Articles tagged "beatles"

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20 Beatles Buried Treasures

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Nov.09] :. A list of the nearest things in the most overexposed catalogue in the history of popular music to “deep tracks”.

Re-Meet the Beatles: PopMatters Salutes the Still Fab Four

 

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Re-Meet the Beatles - Five Decades of the Fab Four

by PopMatters Staff

[3.Oct.09] :. Pitch Deadline: 5 October 2009 Final Deadline: 19 October 2009 Contact: Bill Gibron and Stuart Henderson Email: bgibron AT verizon.net / gibron AT popmatters.com / henderson AT popmatters.com On 5...

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‘Beatles: Rock Band’ will please please you; on flip side, it’s too short

by Eric Gwinn [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[9.Sep.09] :. “The Beatles: Rock Band” brings the band’s music to life in a novel way. You have to perform to hear the music, and this interaction deepens your connection to the music. Playing...

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At Radio City, Paul and Ringo together again

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[6.Apr.09] :. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sang “With a Little Help From My Friends” into the same microphone as part of their most significant collaboration in decades Saturday night at New York...

PopWire

 

Books Review

Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out by Gordon Thompson

by Christel Loar

[19.Dec.08] :. This book is one of the most thorough, as well as one of the most entertaining and engaging, treatises on the topic yet written.

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Music Review

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...

 

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.

 

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 the...

 

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...

 

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 ad...

 

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.