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HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED THE KREMLIN: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:44:00 +0000

Leslie Woodhead made the first-ever film with the Beatles in 1962 at the Cavern Club in London. The award-winning documentarian was a Cold-war era spy who became fascinated with the Beatles influence on Soviet kids during his time in Russia.

HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED THE KREMLIN: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution (Bloomsbury; April 30) is the well-researched, irresistible story about how the Beatles and their music swept through the Soviet Union and played a part in helping to destroy Communism, guided by Russia’s ultimate rock guru Artemy Troitsky, along with a gallery of characters from Moscow to Vladivostok. The book includes 8 never before seen photos of the Beatles, taken by the author.

“So I found myself in that Liverpool pub with the fledgling Beatles.

They were funny and approachable…We chatted for a while, and Paul told me,

‘We've written all these songs but nobody really wants to hear them.’”

–Leslie Woodhead, How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin

Soviet leaders had suppressed most Western popular music since the jazz age, but the Beatles and the bands they inspired in the USSR prepared millions of fans for a new world. By stealth, by way of whispers, through secret bootleg tapes or illicit late night broadcasts, the kids tuned in. "Bitles," they whispered, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.”

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Yoko Ono, David Bowie & Neil Young get MTV O Award nominations

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:43:00 +0000

Four veteran artists join a raft of younger singers and bands (and cats) as nominees for the 6th Annual MTV O Music Awards. Yoko Ono is up for the Digital Genius Award, arguably the most important in this show that relies heavily on digital and social media. Read More - Music-News.com

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Beatles' ‘Help’ Coming to Blu-ray Disc

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:13:00 +0000

The 1965 film from director Richard Lester features band mates John Lennon, Paul McCarthy, George Harrison and Ringo Star, and assorted British character actors, in a farcical story involving religious cults, a mad scientist and London police. The movie also includes classic Beatles songs, “Help!,” “You're Going to Lose That Girl,” “You've Got to Hide Your Love Away,” “Ticket to Ride,” “I Need You,” “The Night Before” and “Another Girl.” Read More - Home Media Magazine

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Yoko Ono Gives Peace With Paul McCartney a Chance

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:23:00 +0000

In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, John Lennon's widow said, "He was very sweet to say that, and he probably needed closure to say that. That's why he couldn't say that until now. He knew me--we knew each other for 30, 40 years or something--but there was no way to say anything like that because people just liked the idea that we were fighting like crazy in a boxing ring." Read More - Yahoo! Music

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45 Years Ago: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Appear on ‘The Tonight Show’

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:06:00 +0000

After their February 1968 trip to Rishikesh, India failed to provide the spiritual enlightenment they sought, the Beatles turned in the opposite direction, towards business matters. A few months later, the company they decided to form in the wake of manager Brian Epstein’s death was ready to launch. In mid-May, John Lennon and Paul McCartney flew to New York to promote Apple Corps. ...Read More...

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Ex-Lennon, McCartney band members join in special tribute to Wings

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:22:00 +0000

The “Birds of Paradox” album features Gary Van Scyoc (bass, vocals) and Adam Ippolito (keyboards, vocals), who played with John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory Band, on Yoko Ono recordings and with artists including Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Paul Simon, Keith Moon and Mick Jagger. Read More | Examiner.com

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Yoko Ono: Being a Beatle wife is harder than being married to a politician

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:14:00 +0000

However, even though she will always be known as Lennon’s widow, she has refused to be defined by what could be seen as a somewhat morbid status 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. Read More - Telegraph

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Talking To Vivek Tiwary About Beatles

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:10:00 +0000

I wanted to actually start off a little bit by asking you, because, you have such actually have quite a bit of history with rock music with American Idiot and everything like that. Is there something about rock music that draws you to this, or what was it about the Beatles story that made you want to do this? Read More - Bleeding Cool

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Nowhere Man John Lennon’s not-another-love-song was meant for the studio

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 14 May 2013 01:59:00 +0000

By the time the album was recorded in 1965, The Beatles were using multi-track recording to create music that was impossible to re-create on stage. It’s no wonder The Beatles began to dislike touring. They couldn’t get their music across the way it was recorded. Read More - Oye Times

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John Lennon was planning to return to UK

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:30:00 +0000

John Lennon's childhood pal Joe Flannery has revealed that the late singer was looking forward to returning to Britain before he was murdered in December 1980. Flannery, now 81 used to handle the Beatles bookings and also made his house a base-camp for Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best after gigs when it was too late for them to return to their respective homes. Read More - The Times of India

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Ringo Starr Fast Facts

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:26:00 +0000

"Free as a Bird" wins two Grammy Awards for Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal and Best Music Video-Short Form and "The Beatles Anthology" wins one for Best Music Video. Read More - CNN.com

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Paul McCartney Posts Footage of Onstage Grasshopper Invasion in Brazil

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:44:00 +0000

McCartney has posted a high-definition video of his encounter with the insects. The 70-second clip shows the rock legend singing the Beatles classic “The Long and Winding Road” as the flying critters land on his piano, his microphone and all over Sir Paul himself. ...Read More...

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The Beatles’ long-ago secretary tells (almost) all in Good ol’ Freda

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Sat, 11 May 2013 01:29:00 +0000

For 50 years, Good ol’ Freda has kept quiet about her time with the band, rejecting numerous opportunities to satisfy the hunger for insider Beatle info. But when life circumstances led to a change of heart, she approached a family friend who she knew made documentaries. Los Angeles-based Ryan White was skeptical, and surprised. To him, Kelly was his aunt’s friend who was working as a secretary at a law firm. Yes, in Liverpool – but the Beatles? Read More - The Globe and Mail

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Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Paul McCartney supergroup was mooted

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:16:00 +0000

Beatles aide Peter Brown replied on McCartney's behalf, telling Hendrix the following day that McCartney was on holiday in Scotland and not expected back for another two weeks. It was at a time when McCartney's band, The Beatles, were falling apart because of artistic and financial disputes. Read More - Telegraph

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Back In the U.S.S.R.: The Obsolete Beatles

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:38:00 +0000

The next time someone who's too "cool" to "get" the Beatles asks what makes them so important, ask that person what's so great about his or her nose. First, if you're lucky, you'll be treated to an entertaining look of befuddlement. Then, when you're done being amused by that, avoid launching into a diatribe about the Beatles' production values or how they introduced Eastern instruments or drug culture to rock music, blah blah blah. Read More - Rocks Off

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John Lennon's Ferrari to be sold at Goodwood

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000

Lennon bought the car – which is finished in Azurro Blue – on the day he passed his driving test in February 1965. At the height of "Beatlemania", news that Lennon had passed his test spread rapidly and his home in Weybridge was besieged by luxury car dealers displaying their wares. Read More - Telegraph

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Yoko Ono cuts the ribbon on European John Lennon Educational Tour Bus

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:57:00 +0000

Sprightly octogenarian Yoko Ono Lennon cut the ribbon yesterday on the new John Lennon Educational Tour Bus at a ceremony held at the Museum of Liverpool located at Pier Head, Merseyside, England. Built by Ketterer Spezialfahrzeuge AG, a specialist Karlsruhe-based bespoke motorhome manufacturer, the 12-metre-long coach will provide a further musical base of operations for an organisation that has dedicated itself for the past decade to promulgating John Lennon’s dream of “sharing all the world.” Read More - Examiner.com

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Beatles’ former secretary has fab tales in Good Ol’ Freda

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:14:00 +0000

Some amazing archival footage aside, there isn’t much more to Good Ol’ Freda than a rather endearing interview with a Liverpudlian grandmother. The subject? The work she once did for her old friends John, Paul, George, and some guy called Richie. “She can’t break the habit,” filmmaker Ryan White tells the Straight in a call from Los Angeles. “At the Q & As she always has to remember to tell the audience that she’s talking about Ringo.”Read More - DOXA 2013

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Rolling Stones Sax Man's Wild Life Story Optioned for Documentary

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:09:00 +0000

Independent producer Scott Putman and director-producer Jeff Stacy have secured rights to saxophonist Bobby Keys' rollicking, addictively readable biography Every Night's a Saturday Night: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys, and intend to release a feature documentary in 2014. ...Read More...

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Yoko Ono launches John Lennon education bus in Liverpool

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000

The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus was launched at the Museum of Liverpool yesterday and the former Beatle’s widow - the patron and major sponsor of the project - was guest of honour. The bus, equipped with the latest studio equipment, is designed to give young people across Europe the chance to try their hand at music and the creative arts. Read More - Liverpool Echo

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43 Years Ago: The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ Album Released

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:58:00 +0000

‘Let It Be’ was supposed to be the album that would bring the Beatles back together. After an increasingly fractious couple of years that culminated in 1968’s self-titled (‘White’) album, which was basically four solo records for the price of a double LP, the four Beatles holed themselves up in London’s Twickenham Film Studios, and then at Apple Studios, during the first month of 1969 to re-spark their dying flame. No outside visitors, no BS — just four guys hanging around playing music. Just like the old days. They called it ‘Get Back.’ ...Read More...

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Paul McCartney Plays Unexpected Beatles Songs On World Tour Opener

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:40:00 +0000

McCartney opened his set with "Eight Days A Week," a song he hasn't dusted off since the Beatles played it for the one and only time back in 1965. He also gave a rare work-out to "We Can Work It Out", which hasn't been included in his set since his 2004 show at Glastonbury festival in the U.K. Read More - Billboard

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1963: the Beatles and Bob Dylan revolutionise music

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:19:00 +0000

Based on the British singles chart in January 1963, you would have got long odds on the coming year being a revolutionary one for pop. Arguably the most innovative record it has to offer is by, of all people, Rolf Harris: Sun Arise, on which producer George Martin, in a precursor to the kind of experiments he would indulge in later in the decade, employed eight double bass players to mimic the sound of a digeridoo. Somewhere at the lower end of the top 20, there are flickers of something happening; the Beatles are singing Love Me Do and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound is arguably reaching its zenith on the Crystals' peerless He's a Rebel. But they are easy to miss amid the glut of MOR crooners – Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, Mel Torme, Frank Ifield yodeling his way through Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues – and the sound of the Joe Loss Orchestra. Read More - The Guardian

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Julian Lennon 'Lookin' 4 Luv' video released

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Tue, 07 May 2013 02:47:00 +0000

The pop ballad is an ode to searching for love in all the wrong places. Similar to lead single "Someday" featuring Steven Tyler, Julian takes the listener on a journey perfectly emoted by his understated vocal and soaring piano-driven production. Watch the thrilling video below and fall in love, with love. Read More - News.com

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Paul McCartney sings unperformed Beatles tracks on tour

noreply@blogger.com (David Holmes) — Sun, 05 May 2013 15:21:00 +0000

Sir Paul McCartney gave his first ever live rendition of a selection of classic Beatles tracks at the opening night of his world tour in Brazil. The singer performed tracks such as Your Mother Should Know and Lovely Rita on the first night of his Out There tour in the city of Belo Horizonte. Read More - BBC News

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