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By George, he's done it

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Thu, 31 May 2012 01:58:00 +0000

Last year, Martin Scorsese released his documentary film George Harrison: Living In The Material World, which traces the life of the late George Harrison, from his early days growingup in Liverpool; to his life with the biggest pop band the world has ever seen, The Beatles; through to his post-Beatle solo career and eventual death in 2001. Read More - TODAYonline

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Badfinger’s Joey Molland Talks Gibson Guitars, The Beatles and the Making of Straight Up

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Thu, 31 May 2012 01:57:00 +0000

At the turn of the ’70s, no band was better poised to carry on the mantle of The Beatles than Badfinger. Releasing a flurry of power pop gems – “Come and Get It,” “No Matter What,” “Baby Blue” and “Day After Day” – Badfinger seemed a sure bet for a lengthy, glorious future. As rock fans know all too well, however, the band’s career was cut short in horrific fashion. Victimized by allegedly corrupt management, the group split in 1975. Tragically, two founding members – Pete Ham and Tom Evans – ultimately took their own lives. [read more]

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Yoko Ono discusses presenting John Lennon's artwork in Oak Brook - chicagotribune.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Yoko Ono was an established artist before she met John Lennon, but 31 years after her husband's murder, her career runs on two tracks: managing Lennon's work with and apart from the Beatles and pursuing her own idiosyncratic muse.Read More - chicagotribune.com

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Olivia Harrison: George Harrison Hologram for Beatles Reunion Never Happening - Spinner

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:41:00 +0000

Don't you wish the Beatles could reunite? So do we, but that would be impossible. However, since Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre performed alongside a projection of Tupac at the Coachella Music Festival last month, bands have been flirting with the idea of bringing their dead brethren back on stage. Read More - Spinner

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What's On - Yoko Ono

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:00:00 +0000

“It’s no accident that the Smile project, a major element of the exhibition, is part of the London 2012 Festival because it is very much about the transmission of positive energy through something as simple as a smile.” The project, currently titled smilesfilm, is an interactive library of people’s happy expressions that Ono has been working on since the 1960s. Read More

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Walsh marvels at life on ‘Analog’ - Toronto Sun

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Mon, 28 May 2012 20:03:00 +0000

As the veteran singer-guitarist nears his 65th birthday, he has more than ever to celebrate: Love and family, hard-earned sobriety, and the arrival of Analog Man, his first album in two decades. “It’s like a whole new life,” marvels Walsh from his Los Angeles home in an exclusive Canadian interview. “I’m healthy. I’m positive. I’m happily married. I’m playing well. I’m really in a creative phase. And I’m really grateful for all of it. Basically, I’m back and I’m OK. That’s the message.” Read More - Toronto Sun

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'Revolver: How The Beatles Reimagined Rock 'N' Roll' - TheCelebrityCafe.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:23:00 +0000

When it comes to the Beatles, it's hard to call any single one of their 13 regular studio albums underrated or under appreciated. All of them sold millions of copies when they were first released and they remain among the most beloved albums of all time. Many consider 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the apex of their career. Read More - TheCelebrityCafe.com

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The Teddy Boys are back; BritBeat takes Beatles fans to The Cavern via Abbey Road on the River [Music] - Louisville.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Originally thought to be lost, the original recording of Love Me Do took place June 6, 1962 at 3 Abbey Road, the time period when the Fab Four roamed The Cavern Club in Liverpool and donned the rebel, Teddy Boy look. By 4 September, Ringo joined The Beatles and a second version was recorded at EMI. Abbey Road on the River organizer, Gary Jacob, asked the lads in BritBeat for a small favor, if you will; recreate The Cavern on stage. Read More - Louisville.com

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'Baby's in Black': heart-tugging graphic novel about the Beatles - The Seattle Times

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:55:00 +0000

The story that follows is well-known. The hip German art students expose the lads to existentialist cool and they swap their Elvis haircuts and leathers for turtlenecks and Parisian-style moptops (but not before Kirchherr snaps some historic photos in all their greaser glory). They get tossed out of the country on visa violations; Sutcliffe quits the band to study art; the boys return, with Paul McCartney switching from guitar to bass; Sutcliffe and Kirchherr get engaged; then Sutcliffe, who has been experiencing severe headaches, suddenly dies of an aneurysm. Read More - The Seattle Times

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Bob Gruen captures the immortals of rock - CBS News

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:52:00 +0000

"I've been with a lot of photographers where you just want to run out of the room. You just don't want to be in front of their camera," said singer Debbie Harry of Blondie, who met Gruen in the early '70s. "And with Bob it's just, you know, Bob's here! Read More - CBS News

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Fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe’s old Huyton school Park View saved - Liverpool Echo

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:55:00 +0000

It states that “parents expressly stated that they would explore other places available rather than take up the places offered at Roby Park”. It notes that the parents’ stance could pose a threat to Roby Park “over time if preferences were exercised for community reception places in Liverpool”. Read More - Liverpool Echo

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Paul McCartney

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:47:00 +0000

1971 was a god awful time for music. Acoustic guitars weren’t so much machines to kill nazis as instruments utilised by entrepreneurs hiding behind beards. The pervasive sound of sunshine folk was a prefab sunshine used to power a malignant, corporate agenda, duplicitously simulating a naive hippy dream the protagonists knew had died a death at the end of the 60s. Read More - The Quietus

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Lavish photo book brings back memories of The Beatles - MiamiHerald.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:44:00 +0000

If every photographer is forever linked to one picture, Harry Benson — who has photographed presidents, movie stars and Robert Kennedy’s assassination, among other things — knows precisely what will define him. Read More - MiamiHerald.com

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Limited Edition Print Folio for The Beatles 1968 Cinematic Masterpiece,Yellow Submarine - Dark Hall Mansion Blog

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:49:00 +0000

Dark Hall Mansion is thrilled to finally unveil a project that has been in development for over one full year: the first officially licensed, limited edition print Folio for The Beatles 1968 cinematic masterpiece, Yellow Submarine. [read more]

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Harrison's haunting melodies

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:04:00 +0000

Guitarist Harrison, who died of cancer at 58 in 2001, was often referred to as the quiet Beatle. But on this 10-track collection of demos from throughout his solo career - which was put out in conjunction with the DVD release of last year's Martin Scorsese documentary George Harrison: Living In The Material World - his spirit rings loud and clear. [read more]

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Abbey Road on the River adds Jefferson Starship to Beatles-focused festival - courier-journal.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:02:00 +0000

Paul Kanter was at ground zero. The San Francisco native had co-founded Jefferson Airplane in 1965, and that band and the Grateful Dead were the leading lights on the city’s vital music scene. Like most, Kanter followed the Beatles’ growth with interest. Read More - courier-journal.com

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Beatles' 'Abbey Road on the River ' Music Fest - Louisville this weekend - Examiner.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:03:00 +0000

The world's largest Beatle inspired festival will return to Louisville, KY this weekend, May 24th - 28. In it's 11th year, thousands will once again flock to Belvedere Festival Park and The Galt House to release their inner Beatle. As a special treat, rock-n-roll Hall of Fame band Jefferson Starship will perform a tribute to the Beatles on Saturday, May 26. Read More - Examiner.com

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The Rarest, Most Desirable Book By John Lennon Comes To Auction

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:54:00 +0000

"We're all in a bag, you know?...I was in a pop bag, going round and round, in my little clique. And she was in her little avant-garde clique, going round and round. So we just came up with a word. If you'd ask us what Bagism is, we'd say, 'We're all in a bag, baby'" - John Lennon, Avant-Garde, March 1970.Read More - BOOKTRYST

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Lost Beatles and Rolling Stones images on display for Hollywood fundraiser - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:52:00 +0000

That photographer was Bob Bonis, the band's U.S. tour manager from 1964 to 1966, and on this sunny afternoon in May 1965, Richards and Jagger would lay down a riff that eventually spawned "Satisfaction." Richards, Jagger, Brian Jones and Ian Stewart had been busy grooming their band's persona as unruly, unkempt youth – the brazen, sex-driven antithesis to those other crossover British rockers, the Beatles – and gave full access to Bonis and his camera. Read More - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

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Paul and Linda McCartney: Ram - The A.V. Club

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000

The degree to which rock critics hated 1971’s Ram—the first and only official collaboration between Paul McCartney and his wife Linda—is hard to overstate. In today’s terms, it would be like the guy from Train making a record with Kreayshawn, only the guy from Train would have to be a genius responsible for the greatest music of the previous decade—or any decade, really, in modern music history. And the record they made together would have to be misunderstood as terrible, not have terribleness hard-wired into its genetic code. Read More - The A.V. Club

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Slideshow: Ringo Starr attends flower show, remembers Bee Gee Robin Gibb - National Beatles Examiner.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:29:00 +0000

Ringo Starr, attending the celebrity preview for the annual Chelsea Flower Show, paid tribute to the late Robin Gibb and the Bee Gees in talking to reporters on Monday. "God bless him and God bless his family," Starr was quoted by CBS News. "The Bee Gees from our era were quite important, especially the harmonies. Read More - Examiner.com

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How Abbey Road on the River comes together [Music] - Louisville.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:12:00 +0000

There will be a total of 10 stages this year. Five outdoors stages will be on the Belvedere and three inside the Galt House. AROTR also will use two stages on Fourth Street Live! in Hard Rock Café and one in the street on Friday, May 25 for a free lunchtime concert (this year is the second the festival has hosted concerts at Fourth Street Live!, last year was the first). Read More - Louisville.com

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John Lennon book plates auctioned

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:44:00 +0000

Featuring a photo of Lennon taken by Robert Freeman, the book included an introduction by Paul McCartney detailing how the band first got together in Liverpool and contained Lennon's short stories, poems and line drawings, often surreal, whimsical and nonsensical with the Beatle using free association and improvisation. Read More - UK News

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Bono Denies That He Is the Richest Rock Star in the World - Vanity Fair

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:58:00 +0000

Following a flurry of reports stating otherwise, U2 front man Bono has denied that he will become the world’s richest rock star thanks to his company’s 2.3 percent stake in Facebook, whose debut on NASDAQ today was the third largest initial public offering in United States history. Read More - Vanity Fair

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Feds threaten to disrupt summer concerts - Washington Examiner

noreply@blogger.com (admin@beatlesnumber9.com) — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Lawmakers are scrambling to save the summer concert season from federal agents poised to seize the instruments of rock and country stars because the wood used to make them may have been illegally harvested--and without their knowledge. Read More - Washington Examiner

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