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Reply #420 on: January 14, 2014, 11:14:20 PM
It was just announced by the Recording Academy that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will be performing TOGETHER at the Grammy Awards on January 26th!

The last time the two performed together, was when Paul surprised Ringo during his 70th birthday performance at Radio City. It was an amazing moment, and they're sure to create a few more of those moments at the Grammy Awards!


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-ringo-starr-added-to-grammy-lineup-20140114



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Reply #421 on: January 15, 2014, 03:42:59 AM
You have to admit Paul and Ringo seemed to have held up better than the Rolling Stones have, appearance wise anyway.

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Reply #422 on: January 16, 2014, 09:58:41 AM
Sir Paul has confirmed he will perform at The Grammys on Sunday 26th January at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

He is nominated in four categories:

• 'Best Rock Song' for 'Cut Me Some Slack' along with Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear (Nirvana)
• 'Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package' for 'Wings Over America'
• 'Best Surround Sound Album' and 'Best Music Film' for 'Live Kisses'

In addition The Beatles will be receiving the 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.



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Reply #423 on: January 16, 2014, 11:56:12 PM


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Reply #424 on: January 17, 2014, 01:49:25 AM


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Reply #425 on: January 21, 2014, 05:45:49 AM


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Reply #426 on: January 21, 2014, 08:27:19 AM
OK - So the US "Capitol" versions of the Beatles albums come out in the UK today (1-20-14), and tomorrow here in the US (1-21-14). That said, I have been doing some research (big shocker, I know) and I found some unhappy news for serious fans:

http://www.examiner.com/article/upcoming-release-of-beatles-u-s-albums-generating-controversy-over-source


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Reply #427 on: January 21, 2014, 10:06:59 AM
The Beatles' 'Meet the Beatles!' was released 50 years ago today. See why it is one of the best albums of all time:


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-beatles-meet-the-beatles-20120530


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Reply #428 on: January 23, 2014, 07:00:48 AM
I just peed a little...

Ringo Confirms Upcoming Performance with Paul!
http://www.thefest.com/ringo-confirms-upcoming-performance-with-paul


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Reply #429 on: January 25, 2014, 01:11:31 AM
Quote from: Gia1978 on January 23, 2014, 07:00:48 AM
I just peed a little...

Ringo Confirms Upcoming Performance with Paul!
http://www.thefest.com/ringo-confirms-upcoming-performance-with-paul

WOW! I just wish that I could be there to witness two of the greatest musicians play together once again.

I just peed a little...

Would love to see that ;)

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Reply #430 on: January 27, 2014, 08:37:18 AM
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Reply #431 on: January 28, 2014, 02:32:36 AM
Tonight The Beatles will be honoured at 'The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles' which will be broadcast on CBS Sunday 9th February at 8pm, exactly 50 years to the day, date and time of the band's first game-changing appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

For more info on the TV special visit http://www.grammy.com/news/performers-announced-for-beatles-special



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Reply #432 on: January 29, 2014, 07:45:47 AM
Beatles Saluted During “The Night That Changed America.” for broadcast on Feb. 9th.


http://www.thefest.com/beatles-saluted-during-the-night-that-changed-america/


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Reply #433 on: January 29, 2014, 11:08:31 AM


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Reply #434 on: January 30, 2014, 07:49:31 AM
On This Day: Jan 29, 1969

Apple Studios, Savile Row, London
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Glyn Johns

The Beatles, with Billy Preston, gave their final live performance atop the Apple building at 3 Savile Row, London, in what became the climax of their Let It Be film.

We went on the roof in order to resolve the live concert idea, because it was much simpler than going anywhere else; also nobody had ever done that, so it would be interesting to see what happened when we started playing up there. It was a nice little social study.

We set up a camera in the Apple reception area, behind a window so nobody could see it, and we filmed people coming in. The police and everybody came in saying, 'You can't do that! You've got to stop.'

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30 January 1969 in London was a cold day, and a bitter wind was blowing on the rooftop by midday. To cope with the weather, John Lennon borrowed Yoko Ono's fur coat, and Ringo Starr wore his wife Maureen Starkey's red mac.


http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/01/30/the-beatles-rooftop-concert-apple-building/


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Reply #435 on: February 01, 2014, 03:52:04 PM
Last night, CNN had a one hour documentary about the British Invasion, as it pertains to the rock groups that started touring the United States in 1964 and 1965.  Of course, the Beatles were the main focus and I did learn some interesting facts about them that I had not heard before.

When the Beatles started their United States tour, Bob Eubanks, of Newlywed game show fame but then a LA disc jockey, wanted the Beatles to perform at the Hollywood Bowl but their manager wanted $25,000.  Eubanks said no way could he get that kind of money so he took a loan out on his home and tickets to the concert sold out in 3 hours.

People in the music industry consider the Beatles Rubber Soul album as the first album that contained a theme thoughout the tracks.  Before then, albums consisted of a few hit songs and many cover songs.  The Rubber Soul album so awed Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys that he cleared out the living room of his home, covered the floor with sand, brought in a piano and composed what music industry people consider their finest album - Pet Sounds.

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Reply #436 on: February 01, 2014, 08:37:47 PM
50 years ago today (Feb 1, 1964), The Boys scored their first no.1 single in the US with I Want to Hold Your Hand.

The track was recorded by Norman Smith on October 17, 1963, in Abbey Road's Studio Two.



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Reply #437 on: February 01, 2014, 11:14:01 PM


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Reply #438 on: February 05, 2014, 01:42:05 AM
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New video of "Words Of Love" by Buddy Holly from 1964's LP: "Beatles for Sale"



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Reply #439 on: February 07, 2014, 03:57:25 AM
On this day in 1964, tickets for The Beatles' first, live Ed Sullivan Show broadcast in New York City sold out. The next day, the band would fly across the Atlantic in hopes of cracking the USA - something no British band had yet managed to do. By the time the third and final Beatles Ed Sullivan broadcast aired a little more than two weeks later, the boys would be back home, their first US visit a phenomenal and unprecedented success.

From now until 23rd February, we'll be posting here about the significant events that led to Beatlemania spreading across the States. Check-in daily for photos and video from the tour, and the story of how The Beatles managed to accomplish what then had seemed impossible to do - making it in the USA.

Today, read here about the story behind the tour and click through to the US Albums site to see pics and read more: http://usalbums.thebeatles.com/


In Autumn 1963, Ed Sullivan had landed at Heathrow Airport at the same time as the boys were arriving back from Sweden. He saw all the fans that had gathered for The Beatles' arrival and booked the boys on the spot. Up till then, the Beatles had put out records in the States under a few different labels. Now, Capitol Records wanted them exclusively. Brian Epstein told them that they could have The Beatles - so long as they spent $50,000 on advertising them:

Paul: "I think the money was mainly spent in LA getting people like Janet Leigh to wear Beatle wigs and be photographed in them, which started it all. Once a film star did that, it could get syndicated all across America. (...) And so the whole 'moptop' thing started there, and it did get us noticed."

Still, despite their efforts, the boys were circumspect about their chances of cracking the U.S.. No British band before them had managed it and their own prior attempts had failed, too:

Ringo: "George was the only one of us who'd been (to the U.S.) before and he'd been into record shops there and asked, 'Have you got The Beatles records?' We had three out, on Vee-Jay and Swan, but nobody had them, or had even heard of us. He came back and said, 'They don't know us. It's going to be hard.' We were used to being famous by then, so we were worried about that."

Paul: "'From Me To You' was released - a flop in America. 'She Loves You' - a big hit in England, big Number One in England - a flop in the USA. 'Please Please Me' released over there - flop. Nothing until 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'."

With this in mind, they decided they'd enjoy the trip, no matter what happened...

John: "When we came over the first time, we were only coming over to buy LPs. I know our manager had plans for Ed Sullivan shows but we thought at least we could hear the sounds when we came over. It was just out of the dark. That's the truth, it was so out of the dark, we were knocked out."

Later on, John said that it wasn't purely lack of confidence that kept their expectations low. It wasn't themselves they didn't believe in - it was the logistics of cracking the American market...

John: "The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there. It was just something you could never do. That's what I thought, anyhow. But then I realised that kids everywhere all go for the same stuff; and seeing we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America, too. But the American disc jockeys didn't know about British records; they didn't play them, nobody promoted them, so you didn't have hits."

So, they boarded their Kennedy Airport-bound plane at Heathrow with the attitude of just giving it a go.


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