A 40-year-old footage of the Beatles has been uncovered, showing band members strolling around a seaside resort during the historical ‘Magical Mystery Tour’.
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By Stuart Winter
LONG after his music has faded, John Lennon’s old house is still buzzing to the sound of The Beatles… or rather beetles.
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by Christel Loar
Jason Falkner
Bedtime With the Beatles Part Two
(Adrenaline)
US release date: 17 June 2008
UK release date: Available as import
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By Derek Gentile, Berkshire Eagle Staff
LENOX — It was late in the day at Abbey Road Studios on February 11, 1963. The Beatles were wrapping up the recording of their LP “Please Please Me” for release a few weeks later. The final song was to be a cover of the Isley Brothers’ “Twist and Shout,” a high-energy number.
“(Abbey Road producer) George Martin always liked to end each side of an album with a rousing rocker,” said Jeremy Yudkin, a lecturer at yesterday’s Beatles Day in Lenox. “But Martin was a little concerned, because the band had been recording all day and John Lennon’s voice was tired.”
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Paul McCartney will perform in Israel in September and the final details are being worked out for the multi-million-dollar show, which would mark his first-ever appearance in the Holy Land. Government officials prevented The Beatles from playing there in 1965, saying the band “didn’t stand on a high cultural and artistic level and had a bad influence over youth.” Earlier this year, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, apologized to the Fab Four, saying, in part, “There is no doubt that it was a great missed opportunity to prevent people like you, who shaped the minds of the generation, to come to Israel and perform.” If the show becomes a reality, it will be held in Tel Aviv on either the 18th or 25th of September. A spokesman for McCartney tells us he has no knowledge of plans for a concert there.
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