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Jason Falkner: Bedtime With The Beatles Part Two

by Christel Loar

[30.Jun.08] :. Billed as for sending young ears off to dreamland, Jason Falkner's brilliant reimagining of classic Beatles songs proves pleasant for infants and insomniacs alike.

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Mike McCartney launches “Liverpool Life” photography exhibit at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler [PopMatters.com]

[27.Jun.08] :. Mike McCartney, younger brother of Sir Paul McCartney and photographer extraordinaire, unveiled his photography exhibit “Liverpool Life” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on June 26. The...

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Composing The Beatles Songbook

by Marc Acherman

[9.Apr.08] :. The ghost in the Beatles musical machine is the personalities of the "something-extra" in their performance that resists transference to others.

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Old rockers go on a DVD roll

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[20.Nov.07] :. Among other accomplishments, it’s often claimed that the Beatles made the first music videos. Even before the band stopped performing live, it was filmed lip-synching and clowning around to...

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Psst, Be-a-tlemaniac: Finally, ‘Help!’ is on the way

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[24.Sep.07] :. Beatlemaniacs will, of course, rush out to see Julie Taymor’s ‘60s fantasia “Across the Universe” when it opens in local theaters. Bono as Dr. Robert declaring “I Am the...

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Disposable income: Diaper ad uses Beatles’ tune

by David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[1.Aug.07] :. I don’t know how to put an exact value on the Beatles’ 1967 song “All You Need Is Love.” I do know it’s more than whatever Procter & Gamble paid to use it in an...

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Penny Lane not cashing in on Fab 4

by Tom Hundley [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[30.Jul.07] :. LIVERPOOL, England—It was John Lennon’s street, but Paul McCartney’s song. “Penny Lane” was released as a single 40 years ago, and it heralded a new level of musical...

 

Reflections of a Renaissance Man: An Interview with Paul McCartney

by Christian John Wikane

[25.Jun.07] :. From Astaire to T-Pain, from Little Richard to de Kooning, McCartney talks to PopMatters and covers it all, including his uncertainty about what kind of send-off he'd like.

 

Macca’s coffee hangover

by Jason Gross

[6.Jun.07] :. The fact that an ex-Beatle would ditch the major label factory to pact with the world’s biggest coffee shop is definitely a sign o’ the times but as far as McCartney’s recorded...

 

‘Sgt. Pepper’ at 40: Still the brightest jewel in the band’s crown?

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[4.Jun.07] :. Pardon the obvious start, but it can’t be helped: It was 40 years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. And ever since, as even a high-schooler with a cursory knowledge of cultural...

 

Sgt. Pepper at 40, from A to Z

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Jun.07] :. It was 40 years ago today -- to be precise, June 1, 1967, in Britain, a day later in the former colonies of America -- that the Beatles changed the world.

 

Beatles on iTunes a ‘nonevent,’ analysts say

by Ben Charny [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[12.May.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO - Despite signs that Apple Inc. may land a historic deal with the Beatles to make the band’s entire catalog of music available on its iTunes store, analysts say that such a move...

 

The Beatles and Philosophy by Michael Baur and Steven Baur [Editors]

by Zeth Lundy

[12.Apr.07] :. Perhaps Lennon's pop-song gibberish happens to have a fluke connection with Hindu philosophy, but it seems irresponsible to make intentional bedfellows of the two.

 
 
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