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Beatles News
Just back from another well-received round of shows with the All-Starr Band, Gregg Rolie continues working on a new solo release — the Santana/Journey co-founder’s first since 2011.
Rolie posted a new photo with Frenchie Smith and Sean Rolie, taken at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Texas, as they were “finishing mixes on new material.”
Austin-based Smith has worked as producer with the Toadies, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, and the Meat Puppets, among others. The younger Rolie, who engineered this time, also produced 5 Days, Gregg Rolie’s most recent EP of songs.
Meanwhile, Rolie says that touring with Ringo Starr was “too much fun for anyone to have.” This year’s edition, which included Toto’s Steve Lukather and Todd Rundgren, among others, toured last summer and then again in February and March.
“Had a blast as always with these guys,” Rolie adds. “I’m up for this anytime or anywhere. details
The Beatles’ acclaimed 2003 album, Let It Be… Naked, makes its global digital debut today exclusively on the iTunes Store® (www.itunes.com/thebeatles). In addition to the 11-track album, the iTunes LP features all of the original booklet art and liner notes, as well as bonus audio of studio banter captured during The Beatles’ 1969 recording sessions forLet It Be. Music videos for the ‘Naked’ versions of 'Get Back' and 'Don’t Let Me Down' are also exclusively available on iTunes for download purchase and free streaming.
Taking the listener into the band’s initial session takes for Let It Be, recorded primarily at Apple Studio in January 1969, Let It Be… Naked is the stripped-down, return-to-live-takes album details
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The news that former La’s bassist John Power will play John Lennon in a musical about the Beatles legend came as something of a surprise to those of us who remember his days fronting cosmic scallies Cast.
Cast were an enjoyable, if never essential, spoke in the Britpop wheel and at the time I fell hard for their brand of dope- fuelled guitar pop. They certainly won over the public too, with every single the band put out a dead cert for the top ten.
Power’s certainly got a head start on most other contenders courtesy of a definite physical likeness and the same nasally vocals. He even went to the same school as Lennon but as I’m sure he’ll find out, portraying any of the Fab Four is not that easy.
If Power’s looking for advice he could do far worse than asking fellow Liverpudlian Ian Hart for some tips. Hart, better known to the younger generation as Quirinus Quirrell in the first Harry Potter film, has played Lennon twice on screen and has recently signed up for a third crack at portraying Liverpool’s favou details
The nine-foot 1877 Steinway grand piano that sat for years in Motown Studio B in Detroit, Michigan, was returned to Hitsville USA, and reassembled in Studio A by Steinway technicians, after a complete restoration at the company's factory in New York.
Paul McCartney helped fund the restoration of the piano after he visited the museum in July 2011, and learned that it could not be played. Last fall, Paul was the first to play the newly restored piano with Motown founder, Berry Gordy Jr., at a special event at Steinway Hall in New York City.
The piano needs to sit for two weeks before it can be tuned. The Steinway company will send someone out to tune it, and it will be ready for the public to view on April 25th--Esther Gordy Edwards Community Day, an annual event honoring the founder of the museum on her birthday. Esther was Berry Gordy Jr.’s sister.
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Paul McCartney and Julian Lennon have posted public comments on the passing of producer/engineer Phil Ramone.
On his website and Facebook, McCartney said, "Phil was a great friend of mine for many years. We first worked together when I recorded 'Another Day' in New York at A & R Studios. He was a very sweet man who combined this with expert knowledge of both engineering and production. I'll always remember him as a great friend that I knew, loved and admired over the many years that we worked and played together."
Lennon, who worked with Ramone on his first two albums, said on Facebook: “I'm deeply saddened to hear the news of my dear friend and first ever producer, Phil Ramone's, passing. My heart, of course, goes out to all of his family and friends. Phil, we were just getting to know each other again. I'm going to miss you.... As will countless others…You were one of the best... Always will be... x”
The record, The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) was signed by all four band members, and said to be in extraordinary condition.
Perry Cox, a well-known Beatles memorabilia expert (and top-rated eBay seller), was quoted in the Heritage auction listing, saying; "With my being thoroughly immersed in Beatles collectibles for over 30 years, it takes something extraordinarily special to excite me, but I consider this to be one of the top two items of Beatles memorabilia I've ever seen - the other being a signed copy of Meet The Beatles."
According to Heritage's auctioneer, the sale had set a new record (beating a previous price in the $190,000 range which happened through a private sale) when the price soared beyond its $30,000 estimate, and way-past another (similar) $31,000 sales attempt we tracked back in 2010.
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Though it was their eighth studio album, many consider Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be The Beatles best. Many als details
On Tuesday, July 9, Paul will play Boston's Fenway Park, returning by popular demand for the first time since his August 5 & 6, 2009 shows set the record for the highest ever two-day concert attendance in the history of the storied ballpark.
Tickets to Paul McCartney's historic return to Fenway will be on sale beginning Friday, April 5 at 10 a.m. at livenation.com or redsox.com. American Express® Cardmembers can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Tuesday, April 2 at 10 a.m. through Thursday, April 4 at 10 p.m.. All times Eastern Standard Time.
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As ever, Paul McCartney's "Out There" tour will feature hours of material from the most beloved catalog in popular music, with Paul performing songs spanning his entire car
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Phil Ramone has died at age 79. Ramone, a 14-time Grammy winning producer and engineer, produced Julian Lennon's first two albums, "Valotte" and "The Secret Value of Daydreaming", as well as co-producing Ringo Starr's "Time Takes Time" album, and producing several Paul McCartney tracks, including "Only Love Remains" and "Spies Like Us", as well as mixing the "Ram" album.
The humble yellow door that once served as the entrance to the McCartney family home at 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool is for sale. Paul’s family used the door daily from 1955 to 1964, and it’s thought that over 100 of the Beatles’ early songs were written behind it.
The McCartneys left the house in 1964 and the property was taken over by Sheila Jones--who, during her time there, acted as an unofficial Beatles ambassador to fans who came from around the world to visit the home.
But in the late Seventies, Mrs. Jones decided to have the house refurbished and got rid of all of its doors, window fittings and tiles.
The door's current owner, Glen South, bought it from her through a mutual contact.
Auctioneer Chris Albury, who is handling the sale of the door at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Gloucestershire, has given the door an estimate of between £3,000 and £5,000 or $7,600 US.
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Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame says that as a member of Ringo's 2001 All-Starr Band, he learned that there was a lot more to the man than he expected.
“It was quite an extraordinary experience, partly because he wasn't the person I was expecting. He's a lot better player than I really thought,” Lake says. “He's a very disciplined person. You only have to listen and focus on the drum parts in the Beatles and hear that they're all flawless. But he's very disciplined. Even with my music, he would keep on and on and on until it was absolutely right.”
“I saw then the effect he must have had in the Beatles was very similar. He was quite a perfectionist. That was something I didn't realize about him. He's got this wonderful feel. He's an amazing person.”
The Los Angeles house where George Harrison wrote “Blue Jay Way” has sold for $3.8 Million.
As George told the story: “Derek Taylor got held up. He rang to say he'd be late. I told him on the phone that the house was in Blue Jay Way… So I waited and waited…To keep myself awake, just as a joke to pass the time while I waited, I wrote a song about waiting for him in Blue Jay Way. There was a little Hammond organ in the corner of this house [which George was renting] which I hadn't noticed until then... so I messed around on it and the song came.”
The single-family home is spread across an area of 4116 square feet sitting on a 0.4 acre lot. The residence has three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
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Paul McCartney says that while his perspective has changed since, he and the other Beatles were "cheesed off" by Yoko Ono's presence at Beatles recording sessions.
Paul tells Q Magazine: "Because we'd been such a tight-knit group, the fact that John was getting pretty serious about Yoko at that time, I can see now that he was enjoying his newfound freedom and getting excited by it. But when she turned up at the studio and sat in the middle of us, doing nothing, I still admit now that we were all cheesed off. But looking back on it - [Yoko and I] have talked about this - I think she realises it must have been a shock for us. But lots of things that went down were good for us, really. At the time, though, we certainly did not think that."
An original stereo copy of “Please Please Me” sold for 7,552 pounds, or $11,500 US—50 years to the day the record was released.
Presented in a frame with a set of autographs on a magazine page featuring the Fab Four, it was one of 280 lots of Beatles memorabilia being offered in an anniversary sale at Omega Auctions in Stockport, Lancashire, about 40 miles east of Liverpool. According to the company, the buyer was based in the UK.
The auction’s other stand-out result was the 27,140 pounds given for a collection of 64 color slides of the Beatles taken in August 1964 by Robert Beck.
The buyer was a prominent South American collector of Beatles memorabilia, based in Washington D.C., who also owns John Lennon’s Oscar for “Let It Be,” Omega Auctions said.
Musician John Power is set to play John Lennon in a new musical. Power – guitarist in the La's and singer in the group Cast – will make his theatrical debut in Rob Eaton's musical Lennon at the Royal Court Liverpool. The show follows Lennon's life from his childhood in Liverpool through to his later years in New York. Power will play the role of the older Lennon – who acts as the show's narrator. Having grown up in Penny Lane himself, Power went to the same schools as John (Dovedale and Quarry Bank).
As many as 40 songs are featured in the show, including 'All You Need Is Love', 'Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds', 'In My Life', and 'A Hard Day’s Night', and John’s own, 'Imagine'.