The BEATLES

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Loved it on Colbert when Paul pulled out his cellphone to show the cover with him and his 8 grandchildren! Photo is circa 2015. His oldest grandson is now 20.



Nancy

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Sept. 26th

www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ringo-starr-and-paul-mccartney-reunite-at-abbey-road-to-honor-50th-anniversary-of-beatles-album/ar-AAHWncH

I received my 50th Anniversary deluxe set on the 27th and it is fabulous! Two CDs are various takes of the songs with lots of funny in-studio banter between the Beatles.

Nancy

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Paul and his wife Nancy today in Paris at his daughter Stella’s fashion show.



Nancy

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I don't know much about Nancy, but she seems a major improvement over the last one.

On an entirely different *note* -
something for the ultimate (and OUTRAGEOUSLY WEALTHY) Beatles' fan.

Steering even further afield from its initial politically charged entries, Russian design house Caviar has ventured into pop cultural waters. The company’s latest specialty iPhone takes a celebratory approach to the work and legacy of the Fab Four. It’s called the iPhone 11 Pro Superior The Beatles.

Caviar’s latest closely follows the release of the company’s Steve Jobs phone. Like the Jobs phone, the techy communicative Beatles homage does incorporate a quasi-religious artifact of personal clothing—or, rather, four of them—into its build; as in the Jobs entry, the historical embellishment is a peculiar form of authenticity, but a form of authenticity nonetheless. And, like the Jobs entry, this Caviar item errs mainly on the side of tasteful.

The case is also embossed with the group’s Abbey Road walk in silhouette (if you look closely, you can just make out Ringo’s schnoz) along the edge of a record. The suggestion of motion is intended to ‘spin’ the record. But it might also symbolically suggest circumnavigation. The significance is, of course, the fact that an appreciation of the complex but infectious music of the group is a common denominator for much of the world.

The iPhone 11 Pro Superior The Beatles is priced from $11,290.

"from"! they had to say "from" - there must be a deluxe version!

More photos

It looks very nice, but I'll pass.

Let me know if you get one (and where you bought the winning lottery ticket).

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Very cool though! Thanks for posting!

Nancy

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When the Beatles Walked Offstage:
Fifty Years of “Abbey Road”
By Jonathan Gould - October 21, 2019

In the spring of 1969, Paul McCartney telephoned George Martin to ask if he would be willing to work with the Beatles on a new album they planned to record in the months ahead. Martin, who was widely regarded as the most accomplished pop-record producer in the world, had overseen the making of all nine albums and nineteen singles that the Beatles had released in Britain since their début on E.M.I.’s Parlophone label, in 1962. His reputation was synonymous with that of the group, and the fact that McCartney felt a need to ask him about his availability dramatized how much the Beatles’ professional circumstances had changed since the release of the two-record set known as the White Album, in the fall of 1968. In Martin’s view, the five months of tension and drama it took to make that album, followed by the fiasco of “Get Back,” an ill-fated film, concert, and recording project that ended inconclusively in January, 1969, had turned his recent work with the Beatles into a “miserable experience.”

“After [‘Get Back’] I thought it was the end of the road for all of us,” he said later. “I didn’t really want to work with them anymore because they were becoming unpleasant people, to themselves as well as to other people. So I was quite surprised when Paul rang me up and asked me to produce another record for them. He said, ‘Will you really produce it?’ And I said, ‘If I’m really allowed to produce it. If I have to go back and accept a lot of instructions that I don’t like, then I won’t do it.’ ” After receiving McCartney’s assurance that he would indeed have a free hand, Martin booked a solid block of time at Abbey Road studios from the first of July to the end of August.

Thus the stage was set for the Beatles’ tenth studio album, named after the labyrinthine recording complex in North London’s St. John’s Wood that had served as the site of their greatest musical triumphs. Though the tracks from the “Get Back” project, retitled “Let It Be,” would be released later, in the spring of 1970, “Abbey Road” was the Beatles’ last word—the final recordings by the most popular and influential artists of the nineteen-sixties. Now, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, “Abbey Road” has been expertly remixed by Giles Martin, George Martin’s son and protégé, and reissued in a super-deluxe edition that comes with an archive of studio outtakes and a hundred-page book of essays and liner notes that chronicle how the recordings were made. “The Beatles are good even though everybody already knows that they’re good,” the classical composer Ned Rorem observed in 1968, alluding to how the band’s immense popularity confounded the usual notions of discriminating taste. If anyone needs to be reminded of this, this new edition of “Abbey Road” should do the trick.

Full article

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I recently got the Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Edition:
www.amazon.com/Abbey-Anniversary-Blu-ray-Super-Deluxe/dp/B07VLMMG28/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CFWBVZ6Z1QS&keywords=abbey+road+50th+anniversary+edition&qid=1572370556&s=music&sprefix=Abb%2Caps%2C165&sr=1-1

2 of the CDs are alternate takes with studio banter - love it!!

Nancy

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Pic of Paul arriving at London’s Heathrow airport Nov. 29th: (mighty fine looking 77 year old!)



Nancy

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Dec 8, 2019 11:43:53 GMT -5 njr said:

It is a day forever seared in my memory.

“Dear Friends. Every day, 100 Americans are shot and killed with guns. We are turning this beautiful country into a War Zone. Together, let’s bring back America, the green land of peace.”

Ono shared a statistic that revealed over 1,400,000 people have been killed by guns in America since Lennon’s death.

Ono added: “The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 39 years, Sean, Julian and I still miss him. Imagine all the people living life in peace.”

Full article
There's a nice "through the years" video.

Imagine Peace Tower (mentioned in the article)



225,000 people - Central Park - Dec. 14, 1980

As with Peter, it makes me sad to think of all the music we did not get to hear. 

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Plus, John was going to tour in 1981! He was the only Beatle I never got to see in concert. 😢

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Paul on Dec. 9, 1980:

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George and Ringo's handwritten lyrics to The Beatles'

'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' are for sale

By Leah Asmelash, CNN, Sat January 11, 2020

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a legendary song off The Beatles' ninth album. And now, a piece of it could be yours.
The song's handwritten lyrics are up for sale. Asking price: $195,000.
The lyrics are scrawled on the back of a studio recording sheet, used to account for the time and cost of a recording session.
George Harrison's handwriting bookends the lyrics, writing in a blue pen at the top of the paper, "I Look at You all see the love there thats sleeping — While my guitar gently weeps."

Full article

Time to crack open the piggy bank!

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Yeah, right! BTW, the rest of the handwriting is Ringo’s!

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“John Lennon: The Final Year” documentary

www.yahoo.com/entertainment/john-lennon-final-doc-explore-180211725.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cDovL20uZmFjZWJvb2suY29t&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANFaiWAP0aMxA7gbq4E5LugYaMguQyChAnGeIM7ZjPENR0PBH5EWKGbd2zPeDCLTdZYFVyvYTIOULpmCPkblROXpRAY67KOWDPCJPx5GURFhyHqO9WjM05kiOFdfiKxmNo3aHn0c7kog2SJus0DbbO6wBnQpBopvNoMtJp6iEJBv

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Beatles Fans all over the world —- you’re invited to the Virtual Fest
For Beatles Fans - BEGINNING THIS FRIDAY! #LetItBeatlefest!

a VIRTUAL FEST for the original dates, March 27-29 so we don’t miss a beat! You can look forward to a weekend of live streamed Beatles performances by our Special Guests and Apple Jam performers! And presentations by our Guest Authors and Beatles Experts and more! Tune in to Facebook.com/beatlesfest and Instagram @beatles_Fest to be all together now in these socially distant times.

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Mar 25, 2020 17:40:17 GMT -5 JH4HJ said:

Beatles Fans all over the world —- you’re invited to the Virtual Fest
For Beatles Fans - BEGINNING THIS FRIDAY! #LetItBeatlefest!

a VIRTUAL FEST for the original dates, March 27-29 so we don’t miss a beat! You can look forward to a weekend of live streamed Beatles performances by our Special Guests and Apple Jam performers! And presentations by our Guest Authors and Beatles Experts and more! Tune in to Facebook.com/beatlesfest and Instagram @beatles_Fest to be all together now in these socially distant times.

I got the email about this because I went to the 2019 Chicago fest. My friend was going to go to the one in NJ that was postponed, but was able to just switch her tickets to the Chicago one in Aug. Hope it still goes on.

This is hysterical!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQwEXNRVWWQ&t=17s&app=desktop

Nancy

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