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According to Boston Music Spotlight, after weeks of speculation, Paul
McCartney has officially announced that he will perform at Boston's
historic Fenway Park on Wednesday, August 5 and Thursday, August 6.
Reportedly, tickets for both shows will go on sale Monday, June 29 at
10 a.m. via Live Nation. No tickets will be sold at Fenway Park.
Ticket prices are forthcoming.
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The pre-sale for Paul's performance at FedExField in Washington on
Saturday, August 1 is now on! The pre-sale will be active until Thursday, June 25 10pm EST/ 3am
Thursday/Friday UK.
General Sale tickets go on sale Friday, June 26 at 10:00 A.M. ET and
are available at all Ticketmaster locations, by calling 800-551-SEAT,
and online at www.LiveNation.com. Tickets will be available at the
FedExField Box Office on June 26 only.
This concert event at FedExField marks the latest in a series of
landmark performances that link the beloved Beatle with Washington
D.C., beginning with The Beatles' first concert on American soil in
1964 at the Washington Coliseum, and continuing with McCartney's
critically acclaimed appearances in the District over the past
forty-five years.
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Live performances by Paul McCartney and George Harrison are now available on the iTunes Store in aid of youth charity The Prince's Trust. The videos, from Prince's Trust rock galas throughout the 1980s, include the first time that George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on stage.
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A new Penny Lane District could be created in south Liverpool to attract thousands of visitors to the city. Smithdown Place, Allerton Road, Rose Lane and Penny Lane could form part of the new Fab Four zone. Specially-made signs would be put up along the two-mile route giving information about the quarter.
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The Beatles original contract with manager Brian Epstein is to be given away as a prize in a music competition being run by The Imagine Corporation, a new website which deals in obtaining unique memorabilia. To enter the competition, fans are asked to guess how much Christie's auction house estimate that it would have been sold for.
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The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced that Ringo Starr is among the musicians who will have their names added to Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. George Harrison was honored with a star earlier this year. Van Morrison and the late Roy Orbison will also get stars in 2010.
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A batch of unheard songs by late Beatle George Harrison are set to be made into a new album.
Several previously unheard songs by George Harrison are set to be released.
The late former Beatle had a large batch of unfinished tracks at the time of his death in 2001 and they will now be worked on by musician Jeff Lynne - who was a member of 80s super-group The Traveling Wilburys along with George.
A source said: "George half-finished loads of songs and often just forgot about them. There is probably an album's worth of material.
"Jeff and George were very close and worked together a lot in the later period of George's life. He's the right man to work on the material."
Only recently, Harrison's widow Olivia revealed she wanted to do something with her husband's incomplete songs.
She said: "There are lots of tracks. Some are closer to completion than others and with those I'd ask for help."
This will not be the first time Lynne - who is best known as
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-- On 8th August 1969, four men walked across a zebra crossing in St John's Wood. Hardly an earth-shattering event, but since then millions of people have come to the very same crossing to imitate those four men.
Of course the four men in question were The Beatles, and the crossing is in Abbey Road. The 'Fab Four' were posing for the photo that was to be used on their last album to recorded. Abbey Road has never been the same since. Every day, fans from around the world come to the crossing to walk in the footsteps of their heroes and to see the studios where they recorded most of their songs.
On August 8th 2009, a special Beatles walking tour will cross the Abbey Road Crossing exactly 40 years to the minute since the Beatles. The tour will be lead by Richard Porter, a professional Beatles tour guide and owner of the Beatles Coffee Shop. Richard has been leading Beatles tours for 20 years and has crossed Abbey Road thousands of times. However
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That's right! You've heard correct. The band that was started by John Lennon while The Beatles were still together is being resurrected by Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono. This week they'll be releasing a brand new EP entitled "Don't Stop Me!". The Plastic Ono Band will also be playing their first concert on June 14, 2009 at The Royal Festival Hall in the UK.
The Plastic Ono Band always consisted of various musicians like Eric Clapton, Alan White and Klaus Voorman, and David Peel who played various live performances with The Plastic Ono Band. The line up for 2009 is Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Mark Ronson (Producer), Cornelius and Yuka Honda (from the group Cibo Mato).
The 4 song EP being released on June 9th, 2009 is being released digitally on iTunes from Chimera Music. The track listing is as follows:
1. The Sun is Down (Cornelius Mix)
2. Ask The Elephant!
3. Feel The Sand
4. Calling
In addition, in September 2009 a full length album/CD will be released by the Plastic Ono Band.
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BROOKLYN, NY.- Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, the first major museum exhibition to acknowledge photographers for their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock and roll, will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from October 30, 2009, through January 31, 2010. The exhibition is curated by photographic historian and author Gail Buckland and features many rare and never-before-exhibited photographs.
Who Shot Rock & Roll is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and will travel to venues to be announced at a future date.
From its earliest days, rock and roll was captured in photographs that personalized and frequently eroticized the musicians. Photographers were handmaidens to the rock-and-roll revolution, and their work communicates the social and cultural transformations that rock helped bring about from the 1950s to the present. This exhibition is a history not of rock and roll, but of the men and women who have photographed it and given the music its visual identity.
Featuring approximately 175 works by 105 photographers, Who Shot Rock &
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Country singer Wynonna and former Apple Records executive Ken Mansfield will celebrate the 42nd anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album on June 9 with an evening of live music and storytelling at the W.O. Smith Nashville Community Music School.
The With a Little Help From My Friends benefit will occur from 7-9 p.m. in the school’s concert hall. The event will feature career reflections and readings from Mansfield; live performances by country star Wynonna, contemporary Christian artist Phil Keaggy, country star David Ball, and other celebrity guests; and the presentation of a proclamation by Metro Councilman Parker Toler naming Jan. 30 as Nashville Beatles Music Day.
Proceeds from the event will be used to help W.O. Smith continue to provide instruments and music instruction to hundreds of children from low-income families. The school is located at 1125 Eighth Ave. S. in Nashville. Admission to With A Little Help From My Friends is $20 per person. Seating is limited. To order tickets, call (615) 255-8355.
Mansfield will use his appearance to share reflections from his
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Oh Boo Hoo about Phil Spectors bad treatment - Lana Clarkson was shot like a pig.
Phil Spector and his fellow inmates are "treat[ed] worse than animals", according to the legendary producer's wife. As Spector begins his 19-year sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson, Rachelle Spector has condemned prison conditions – and continues to proclaim her husband's innocence.
"I didn't think he'd last a week," she told the Los Angeles Times. "He's a real small and fragile man."
Rachelle Spector is an unlikely wife for the 69-year old music mogul. Just 28 years old, she had "no idea who he was" when they met, preferring Marilyn Manson to the Beatles or the Ronettes. But despite the 41-year age difference, Rachelle insists she's not a "gold-digger". "I don't take anything from my husband, and I never have," she said. "I'm a good person, but people don't see any of that or know how hard I work."
Rachelle Spector was a constant presence at both of her husband's murder trials (the first ended with a hung
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Capitol/EMI confirms the tracklist for George Harrison’s first-ever career-spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison. To be released June 16 (June 15 internationally), the CD’s special packaging includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos, and newly-written liner notes by Warren Zanes. The collection’s 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, and will be available in CD and digital formats.
“Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison is a gathering of material that takes us far into the territory that was ultimately a place unique to George Harrison,” writes Warren Zanes in his liner notes essay for the new collection.
This collection is the first to span Harrison’s entire solo recording career, including the #1 Billboard Pop singles “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth),” and “Got My Mind Set On You." Let It Roll also features live recordings of three timeless Harrison-penned Beatles songs, “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and “Here Comes
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WILMETTE, ILLINOIS (SPPR) Live music and comedy performance share the bill with an acclaimed, award-winning feature film as Neil Innes appears onstage at the Wilmette Theatre following a screening of The Seventh Python, the musical documentary about his life and work.
The grand show at the moviehouse-performance space in a suburb of Chicago is being described as “a major event for Chicago and a historic night in comedy.”
The schedule includes a screening of the 90-minute nonfiction film; a conversation and Q&A with Innes and filmmakers Burt Kearns and Brett Hudson of Frozen Pictures moderated by local comedy legend Tim Kazurinsky; appearances by Monty Pythion scholar Kim Howard Johnson, among others; and the concert by Innes.
Innes, a legend in rock music and modern comedy, is a founding member of The Bonzo Dog Dah Band, and has performed with The Beatles, was an associate of the Monty Python troupe, created the music of The Rutles, ad is also an accomplished TV performer, author and songwriter.
The Wilmette appearance will cap off Innes’ multimedia solo concert
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More than 40 years after being discovered on Opportunity Knocks, getting launched by the Beatles’ new label and soaring on her high Welsh voice to the top of the charts in Britain and the US, Mary Hopkin is back. Sort of. If you were too young, or unborn, she was the long-haired blonde girl, barely out of school, who sat on a high stool and sang Those Were the Days to the tune of an old Lithuanian folk song.
It was 1968 and the Fab Four had just started Apple Records. This single was one of their first two releases. The other was their own Hey Jude, which spent several weeks at No 1, and when they were dethroned, it was by their own protégée. The 17-year-old from Pontardawe was as fragrant as a shampoo advert and sang with unforced purity. Here was a shot of commercial innocence into pop’s seedy body, a sort of non-toxic Marianne Faithfull. The only trouble was, she hated the whole business and couldn’t wait to get away.
And so
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