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The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years
by Doug Collette
The BeatlesEight Days a Week: The Touring Years (2 DVD Deluxe Edition) Universal Music Group 2016 Even with an almost immediately coincidental announcement of home video release in the early fall of 2016, Ron Howard's Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years elicited a response so great on its initially limited theatrical showings, the film compelled subsequent extended runs. And rightly so, for the former TV star and renowned director's film contains a mix of ...
Continue ReadingThe Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl
by Doug Collette
In casual talk and conversation now some half a century since the explosion of their popularity, the Beatles can seem a quaint phenomenon from the Sixties. But such a notion disappears when their music is playing as is the case with The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl. A companion piece to Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years, the Ron Howard film devoted to their years on the road, this audio title is a modified and expanded ...
Continue ReadingEleonora Bagarotti: 4 Ever – John Paul George Ringo
by Alberto Bazzurro
4 Ever--John Paul George Ringo Eleonora Bagarotti 313 Pagine Vololibero L'idea era decisamente golosa, invitante: seguire il percorso dei quattro Beatles anche al di là (quantitativamente anche molto al di là) della vita del gruppo. Le cose, lungo le trecento pagine che compongono il libro, non vanno poi sempre secondo le attese. Vediamo in che termini, seguendo la stessa scansione del testo. John: Si parte bene, prendendo la storia dall'inizio, ma poi ...
Continue ReadingThe Beatles: 1+
by Doug Collette
The Beatles 1+ Apple 2015 The passionate scholarship devoted to the Beatles' archival projects is an accurate reflection of the continuing resonance of the cultural paradigm shit they ignited some fifty years ago. For the 1+ DVD/CD package, masterful technical expertise (including upgrade to the CD originally issued in 2000) combines with a rigorously academic attention to detail enclosed in the hardbound book, all of which underscores with the labor of love approach only genuine ...
Continue ReadingBeatles, Oscars, Grammys & Overachieving: The Best Cliché Ever, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
by Carl L. Hager
So... the awards season is over. From the Golden Globes to the Grammys, the Winter Olympics to the Oscars, it's been a long and winding road. Among people competing for the various honors and annual awards, one of the more popular topics of conversation was: OK, let's say I am the winner--what then? Good question. Of those who believed they deserve the recognition (which is all of them) only those who had previously received one of ...
Continue ReadingThe Beatles: Mostly McCartney
by Michael Ricci
EMI was nice enough to send me every reissued Beatles release in 2009 which led to this ultimate playlist of mostly Paul McCartney led tunes. TrackNameTimeArtistAlbum1Good Day Sunshine2:09The BeatlesRevolver2Norwegian Wood2:04The BeatlesRubber Soul3Eleanor Rigby2:06The BeatlesRevolver4Love You To2:59The BeatlesRevolver5Michelle2:42The BeatlesRubber Soul6When I'm Sixty-Four2:37The BeatlesSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band7Here Comes The Sun3:05The BeatlesAbbey Road8Baby You're A Rich Man3:01The BeatlesMagical Mystery Tour9The Fool On The Hill2:59The BeatlesMagical Mystery Tour10Yesterday2:05The BeatlesHelp!11Dear Prudence3:55The BeatlesThe Beatles (White Album) [Disc 1]12Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da3:08The BeatlesThe Beatles ...
Continue ReadingHow Jazz May Have Influenced The Beatles
by AAJ Staff
Introduction A publication from the French general knowledge “Tu Sais..." book series ("You Know..."), entitled “Tu Sais... Jazz," contains a final chapter on rock bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It states that both the Beatles and the Stones “knew and loved old jazz and blues." From Paul McCartney's long familiarization with George Gershwin and other jazz composers to Brian Jones' affection for “trad" jazz--Mick Jagger once described him as “an old Traddy"--jazz in various ways was ...
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