
1962 – The Beatles perform at Floral Hall, Southport, playing two shows.
1963 – The Beatles, on a tour of Britain, perform for two “houses” at the ABC Cinema in Manchester, Lancashire. Before the show they give a radio interview (for the BBC’s “Voice of the North”), a television interview (for Granada TV’s “Scene at 6:30″), and an interview for a short newsreel documentary being filmed by Pathe... Read Full Story
