Archive for December, 2006

Friday, December 29th, 2006

New Paul McCartney musical

Paul McCartney is at work on a stage musical drawn from his working- class childhood in Liverpool, The Sunday Telegraph of London reported.Though theaters in the West End are likely to vie to present the show, McCartney, 64, may decide to open it in Liverpool in 2008, the city’s year as European Capital of Culture, […]

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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

LOVE-Platinum in the USA

LOVE has been certified as the Beatles’ THIRTY-NINTH US Platinum album! LOVE remains at #8 on the charts, in spite of a second weeks’ gain in sales - 178,000, up from last weeks’ 152,000 - for a SoundScan total of 748,000. Since many of those copies are the CD/DVD 2-disc set, and since the Recording […]

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Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Christmas With the Fabs Audio

The Fabs have gone back into the recording studio to record their first Christmas single in 37 years, and the results are being posted on Christmas Eve at www.wecallthismusicfab.com.We Call This Music Fab is a site devoted to original music done in the style or under the influence of the Beatles. At the site we […]

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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Beatles spend Christmas at the top of European Top 100

By Paul SextonBeatles` ‘Love’ (Apple) will spend Christmas at No. 1 on European Top 100 Albums, after starting a fourth week atop the composite sales chart. It stands at No. 1 in just one individual market, Greece, but ‘Love’ also climbs back from 7 to 5 in France, from 10 to 9 in Spain and […]

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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Album cover signed by Beatles sells for $115,000

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK: An album cover signed by all four Beatles as a gift for George Harrison’s sister sold today at auction for more than $115,000.The sale, to an unidentified buyer, was believed to set a record price for a signed Beatles album purchased at a public sale, said Mark Zakarin, president of the […]

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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

‘Love’: The Beatles album is worth hearing, but not often

Album Review
By Jeffrey Lee Puckettjpuckett@courier-journal.comNo album released this year has better songs than The Beatles’ “Love,” which is kind of like saying sex is fun, but that doesn’t neccesarily mean it’s an unqualified triumph.

Father-son producers George and Giles Martin — George, of course, was The Beatles’ primary producer — took 37 songs and spliced them […]

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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Is it arise Sir Ringo?

By RAY CONNOLLY  

Lucky Beatle: Ringo Starr with his second wife, American actress Barbara Bach
He was the Beatle everyone wrote off as a joke - and nearly killed himself with drink and drugs. But today Ringo’s having the last laugh…and there’s a petition to make him a knight:
He was always considered the least […]

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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Christmas with the Beatles

By Lambert A. RamirezWhile The Beatles remains immensely popular here as evidenced by the brisk sales of the group’s latest offering, the album Love, the group is hardly associated with the Christmas season, unlike artists such as the Jackson 5, Carpenters and Ray Conniff. Today, almost every artist has a Christmas single or album out. […]

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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Mal Evans Memorial Band - De CD en meer!

December 2006

We gaan naar Minsk!Afgelopen augustus beleefden we onze internationale vuurdoop in Liverpool, maar het kan nog gekker! We zijn uitgenodigd voor The 4th International Music Festival “Beatles-Forever!” in Minsk, Wit-Rusland!!!
Dit festival werd voor de eerste keer gehouden in mei 2004 en toen bijgewoond door meer dan 3.000 mensen. Door de ruime aandacht in […]

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Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Foto impressie NS Mystery Tour

Foto’s: Henk Kleijn

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Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Paul on Dutch television

PAUL McCARTNEY’s appearance on Dutch TV a few days ago can be seen via the links on the page HEREFor those who don’t speak Dutch, the links are in BLUE in the middle column]Skip forward to 40:35 to see just PAUL’s interview, in which he mentions a tour next year!.

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