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Every Friday at 4 PM Eastern, The Beatles Channel has an 8 Songs A Week countdown featuring songs voted on by listeners. On October 5, the countdown will double in size and feature the top 16 Beatles songs featuring John Lennon as lead vocalist. (John was born October 9, 1940.) You can vote once a day through September 28. Do it!
8 Songs A Week: Vote for the best Beatles songs with John Lennon on lead vocal
http://blog.siriusxm.com/8-songs-a-w...loses-9-28-18/
Sun Records sent out disc jockey copies of Carl Perkins' Born To Fall in December 1956 and the song appeared on Perkins' 1957 Dance Album. The Beatles performed the song during their ill-fated New Year's Day 1962 audition for Decca and recorded it on September 3 1963 for episode 15 of the BBC's Pop Go The Beatles, which aired three weeks later.
The Beatles Channel just played Ringo's version of Born To Fall from his 1981 Stop & Smell The Roses album. Paul produced the track and played bass and piano. Linda McCartney sang backup and Lloyd Green played pedal steel guitar. (Green has released 17 albums and 24 singles and played on more than 6,000 recording sessions. He'll be 81 next month and still does occasional session work.)
Here is Ringo's Born To Fall:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aF2sLzLGqpk
This now-76-year-old ex-Beatle continues to put out good rock'n'roll albums -- and the writer of love songs such as Something and I Will continues to come up with a few surprises. In one song on Egypt Station he asks, "Who cares what the idiots say? Who cares what the idiots do?" In another song, which he told the BBC refers to Donald Trump's belief that global warming is a hoax, he sings, "Despite repeated warnings of dangers up ahead, the captain won't be listening to what's been said.....Despite repeated warnings from those who ought to know, well, he's got his own agenda and so he'll go....."
Egypt Station is number one on this week's Billboard album chart. Sir Paul, your fans obviously still love you. Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Egypt Station becomes Paul McCartney's first number-one album in more than 36 years
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/othe...pXdt?ocid=AMZN
Six CDs and an audio-only Blu-Ray disc! The original mono mix and new stereo and multi-channel mixes! More than a hundred demos, alternate takes and acoustic versions! A 164-page hardbound book! Oh boy! But I notice the article doesn't tell us the retail price.......
The Beatles' 50th anniversary 'White Album' remix and expanded box set due November 9
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...v-9/ar-AAACHgV
60 Minutes is not a 60-minute program. Several of those 60 minutes are taken up by commercials. Be that as it may.....
Paul McCartney speaks with 60 Minutes
Just a few weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' 'White Album,' McCartney speaks candidly with Sharyn Alfonsi as he prepares to tour for his new album, Egypt Station. Sunday, September 29 at 7:30 PM ET and 7 PM PT on CBS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-mc...th-60-minutes/
Giles Martin, son of Beatles producer George Martin, hosted an invitation-only event yesterday at Capitol Records in Hollywood. He played several demos and outtakes from the upcoming 50th-anniversary boxed set -- but, for obvious reasons, not all 107 tracks. A 30-minute version of Helter Skelter was omitted from the boxed set and that's fine with me. I don't think I could stand to listen to a 30-minute version of Helter Skelter.
Beatles' 'White Album' outtakes get Hollywood premiere at Giles Martin-hosted event
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/othe...GGN0?ocid=AMZN
Emerick, who became an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios when he was only 15 and didn't remain an assistant for very long, won Grammy awards for his work on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road and Paul McCartney's Band On The Run.
Geoff Emerick, Beatles' chief recording engineer, dies at 72
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/...ad-1202966681/
Ain't That A Shame, a 1955 hit for Fats Domino -- and, yes, also for Pat Boone -- was the first song John Lennon learned to play. The Beatles Channel just played Paul McCartney's version from his Снова в СССР ("Back In The USSR Again") album which was released in the Soviet Union in 1988 and worldwide in 1991. Nick Garvey, former member of the Motors and Ducks Deluxe, plays bass guitar. Here is the song -- hurry and listen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzA6cfb727k
Next month, two of Paul McCartney's albums from the early 1970s are being re-released as an 11-disc set. I'm guessing nine of those CDs contain alternate takes and demos that were not worth releasing in the early 1970s but are being released now so Sir Paul can make lots of money off fans who want everything he ever recorded. Anyway, to help promote the boxed set, Paul today released a home recording of Dear Friend, a song which appeared on the 1971 album Wild Life. The recording is embedded -- is that the right word? -- in this story:
Paul McCartney shares John Lennon-inspired Dear Friend ahead of Wings album archive release
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...id=AMZN#page=2
The Beatles Channel just played the Steve Miller Band's My Dark Hour. The song stalled at #126 in July 1969. It featured Paul Ramon on drums, bass and background vocals -- but why would The Beatles Channel play it? Unless.....unless.....hey, wait a minute, I think I know who "Paul Ramon" really is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCH7iG5Iuzc
Sir Paul was planning to do eight shows in the US next year. Now he'll do 12, with the addition of Arlington, Green Bay, San Diego and Los Angeles.
Paul McCartney adds additional dates to his Freshen Up 2019 US tour
https://www.capitolrecords.com/paul-...2019-u-s-tour/
https://www.paulmccartney.com
#FreshenUpTour
Considering John Lennon died in 1980 and George Harrison died in 2001, I suppose any Beatles reunion in 2018 would be "mini," wouldn't it, Mr. Headline Writer? Doy!
A mini-Beatles reunion! Ringo Starr, Ron Wood join Paul McCartney on stage in London
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...5JLq?ocid=AMZN
Emma Stone, who won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award in 2017 for her portrayal of aspiring actress Mia Dolan in La La Land, stars with Paul McCartney in a new video for Who Cares, a song from Paul's Egypt Station CD. The video is.......strange. Hurry and watch!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7WOb6ePqjIE
Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison are cooperating with Jackson on this project, which will disprove the public perception that the Beatles were "at each other's throats" prior to their break-up.
Peter Jackson to spearhead new Beatles in-studio film drawn from Let It Be footage
Los Angeles Times, Jan 30 2019 10:05 AM
Beatles fans have two cinematic deliveries coming their way. In the pipeline is a long-awaited restoration of the 1970 film Let It Be, which will follow an entirely new film being assembled by New Zealand director Peter Jackson from rare and never-released images and clips.
Jackson's film has not been titled and no release date has been unveiled but it will draw from the same 55 hours of footage of the Beatles in the recording studio shot 50 years ago this month by English director Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the film that became Let It Be, which documented the group's creative process in the final months of their professional lives together. "The 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us ensures this movie will be the ultimate 'fly-on-the-wall' experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about," Jackson said. "It’s like a time machine transports us back to 1969 and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together."
The announcement, released today on the 50th anniversary of the group's famous rooftop concert above their Apple offices in London, stated that a restored version of Lindsay-Hogg’s long-out-of-circulation film will be released after Jackson's. Jackson will work with producer Clare Olssen and editor Jabez Olssen, his collaborators on the World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...130-story.html
Here is some news that Beatles fans will really get a bang out of. And as soon as I wrote that line, I regretted it.
Big Bang Theory cast and creator featured on new SiriusXM series 'Big Bang Beatles'
Billboard, Feb 4 2019
Beatles fans are getting a little something special on SiriusXM's The Beatles Channel through Thursday, February 7, courtesy of a group of primetime TV Beatlemaniacs. "Big Bang Beatles” features four cast members from CBS' long-running smash sitcom The Big Bang Theory – Jim Parsons, Mayim Bialik, Simon Helberg and Johnny Galecki – along with the show's creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre. The quintet will be playing DJ, choosing their favorite Beatles tunes and talking about them.
“When we came back this season at the first table read, Mayim Bialik came over to me and said, 'Oh my God. SiriusXM has this brand new station about the Beatles and I've been listening to it and it's just great,'" said associate director Gay Linvill, who describes herself as a huge Beatles fan. She asked Bialik if she'd be interested in doing the station's 'My Fab Four' feature, where celebrities make a playlist of their favorite Beatles tunes. “'Oh my God, I'd love to do it,” Bialik told Linvill. "I called Lou Simon, who's an old friend of mine and oversees the Beatles Channel and asked him if he might be interested in various cast members doing a 'My Fab Four' and he jumped at it," Linvill said. Simon suggested doing a special program.
Simon confirmed today that the channel will air more of the commentaries recorded with the cast members and Lorre: “They did so many for us I couldn't use them all in the first show. So I used about half of them, leaving me enough content to create a second show. I'm going to hold that until the spring. "
The “Big Bang Beatles” series runs until Thursday on SiriusXM's The Beatles Channel (Channel 18). The remaining broacasts are Tuesday, February 5 at 11 AM ET and Thursday, February 7 at 12 PM ET. The show can be heard free on demand on the SiriusXM app.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/c...-sirius-series
Flannery was a business partner of Brian Epstein, whom he had known since childhood. His autobiography Standing In The Wings: The Beatles, Brian Epstein & Me was published by The History Press in 2013.
Joe Flannery, 'secret Beatle' who kickstarted the band, dies at 87
Flannery was the Beatles' booking manager in 1962-63.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...t-battle-band/
I'm getting a headache thinking about the possibility of Christopher Cross attempting to sing Helter Skelter – but these shows should be really good.
Micky Dolenz, Todd Rundgren, Christopher Cross among artists taking part in Beatles 'White Album' tribute tour
https://www.945bayfm.com/micky-dolen...-tribute-tour/
Slacker Radio has a really fun channel called "Covered: The Beatles" which features – well – cover versions of Beatles songs. You can find the channel at https://www.slacker.com/genre/themes and here is what was just played:
Come Together - Michael Jackson (UR/1988, B/1992)
Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth Wind & Fire (9/1978)
Helter Skelter - Aerosmith (UR/1975, LP/1991)
Helter Skelter (Live) - U2 (LP/1988)
Hey Bulldog - Toad The Wet Sprocket (LP/1997)
I Am The Walrus - Oingo Boingo (LP/1994)
I Want To Hold Your Hand - Al Green (--/1969)
It's All Too Much - Journey (--/1976)
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (--/1981)
Lady Madonna - Fats Domino (100/1968)
Magical Mystery Tour - Cheap Trick (UR/1986, LP/1991)
Taxman - Junior Parker (LP/1970)
Two Of Us - Aimee Mann/Michael Penn (LP/2002)
Yesterday - Marianne Faithfull (--/1966)
You Won't See Me - Anne Murray (8/1974)
You Won't See Me - Dar Williams (LP/2005)
Spanish-born painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso died April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France. He was 91. Just before he died, he poured a glass of wine for his friend Armand Antebi and said, "Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more." Those were Picasso's last words.
In 1973, actor Dustin Hoffman challenged Paul McCartney – who had said he could write a song about anything – to write a song about Picasso's last words. Paul wrote the song and recorded it with his band Wings for the Band On The Run album. The Beatles Channel just played it. Here is Picasso's Last Words:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6JY0EeM5Q
At 11 AM July 7, Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara, Edgar Winter, Nils Lofgren, Sheila E, Jim Keltner, Ed Begley Jr. and other celebrities will be at the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood to celebrate Ringo's 79th birthday. Come on down!
Ringo Starr's 2019 'Peace & Love' birthday celebration to take place July 7 in L.A.
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-...on-to-tak.html