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Reply #120 on: October 05, 2011, 09:31:02 PM
What I find so interesting about the above article is the different accounts of the events that evening between the people involved. While Press Agent Tony Barrow, Roadie Mal Evans and John Lennon have agreed that music was played by John & Paul on guitars and Elvis on bass; Sir Macca, George and Ringo all state that no "jam session" occurred while they were in Elvis' home.

Oddly, Neil Aspenall (the Beatles road manager) also in attendance to the visit, was more or less non-committal, saying, "I think a couple of the guys played guitar with him..."  

On DVD 3, episode 5 of 'ANTHOLOGY', a taped radio interview with John is included in the sequence and he continues the story again, saying "Elvis was playing a Fender bass when we arrived" and Paul concurs with that, noting he was impressed [being a bass player himself] that his hero was interested in the 4 string instrument. But Paul never states in the ANTHOLOGY book or DVD that they played music together. In fact, the three (at the time) surviving Beatles in a 1994 video interview deny playing instruments that day and even laugh about the mythical jam session, joking that Ringo and Elvis played football together!

Either way, the meeting was indeed a high point for everyone in the Beatles camp, and all of them were greatly excited by the event. When you think about it from a fans standpoint, that was when they met their idol, and arguably the biggest influence on them musically. WHAT A GREAT THING TO HAPPEN!
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Reply #121 on: October 05, 2011, 09:32:47 PM
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Reply #122 on: October 10, 2011, 09:42:10 AM
Ok - I was in the arms of a delicious redhead all Saturday and most of Sunday so I could not get to it till now:


HAPPY 71st BIRTHDAY
JOHN WINSTON LENNON!!

And Sir Paul got married!

Congrats to Mr.& Mrs. Macca!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2047090/Paul-McCartney-wedding-Nancy-Shevell-Husband-wife-stop-smiling.html

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Reply #123 on: October 10, 2011, 01:14:41 PM
Quote from: Gia1978 on October 10, 2011, 09:42:10 AM
Ok - I was in the arms of a delicious redhead all Saturday and most of Sunday so I could not get to it till now:


HAPPY 71st BIRTHDAY
JOHN WINSTON LENNON!!

And Sir Paul got married!

Congrats to Mr.& Mrs. Macca!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2047090/Paul-McCartney-wedding-Nancy-Shevell-Husband-wife-stop-smiling.html





And Sir Paul still looks good. Daaaaaayum he makes my heart go pitter-patter!

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Reply #124 on: October 17, 2011, 11:13:26 PM


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Reply #125 on: October 19, 2011, 10:38:48 PM
Listened to Abbey Road today and who but the Beatles could pen a catchy tune about a serial killer?



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Reply #126 on: October 19, 2011, 10:39:41 PM
John Lennon's Tooth Being Auctioned in England

How would you like to own a real piece of Beatles history?  How about a real piece of a Beatle?  You'll soon get the chance, as one of John Lennon's teeth is being put up for auction next month, BBC News reports.  Lennon gave the tooth to one of his housekeepers, Dot Jarlett, in the late '60s after he had it pulled at his estate in Weybridge, England.

"He was in the kitchen and he had this tooth which he had wrapped in a piece of paper," Jarlett's son Barry explained. "He said, 'Dot, will you dispose of this?' and then he said, 'Or, as your daughter's a Beatles fan, you can give to her as a souvenir.'"

Dot did just that, says Barry, adding that his sister has had the kept the tooth safe ever since.  The tooth will be sold at a November 5 memorabilia auction by Omega Auctions in Stockport, England.

Omega Auctions rep Karen Fairweather said of the tooth, "This is the most wonderful and weird item that we have ever had for sale.  It is a truly unique item and it is really difficult to put a value on it.

Fairweather added that the auction house is expecting the item to sell for at least 10,000 pounds (more than $15,700), while noting that "it is not unknown for these items as rare as this to reach six figures."

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Reply #127 on: October 19, 2011, 10:41:34 PM
Has it been proven that it is really his tooth? 


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Reply #128 on: October 19, 2011, 11:20:57 PM
Old Paul McCartney Letter Shows Early Search for Beatles Drummer




A Christie's employee displays a letter inviting an unknown drummer to audition for The Beatles, at their auction house in London, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. It is expected to sell at auction for between $11,000 and 14,000.
 

All it took was for a Liverpool yard sale to show that Paul McCartney was worried about his drummer long before the Beatles landed Ringo Starr.
 
According to a letter found tucked inside a book at a yard sale by an anonymous antique coin collector (the letter will be auctioned next month at Christie's in London), an entirely new history of the Beatles' pre-Ringo days could be written. The letter, dated Aug. 12, 1960, and handwritten by McCartney, invites an unknown drummer for an audition, but only if he was willing to immediately start traveling to Hamburg, Germany, for two months worth of shows.
 
In the letter, McCartney replies to “Drummer_Young_Free,” who placed an ad in the Liverpool Echo looking for work just four days earlier. McCartney offered an audition and said the drummer needed to prepare to travel to Hamburg for shows with “expenses paid 18 pounds per week (approx) for two months.”
 
 
With no word on if the impending travel requirements scared off the drummer, it isn't even known if this musician came for the audition. Either way, the Beatles selected Pete Best to take on their travels where the young band played in clubs in Hamburg's red-light district.
 
Less than two years later, the Beatles dropped Best and ushered in the Ringo Starr era. Once Starr arrived, the Beatles took off in popularity in England.
 
A Beatles expert, Bruce Spizer, tells the Associated Press that this letter sheds new light on the Beatles' search for a drummer other than Best. Also, the letter wouldn't be to Starr, who was already an accomplished Liverpool drummer by that time, so McCartney wouldn't have addressed the letter “Dear Sir.”
 
McCartney, who recently married American Nancy Shevell, may hold more answers, but hasn't spoken on the letter, which could fetch more than $7,000 during the Nov. 15 auction.
 
The letter told the drummer to “ring Jacaranda club” if he was interested in an audition and signed off, “Yours sincerely, Paul McCartney of the BEATLES.” We wouldn't suggest that move now; the Beatles have moved on slightly from 1960.



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Reply #129 on: October 20, 2011, 09:35:56 AM
Quote from: watcher1 on October 19, 2011, 11:20:57 PM
The letter told the drummer to “ring Jacaranda club” if he was interested in an audition and signed off, “Yours sincerely, Paul McCartney of the BEATLES.”

Totally Awesome info!! A WOO for my Watcher!

Since we don't mention Pete enough here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Best

and here is a follow up article:
http://m.ibtimes.com/sir-paul-mccartney-the-beatles-christie-s-liverpool-germany-pete-best-ringo-starr-john-lennon-george-233777.html


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Reply #130 on: October 20, 2011, 01:59:45 PM
To KBs Number One Beatle fan - Gia.   Thank you.

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Reply #131 on: November 08, 2011, 12:43:03 AM


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Reply #132 on: November 08, 2011, 03:26:41 PM
John Lennon Tooth Sells at Auction for How Much?

Being rich and famous means people will buy just about anything that once belonged to you, and in the case of the late great Beatle John Lennon, it was his molar tooth.

Lennon's tooth sold at auction for £19,500, or $31,200, CNN reported.

That is far more than initially expected selling rates.

"We are expecting it to achieve at least £10,000 but it is not unknown for these items as rare as this to reach six figures," Karen Fairweather of England's Omega Auctions house told the BBC last month.

A Canadian dentist, Michael Zuk, said he was the one who purchased Lennon's not-so-pearly white.

"Most people would say I was crazy, but I think it's fantastic," he said, the UK's Daily Mail reported.

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Reply #133 on: November 11, 2011, 04:24:42 AM


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Reply #134 on: November 12, 2011, 01:04:29 AM


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Reply #135 on: November 25, 2011, 09:46:04 AM




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Reply #136 on: November 28, 2011, 04:25:25 AM
ON THIS DATE (44 YEARS AGO)


November 27, 1967 – The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour is released in the United States as an eleven-track LP created by Capitol Records, by adding the band's 1967 single releases.

The Double EP version was released 8 days later in the United Kingdom on December 9th, 1967 as a six-track double EP on the bands principle label, Parlophone label. The same EP was also released in Germany, France, Spain, Yugoslavia, Australia and Japan.

The US Long Player album was later adopted as the official version of the record when The Beatles' catalog was updated for the 1980s digital Compact Disc releases.

The album was again remastered and released in the stereo/mono box sets on September 9th, 2009 for the first time since its CD release.

The soundtrack was a critical and commercial success, a #1 album in the US and Grammy-nominated, despite the relative critical and commercial failure of the Magical Mystery Tour TV film.


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Reply #137 on: November 28, 2011, 10:35:27 AM
Got that one when it came out, but nothing to play it on now.


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Reply #138 on: November 30, 2011, 02:08:00 AM
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Reply #139 on: November 30, 2011, 02:09:54 AM
George Harrison's Amp Up For Auction: Rare Vox UL730 Used In Revolver And Sgt. Pepper's Sessions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/george-harrison-amp_n_1119437.html


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