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Beatles’ Last Concert Candlestick Park (VIDEO) 44 Years Ago Today! 
Beatles last concert, Candlestick Park (VIDEO) The Beatles last concert was held in Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California on August 29, 1966, a whopping 44 years ago today!
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John Lennon’s loo fetches £9,500 at auction for Beatles fans Overseas buyer splashes out for toilet Lennon told builder to use as ‘a plant pot’
A porcelain lavatory which John Lennon told a builder to use as a “plant pot” has fetched £9,500 – nearly 10 times its guide price – at an auction today. The loo was used by the music legend when he lived at Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire between 1969 and 1972. Lennon told builder John Hancock to keep it and “use it as a plant pot”, after he installed a new one. The toilet was stored in a shed at Mr Hancock’s home for 40 years until he died recently. It was expected to fetch only £1,000 at the auction at the 33rd annual Beatles Convention in Liverpool today. But an overseas investor forked out £9,500 for it. Auction organiser and Beatles expert Stephen Bailey said: “It is unbelievable. We had bids coming in from all over the place but it went to a private overseas buyer.” The loo was among the highlights of the auction of Beatles memorabilia. Also up for grabs was a rare mono-sound copy of Two Virgins, which Lennon recorded with wife Yoko Ono. It was expected to fetch at least £2,500. When the LP was released in November 1968, it was sold in brown paper bags as the sleeve controversially featured a naked picture of the famous couple. A limited release of 5,000 stereo versions of the album were available in shops, but fans had to write to the record label to purchase a mono copy of the record. The exact number of mono copies sold is unknown. However, organisers say it is likely to be as few as a “couple of hundred”.
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Julian Lennon to be honored by Lupus Foundation; Beatles on steel drums?
JULIAN LENNON HONOR: Julian Lennon, Peggy Conlon,
president and chief executive offficer of the Advertising Council,
and the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation will be honored at a
special Sept. 14 Butterfly Gala by the Lupus Foundation in New York City.
Lennon will be honored “for his efforts to bring lupus to the forefront of
popular culture, raise critically important dollars for research,
and inspire those living with lupus and their loved ones around the world to
band together and advocate for safer, more effective treatments and a cure.”
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John Lennon ‘Double Fantasy Stripped Down’ artwork released 
The cover for “Double Fantasy Stripped Down.” The cover photo for “Double Fantasy Stripped Down,” to be released Oct. 5, is now on Amazon.com. The new release will pair new versions of the album songs with Lennon’s original remastered mix of the album. “‘Double Fantasy Stripped Down’ really allows us to focus our attention on John’s amazing vocals. Technology has advanced so much that, conversely, I wanted to use new techniques to really frame these amazing songs and John’s voice as simply as possible,” Yoko Ono said in a statement announcing the Lennon remasters. “By stripping down some of the instrumentation the power of the songs shines through with an enhanced clarity. ‘Double Fantasy Stripped Down’ will be complemented by the original album in the 2CD format. It was whilst working on the new version of this album that I was hit hardest emotionally, as this was the last album John released before his passing.”
Photo: EMI/Capitol Records
Cirque du Soleil arrives at the Hard Days Night Hotel 
The world famous performance group Cirque Du Soleil is displaying 14 costumes from its hugely successful Las Vegas Beatles show LOVE at Liverpool’s Hard Days Night Hotel. The costumes, which were designed by French costume designer Phillipe Guillotel, will be displayed in a exhibition at the Hard Days Night Hotel Shop, and include those from the characters of Sgt. Pepper, Eleanor Rigby, Father McKenzie, and Her Majesty. Sandra Fox, Head of Wardrobe for LOVE, says: “Cirque du Soleil has the biggest costume workshop in the world so the scope for creating characters and outfits for the LOVE show was phenomenal. Phillipe paid tribute to the creativity of The Beatles with his designs, making sure that the character costumes represent direct images from Beatles songs. As you will see, the costumes are just out of this world - so imaginative and inspired.” The costumes have been brought to Liverpool by Aigburth-born Pamela Devine, who has worked for Cirque du Soleil as Director of Sales for the last ten years:
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John Lennon 70th Birthday Bash at Radio City Music Hall 
Liverpool won’t be the only city having a 70th Birthday bash for John Lennon. His adopted home town of New York 
A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit ‘Spirit Foundation’ - a charitable foundation set up by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The concert will also feature The Hogshead Horns, The Creme Tangerine Strings and The Nutopia Choir. Special Guests will be announced soon. source
Day Trip: Abbey Road on the River 
Beatles event being held for first time at National Harbor
As summer winds down, Marylanders can rev up for one more huzzah in the form of Abbey Road on the River, said to be the largest Beatles tribute festival in the world, which lands at National Harbor this week.The five-day event, staged originally in Kentucky, is expected to draw large crowds to the Potomac riverfront from Thursday throughLabor Day.”We’re going to have five stages and over 40 bands, and we’ll be screening two movies,” said event producer Gary Jacob, adding that the plan is to make the festival an annual event in the area.
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Rollling Stone’s Top 100 Beatle Songs 
Rolling Stone released its first-ever list of the 100 greatest Beatles songs as part of a special interest publication that coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Beatle’s final album, Let It Be, and the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. Topping the list, as ranked by the editors of Rolling Stone, is “A Day in the Life,” followed by “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
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Backers try to raise money through the internet to fund Beatle promoter’s film biography 
The poster from the Beatles’ 1965 Shea Stadium concert.
Photo: Sid Bernstein Presents
The man who brought the Beatles to America, music promoter Sid Bernstein, is now the center of a social media campaign to help bring his story to the screen. The makers of Bernstein’s biopic, “Sid Bernstein Presents…”, have teamed with social media fundraising site Kickstarter.com to raise money to get the film released.
“Sid Bernstein Presents…” is a 110 minute documentary film on the life of Bernstein, who, in addition to bringing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to America and promoted the Beatles Shea Stadium concert, also figured in the careers of James Brown, Tito Puente, the Rascals, Duke Ellington, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, ABBA and organized concerts with Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Sinatra. The film features interviews with Shirley McClaine, Lenny Kravitz, the Rascals, the Moody Blues, Paul Anka, Steve Van Zandt, Dick Clark and Jerry Vale, plus the last film interviews with James Brown and Tito Puente.
The Kickstarter.com campaign for the film is trying to raise $100,000 for the music and film rights needed to get the film released. “Sid has done so much for music and public culture,” said the film’s co-director Jason Ressler. “The fact that his contribution to history is slowly being buried and forgotten is tragic. It’s our turn to fight for Sid, since he spent so much of his life fighting for a free and equal culture in America.”
The campaign will honor donors who give $30 with a pre-release Collectors Edition DVD of the film. Donors who give $100 will receive a limited edition poster signed by Bernstein. Digital distribution producer and associate producer credits will also be given to certain donors.
“Sid was doing what the Kennedys and Martin Luther King discovered later, but Sid had already begun to do it through music,” James Brown says in an exclusive, never-before-seen interview in the film. The Huffington Post also called Sid a “Founding Father” of modern music and pop culture.The Sid Bernstein site on Kickstarter.com. source
Exclusive Macca Interview! Paul McCartney has revealed how Beatlesdrummer Ringo Starr delivered him a letter in March 1970, co-signed by George Harrisonand John Lennon, asking him to postpone the release of his solo debut album so it wouldn’t clash with the scheduled emergence of climactic Beatle release, Let It Be. Into an atmosphere of mounting mistrust between the still technically united Beatles, Ringo’s missive dropped like an H-bomb. “I told him top eff off,” Macca reveals toMOJO’s Tom Doyle, as he sketches out his state of mind at the fag end of The Beatles’ reign, belaboured by anxiety attacks, heavy drinking and marijuana sessions. “He seems to be going strange,” said Ringo at the time. “Everyone was completely treating me like dirt,” says McCartney today. 
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