Details regarding this years International Beatle Week have just been released. This annual event is staged in Liverpool and this year takes place during the last week of August. Typically attracting 300,000 fans from over 40 different countries, highlights of this years festival will include BILLY J KRAMER’S first UK performance for over 7 years, DENNY LAINE performing Wings and Moody Blues classics, Ron Nasty and Barry Wom from THE RUTLES (AKA Neil Innes and John Halsey) and gigs by Badfinger’s JOEY MOLLAND.
The event will also celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Pete Best joining the Beatles with a garden party at the legendary Casbah Club. The festival will host a “LOVE, PEACE & UNDERSTANDING” concert at the magnificent Liverpool Anglican Cathedral which will not only raise funds for the Cathedral, but will demonstrate via the medium of the Beatles music and solo repertoire, that as Paul & Ringo observed, their music had three broad messages, Love, Peace & Understanding. The sheer scale of this event will make it the most ambitious project ever staged at Beatle Week.
Fans will also be able to take a Magical Mystery Tour of Beatle sights and of course to round off the weekend, the city of Liverpool comes to a standstill for the MATHEW STREET FESTIVAL, which is a free event with stages in the city centre streets.
There are also shows at the Philharmonic Hall with world class performances by THE BOOTLEG BEATLES and Liverpool ’s very own MARK McGANN, portraying John Lennon in “In My Life”. And of course let us not forget over 400 performances in a week at the legendary Cavern Club where it all began. Add in a cornucopia of events, including art exhibitions, flea market, record fairs, film festival, Beatles convention and music from over 20 countries, it is an event not to be missed. ~ walrus
Сегодня Международный женский день, и я вас спрашиваю:
что было бы с “Битлз” без любимых женщин?
Они являются источниками вдохновения, являются партнерами, мотиваторами …
У каждой из них свой стиль, но все они очень, очень любимы.
Thanks to Beatles: Rock Band (did’ja catch the VH-1 special?), Beatlemania is in full bloom again. When Ol’ Groove sat down to figure out how to celebrate our 500th post, I asked myself, “What could I rap about that would capture the Spirit of the Groovy Age?” Rock and roll and comics.Members of both genres seem to be huge fans of each other. And who was ever bigger, more iconic than the Beatles and Marvel Comics? In the mid-to-late 1960s (especially the dawning years of the Groovy Age) the Fab Four (without using too much hyperbole) revolutionized rock and roll and the music industry. Marvel Comics, during that same time period (again, without too much hyperbole) revolutionized super-hero comics and the comicbook industry. During the 1970s Marvel became the top-selling comicbook company.The twain did meet in the spring of 1978 when Marvel Super Special #4 hit the stands. Written by David Anthony Kraft with art by George Perez and Klaus Janson (with a stunning wrap-around cover by Tom Palmer), The Beatles Storyis one of the most far-out, daring, and original comics of the entire Groovy Age. This “unauthorized biography” did a fine job of organizing the highlights of the Beatles tumultuous history, capturing the look, feel, and mood of each Beatles “era”. You could tell this was a labor of love for Kraft, a former rock journalist who was a firm believer in the rock and roll/comicbook connection. George Perez was a natural choice for drawing the Fab Four as he had made a name for himself as a “group artist”, having for a period of time drawn the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and the Inhumans simultaneously. On top of that, his ability to draw realistic likenesses was rarely given such free reign. Enough talk! Here it comes! It’s one of Groove’s Faves, and it’s all right here for you, Groove-ophiles!
Q.I was knocked out by the high values and endless nuances affecting those prices for the “Introducing the Beatles” album covered in your recent column.
I would very much like to have similar details and values for first state issues of “The Beatles Yesterday and Today,” with the so-called “Butcher Cover.”
The Beatles tribute band Rain comes to Kuss Auditorium on March 9
SPRINGFIELD — Of all the things written about The Beatles, the “Rolling Stone Album Guide” still says it best: “Not liking them is as perverse as not liking the sun.”
So when “Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles” comes to town Tuesday, March 9, it’ll be like taking in a year’s worth of vitamin D in two hours.
After this God-awful winter we’ve had, just soak it up.
But honestly, you aren’t going to a show like this to see four guys play dress up with matching suits and fake mustaches.
You’re going for the songs.
The music of The Beatles is loved almost universally, by moms and dads reared on single-45s and by grandkids playing “Rock Band.”
With Rain in the forecast, I thought it’d be fun to call on a few of the area’s biggest Beatle fans, ranging from their 20s to their 50s, and ask them to rattle off their 10 favorite songs, in no particular order.
Me first — then I’ll get a little help from my friends.
Contact this reporter at (937) 328-0352 or amcginn@coxohio.com. читать далее…
We had some details last night about the Traveling Wilburys book launch in Beverly Hills. Here are more details from Chris Carter of Sirius/XM’s “Breakfast With the Beatles” along with pictures from both Chris Carter and Matt Hurwitz:
“Just got back from a fab Traveling Wilburys book release party in Beverly Hills. The book is one of those fancy GENESIS books and it’s worth every penny as the photos are mindblowers! At the party were: Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Olivia & Dhani Harrison, Jim Keltner, Eric Idle, Gary Wright, Joe Walsh….and Ringo! It all went down at James Perse hip clothing store on North Canon Drive in BH.” Carter also told us, “the great DONOVAN will my in studio guest on my KLOS show (not SIRIUS) on March 14th….yeah!”
The George Harrison website has also published a report on last night’s launch with additional pictures. source
Paul McCartney is preparing for one final farewell tour.
Reports are suggesting that the former Beatle is set to anounce dates.Gossip in the weekend newspapers point
in this direction with The Sunday Mail claiming the former Beatle is to play Hampden Park in Glasgow which
would be his first Scotish return Scotland in nearly twenty years. читать далее…
On March 4, 1966, John Lennon’s comments to reporter Maureen Cleave in the UK about Jesus were first published in the London Evening Standard. It came in an interview where Lennon covered many subjects, not just religion.His comments were almost sounded like an afterthought.“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” he said. читать далее…
His recently announced concert at the Millennium Stadium this summer will mark the first time Sir Paul McCartney has played in Wales for more than 30 years. Here, Nathan Bevan looks back on The Beatles legend’s time in the country, from his early days rehearsing in the basement of a Harlech barber shop to the Fab Four’s final UK gig in 1965.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are both touring this year.
So Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are both touring this year. If you had to pick a song for them to include in their setlists, either for the first time or back again, what would it be? читать далее…
INTERNATIONAL BEATLE WEEK : Liverpool August 25th – 31st 2010 
