Would you be willing to fork over $2500 of your hard earned cash to prove it? Medicom teamed up with Silly Things and Kidrobot to create beautiful blue versions of Paul, John, Ringo and George. Each version stands at 27 inches tall, and personally I think the Ringo one is the best! This is a limited edition run and can only be bought as a set.I have always been a big fan of vinyl collectables, ...
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Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has revealed his former bandmate Paul McCartney has contributed vocals to the lead single from his new album ‘Y Not‘.Discussing the collaboration on the track, which is titled ‘Walk With Me‘, Ringo said: “I played him this track and Paul said, ‘Give me the headphones. Give me a pair of [...]
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While innovation is important to help push music forward, it is ultimately less important than elusiveness.One of the most enduring Beatles legacies is the myth of innovation. Briefly stated, the myth of innovation suggests that the Beatles remain important to the history of music because of the innovation that went on in their music. I want to briefly outline the enduring legacy of this myth a...
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Jai guru deva om ... Does NASA hope that these soothing lyrics by Paul McCartney and John Lennon are going to prevent an alien invasion? In an unprecedented event, today, Monday, February 2nd, 2008 at 7PM EST, NASA will beam the Beatles' song "Across the Universe," literally across the universe to Polaris. A trip that will take the MP3 some 431 years to reach the North Star, 2.5 quadrillion mil...
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Tagged as the "world's most famous drum skin," the drum skin featured on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt Peppers album sold for $1.1 million, or the price of a really nice house. Also selling for the price of nice house ($834,000,) were handwritten John Lennon lyrics for "Give Peace a Chance."According to auctioneer Christie's the lyrics were given to comedy writer Gail Renard, who in 1969, at ...
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Mark 9/9/09 in your calendars as Beatles Day. First there's the release of "The Beatles: Rock Band," and then the culmination of four years of remastering the band's entire catalogue - 14 albums - at the Fab Four's trademark Abbey Road Studios in London. Talk about an awesome job - geeking out to Beatles recordings for 1460 days. (Sign me up!) September 9th, 2009 will see the release of each of...
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Last week, General Motors finally declared bankruptcy. Many in government thought $20 billion in taxpayer dollars would save the company, but as predicted, it only postponed the inevitable. The government will dump another $30 billion into GM and take a 60 percent controlling interest for it. Public officials are now involving themselves in tactical business decisions such as where GM's head...
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Stop everything you are doing and book yourself a ticket to New York City for April 4th. What gives? The two surviving Beatles - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will take the stage together. Before you go brushing it off as "it ain't no Beatles without Harrison and Lennon" the "one-off gig":http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/concert.html will be the first time the surviving pair have come toge...
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John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman was up for parole again this month (Crazy how someone can kill someone in the US of A and someday be released from prison.) It was Chapman's fifth time in front of a parole board. He was denied and will remain in New York's Attica Correctional Facility for at least two more years, where Chapman, now 53, has already served 28 years behind bars.While the p...
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Clips of a Scottish TV interview with the Beatles have been recovered after being forgotten for 44 years in a rusty film can in a garage in South London. It was stacked among 64 other unmarked cans and presumed lost. In the interview, recorded back in April 30th, 1964, John Lennon and Paul McCartney talk about the first time they met and how they record songs."Normally we try to sit down and ba...
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A new Beatles DVD is due on October 21st. Sadly, its not a long lost performance of the band at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, where they had a summer residency before they hit it big. Instead All Together Now, a feature length documentary following the Beatles-inspired Cirque Du Soleil show LOVE, currently playing at the Mirage in Las Vegas, will be sold exclusively at Best Buy. The docum...
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Paul McCartney has waited 42 years to drop "this bomb.":http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gTxHzz51K85a3tlLjI5HpX3WFiLQ Back in 1967 the Beatles recorded the experimental track "Carnival Of Light". Performed live only once at an electronic music festival, the track was deemed too weird and avant-garde for release by the band, who were amidst their "Penny Lane" recording session....
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It was a blast into 1967...well, sorta. Over the weekend surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr rocked on stage together for the first time since 2002. McCartney welcomed his old friend and former band-buddy as Billy Shears, creating Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band nostalgia.But sadly Starr didn't get on his drum kit till the next number. He first opted for a mic instead and sa...
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The 2,382nd star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame will go to late Beatle George Harrison. On April 14th Harrison's name will be unveiled right outside the Capitol Records building. Capitol Records being of course the band's longtime US label. Harrison's wife Olivia and son Dhani will accept the honor tomorrow. The guitarist has already been recognized with a star for his work with the Beatles. Th...
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the guru that the Beatles looked to for guidance through transcendental meditation and mysticism. The Indian yogi died overnight in his dutch home. Some say he was 91 years old, maybe older. According to a report in Reuters today, the guru taught transcendental meditation to many icons in the 60's and 70's and established universities and schools around the globe to...
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