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Beatles News
A rare guitar played by Beatles pair John Lennon and George Harrison worth about £150,000 will go on display in London this week.
The Beatles VOX guitar, a custom prototype made in 1966 and later given to "Magic Alex" Mardas, a friend of the band, will be unveiled at The Stafford London hotel in St. James's Palace.
After going on display from Thursday to Saturday it will be taken to New York for auction. The guitar, one of a few known to exist that was played by both Lennon and Harrison, is expected to fetch between $200,000 and $300,000 at Julien's Auctions on May 18.
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Former Rolling Stones Manager Andrew Loog Oldham has called for a street in Liverpool to be named after Brian Epstein, the impresario who guided The Beatles to the top of the charts and international fame.
Brian gave Andrew, who has just released his new book Stone Free, his first break into the world of showbiz when he hired him as an assistant to help handle his growing team of pop talent.
Mercurial Brian Epstein was the businessman who created the Merseybeat and launched The Beatles to stardom in the 1960's before creating a stable of hit makers including Cilla Black and Gerry And The Pacemakers.
Source: Click Liverpool
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Wolfgang's Vault, which has amassed a huge collection of vintage live shows in its Concert Vault section by a wide assortment of artists, will start digging into its archives and post more concerts by the solo Beatles, the Vault's CEO Bill Sagan told us in a face-to-face interview.
A spokesman said Friday a 1974 George Harrison concert would be the first new solo Beatles show featured and would be posted in a few weeks.
The spokesman said the Concert Vault now has in its archives two shows by John Lennon, four by Paul McCartney and/or McCartney and Wings, six by Ringo Starr and two by George Harrison (all from his 1974 tour).
Source: Examiner
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Beatles guitarist George Harrison’s elder sister is in Holon, spreading the love, for a Beatles festival. Fifty years ago, in March 1963, a young band from Liverpool made musical history with the release of its debut album, “Please Please Me.” The Beatles became one of only two acts to sell more than a billion records (Elvis Presley was the other), and changed the face of popular music forever.
Louise Harrison — older sister of Beatles’ lead guitarist George — is currently in Israel plugging the group’s legend, her brother’s memory, and especially his focus on peace and love. She’s doing so via The Liverpool Legends, a lively Beatles cover band she manages, which is performing at the Holon Beatles Festival, running Wednesday through Sunday.
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Pierce Brosnan has revealed he settled a secret legal spat with Paul Mccartney's brother over a photo he recreated as a painting for his late wife.
Michael MCCartney threatened legal action against the actor after realising his Just Four Guys piece was a colourful reinterpretation of the photographer's black and white shot of the Beatles.
Brosnan painted the picture for his wife Cassandra Harris, who was a big Beatles fan, and had no idea it would cause a fuss.
Showing off the picture and the original MCCartney photo during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Source: Contact Music
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Fifty years after the launch of the Beatles’ debut album Please Please Me in 1963, Liverpool revels in its role as the birthplace of four lads who shook the world. Carol Davis steps back into Yesterday in a celebration of the city’s musical heritage
Mention Liverpool to almost anyone in the world and their face breaks into a broad smile: “Ah, Liverpool – football and the Beatles,” they muse. Football in the city is still going strong with hordes flocking to see matches most weekends – and over four decades after the Beatles broke up, their musical heritage is still throbbing in this liveliest of cities.
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Source: Friday
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Sir Paul McCartney thrilled fans in Brazil as he opened his new world tour and gave some Beatles classics their first live outing.
The star performed to 55,000 people in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, at the start of his Out There! tour to give tracks such as Your Mother Should Know and Lovely Rita their live debut.
The set list also includes Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite an All Together Now.
Many Beatles tracks from their later career remained unplayed because the group largely ended their live career in 1966 after playing San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
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Source: ITV
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Mary McCartney’s life in photographs started when she was just an infant. That baby on the cover of Paul McCartney’s first eponymous solo record, released in 1970, is her, peeking out at the camera from inside the sheepskin coat of her famous father and Beatles co-founder. The photographer was her mother, Linda Eastman McCartney, who early on nurtured Mary, the first-born child of her union with the former Beatle, to share her love and passion for photography.
Today an established artist in her own right, Mary McCartney has shot intimate portraits of some of the celebrities who have long orbited around the family of a Beatle:
Source: The Globe and Mail
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Tony McGovern didn't have a ticket to see The Beatles when they performed in North Staffordshire in the 1960s – but just three shillings secured him a once in a lifetime opportunity.
The retired Royal Doulton employee, now aged 66 and living in Cheviot Drive, Bradeley, managed to buy his way into the Trentham Gardens gig in October 1963.
He explains: "It was a Friday night and me and three friends were having a drink in the Sneyd Arms, in Abbey Hulton, pondering what to do that night.
"The Beatles were on at Trentham Gardens that night but we didn't have tickets.
MERCED -- For one night only, the award-winning Beatles musical "In My Life" will play Sunday at the Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre.
The musical retells The Beatles' story through the eyes of manager Brian Epstein and features the live music of renowned tribute band Abbey Road.
The show starts 7 p.m. May 5 at the Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre, 301 W. Main St. Tickets are $29 to $39 and may be purchased online at www.mercedtheatre.org or by calling (209) 381-0500.
Show organizers said the Modesto High School String Quartet will be performing three ballads on stage with the touring musicians.
Source: Merced Sun - Star
Rockshow, a film documenting Paul McCartney and his band Wings on their 1975-76 Wings Around the World tour, will have its big-screen premiere May 15 at BAFTA in London. McCartney is scheduled to appear on the red carpet for the event.
The rest of the world will have to wait until the following day to catch Rockshow, which captures the rock icon and his group (which featured McCartney's late first wife, Linda) on a trek that brought their show to more than 600,000 people in the USA and Canada, concluding with three historic gigs at The Forum in Los Angeles.
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Source: USA Today
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The Beatles' achieved their first number one single 50 years ago – the first of 17 over the next six years. Here's the chart hits, the records broken and rivals made by the band.
Although some will say Please Please Me was The Beatles' first number one single, it was their next single,
From Me To You, which topped the Record Retailer chart – which later became the Official UK Singles Chart – on May 2 1963. The simple love song was written by Lennon and McCartney on the band's tour bus and insipred by the letters page of the NME, but it marked the start of The Beatles' chart-topping superstardom.
Source: The Telegraph
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John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce on display at the Pointe-à-Callière Museum in Montreal. The car is part of an exhibit called The Beatles in Montreal, that revisits the group’s only Montreal appearance at the Forum in 1964. The exhibition runs from March 26, 2013 to March 30, 2014.
What is the fastest way to make an aging baby boomer feel as old as the pyramids?
Tell them that an exhibition about the Beatles is on for a year at a Montreal archeological museum best known for its shows on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient Etruscans and the somewhat younger Quebec Habitants.
What is the exhibition?
The show is called The Beatles in Montreal. It marks the 50th anniversary of the first and only visit by the Beatles in Montreal, Sept. 8, 1964, at the Forum.
Source: Ottawa Citizen
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By an overwhelming margin of nearly three to one, the Beatles have beaten the Doors to become the second inductees into the 100% fan-voted Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame.
In their brief history together, no group single-handedly changed music — and the culture around them — as frequently or as much as the Beatles. To this day, they remain the most talked-about, written-about and influential rock band the world has ever seen.
The group’s recorded output is incredible in terms of sheer numbers (more than 200 recorded songs in eight years, plus four films and hundreds of concerts), diversity (everything from ballads to avant-garde) and — most importantly — quality. Even most of their very few detractors will grudgingly rattle off a handful of their favorite Beatles songs.
Source: Ultimate Classic Rock
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The late Beatles star's 'Bag One' collection of lithographs will be shown Friday through Sunday at Westfield Century City mall.
The Beatles were getting very near the end when John Lennon, in league with his wife, Yoko Ono, turned his attention to climbing another creative ladder — this time as a visual artist.
Early in 1970, he made his gallery debut with "Bag One," a collection of 15 lithographs — a handwritten poem and 14 drawings, eight of them sexually explicit — that celebrated his love for Ono and were drawn around the time of their nuptials in 1969.
Source: Los Angeles Times
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