Saturday, November 8, 2008

Ringo

Beatles game a good idea?University of Connecticut Daily Campus Thu, 06 Nov 2008 7:13 AM PSTLast week, MTV, Harmonix Music Systems and Apple Corps. LTD. announced that a partnership has been formed to create a video game based on the music of the legendary British rockers, The Beatles. The game, which is scheduled for a late 2009 release, will have input from the two remaining Beatles - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr - as well as Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison.

George

Talk Of The Town: The more you listen to George Harrison's solo work the more you hear the line back to the SixtiesIndependent Fri, 07 Nov 2008 4:26 PM PSTHaving seen the Beatles' Love show in Vegas this summer – and it is unremittingly fabulous – the release of a DVD documentary about its creation was always going to find a permanent home in the Jones household. And, perhaps surprisingly, the DVD – Altogether Now – is as enjoyable and as uplifting as the show itself. There is also a 20-minute extra feature that charts the reworking and splicing ...
Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles ChordScience Daily Thu, 30 Oct 2008 7:16 PM PDTIt's the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison's 12-string guitar: the opening chord to the Beatles song "A Hard Day's Night." Now, a researcher has used a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve the Beatles' riddle. The process allowed him to decompose the sound into its original frequencies ...

Beatles

Rare Beatles film of '64 Kansas gig sells for $6,600Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 04 Nov 2008 3:46 PM PSTRare film footage of an unscheduled concert by the Beatles in Kansas City during their first U.S. tour 44 years ago fetched 4,100 pounds ($6,600) when it went under the hammer on Tuesday.

Paul

Sir Paul Mccartney - Mccartney To Voice Shrek 4 CharacterContactMusic Sat, 08 Nov 2008 6:19 AM PSTSIR PAUL MCCARTNEY is reportedly set to test out his vocal skills on film - by voicing a new character in SHREK 4. The former Beatles star will lend his voice to a ...

When we were BeatlemaniacsThe Record Mon, 03 Nov 2008 6:11 PM PSTWhen Paul McCartney wrote “When I’m 64” half a century ago, he was a 16-year-old lad who couldn’t possibly have imagined how incredibly famous he’d become.
FotostreckeHannover Allgemeine Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:24 AM PSTBRITAIN BEATLES Paul McCartney, left, and John Lennon of The Beatles in a previously unreleased photograph during the recording of the track "Hey Bulldog" at the Abbey Road studios in London on Feb. 11, 1968. "Hey Bulldog", a Lennon and McCartney composition was recorded from scratch in just 10 takes and was to later form part of the Yellow Submarine soundtrack album.

John

Yoko Ono hopes Beatles video game will inspire new generation of fansNew Kerala Fri, 07 Nov 2008 7:47 AM PSTWashington, Nov 7 : John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has welcomed news that the Beatles' music is to be featured on an MTV video game with the hope of inspiring a whole new generation of Fab Four fans.
John Lennon: The LifeThe Christian Science Monitor Fri, 07 Nov 2008 3:57 AM PST“You see, part of me is a monk and part of me is a performing flea,” explains John in Philip Norman’s splendid biography John Lennon: The Life. But the duality doesn’t end with that of quiet intellect/rowdy rock’ n’ roller.

Digital Media Academy Jumps On Board as a Sponsor of the John Lennon Educational Tour BusPRWeb Wed, 05 Nov 2008 9:15 AM PSTPhil Gibson, founder of Digital Media Academy, and Brian Rothschild, Executive Director of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, announced a strategic partnership for 2009. The Lennon Bus, a non-profit state-of-the-art mobile audio and multimedia studio, will host Digital Media Academy's instructors at industry events, schools and other venues, where previews of the classes taught in their ...
Digital Media Academy Jumps On Board as a Sponsor of the John Lennon Educational Tour BusPRWeb via Yahoo! News Wed, 05 Nov 2008 8:00 AM PSTPhil Gibson, founder of Digital Media Academy, and Brian Rothschild, Executive Director of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, announced a strategic partnership for 2009.
Beatles videogame: Yoko Ono speaksEntertainment Weekly Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:14 PM PSTBy Shirley Halperin While insiders mull the Beatles' digital future, John Lennon's widow tells EW exclusively that she's ''very excited'' about the band's forthcoming videogame

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Beatles

A piano gave uniqueness to the Beatles' Hard Day's Night's opening chordNew Kerala Sun, 02 Nov 2008 5:55 AM PSTWashington, November 2 : A Dalhousie University mathematician has a mystery as to why the opening chord to The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" is completely different than anything found in the literature about the song to date.

John

Review of John Lennon: The LifeThe Record Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:12 PM PDTMost of us prefer to remember John Lennon as the dippy utopian of "Imagine." Less remembered is the Lennon of "Run for Your Life": "Well I’d rather see you dead little girl/Than to be with another man."
'IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE SHARING ALL THE WORLD'The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star Sat, 01 Nov 2008 9:53 PM PDTThe definitive biography of John Lennon has arrived

Paul

Get involved...Sunday Mail Sun, 02 Nov 2008 2:30 AM PSTPAUL McCartney stared out over the stunning landscape of the Mull of Kintyre and took a decision that would change the course of pop history - he was going to break up The Beatles.
Music Review: Wings - Band On The RunBlogcritics.org Sun, 02 Nov 2008 5:39 AM PST35 years on. Perhaps Paul McCartney's finest post Beatles album. Thirty five years ago the final touches were being made to the latest Wings album. By 1973, and since becoming an ex-Beatle, Paul McCartney had already released four albums. First there was McCartney in 1970. This was followed by Ram the following year. 1971 also saw Wings make their debut with Wild Life. Red Rose Speedway ...
The Anti-Hit ListToronto Star Sat, 01 Nov 2008 1:42 AM PDTUnlike the first two albums by the odd couple of Paul McCartney and Youth (a.k.a. Martin Glover, formerly with influential U.K. band Killing Joke, and co-producer of the Verve's Urban Hymns ), their first release in a decade veers away from electronica into harder guitar music with vocals.