| Wednesday, May 15, 2013 |
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| Pictures: Hard Rock exhibit includes rare John Lennon artifacts |
A special display of John Lennon artifacts has arrived at Seattle's Hard Rock Café in a limited traveling exhibit that will be on site for public viewing from today through May 19. The display includes his hand-written lyrics to the song "Help" and John Lennon's personal gold record for his 1974 album "Walls and Bridges."
Source: John Lennon Examiner |
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| Paul McCartney plants a tree at Brazil resort |
Paul McCartney chose Txai Resort to rest after his shows in Brazil. During his stay, the ex-Beatle got to know the resort's philanthropic projects, and was invited by the President of Txai Resorts to plant a seedling of the Juerana tree, used by the Pataxo Indians for the making of crafts.
Source: Travel Video News |
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| Art award dedicated to memory of Liverpool-born artist Joe Bampton |
Organizers are honored to announce that the 2013 Liverpool Art Prize "People's Choice Award" will be presented in fond memory of the Liverpool born artist, Joe Bampton. The Award, whose winner is announced at 6pm on Wednesday 29th May is presented alongside the main award for Liverpool Art Prize 2013.
Source: Beatles News |
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| Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| John Lennon movie attracts award-winning cast |
Dan Fogelman's long-in-the-works directorial debut "Imagine" has added several tremendously talented, award-winning actors to its cast list, it was announced yesterday, including 4 time Oscar winner Annette Bening, 2 time Oscar winner Sir Michael Caine, Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner and Oscar winner Al Pacino.
Source: The Examiner |
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| Video: Man proposes on stage at Paul McCartney concert |
An audience member at McCartney's concert in Brazil last week was holding a sign that said, "Paul, I want to propose to my love onstage. Would you bless us?" The couple came onstage and, after a little prompting from McCartney, the groom-to-be got on one knee, pulled out a ring, and popped the question. She said yes.
Source: Huffington Post |
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| Listen: Wings Over America preview |
Formed by Paul and Linda McCartney, Wings swiftly became one of the biggest rock bands of the 70s. Their 1976 tour has gone down in history, captured for posterity on the Wings Over America live album, it remains one of the band's best loved LPs. It is set to be re-issued later this summer, and you can listen to an exclusive preview online now.
Source: Clash Magazine |
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| Ex-McCartney band members join in special tribute to Wings |
Two ex-members of Paul McCartney's Wings will join Jeff Slate's Birds of Paradox for a special tribute to McCartney's band at 10 p.m. May 29 at the Cutting Room in New York City, it was announced Monday. The show will also celebrate the re-releases of the "Wings Over America" album and the concert film "Rockshow."
Source: The Examiner |
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| Yoko: Being a Beatle wife harder than married to a politician |
In a BBC radio interview, Yoko Ono says life as the wife of a Beatle "never ends." But even though she will always be known as Lennon, she has refused to be defined by that and is arguably performing more now, with her son, Sean Lennon and the Plastic Ono band, and putting on a greater number of art shows, than ever before.
Source: The Telegraph, UK |
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| ELO's Jeff Lynne remembers special moments with the Beatles |
For a confirmed Beatlemaniac like Jeff Lynne, working with members of the Beatles had always been a dream. In the late 1980s, every one of them came true, when Lynne produced George Harrison's comeback album Cloud 9, which led to the formation of the Traveling Wilburys. Lynne later produced solo albums for Ringo and McCartney's terrific Flaming Pie.
Source: Something Else Reviews |
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| John and Paul appear on Tonight Show 45 years ago today |
In May 1968, John Lennon and Paul McCartney flew to New York to promote Apple Corps. On May 14, they appeared on NBC's Tonight Show. The program that night wasn't hosted by Johnny Carson, but by former baseball great Joe Garagiola. NBC erased the videotape at some point, so no complete document of the show survives.
Source: Ultimate Classic Rock |
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| Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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| Fans lobby Paul McCartney to buy Everton Football Club |
Founded in 1878, Everton FC has enjoyed a fairly illustrious history including nine league championships, but is currently suffering a financial rough patch and is currently seeking a new buyer. One group of fans has started a petition "to appeal to Beatles legend and Liverpool native son Paul McCartney to purchase our illustrious football club."
Source: Ultimate Classic Rock |
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| Photographer Mary McCartney goes behind the scenes |
Mary McCartney, daughter of Paul McCartney and his photographer wife, Linda Eastman, followed in her mother's footsteps. Her work, now showing at a gallery in Toronto, includes her shots of models such as Kate Moss, as well as famous subjects, from Madonna to Elvis Costello. McCartney credits both her mother and father as influences on her photos.
Source: CBC, Canada |
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| Rare Pictures: Beatles on holiday before they were world famous |
50 years ago today, three of the Fab Four were chilling by the pool in Tenerife. Only weeks later Beatlemania was in full swing and Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were well on their way to becoming famous worldwide, but in May 1963, no one on the Spanish island gave the Beatles a second glance.
Source: The Mirror, UK |
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| Interview: Vivek Tiwary talks about the Beatles |
In a new interview, Vivek Tiwary, writer and producer the film and graphic novel "The Fifth Beatle" about Brian Epstein and the Beatles, talks about what drew him to the story, how he decided where to start the story and the differences and challenges with writing it as a screenplay versus writing it as a comic book.
Source: Bleeding Cool |
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| New book reveals John Lennon regretted political campaigning |
According to Beatles friend and associate Joe Flannery, John Lennon regretted his political activism and was planning to return to his native U.K.. Lennon was an outspoken critic of Richard Nixon in the 1970s, but he later confessed to Flannery that he had gone overboard with his political statements.
Source: Star Pulse |
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| New Beatles insider book launches in Liverpool tomorrow |
Joe Flannery's new book on The Beatles, Standing in The Wings - The Beatles, Brian Epstein And Me, launches tomorrow with a star-studded event at Liverpool's Beatles Story. Joe Flannery has been described as the "Secret Beatle", an integral part of The Beatles" management team during their rise to fame in the early 1960s.
Source: Beatles News |
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| Friday, May 10, 2013 |
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| New Hard Rock collection in Tampa includes Lennon's glasses |
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa has announced Friday that a new, traveling exhibit titled "Treasures of the Hard Rock" will be on display there June 14-22. The exhibit will feature many unique pieces pulled from Hard Rock International's more than 77,000-piece main collection, including glasses worn by John Lennon.
Source: The Tampa Tribune |
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| Video Interview: Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono |
In the course of an interview that first aired May 13, 2012 and is now available online, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon tell many interesting stories. They speak intimately about the music, and reminisce about the events that inspired the compositions. Sean reacts to a John Lennon recording he's hearing for the first time.
Source: WNYC Radio, New York |
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| Jimi Hendrix wanted Paul McCartney for supergroup |
Fans have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix in 1970. But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit, Paul McCartney. The super group that never was proposed in a telegram that Hendrix sent to McCartney on Oct. 21, 1969.
Source: Spinner |
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| Mixing the Fab Four and football in Liverpool |
Think of Liverpool, and mainly, you will think of football and music. Liverpool has an iconic appeal thanks to its musical and sporting heritage. Football in the form of the iconic red of Liverpool, and the classic blue of Everton. Music as in the many great bands who have emerged from this corner of the north-west. But mainly The Beatles.
Source: The Daily Mail, UK |
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| Thursday, May 9, 2013 |
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| John Lennon's Ferrari up for auction |
John Lennon's 1965 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 Coupe his bandmates bought for him the day he passed his driving test will be going up for auction this summer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. The Beatles paid £6,500 for it in 1965, it is expected to auction for $280,000 to $340,000, although Ferrari 330 GT 2+2s typically sell for much less.
Source: NY Times |
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| Listen to remastered Paul McCartney Blackbird online |
An exclusive remastered version of the classic track Blackbird, taken from a forthcoming reissue of the album Wings Over America, by Paul McCartney and Wings, is now available online. The live album Wings Over America was originally released in December 1976, and is being reissued along with the live concert film Rockshow, filmed in 1976.
Source: The Telegraph, UK |
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| Yoko Ono launches Lennon bus in Liverpool |
Yoko Ono has visited Liverpool to launch a bus which will tour Europe and be used by young people to make music. Ono said it felt fitting to launch the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus in the former Beatle's hometown. Yoko said, "Music is so important for everybody on this planet, I think it is the one thing that is keeping me young."
Source: BBC News |
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| Bev Bevans says Paul McCartney told him he was better than Ringo |
ELO drummer Bev Bevan says a chance meeting with the Beatles years ago provided him a huge ego boost. Appearing as part of Denny Laine and the Diplomats, Bevan had an opportunity to open for the Fabs in 1963. After the show, Paul McCartney told him, "That drum solo, in five-four time? That's great. Our drummer could never do that."
Source: Something Else Reviews |
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| Wednesday, May 8, 2013 |
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| Ewww: Beatle bugged by grasshoppers in Brazil |
On Tuesday night, Paul McCartney's stage was invaded by a swarm of insects during a concert in Goiania, Brazil. Macca was forced to complete his three-hour performance as clouds of grasshoppers buzzed around him, but appeared unfazed by the attack as he pushed through and delighted the 47,000 crowd with his songs.
Source: The Daily Mail, UK |
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| Let It Be Beatles musical headed to Broadway |
Let It Be, a musical based on the Beatles's classic songs, will arrive on Broadway in July for a limited engagement. Celebrating the Beatles' 50th anniversary, it uses state-of-the-art projection technology and 3-D sound to put audiences at the heart of the Beatles' meteoric rise from the Cavern Club through the heights of Beatlemania.
Source: Spin |
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| The harrowing story behind Wings' classic album Band on the Run |
Making an album, even a classic album, sometimes can be an exercise in overcoming adversity. Still, the monumental troubles that Paul McCartney and Wings had to surmount to record Band on the Run, easily McCartney's best post-Beatles album, easily could have served as fodder for an epic Hollywood film.
Source: Gibson |
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| Forgotten John Lennon interview inspires kids in Nova Scotia |
People in the Cape Breton community of New Waterford in Nova Scotia have caught Beatlemania after uncovering a little-known recording of John Lennon from a local radio station, a news report from 1969 containing highlights from an interview with Lennon after the famous Beatle called the station during his famous Montreal bed-in.
Source: CBC, Canada |
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| Beach Boys launch new interactive website |
The Beach Boys website has been totally re-imagined to offer new functionality, stunning interactive capabilities and exclusive content from their 50 years in music. The new website is highly experiential with unique access to the band members, their music and histoy, as well as Beach Boys ticket and merchandise sales.
Source: Albany Times Union |
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