Pages tagged “the beatles”

George 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

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Beatles 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

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The Beatles' Backbeat Biopic to be Adapted for Stage

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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

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Watch 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

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Paul McCartney Says Good Evening New York City With Upcoming CD/DVD

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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

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Twenty Ridiculously Literal Album Covers

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Chuck 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

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The Beatles: The Long and Winding Repertoire

From California to Canterbury, England, the 1960s were a period of great musical innovation...  read more

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Beatles Manager Brian Epstein Gets Film Treatment

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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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Robert Zemeckis and Disney to Remake Yellow Submarine...in 3D

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In a rather unexpected move, Robert Zemeckis has signed on to remake the Beatles' trippy 1968 film, Yellow Submarine, as a 3D performance capture film with Disney, scheduled for release in 2012....  read more

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