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THE MERSEYBEAT STORY

Celebrates

‘ALLAN WILLIAMS’

80^th Birthday

(The man that gave the Beatles away)

The Grosvenor Ballroom

Liscard, Wallasey

Sunday 21^st February 2010

2-30pm to 5-30pm

LIVE MERSEYBEAT MUSIC

FROM A HOST OF BANDS AND CELEBRITIES

TICKETS £5 Tel 07976282120 or e-mail d.darroch@ntlworld.com

On sale at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton and Merseycats

Ringo Starr’s ceremony honoring him with a star for a Starr on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is coming up soon at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Capitol Records building, 1750 Vine St., Los Angeles. He published a reminder on his blog today

The 31st Beatles Unlimited Convention will be in Hilversum on April 10th.

Please find details attached:

Reisinformatie

Travel info

It a great edition with interviews with Yoko Ono, Passion Pit, No Age, Hedi

Slimane, Aziz Ansari, Peter Bjorn and John, and many more.

Letter To Jane Magazine -

http://lettertojane.com/mag/

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http://lettertojane.com/mag/issue01pdf.zip

Dear BeatlesQuarrymen Fans, dear media,

here are some great news, especially for all of you with the NTSC-TV-Standard!

At www.MediaDownloading.de and of course www.GaryLand.de.

you now can DOWNLOAD the complete film about this legendary band in 4 individual parts in high resolution. See them even today on your Computer- or TV-connected Mediaplayer!

The 4 parts are available in MPEG4-format (as a self-extracting zipfile). Size: Each of approx. 1 GB size. Depending on the speed of your internet-connection it will take some minutes up to 1 hour to download each part. When you order this Download at our shop you will receive an acknowledgement on the same day by eMail. We suggest you also check your spam folder in case your anti-spam software has blocked it! When making payment, please quote the order number you have received with our acknowledgement and specify the method of despatch: "download". We will also send you details of how to pay via the Internet into our bank account if you should wish to use this way of payment. When we receive your payment we will immediately eMail you a suitable link from which you can download the self-extracting zipfile to your computer. You are allowed to transfer the files to other media such as sticks, DVDs, blu-rays for your private use only!

Pay easy & secure by paypal!
Special Price: 3,70 EUR / each part
Special Price: 9,10 EUR / complete in one file (soon available)

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2010 is going to be great!
* Easton, Atlantic City and San Francisco coming up
* Playing The Who with some mates!
* Peekskill and New Brunswick announced

Here’s where The Fab Faux will be performing.
Don’t miss the fun!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010 – 8 p.m.
EASTON, PA
THE STATE THEATRE — 453 NORTHAMPTON STREET
A GLORIOUS HODGEPODGE of BEATLES MUSIC
Featuring the Creme Tangerine Strings and the Hogshead Horns.
Tickets on sale now!

The Fab Faux have been asked to be a part of
‘The Music of The Who at Carnegie Hall’
with many other great performing artists.
Please join us with guests to include —
Warren Haynes, The Smithereens,
Frank Black, Bobby McFerrin,
rich pagano + the sugarCane cups,
New York Dolls, Living Colour,
Bettye Lavette, Mose Allison and Willie Nile.
100% of the net proceeds from this event to benefit:
Fixing Instruments For Kids in Schools, Church Street School for Music & Art,The Pinwheel Project, Music Unites All-Youth Choir, The American Symphony Orchestra and Young Audiences New York.
www.carnegiewho.com/

Abhishek Raghunath  

The Fab Four burst onto the stage at a time when India was still trying to find its place in the world. Fifty years on their magic is still intact. Sometime in early December, a Beatles tribute band was playing at the Landmark store at the Forum Mall in Bangalore. The audience, roughly 100 people, was a motley crew: young twentysomethings, 40-year-olds with little kids and a bunch of people in their fifth decade. One couple stood out. A distinguished gentleman in old world formals and his partner in a 9-yard silk sari were rocking hard to the songs. Both were well into their 60s. They knew all the lyrics and when the band played ‘Yesterday’, the man reached out and held his wife’s hand tenderly. They were probably the only fans there who were old enough to appreciate The Beatles when they first began making music in 1960.

They weren’t a quartet then. Apart from John, Paul, George and Ringo, they also had Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bassist of the band and the one who also suggested they call themselves The Beetles. The Beatles would have been a sweet relief at that time. India in 1960 was trying to find its place in a world that was headlong into the Cold War. Pandit Nehru’s mixed economic policy was seen with distrust by the West. His opposition to the Suez Canal invasion did not help. Nehru was getting old. He had already served as the Prime Minister for 13 years. China was looking very threatening. Nehru’s attempts to maintain good relations with it while supporting the Dalai Lama weren’t working, and India would be repelling a Chinese invasion in two years. The Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan was signed in September 1960. The Shiv Sena didn’t exist. May 1, 1960 was when Maharashtra and Gujarat were created out of the State of Bombay. Famines were endemic. It’s been 50 years since then and some things haven’t changed. The country is self-sufficient in food supply, but prices are so high, most poor people still struggle to eat. India is still fighting with Pakistan, but we are on better terms with the West. China is still a threat. The Beatles broke up 40 years ago. Two of them are dead. Paul McCartney still tours the world playing music. In April 2009, he was worth $283 million. Michael Jackson’s estate and Sony BMG own the rights to a majority of the Beatles’ songs. The rights were reportedly worth $1 billion when Jackson passed away.