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George Harrison.
The Beatle Dating Game
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[14 Mar 2003|10:55pm] |
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Well, hello there. I'm Dawn, and I've been a Beatles fan since I first set eyes on "The Beatles Anthology" back in 1995.
Um... so...
Yeah.
Okay, I can't think of anything else to post about myself, so here's a page dedicated to the Beatles cartoon. I'm not sure if that's been posted here or not, but I think everyone should check it out. Make sure you watch the "Strawberry Fields" cartoon!
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| Ringo on Leno |
[14 Mar 2003|03:18pm] |
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Crazy, Crazy, I NEVER watch Leno but last night for some reason i flipped it on just as Ringo was coming out. He looks SO good! The conversation was cute, the song for George was cute as well. I've never been a big fan of Ringos singing, but I was impressed as far as the song went compared to the stuff on Vertical Man. I guess ill have to get his new album, good to know he's still out there doin his thing, and of course you gotta love all the George appreciation that was goin on!
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[13 Mar 2003|07:30pm] |
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/12/beatle.interview/index.html
LONDON (CNN) -- Former Beatles producer Sir George Martin is to pass on the management and creativity skills he gained while working with the Fab Four to those eager for success in the corporate world.
The 76-year-old producer, who worked with the Beatles for most of the 1960s, is to address leading members of the business community.
And his experiences over the past 50 years as a music producer with big talents such as Elton John, Jeff Beck and Celine Dion, could provide some invaluable advice.
"I think it is relevant that in business as in art there are certain principles. You have to show leadership -- you have to be inspiring. You have to take risks and be innovative and think laterally -- don't go for the obvious," he told CNN.
Martin certainly took a risk in 1962 when he signed The Beatles, a little known band from Liverpool that had been rejected by other record labels in England.
After being struck by the band's "star quality", Martin gave them a recording deal with his Parlophone Records label.
Martin: Good corporate environments allow their people to have ideas
"I fell in love with them because they had this charisma right from the word go".
"George Harrison joked with me the very first day when I said 'have a listen to this and tell me what you don't like'. And he said 'I don't like your tie for a start'. The others thought he had blown it but I laughed like mad".
He quickly turned The Beatles into accomplished musicians, allowing them to experiment with classical instruments and develop their own ideas.
Martin believes that artistic freedom is just as important in the business environment.
"I think good corporate environments do allow their people to have ideas and to generate them.
"You have got to develop individuality with people and come up with the right ideas to pull with other people and to work closely together to combine their talents," he said.
Martin's music credentials include over 50 number one singles in the U.S. and UK across a range of genres from rock and jazz to classical and film sound tracks.
But his most memorable achievement will perhaps be his status as the "fifth Beatle", and his ability to harness the talents of Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
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[13 Mar 2003|07:29pm] |
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/13/mccartney.money.reut/index.html
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- "I don't care too much for money," Paul McCartney once sang, but that hasn't kept him from leading Rolling Stone magazine's list of the pop world's richest artists.
The former Beatle, who by some tallies was rock's first billionaire, raked in $72 million in 2002 largely from his first tour in nine years, according to the U.S. magazine's second annual "Rock's 50 Richest" list, to be published on March 14.
Touring was the bread and butter of most of the top entries on the list in a year in which record sales plummeted. The runner-up was The Rolling Stones, who brought in $44 million, also on the back of a successful sold-out tour, their first since 1997.
No. 3-ranked Dave Matthews Band derived hardly any money from record sales, with almost all of its $31.3 million coming from touring. The band ranked No. 4 on last year's list, although it earned $43.4 million.
U2, which topped last year's list, was absent this time, after releasing only a best-of collection. Last year, the band was one of the most successful touring acts.
Eminem, whose "The Eminem Show" was the best selling album of 2002, ranked No. 5, and was one of the few artists on the top 10 to earn more from recording than touring.
Bruce Springsteen ranked No. 7, also benefiting from a successful tour behind his Grammy-award winning "The Rising." Mariah Carey, who received $30 million last year to end her contract with EMI Group Plc, ranked No. 8 on the list.
Ozzy Osbourne came in at No. 10 on the strength of the MTV series "The Osbournes," the highest rated show in the U.S. cable television station's history.
Being dead does not keep artists off the list. Elvis Presley, whose songs were licensed for the Disney film "Lilo & Stitch," ranked No. 12. RCA Records also issued a compilation of his No. 1 hits.
Britain's Robbie Williams, who inked a whopping $125-million, multi-album deal last year with EMI, ranked No. 13 on the list. He picked up nearly $20 million from the deal last year.
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Barcelona Beatle buy: Harrison hair
Monday, March 10, 2003 Posted: 10:01 AM EST (1501 GMT)
MADRID, Spain (Reuters) -- "Can't buy me love" sang the Beatles, but 1,400 euros ($1,550) was enough to land a Barcelona hairdresser a lock of hair snipped from George Harrison in 1964.
"It went to a hairdresser from Barcelona called Rafael Pages, who also has a hairdressing museum," said Jordi Tarda, an organiser of Sunday's auction of pop memorabilia at an annual record fair in the north-eastern Spanish town of Girona.
Tarda said photos capturing the moment the hair was lopped from Harrison in Liverpool and an accompanying note signed by the Beatle -- who died in 2001 -- verifying it was his own, meant there were no doubts about its roots.
Harrison's hair raised the highest price at the auction which also included a pair of limited edition Michael Jackson shoes and a ticket for the premiere of the musical "Tommy."
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| Songs from the Material World. |
[03 Mar 2003|05:42pm] |
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Today at work I was shelving CDs and noticed under George Harrison a new tribute album. Just came out this past Tuesday, apparently. Here's the track listing:
1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Todd Rundgren
2. Devil's Radio - Masters of Reality
3. I Me Mine - Marc Ford
4. Give Me Love - Dave Davies
5. Here Comes the Sun - John Entwistle
6. Within You, Without You - Big Head Todd & the Monsters
7. Savoy Truffle - They Might Be Giants
8. I Want to Tell You - The Smithereens
9. Old Brown Shoe - Leslie West
10. Taxman - Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
11. It's All Too Much - Wayne Kramer
12. Isn't it a Pity - Jay Bennet/Edward Burch
Looks pretty interesting. Have any of you heard it yet?
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| Introductions all around |
[02 Mar 2003|10:41pm] |
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Hello all. I just figured out how to post in communities so here I am. I'm Reenee, I'm 18, and I currently reside in the burbs of Baltimore, MD. I've been into the Beatles for as long as I can remember...yeah, that's about it. The community is fun!
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[02 Mar 2003|09:27pm] |
Paul McCartney's ski town surprise
Saturday, March 1, 2003 Posted: 8:38 PM EST (0138 GMT)
TRUCKEE, California (AP) -- Regulars tapping to the beat of the Truckee Hotel's usual Thursday night jazz duo got a surprise when Paul McCartney took to the small stage for an impromptu song he called "Truckee Blues."
McCartney sang about 10:30 p.m. Thursday after he and wife, Heather Mills, dined incognito at Moody's Bistro and Lounge in the Sierra ski town's historic hotel about 15 miles from Lake Tahoe.
"I almost died. Here he is, 5 feet from you," an excited Carm Lyman said Friday.
"There were maybe 30 or 40 people there of all generations, all with their mouths open."
McCartney, the former Beatle who opens a European tour next month, played a few songs with Bob Greenwood's Jazz duo, said J.J. Morgan, general manager of the restaurant in the hotel built in the 1870s.
The couple had been vacationing at Lake Tahoe for a few days, he said.
"He wanted to listen to some music so we parked him next to the band. He was loving it," Morgan said.
"We wanted to make sure they had a private, kind of incognito night, and I think he felt real comfortable," he said.
Morgan, who moved from San Francisco to open the restaurant in the former logging town last summer with his partner Mark Estee of Boston, said McCartney apparently made up the tune "Truckee Blues" on the spot.
He said he's a longtime fan of McCartney and the Beatles.
"Who isn't?" Morgan said.
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Hey everyone! It's been a long time very long time since I've posted in here. My name is Tasha, I'm 17 years old, and I've only been a real fan of The Beatles since early in last summer. I haven't really read any books based on them yet but I picked up 2 from the library; "Lennon in America" by Geoffery Gulliano and "Nowhere Man" by Robert Rosen. I haven't started Lennon in America yet but I haven't been able to put Nowhere Man down. I'd really recommend it to any of you who haven't read it yet and maybe want to know more about John. Take care & Much Love! xxo, Tash*
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greetings and love to all my fellow beatle fans... just wanted to say hi as my first post :).
one little interesting thing i noticed- im not sure if anyone's seen this before, but there's something very beatleish in the livejournal image header that amused me. on the main page, just to the right of the middle of the last 'L' in 'livejournal' it says-
"...my coat ringo, so i downloaded brads new fix to the client. the only way to fix it is to cat ringo, so i d..."
:). what can i say. i'm easily amused.
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I'm seeing Paul McCartney in April, should be good! :}
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everybody in this community
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I just got this e-mail from beatles.com, whee!
AT LAST
THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY ON DVD
( Read more... )
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[25 Feb 2003|06:24pm] |
happy birthday George. i'll always remember your spirit and your music.
Harrison would have been 60 years old.
"All things must pass, all things must pass away"
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Has anybody here read/subscrubed to The 910 fanzine? Just wondering if it is any good.
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[25 Feb 2003|11:33am] |
Beatles Museum Shows Harrison's First Guitar
Tue Feb 25, 9:03 AM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters/Variety Music to My Yahoo!
LONDON (Reuters) - George Harrison's first guitar went on display at the Beatles museum in Liverpool Tuesday, the day the "Quiet Beatle" would have turned 60.
The small acoustic wooden guitar, which Harrison bought in the mid-1950s, is valued at $800,000 and has been loaned indefinitely to the Beatles Story museum by a British collector who recently bought it in the United States.
Harrison died in Los Angeles in November 2001 after a long battle with throat cancer.
"We are expecting a really busy day," museum curator Sandy Quayle told Reuters Tuesday.
"This modest little guitar of George's is so beautiful because it captures the promise of what was to become a legend for millions of fans all over the world."
Harrison's mother gave him the money to buy the Egmond guitar from a classmate when he was 12 or 13.
"It was a wonderful exhibit, it is about time something was done for George," said one fan who visited the museum.
Another said: "It is amazing to actually see this guitar. It is wonderful for the museum and wonderful for Liverpool."
Harrison was the second Beatle to die -- John Lennon was gunned down by a crazed fan in New York in 1980.
The two surviving members of the world's most famous pop group, Paul McCartney (news) and Ringo Starr (news), paid an emotional tribute to Harrison at a memorial concert in November to mark the first anniversary of his death. ($1=.6330 Pound)
Taken from Here
Why every time they do a story on the Beatles, or any one of them individually they feel the need to rehash who has died and when at the bottom in one sentence? I think if you're reading the article, you probably know. It always sounds weird to me.
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Hey all new to the community...My step dad once had a Beatles bracelet and his mom sold it when he went into the army....
To think that bracelet could have been all mine
What Beatle relics do you all have and why do they mean so much to you?
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| Double dose of Beatles for Fab Four fans |
[18 Feb 2003|03:24pm] |
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Double dose of Beatles for Fab Four fans
Reuters
Feb 18 2003 1:49PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Beatles fans had two reasons to twist and shout Tuesday with announcements of a Europe-wide tour by Paul McCartney and the release of a never-before seen video of three Beatles jamming together.
Fresh from a hugely popular North American tour, McCartney said he would kick-off his first British tour in 10 years in April, with gigs featuring 22 Beatles songs from "All My Loving" to "Let It Be."
His "Back In The World" series of marathon concerts -- each nearly three hours long -- will also hit European cities in France, Spain, Germany and Scandinavia.
"I had a lot of fun touring this show around America last year, but now I'm bringing it on home and that's special to me as I always look forward to playing to a home crowd," McCartney, 60, said in a statement.
"We'll be playing some of my Beatles stuff -- rather a lot of Beatles stuff, actually -- some Wings stuff and some more recent stuff, so basically the show pretty much spans my whole career," he added.
His sweep through Canada, the United States, Mexico and Japan last year broke sales records and was hailed by Billboard Magazine as the tour of the year.
For Beatles fans unable to get their hands on a concert ticket, a reunion performance by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison filmed in 1994 will be released on DVD in March.
The session was filmed at Harrison's studios at his mansion in Oxfordshire, England and is the only time the three played together after the Beatles split in 1970.
A small segment of the footage was featured in the 1996 Beatles Anthology Video.
John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York apartment in December, 1980 and Harrison lost a battle with throat cancer in November, 2001.
More recently, McCartney has been involved in a dispute with Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, after he reversed the credits on his latest album from the traditional "Lennon-McCartney" to "By Paul McCartney and John Lennon."
McCartney has said he was not worried about Ono's displeasure at the credit reversal and called the spat a "long-running and rather silly dispute."
Reuters/Variety
02/18/03 13:45 ET
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| Lennon's Boyhood Home Opening To Public |
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Lennon's Boyhood Home Opening To Public
Late Beatle Wrote 'She Loves You' In Front Room
POSTED: 2:32 p.m. EST February 17, 2003
Imagine all the people who will line up to see where the late John Lennon spent most of his youth and teen years.
The Liverpool, England home where Lennon lived from age 5 to 23 will be opened for the general public to view next month.
The former Beatle lived at 251 Menlove Avenue when his parents separated and he went to live with his Aunt Mimi until he was 23. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, bought the house last year and donated it to Britain's National Trust, who is displaying the house.
Lennon taught himself to play guitar in the four-bedroom 1930s house and reportedly wrote the Beatles hit "She Loves You" in the front room.
The Trust said it had replaced windows and removed modern flooring to restore the house to the way it looked when Lennon lived there in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Meanwhile, Ono, who turns 70 on Tuesday, said if Lennon were looking down at her, he'd be proud.
Many Beatles fans hated her and blamed her for the breakup of the band. But in an interview with the New York Post, Ono said, "I think that through that kind of incredible, strange confrontation, people started to understand me."
Ono is going to release a dance mix of "Walking on Thin Ice" -- the song Lennon was working on the night he was murdered.
Ono was with Lennon when he was shot to death outside his New York apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980. The singer-songwriter was 40.
The man who admitted to shooting Lennon -- Mark David Chapman -- has been serving a 20 years to life sentence in New York's Attica State Prison since 1980. He was denied his second bid for parole in October.
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