The Beatles
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March 12, 2023: Mercury News: Saratoga concerts highlight music of ’60s, Leonard Cohen
Immanuel Lutheran Church is hosting a night of ’60s music with Paul Wesling and friends on March 25. The family-friendly concert will feature songs from artists like John Denver, the Kingston Trio, the Everly Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Simon and Garfunkel and the Carpenters. Feb 9, 2023: Goldmine: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Beatles exhibition gets extended
By popular demand, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has extended one of its most celebrated featured exhibits – The Beatles: Get Back to Let It Be – giving even more fans the opportunity to visit it throughout 2023. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the only place in the world where fans experience one of the most iconic moments of the twentieth century as they step inside The Beatles’ January 1969 Let It Be rehearsals, studio sessions, and legendary Apple Corps rooftop concert, the band’s final live performance. Opened in March 2022, this featured exhibition is an immersive complement to Peter Jackson's docuseries, “The Beatles: Get Back.” Jan 3, 2023: The Guardian: If These Walls Could Sing review – mystery tour of Abbey Road Studios
Mary McCartney’s documentary about the legendary home to the Beatles’ and many other stars’ recordings is an enjoyable diversion Dec 16, 2022: UDiscoverMusic: Every Cover Version The Beatles Recorded And Released
A comprehensive account of the songs that the Beatles loved enough to cover themselves and, oftentimes, make their own. Dec 6, 2022: New York Times: No John, No George, No Ringo, but Still a Lot to Say
“The McCartney Legacy” follows the superstar from the last gasp of the Beatles to “Band on the Run.” It’s 700 pages — and only the first volume planned. Dec 5, 2022: Liverpool Echo: Each Beatles' favourite album that the band made
In their lifespan as a band, The Beatles released 12 studio albums. Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles for Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be. At various different points in their lives, the Fab Four revealed their individual personal favourites of the dozen. And here is what John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr said. Nov 26, 2022: Far Out Magazine: The Beatles classic inspired by Roy Orbison and Bing Crosby
“‘Please Please Me’ is my song completely,” John affirmed in an interview with Playboy in 1980. “It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it? I wrote it in the bedroom in my house at Menlove Avenue, which was my auntie’s place”. “I remember the day I wrote it; I heard Roy Orbison doing ‘Only the Lonely’ or something. And I was also always intrigued by the words to a Bing Crosby song that went, ‘Please lend a little ear to my pleas’. The double use of the word ‘please’. So it was a combination of Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison.” Nov 22, 2022: Cheat Sheet: Cynthia Lennon Thought the Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do’ Was ‘Monotonous’
“John and Paul had written it, and I was surprised they’d chosen it because I didn’t think it was one of their best — I found it a bit monotonous. But John said that was the one George Martin wanted: he liked John’s harmonica playing on it.” “John told me they’d done so many takes of ‘Love Me Do’ that he never wanted to hear it again.” Oct 18, 2022: GQ: How the Beatles' Revolver ripped up the rulebook for popstars
Ahead of a new remix, GQ speaks to producer Giles Martin about revising the daring 1966 record, and how it paved the way for the experimental eras of artists like Kate Bush, Kanye West and Radiohead Nov 21, 2021: TV Insider: The Beatles Top TV Moments: 7. A Full Week With John and Yoko on ‘The Mike Douglas Show’
7. A Full Week With John and YokoThe duo cohost The Mike Douglas Show February 14–18, 1972 The Big PictureMiddle America meets the counter-culture on a daytime talk show. Behind the ScenesTalk about a match made in weird TV heaven. In this corner, John Lennon, who, in the two years since the Beatles’ breakup, had become a leading antiwar voice. In that corner, Mike Douglas, singing host of the most popular daytime variety show in America. Let’s just call it a shock when John and Yoko were announced as cohosts of The Mike Douglas Show for a full week, with carte blanche to pick half the guests to appear. Yoko had said the duo wished to bridge the gap between generations. By week’s end, it felt more like a Vietnam-era cultural collision. Mar 7, 2021: UCR: When Ray Davies Felt Bullied by John Lennon
“We’d played with the Beatles in Bournemouth, and John Lennon made a remark that we were only there to warm up for them,” the singer told Mojo in a recently posted interview. “[B]ut we got a great reaction to ‘You Really Got Me.' It was an early validation that we had something that stood up for us, like being bullied in school and having something that was bigger than the bully. It was that sort of feeling.” Aug 11, 2018: NPR: A Songwriting Mystery Solved: Math Proves John Lennon Wrote 'In My Life'
Lennon-McCartney is likely one of the most famous songwriting credits in music. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote lyrics and music for almost 200 songs and The Beatles have sold hundreds of millions of albums. The story goes that the two Beatles agreed as teenagers to the joint credit for all songs they wrote, no matter the divide in work. Feb 15, 2013: Ultimate Classic Rock: 45 Years Ago: The Beatles Arrive In Rishikesh, India To Study With The MaharishiJan 6, 2013: The Guardian: Beatles colour photos from 1964 up for auctionJan 15, 2012: Hollywood Reporter: Abbey Road Studios and Fairmont Hotels Partner for Music-Themed Lodging 'Experience'
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Oct 9, 1940: John Lennon is born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England
July 6, 1957: Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney met John Lennon.
June 6, 1962: George Martin's first recording session with the Beatles took place at EMI Recording Studios (later Abbey Road Studios) in London.
October 31, 1962: Returning from Swerden, Several hundred screaming fans greeted them in heavy rain at Heathrow Airport. Around 50 to 100 journalists and photographers, as well as representatives from the BBC, also joined the airport reception. November 1, 1962: The Beatles began their fourth tour of Britain within nine months, this one scheduled for six weeks. Wiki: Introducing... The Beatles is the first Beatles album released in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964, on Vee-Jay Records, ten days before Capitol's Meet the Beatles!. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay were permitted to sell the album until late 1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies.
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February 11, 1963: The Beatles recorded ten songs during a single studio session for their debut LP, Please Please Me.
Dec 26, 1963: Capitol Records released "I Want to Hold Your Hand" three weeks earlier than originally planned because of a demand. February 7, 1964: The Beatles departed from Heathrow with an estimated 4,000 fans waving and screaming as the aircraft took off. Upon landing at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, an uproarious crowd estimated at 3,000 greeted them.
Feb 9, 1964: The Beatles gave their first live US television performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by approximately 73 million viewers in over 23 million households. 
 
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in June 1967. It included songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and "A Day in the Life", now has over 70 million albums sold. Continuing the artistic maturation seen on the band's album Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper further departed from the conventional pop rock idiom of the time and incorporated balladry, psychedelic, music hall, and symphonic influences. During the Sgt. Pepper sessions, the group improved upon the quality of their music's production while exploring experimental recording techniques. Producer George Martin's innovative approach included the use of an orchestra. Widely acclaimed and imitated, the album cover, designed by English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, was inspired by a sketch by Paul McCartney that depicted the band posing in front of a collage of some of their favourite celebrities.
Sgt. Pepper was a worldwide critical and commercial success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the UK Album Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200. A seminal work in the emerging psychedelic rock style, the album was critically acclaimed upon release and won four Grammy Awards in 1968. With an estimated 32 million copies sold, it is one of the world's best selling albums. Sgt. Pepper is considered by many to be the most influential and famous rock album ever, and has been named the greatest album of all time by both Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (1994) and Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003). The album was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2003, calling it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." "There are only about 100 people in the world who understand our music."—John Lennon, 1967. |
This is a picture of Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski take at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, the scene of the murders.
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When The Beatles released The White Album in 1968, they had a song on it called "Helter Skelter". The song was about a roller coaster. On this day in 1969, Charles Manson gave Helter Skelter a new meaning. Manson thought that The Beatles were speaking to him and the song Helter Skelter was his message to start a race war, where the blacks would kill all of the whites. He would hide out in the desert until the war was over and then he thought he would come back and rule. He set his plan in motion by sending some of his "Family" to the home of Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski. Manson had been to the house before when Doris Day's son, record producer Terry Melcher had lived there. Manson met Melcher thru The Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen had moved out of the house but Manson knew how the house was setup. As a side note, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & The Raiders had been a roommate of Melcher and Bergen at the house, but had also moved. The murders that Manson's followers committed were a little after midnight so the official day of Sharon Tate's death was Aug 9. 2 other songs from The White Album had a big part in the murders. One of the murderers had written the word "Pig" on the door in blood. The White Album had a song called "Piggies". One of the murders, Susan Atkins was nicknamed "Sadie Mae Glutz", a name given to her by Manson in reference to the song "Sexy Sadie". Earlier in the day in London, The Beatles had a photo shoot for Abbey Road.
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Jackie Magazine No 320 February 21 1970
Nearly 50 years after being acquired by an enterprising American publisher, the North American publishing rights for six early Beatles songs — including “I Saw Her Standing There” and “She Loves You” — have been sold to a year-old boutique music publisher, Round Hill Music, for an undisclosed sum.
Round Hill joined with the Adage Group, another holder of historic music copyrights, to buy those songs in a deal for the GIL Music and GPS Music catalogs. The catalogs had been controlled by the Pincus family, a team of New York publishers that cut a special deal for the Beatles songs in 1963, after one of the Pincus sons, Leonard, saw the group in England. -New York Times; Boutique Music Publisher Invests in Six Early Beatles Songs 1.11.12
Round Hill joined with the Adage Group, another holder of historic music copyrights, to buy those songs in a deal for the GIL Music and GPS Music catalogs. The catalogs had been controlled by the Pincus family, a team of New York publishers that cut a special deal for the Beatles songs in 1963, after one of the Pincus sons, Leonard, saw the group in England. -New York Times; Boutique Music Publisher Invests in Six Early Beatles Songs 1.11.12
Sept 21, 2013: Hundreds of fans crowded into Benton, Illinois' Capitol Park for the unveiling of an historical marker commemorating the 50th anniversary of “the first Beatle in America.” The marker, sponsored by the Illinois State Historical Society, Franklin County Historic Preservation Society and “Beatles fans everywhere,” recounts the late Beatle George Harrison’s 1963 stay at his sister Louise’s house in Benton.
May 29, 2013: During his lengthy solo turn in “A Hard Day’s Night,” Ringo Starr takes a walk around London with a camera, snapping pictures and getting into trouble. Perhaps because of that image, Mr. Starr came to be thought of as the biggest shutterbug among the Beatles, and until he lost much of his collection in a fire in Los Angeles in 1979 he was believed to be the group’s unofficial archivist and memorabilia collector.
It turns out that less of Mr. Starr’s collection was lost than people thought. In 2003, Genesis Books – a British house known for its exquisitely bound, signed (and commensurately pricey) limited editions, many of them Beatles-related – published his “Postcards From the Boys,” a lavish, annotated compilation of postcards he received over the years from John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
Now Genesis and Mr. Starr are about to offer a glimpse of the drummer’s picture archives as well. “Photograph,” a collection of candid shots that Mr. Starr took during the Beatles’ touring years and in the recording studio, will be published next month as an ebook, available through iTunes, and in December as an expanded limited edition physical book.
“These are shots,” Mr. Starr said in a statement, “that no one else could have.” (SOURCE: New York Times )
It turns out that less of Mr. Starr’s collection was lost than people thought. In 2003, Genesis Books – a British house known for its exquisitely bound, signed (and commensurately pricey) limited editions, many of them Beatles-related – published his “Postcards From the Boys,” a lavish, annotated compilation of postcards he received over the years from John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
Now Genesis and Mr. Starr are about to offer a glimpse of the drummer’s picture archives as well. “Photograph,” a collection of candid shots that Mr. Starr took during the Beatles’ touring years and in the recording studio, will be published next month as an ebook, available through iTunes, and in December as an expanded limited edition physical book.
“These are shots,” Mr. Starr said in a statement, “that no one else could have.” (SOURCE: New York Times )
Was ‘Taxman’ Inspired by ‘Batman’? And Other Burning ‘Revolver ’ Questions
The Batman TV show, with Neil Hefti’s indelible “na-na-na-na-na-na-Batman” theme song, debuted in the U.S. in January 1966, hitting the U.K. in May. In April of that year, the Beatles started recording what would become the opening track of Revolver, George Harrison’s “Taxman,” which resembles the Batman theme when the band harmonizes on the title phrase. There were already three cover versions of the Batman theme released by April, including a hit version by the Marketts, so it’s entirely possible that the Beatles might have heard it even before they saw the show. So can we safely say the influence was real? --11.26.22
The Batman TV show, with Neil Hefti’s indelible “na-na-na-na-na-na-Batman” theme song, debuted in the U.S. in January 1966, hitting the U.K. in May. In April of that year, the Beatles started recording what would become the opening track of Revolver, George Harrison’s “Taxman,” which resembles the Batman theme when the band harmonizes on the title phrase. There were already three cover versions of the Batman theme released by April, including a hit version by the Marketts, so it’s entirely possible that the Beatles might have heard it even before they saw the show. So can we safely say the influence was real? --11.26.22
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