Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
By: Will Harris
Given how long they’ve been performing, it sometimes feels as though the Smothers Brothers have always been around, but they actually ended up taking an unexpected (and undesired) break in 1969 when their CBS variety show, “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” caused so much controversy that the brothers were unceremoniously fired by […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Talkin’ Peace and John With Yoko Ono
Marissa Moss
Much has happened since John Lennon recorded “Give Peace a Chance” 39 years ago with new bride Yoko Ono in a Montreal Hotel Room, during their “Bed in For Peace.” Presidents have come and gone, wars lost and won, and no one’s talkin’ much bout Timmy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Tommy Cooper, Derek Taylor […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Leven John Lennon verfilmd
Het leven van John Lennon wordt verfilmd. Dat meldt het filmvakblad Hollywood Reporter. De regie is in handen van Sam Taylor-Wood, onder meer verantwoordelijk voor de erotische kunstfilm ‘Destricted’.
De naam van de film is ‘Nowhere boy’, een kennelijke verwijzing naar de Beatles-hit ‘Nowhere man’. De producent is het Britse Ecosse Films. Het is nog niet […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Hey Jews!
By DAVID HOROVITZ Jerusalem Post
A semi-serious A to Z set list for Paul McCartney’s Tel Aviv show next month.
In the mid-1960s, the family story goes, my mother took my very young sister to see The Beatles live at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Both today acknowledge they heard no music at all, only adulatory screams from the […]
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Now that’s what we (still) call music
(The album cover for the 2nd volume series (including Paul McCartney’s Pipes Of Peace).
Source: The Independent
The ‘definitive’ pop compilation’s 70th volume has become a surprise bestseller on iTunes. Tim Walker revisits the hits of a lifetime
Somewhere at the bottom of a box in the attic is your very first Now! compilation, chock full of what […]
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The Paul McCartney Israel concert in the online press
To gave the fans an impression on how much the press did write online about the Paul McCartney Israel gig, I do post a handfull of big news links that have been posting the same news (mostly the same text by the associate press): CNN,Reuters, Yahoo.com, Uncut.co, The Celebrity Cafe.co, The Canadian Press, NME.com,Telegraph.co, […]
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Hal Bruce Inducted To International Beatle Week Hall Of Fame
International Beatle Week Hall Of Fame Inductee
Hal Bruce
Liverpool, England - August 2008
Hal Bruce, full-time musician/singer and world traveler from Nova Scotia has just been inducted to the International Beatle Week Festival “Hall Of Fame” at the Inaugural Ceremony in Liverpool, England.
Hal is the only North American performer to ever receive such an award. The […]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
FabFour Festival - Nashville
[ October 25, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:00 pm. ] The greatest Beatles fans in the world will be in Nashville, Oct. 24-25 for the Fab Four Festival 2008 at the Cannery Ballroom, www.mercylounge.com
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
FabFour Festival Nashville
[ October 24, 2008; 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] The greatest Beatles fans in the world will be in Nashville, Oct. 24-25 for the Fab Four Festival 2008 at the Cannery Ballroom, www.mercylounge.com
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
FabFour Festival Nashville
[ October 23, 2008; 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] The greatest Beatles fans in the world will be in Nashville, Oct. 24-25 for the Fab Four Festival 2008 at the Cannery Ballroom, www.mercylounge.com.
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Paul McCartney gig revives Israeli Beatles tale
By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer
An upcoming concert by Paul McCartney has revived memories of the 1960s, when an Israeli official supposedly called off a Beatles concert for fear it would corrupt the nation’s youth.
The episode is often fondly quoted as a relic of a long-lost Israel where the public’s innocence needed protecting.
Trouble is, […]
