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Billboard Changes Up Charts to Reflect Catalog Titles, Folk Music
Recent changes to Billboard charts will soon give both Michael Jackson and Ani DiFranco some overdue recognition.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGeorge Harrison Song Completed Over 40 Years Later
Liverpudlian songwriter Dean Johnson recently received the honors of completing an unfinished George Harrison song nearly 40 years after its inception.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBeatles Albums Come Together on Special USB Drive, Out in December
Four decades of rock ‘n’ roll greatness, and it’ll all be the size of your thumb. That’s the thought behind Beatles in Stereo, the first legal degital version of The Beatles’ catalog to be released. Containing all 14 albums and 13 mini-documentaries, the release will come in the form of a USB thumb drive shaped appropriately like an apple.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Beatles' Backbeat Biopic to be Adapted for Stage
Backbeat, a 1994 big-screen biopic of the Beatles' formative years, is being adapted for stage by Ian Softley, the writer/director of the original. Currently in production, it's planned to go up at Glasgow's Citizen Theatre in February of next year.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch The Baseball Project Cover the Beatles With a Little Help From Bill Berry and Mike Mills
Baseball, the pass time of America, is a whole lot of fun. It's only fitting, then, that the Baseball Project, the pass time of some of America's finest rockers, is a total party. The Baseball Project is a comprised of Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon of Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Scott McCaughey of Minus 5 and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. The band was created around its members' undying love of, yes, baseball. One song on The Project's album Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails is even called "Ted Fucking Williams."... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPaul McCartney Says Good Evening New York City With Upcoming CD/DVD
Fans of the New York Mets bid a tearful farewell to their beloved Shea Stadium this summer as it was turned into a parking lot for the adjacent Citi Field, now the team's home turf. They had a little help in drying those tears, though, from one Sir Paul McCartney who christened the stadium with a sold-out series of concerts (on the very ground where The Beatles once performed their legendary 1965 concert). Couldn't be there? You're in luck: McCartney has just announced the Nov. 17 release of a CD/DVD live album, titled Good Evening New York City.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsTwenty Ridiculously Literal Album Covers
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Found in: Blogs, List of the DayChuck Klosterman Takes on the Beatles Reissues
This is the fairly uncontroversial start of a news item about Chuck Klosterman. A review of the new Beatles reissues anthology penned by him went up today at The Onion's A.V. Club. This follows his protracted absence (which probably has a lot to do with his forthcoming book Eating the Dinosaur) after his 1700-word screed/review of Chinese Democracy.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsThe Beatles: The Long and Winding Repertoire
From California to Canterbury, England, the 1960s were a period of great musical innovation... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsBeatles Manager Brian Epstein Gets Film Treatment
Producer David Permut (Youth in Revolt, Charlie Bartlett) has acquired the script for A Life in the Day, about Beatles manager Brian Epstein.... read more
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