The Beatles

[Gina Marie]

http://www.spaweekblog.com/2012/04/13/8-rock-n-roll-beatles-manicures/

[bigjake59]

This is soooo NOT gonna happen!

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/03/11001369-here-come-the-sons-will-beatles-kids-form-own-band

Perhaps the worst Beatles related idea since the Sgt. Pepper movie!

[Gina Marie]

[Gina Marie]

APRIL 1964 (that's 48 years ago!)
The Beatles' Second Album (Capitol Record Compact 33 for Jukeboxes) EP is released in the US. Catalog# Capitol SXA-2080

Capitol issued stereo compact 33 disks for jukebox play. These 7 inch records had a small center hole (solid center) and played at 1/3 33 r.p.m. The disks were housed in a cardboard jacket, which had a miniature reproduction of the album cover on the front and a blank white back side.

The records were packaged with three miniature paper covers measuring 1 1/4 X 1 1/4 inches and five blue title strip (plastic sheet) with a header strip listing the Capitol record number and the Seeburg part number, "Capitol ST-2047---Seeburg Part No. 605", and a footer strip crediting the printing of the sheet to "STAR TITLE STRIP CO., INC." The package came in a loosely fitting poly-bag.

TRACKS:
Side A
1 Thank You Girl
2 Devil In Her Heart
3 Money (That's What I Want)

Side B
1 Long Tall Sally
2 I Call Your Name
3 Please Mister Postman

I think that is both interesting and cool!

[Gina Marie]

New Beatles concert film to open in movie theaters!

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/25/11390594-new-beatles-concert-film-to-open-in-movie-theaters

[Gina Marie]

[vinney]

Yes Gia... Paul's (cough) telescope was not as big...

vinney

 

[TinyDancer]

[Gina Marie]

May, 1970 - The Beatles: Let it Be (Box Set) is released in the UK. (US album release is May 18)

In addition to the standard releases worldwide, the Let It Be album was also issued in a deluxe box set package in at least a dozen different countries. In some countries it came out initially only in the box set, and then the LP was later issued by itself in the standard jacket. Designed in the U.K., the limited edition set included a 160-page deluxe Get Back book with lots of text and hundreds of color photos printed on high quality glossy paper. The book was placed in a custom die-cut and recessed cardboard holder which held the LP on top, all of which was encased in an outer slip sleeve.

Each country included their own standard issue Let It Be jacket and disc. The books were all printed in England, and most included small stickers on the back (and inside on some) with their own information covering the standard UK printing credits. The only difference in the outer boxes was on the back where the country (and record number on some) were listed along the bottom. The South African version had a sticker on the back cover, upper right corner, that gave the box set number. In Japan, Let It Be was first issued only in the box set package, and on red vinyl (among the rarest of all Let It Be box sets), then later repressed on black vinyl, and then issued as a standard black vinyl LP release without the box and book.

The books by themselves became quite valuable and sought after during the 1970s and 80s, sometimes selling for as much as $100 for near mint copies. The pages in the books easily became loose due to the way they were bound, which affects their value (and the value of the complete box set). This is of course something to always check before purchasing a box set.

[Gina Marie]

The Beatles: The Lost Concert A New Documentary Including Their 1st U.S. Concert – Complete and Remastered!

The Beatles: The Lost Concert is a new documentary recounting the whole story of the birth of Beatlemania in America. From an initial phone call from US promoter Sid Bernstein to the manager of a then-unknown band from the UK, all the way thorough to their first-ever historic and triumphant U.S. concert at the Washington, D.C. Coliseum. Through rare archival footage and new interviews with some of the people who were there, and chock full of memorabilia, archival footage and artifacts it details how The Beatles were first brought to America, their struggle to get a U.S. record contract and airplay, how their first concert was booked and all the incredible events of that historic day in February when the Fab Four took a train from New York to Washington, D.C. to perform a full concert in front of an American audience for the first time.

http://www.lostbeatlesconcert.com/

*UPDATE*
According to sources at Screenvision, the film’s distributor in the U.S., the postponement is the result of last-minute issues which are being resolved by the documentary’s producers. The distributor hopes the issues will be resolved in short order so the attraction can be rescheduled for an even longer theatrical run in late Summer 2012.

http://www.screenvision.com/may-2012-limited-engagement-of-the-beatles-the-lost-concert-postponed/

[Gina Marie]

Master Reel of Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Sells for $2,800 on eBay!

"...the tape reveals the Capitol Records logo, as well as a sheet from “Discos Capitol de Mexico, S.A.” Therefore, this is most likely the tape provided by Capitol Records to their Mexican branch for them to press vinyl copies of the record.

Adding to the value of the tape is the fact that this is the mono mix of the album. Many Beatles experts consider the mono version to be superior to the more familiar stereo version."

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/master-reel-of-beatles-sgt-pepper-sells-for-2800-on-ebay/

[Gina Marie]

Coolest Beatles Station on iTunes/ the internet: 24 hr streaming of all things Beatles!

http://www.beatlesarama.com/

[insatiable]

I don't know if this thread is the right place to post this, but this image is too good not too share. And Gia, I will remove this if its too much outside the topic.

Beatles concert in Wigan, 13 October 1964.

[Gina Marie]

I don't know if this thread is the right place to post this, but this image is too good not to share. And Gia, I will remove this if its too much outside the topic.

ARE YOU KIDDING!? THIS IS AWESOME! A WOO IS IN ORDER!

[Gina Marie]

THIS MAKES MY HEART SMILE.

Natalie Portman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xX453lI5l8

Johnny Depp

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkuPt6ylEY

both

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jTIlPr-yI

[licksnkissez]

My favorite internet radio station:  http://www.beatlesarama.com/


I love the Abbey Road cam!!

[Gina Marie]

Awesome Licks... scroll up four posts above yours...

[licksnkissez]

Awesome Licks... scroll up four posts above yours...

LOL I got it on Facebook and thought of you Gia. 

[Gina Marie]

ON THIS DAY (45 YEARS AGO)
June 1, 1967 – The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The Beatles, released on this date in June 1967. Sgt. Pepper was a worldwide critical and commercial success, spending a total of 27 weeks at the top of the UK Album Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200. A defining album in the emerging psychedelic rock style, the album was critically acclaimed upon release and won four Grammy Awards in 1968. It frequently ranks at or near the top of published lists of the greatest albums of all time. In 1994 it was ranked number one in the book All Time Top 1000 Albums. In 2003, and again in 2012, the album was placed at number one on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Sgt. Pepper is one of the world's bestselling albums; 32 million copies have been shipped.

Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, Sgt. Pepper saw the band developing the production techniques of their previous album, Revolver. Martin's innovative and lavish production included the orchestra usage and hired musicians ordered by the band. Genres such as music hall, rock and roll, pop rock, and traditional Indian music are covered. The album cover art, by English pop artist Peter Blake, depicts the band posing in front of a collage of their favorite celebrities, and has been widely acclaimed and imitated.

The Beatles had grown tired of performing live and stopped touring in August 1966. After the stress of their final American tour, in particular the postponed Cincinnati concert, the four of them — especially Paul McCartney, who was most in favor of continuing to tour — decided that it was time to stop. They took a two-month break, and individually got involved in their own interests. George Harrison travelled to India to continue developing his sitar playing at the invitation of Ravi Shankar, returning with enhanced Indian cultural and musical influences. McCartney, along with Martin, wrote the music for the film The Family Way, getting an Ivor Novello award the following year for best film song for the track "Love in the Open Air". John Lennon acted in How I Won the War, and attended art galleries, where he met his future wife Yoko Ono. Ringo Starr spent more time with his wife and child.

With Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles wanted to create a record that could, in effect, tour for them, an idea they had already explored with the promotional film clips made over the previous years, intended to promote them in the US when they were not touring there. McCartney decided that he should create fictitious characters for each band member and record an album that would be a performance by that fictitious band. This "alter-ego group" gave the band the freedom to experiment with songs.

George Martin wrote of the fictitious band concept: "'Sergeant Pepper' itself didn't appear until halfway through making the album. It was Paul's song, just an ordinary rock number and not particularly brilliant as songs go ... But when we had finished it, Paul said, 'Why don't we make the album as though the Pepper band really existed, as though Sergeant Pepper was making the record? We'll dub in effects and things.' I loved the idea, and from that moment on it was as though Pepper had a life of its own".

Recording for the album began in late 1966 with a series of songs that were to form an album thematically linked to childhood and everyday life. The first fruits of this exercise, "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever", were released as a double A-sided single in February 1967 after EMI and Epstein pressured Martin for a released single. Once the singles were released the childhood concept was abandoned in favor of Sgt. Pepper, and in keeping with the group's usual practice, the single tracks were not included on the LP (a decision Martin states he now regrets).

The album starts with the title song, which introduces Sgt. Pepper's band itself; this song segues into a sung introduction for bandleader "Billy Shears" (Starr), who performs "With a Little Help from My Friends". A reprise version of the title song was also recorded, and appears on side two of the original album (just prior to the climactic "A Day in the Life"), creating a "book-ending" effect. However, the band effectively abandoned the concept other than the first two songs and the reprise. Lennon was unequivocal in stating that the songs he wrote for the album had nothing to do with the Sgt. Pepper concept, and further noted that none of the other songs did either, saying "Every other song could have been on any other album". In spite of Lennon's statements to the contrary, the album has been widely heralded as an early and ground-breaking example of the concept album.

The album is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, and has since been recognized as one of the most important albums in the history of popular music, including songs such as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life".

However, one notable critic who did not like the album at the time of its release was Richard Goldstein, a critic for The New York Times, who wrote, "Like an over-attended child, Sergeant Pepper is spoiled. It reeks of horns and harps, harmonica quartets, assorted animal noises, and a 41-piece orchestra", and added that it was an "album of special effects, dazzling but ultimately fraudulent". On the other hand, Goldstein called "A Day in the Life" "a deadly earnest excursion in emotive music with a chilling lyric", and that "it stands as one of the most important Lennon-McCartney compositions, and it is an historic Pop event".
Having received a negative reaction for this review, a month later he explained more about his point of view, writing "Other than one cut which I detest ("Good Morning, Good Morning"), I find the album better than 80 per cent of the music around today; it is the other 20 per cent (including the best of the Beatles' past performances) which worries me as a critic." He also called it an "in-between experience, a chic..." and "When the slicks and tricks of production on this album no longer seem unusual, and the compositions are stripped to their musical and lyrical essentials, Sergeant Pepper will be Beatles baroque—an elaboration without improvement..."

Frank Zappa accused The Beatles of co-opting the flower power aesthetic for monetary gain, saying in a Rolling Stone article that he felt "they were only in it for the money". That criticism later became the title of the Mothers of Invention album (We're Only in It for the Money), which mocked Sgt. Pepper with a similar album cover.

In April 1967, Brian Wilson (who was suffering growing mental problems) was deeply affected by hearing a tape of the song "A Day in the Life", which McCartney played to him in Los Angeles. Soon after, Smile was abandoned, and Wilson would not return to complete it until 2003. Van Dyke Parks later said, "Brian had a nervous collapse. What broke his heart was Sgt. Pepper."

AWARDS
Grammy Awards
Nominated for seven Grammys in 1968, it would win four, including Album of the Year (the first rock album to receive this honor).
1968 Album of the Year
1968 Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts (Robert Fraser)
1968 Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical (Geoff Emerick)
1968 Contemporary Album

Ringo presents Geoff with his Grammy for Sgt. Pepper.

TRACKS:
All songs written and composed by Lennon–McCartney *except where noted - George Harrison.
Side one
1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2:02
2 With a Little Help from My Friends - 2:44
3 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - 3:28
4 Getting Better - 2:48
5 Fixing a Hole - 2:36
6 She's Leaving Home - 3:35
7 Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - 2:37

Side two
1 Within You Without You* - 5:04
2 When I'm Sixty-Four - 2:37
3 Lovely Rita - 2:42
4 Good Morning Good Morning - 2:41
5 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - 1:19
6 A Day in the Life - 5:39

For a more in depth history of this landmark album:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band

For a track by track recording history breakdown:      
http://math.mercyhurst.edu/~griff/sgtpepper/sgt.html

1.  Sri Yukteswar Gigi (guru)
2.  Aleister Crowley (dabbler in sex, drugs and magic)
3.  Mae West (actress)
4.  Lenny Bruce (comic)
5.  Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
6.  W.C. Fields (comic)
7.  Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
8.  Edgar Allen Poe (writer)
9.  Fred Astaire (actor)
10. Richard Merkin (artist)
11. The Varga Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
12. *Leo Gorcey (Painted out because he requested a fee)
13. Huntz Hall (actor one of the Bowery Boys)
14. Simon Rodia (creator of Watts Towers)
15. Bob Dylan (musician)
16. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
17. Sir Robert Peel (politician)
18. Aldous Huxley (writer)
19. Dylan Thomas (poet)
20. Terry Southern (writer)
21. Dion (di Mucci)(singer)
22. Tony Curtiss (actor)
23. Wallace Berman (artist)
24. Tommy Handley (comic)
25. Marilyn Monroe (actress)
26. William Burroughs (writer)
27. Sri Mahavatara Babaji (guru)
28. Stan Laurel (comic)
29. Richard Lindner (artist)
30. Oliver Hardy (comic)
31. Karl Marx (philosopher/socialist)
32. H.G. Wells (writer)
33. Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru)
34. Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
35. Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
36. Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
37. Max Miller (comic)
38. The Pretty Girl (by artist George Petty)
39. Marlon Brando (actor)
40. Tom Mix (actor)
41. Oscar Wilde (writer)
42. Tyrone Power (actor)
43. Larry Bell (artist)
44. Dr. David Livingston (missionary/explorer)
45. Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
46. Stephen Crane (writer)
47. Issy Bonn (comic)
48. George Bernard Shaw (writer)
49. H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
50. Albert Stubbins (soccer player)
51. Sri lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
52. Lewis Carrol (writer)
53. T.E. Lawrence (soldier, aka Lawrence of Arabia)
54. Sonny Liston (boxer)
55. The Pretty Girl (by artist George Petty)
56. Wax model of George Harrison
57. Wax model of John Lennon
58. Shirley Temple (child actress)
59. Wax model of Ringo Starr
60. Wax model of Paul McCartney
61. Albert Einstein (physicist)
62. John Lennnon, holding a french horn
63. Ringo Starr, holding a trumpet
64. Paul McCartney, holding a cor anglais
65. George Harrison, holding a flute
66. Bobby Breen (singer)
67. Marlene Dietrich (actress)
68. *Mohandas Ghandi (painted out at the request of EMI)
69. Legionaire from the order of the Buffalos
70. Diana Dors (actress)
71. Shirley Temple (child actress)
72. Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
73. Cloth figure of Shirley Temple by Haworth
74. Mexican candlestick
75. Television set
76. Stone figure of girl
77. Stone figure
78. Statue from John Lennon's house
79. Trophy
80. Four-armed Indian Doll
81. Drum skin, designed by Joe Ephgrave
82. Hookah (water tobacco-pipe)
83. Velvet snake
84. Japanese stone figure
85. Stone figure of Snow White
86. Garden gnome
87. Tuba

[Gina Marie]

Wednesday 6-6 marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' first-ever recording session at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London.  During the group's visit to the studio, which also served as an audition for the label, the band laid down four tunes: "Besame Mucho," "Love Me Do," "P.S. I Love You" and "Ask Me Why."  The session was the only one The Beatles recorded for EMI that featured Pete Best on drums.  Ringo Starr would replace Best about two months later.


http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2012/6/6/the-beatles-first-recording-session-at-abbey-road-studios-ha.html