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Reply #100 on: June 26, 2011, 01:03:34 AM
I love coming here and listening to all the good music, I mean really, who cannot love the Beatles? 


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Reply #101 on: June 26, 2011, 01:36:19 AM
I love them. Will you still feed me, will you still need me? (no smiley) but a grin. ;D

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Reply #102 on: June 30, 2011, 12:49:27 PM
A little fact-toid often forgotten.The Beatles did what they did in a little under 10 years time.

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Reply #103 on: June 30, 2011, 10:45:27 PM
Quote from: Gia1978 on September 21, 2009, 12:21:11 AM
In a period of seven short years, the Beatles not only redefined the fad known as Rock & Roll to entire world, they re-invented their style and sound no less than four times:

1963-64: The Moptops (The prototype for all Boy-Bands)
1965-66: Cool Hipster/Stoners
1967-68: Mod Psychedelic Warriors
1969-70: Spiritual Revolutionaries
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Reply #104 on: June 30, 2011, 10:51:36 PM
You cannot get one past our number one resident Beatle fan - Gia....  We need to build a time machine so Gia can travel back to the 60s and witness, firsthand, the growth of the Beatles.  Of course, there also was the mini skirts  and I bet she would have look great in them.  ;D

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Reply #105 on: June 30, 2011, 11:01:32 PM
Silly Watcher - You have a pic of me dressed 60's


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Reply #106 on: June 30, 2011, 11:52:03 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on June 30, 2011, 10:51:36 PM
You cannot get one past our number one resident Beatle fan - Gia....  We need to build a time machine so Gia can travel back to the 60s and witness, firsthand, the growth of the Beatles.  Of course, there also was the mini skirts  and I bet she would have look great in them.  ;D


Really? Gia's the number one Beatles fan? Says WHO???  :emot_weird:

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Reply #107 on: July 01, 2011, 04:03:54 AM
Quote from: licksnkissez on June 30, 2011, 11:52:03 PM


Really? Gia's the number one Beatles fan? Says WHO???  :emot_weird:


Sez me, thats who.

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Reply #108 on: July 01, 2011, 05:00:51 AM
I would be happy to take on any challenger...


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Reply #109 on: July 01, 2011, 02:17:11 PM
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison had been together since early 1958.

They begun calling themselves The Beatles in 1960. Star joined the band in 1962.

Lennon quit in September of 1969 and McCartney announced publicly that he was quitting in April of 1970.

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Stuart Sutcliffe lived a short life well, his way.
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Reply #110 on: July 01, 2011, 08:49:44 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on June 30, 2011, 10:51:36 PM
You cannot get one past our number one resident Beatle fan - Gia....  We need to build a time machine so Gia can travel back to the 60s and witness, firsthand, the growth of the Beatles.  Of course, there also was the mini skirts  and I bet she would have look great in them.  ;D
Twice in 1963 The Beatles performed at our local city theatre, which for most of its time was a cinema, I'm not sure what the venue's capacity was( it was pulled down early in the next decade,)but it can't have held more than 1,000 people, probably a lot less. At any rate I do remember the new phenomena 'hysteria' hitting the town as hundreds of teenage girls besieged the cinema, screaming blue murder every time they saw a mop top who was probably one or two of the local lads trying to sneak in the back door. The mini skirt didn't arrive until a year or two later, I didn't get to see my first in the flesh so to speak until I was in Carnaby Street in 1966. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to go to the Beatles concerts, so I guess I missed out on a little bit of history there. I did get to go to see the Four Tops at the same venue shortly before it was pulled down.



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Reply #111 on: July 02, 2011, 12:04:10 AM
Quote from: Gia1978 on July 01, 2011, 05:00:51 AM
I would be happy to take on any challenger...

LOL I'd rather join hands with you to celebrate my guys! Oh, and that's Watcher's hand fondling your ass.  :emot_weird:

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Reply #112 on: July 02, 2011, 02:32:36 AM
Quote from: Gia1978 on June 30, 2011, 11:01:32 PM
Silly Watcher - You have a pic of me dressed 60's

Sorry, Gia. The sins of my youth clouds my brain from time to time.    ;D

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Reply #113 on: July 07, 2011, 01:59:07 PM
This is such an outstanding song, has everything....I Want You



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Reply #114 on: July 07, 2011, 02:03:28 PM
TinyDancer - the Beatles wrote and recorded so many outstanding songs, it borders on phenomenal.  Their songs have to lead the category of most ever re-recorded by other artists.  I like your taste in music.    ;D

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Reply #115 on: August 16, 2011, 02:29:56 AM
On August 15th, 1965, the Beatles played at Shea Stadium, what people are calling the beginning of stadium rock concerts. The screaming fans made listening to the music impossible, even for the Beatles.  They grossed $300,000, quite a sum in those days.  Forty-six years ago today.

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Reply #116 on: August 16, 2011, 04:00:52 AM


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Reply #117 on: September 18, 2011, 02:08:05 PM

The Beatles' shows in 1965 rarely lasted longer than 40 minutes


Signed by manager Brian Epstein, it specifies that The Beatles "not be required to perform in front of a segregated audience".

The agreement also guarantees the band payment of $40,000 (£25,338).

Other requirements include a special drumming platform for Ringo Starr and the provision of 150 uniformed police officers for protection.

But the security arrangements were not perfect.

The band played two sets, a matinee and an evening performance, at the venue on 31 August, 1965. At the latter, some of the 17,000-strong crowd broke through security barriers and rushed the stage.

The show was halted, and The Beatles were forced to wait backstage while order was restored.

They eventually finished their 12-song set with Help! followed by its B-side, I'm Down.

The Beatles had previously taken a public stand on civil rights in 1964, when they refused to perform at a segregated concert at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.

City officials relented, allowing the stadium to be integrated, and the band took to the stage.

"We never play to segregated audiences and we aren't going to start now," said John Lennon. "I'd sooner lose our appearance money."

The struggle for racial equality in America later inspired Paul McCartney to write Blackbird.

The contract for The Beatles' 1965 Los Angeles show is expected to raise up to $5,000 (£3,167) when it goes up for sale by a specialist memorabilia auctioneer in Los Angeles on 20 September.
The Beatles' shows in 1965 rarely lasted longer than 40 minutes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14963752
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Reply #118 on: October 04, 2011, 07:11:49 PM
From NME:


The Beatles' earliest recordings with singer Tony Sheridan are set to be released.

A deluxe double CD set entitled 'The Beatles With Tony Sheridan: First Recordings' will compile tracks cut by the quartet, with former sticksman Pete Best on drums, in Hamburg, reports Variety.

The band performed with Sheridan as Polydor artists after music executive Bert Kaempfert discovered them performing in a German nightclub in 1961.

The Beatles' numbers include 'Ain't She Sweet', which sees John Lennon taking up vocal duties and the George Harrison-penned instrumental 'Cry For a Shadow'. It is set to be released in the US on November 8. No date has yet been set in the UK.

The release will be accompanied by a booklet full of rarely seen photographs, taken by one-time Beatles guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe's fiancee Astrid Kirchherr, band contracts, poster art of early shows and handwritten biographies by each member of the group.

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Reply #119 on: October 05, 2011, 12:08:34 PM
On the evening of 27 August 1965, Elvis Presley and The Beatles, the music world's biggest stars, met for the first and only time.

When the Fab Four went to see the King of Rock 'n' Roll at his Beverly Hills mansion on a night off from their US tour, the initially awkward small talk gave way to an impromptu jam session.

But there are no recordings or photographs of the event.

Tony Barrow, who was The Beatles' press officer between 1962 and 1968, was also in the room. As a new exhibition about The Beatles and Elvis opens at The Beatles Story in Liverpool, he recalls that memorable night.

"When I put the idea of meeting Elvis to John, Paul, George and Ringo, they were initially put off by the fact that the press might be involved," he said.
Elvis Presley in 1964 Elvis was in the middle of filming his movie Paradise Hawaiian Style at the time of the meeting

"I remember George saying 'if this is going to be another dirty big publicity circus, let's forget it'. They did want to meet their rock 'n' roll idol, but not with a gang of reporters and photographers around to hassle them.

"The first fundamental ground rules to be set were: no press to be invited, no pictures to be taken, no recordings to be made and no leaking of our plans in advance.

"It was shortly before 10pm when we drove over. We were in a convoy of three big black limousines, led by [Elvis' manager] Colonel Parker and his people.

"The property consisted of two storeys nestled into a hillside. It was a vast, round building with a lot of windows and a spacious front garden. There was a Rolls Royce and a couple of Cadillacs lining the drive.

"Members of the famous 'Memphis Mafia' guarded the tall gates but they waved our line of limousines straight through.

"Once inside the front door, our feet seemed to sink inches into deep white shag pile carpeting.
Brian Epstein (left) and Tony Barrow Tony Barrow (right, pictured with Brian Epstein) had to keep the plans secret from the press pack

"We arrived in the centre of the building, into this massive circular room bathed in red and blue light, and this was where the King entertained.

"This was Elvis Presley's giant playpen, complete with a colour television, a jukebox, a deep crescent-shaped couch, a couple of pool and games tables and a well-stocked bar.

"I would say, at a guess, that Presley's army of henchmen and their womenfolk must have totalled about 20 people, well outnumbering our little group.

"As the two teams faced one another, there was a weird silence and it was John who spoke first, rather awkwardly blurting out a stream of questions at Elvis, saying: 'Why do you do all these soft-centred ballads for the cinema these days? What happened to good old rock 'n' roll?'

"Elvis was fairly quiet - that was my first reaction. He smiled a lot and shook hands with everybody.

"The ice didn't really break in the early stages at all. The boys and Elvis swapped tour stories, but it hadn't got going.
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    Music was their natural meeting point, their most intelligent means of communication”

"They quickly exhausted their initial bout of small talk and there was this embarrassing silence between the mega-famous five, stood there facing each other, with very little of import being said.

"Apart from anything else, I think it was just that each was in awe of the other. Elvis didn't have that much confidence, as far as I could see. He was a fairly easily embarrassed person by the look of him.

"But Elvis suddenly plugged the gap by calling for some guitars to be handed out to John, Paul and George, and a piano was hauled into view.

"Up to that point, the party really had been a bit lifeless and unexciting. But as soon as Presley and The Beatles began to play together, the atmosphere livened up.

"The boys found that they could make much better conversation with their guitars than they could with their spoken word. Music was their natural meeting point, their most intelligent means of communication.

"I can't remember all the things that they played but I do remember one of the songs was I Feel Fine. And I remember Ringo, who of course didn't have an instrument, tapping out the backbeat with his fingers on the nearest bits of wooden furniture.

"Everybody was singing. Elvis strummed a few bass guitar chords for Paul and said: 'See, I'm practising.' And Paul came back with some quip about: 'Don't worry, between us, me and Brian Epstein will make a star of you soon.'

"It would be wonderful to have either photographs or recordings. That recording would be invaluable, surely. It would be a multi-million dollar piece of tape. But it wasn't to be. It was an amazing session to listen to.

"Parker and Epstein lost interest - they were leaving the children to play. Parker put his plump arm around Brian Epstein's shoulder and led him away to a quiet corner of this playroom.

"Epstein at this point grabbed his chance to bring up the subject he'd been waiting to raise, which was his secret agenda. He hoped to persuade Parker to let him present Elvis in a series of UK concerts.
'Elvis was stoned'

"It was a hopeless project from the outset, although at the time, Parker pretended to leave the door open by saying he'd think about it.

"The party ended when Colonel Parker decided that it was time for it to end. He started dishing out presents, which mostly consisted of piles of Elvis Presley albums.

"I remember, as we went out to our limousines, John put on his Adolf Hitler accent and shouted: 'Long live ze king.' Also, John said, as we got into our limousines: 'Elvis was stoned.' George Harrison responded very quietly: 'Aren't we all?'

"They tried to make light of it and not show too much adoration for their idol, but Elvis Presley was their idol and one of the prime influences of The Beatles' music."

The Elvis And Us exhibition, which explores how The Beatles were influenced by Elvis, is at The Beatles Story for the next two years. Tony Barrow was speaking to BBC News entertainment reporter Ian Youngs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15126945
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