Here is a very cool commercial for the new Beatles Rock Band music video game. Some of the shots are from 1970 and others from 2009.
It’s great to see the joy and happiness on their faces, even though you know it was their last album together.
Can you guess which shots are new and which are old?
Walrter Cronkite, the last of the great (in my opinion) television newscasters, died last Friday at age 92. At his peak, more than 20 million people tuned into watch the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. He was an anchor back when anchors were superior journalists first and foremost, long before they were “pretty faces” or “talking heads” or “personalities.”
Those of us with enough seasoning probably remember his nightly coverage of the Viet Nam war and his reportage of the Kennedy assassination. And who can forget the unabashed joy that overtook him during the moon landing, one of he few times he let emotion intrude upon objective reporting.
Conkrite’s last news broadcast was March 6, 1981. Here is a tribute/spoof Johnny Carsondid about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrP5FLOszyM
Recently in Rolling Stone Magazine, Bob Dylan mused that he would someday like to write some songs with Paul McCartney.
Well before you could say “These times they are a changin” Paul responded that he would be up for it, any time at all.
Rumor has it that the pair are going to meet up this summer and spend a couple months writing songs and putting together an album. And they’ll get a little help from their friend, a drummer named Ringo Starr. Which means it will be all the surviving Beatles and Dylan together. It’s getting better all the time.
You may not have heard of Jack Lawrence. But you probably heard his songs. One of them, “Tenderly”, launched the career of Rosemary Clooney. Another, “Beyond the Sea” was the breakthrough hit for Bobby Darin.
Lawrence died last Saturday. He was 96.
Interestingly, he wrote a song at the request of a buddy of his, attorney Lee Eastman. The song was called “Linda” in honor of Eastman’s daughter. Years later, she ended up marrying Beatle Paul McCartney.
McCartney later bought the publishing rights to the song about his wife. It’s part of the MPL portfolio of songs.
You can learn more about Jack Lawrence here!
source: newstimes.com
Steven Lightfoot has been preaching the conspiracy gospel about John Lennon’s murder almost as long as the former Beatle has been deceased. He claims he has evidence Stephen King shot Lennon. However, most of his theory seems to be centered on an idea that Lennon’s real assassin kind of
resembled King around the time of the shooting.
Read the full story here!
source:pollstar.com
A brand new MA in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society has been launched at Liverpool Hope University and is the first MA of its kind in the World.
The new course, which can be studied both full- and part-time, covers four modules with specific issues relating to The Beatles and Popular Music, consisting of four 12-week taught modules plus a dissertation.
Read the full story here!
source: beatlesnews.com
Linda McCartney Foods launches updated branding and packaging this week, designed by Irving, with direction from former Beatles band-member Sir Paul McCartney.
The new packaging features the tagline “Food to come home to,” created by Paul McCartney, and photography by the McCartneys‚ daughter Mary. The redesign comes just two years after a full revamp by Made Thought.
Read the full story here!
source: mad uk
BONUS! Learn the bass guitar from Paul McCartney!
The Brickyard Crossing Inn is the old motel on the grounds of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In a December it was announced that the inn would close and be demolished. The Beatles took quiet refuge there one weekend in September 1964 when they played two shows at the Indiana State Fair.
Read the full story here!
source: indy star
In an article about Silicon Valley on Forbes.com, founder and chief executive of Apple, Steve Jobs, said that early on, the mission of the company could be narrowed down to two words: The Beatles.
“When the team working on the Mac asked Jobs in 1983 for a standard they should shoot for, Jobs’ answer was simple: the Beatles. And not just the Beatles - the early Beatles.”
How great is that!
No pie charts or bar graphs or percentages. No tired phrases like “build partnerships” or “paradigm shifts” or “foster innovation” or any of the other blah-blah.
Nope.
Jobs wanted to create products that had a youthful spirit, an unerring sense of style, playfulness, joyfulness and the potential to change the world. Like the early Beatles.
That’s how he wanted to define the soul of his company.
You can’t capture that in corporate speak. You can’t build that sort of culture with a meaningless barrage of verbiage.
You can’t motivate yourself or others by stringing together a bunch of the same words you see in every annual report ever written.
You make it simple, motivating and use a cultural icon to make it easily understandable.
Yea, yea, yea.
