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Nicky Hopkins

February 24, 1944 was the birthdate for a great pianist,
Nicky Hopkins.
He’s recorded with all four of the Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band, Cat Stevens and Quicksilver Messenger Service.
You’ve heard Nicky Hopkins on The Beatles’ “Revolution,” The Stones “Gimme Shelter” and [...]

Julian Lennon sings tribute to Lucy

Julian Lennon is working on a new album, to be released next spring. His new company, theRevolution, has released a 4-track EP single called “Lucy,” which will raise funds for lupus research for two charities, the Lupus Foundation of America and the Saint Thomas’ Lupus Trust in Great Britain.
It’s been a decade since Julian [...]

John Lennon Remember December 8

I’m thinking of John Lennon, who would be sixty-nine years old this year, had he lived past that fateful day in 1980. Alas, we remember his fierce spirit, his satirical wit and his wonderful music. Real Love.
Peace be with you John, as we remember December 8th, the day you left this earth and [...]

Imagine John Lennon at 69

Happy birthday to the spirit of John Lennon, who would be 69 years old today. I wonder what he would be writing today? Peace be with you John, as we remember your wonderful music.
Here’s a few of my favorite Lennon links:
johnlennon.com
imaginepeace.com
lennon.net
bbc.co.uk/music/lennon
A few of my favorite fan sites:
John Lennon Imagine Peace
A Tribute to John [...]

Abbey Road Studios

It was a fantastic four-year project led by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios.
They went through the entire original Beatles catalog and digitally remastered each album for the very first time. Our original post is here.
The magic number was 09 09 09, as the entire set of remastered albums were released [...]

Recording The Beatles

There’s a couple of fantastic books that take you behind the scenes with The Beatles recording in Abbey Road Studios, and also during the making of their Sgt. Pepper’s album.
Author Brian Kehew spent years researching and putting together a new book called Recording the Beatles: The Studio Equipment and Techniques Used to Create Their Classic [...]

The Beatles Digital Remasters

We’ve been Beatle fans since the group first hit the CBS stage with Ed Sullivan in ‘64! We’re just now coming down a bit from a Paul McCartney high, after his concert last month at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
September 9th will be the very first time the Beatles catalog has been digitally remastered, [...]

Paul McCartney in Arlington, Texas

Paul McCartney and his band really pulled out all the stops to give us fans a magical mystical tour down memory lane. It was really a great show.
It’s just too bad it took place at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which is best suited to football games and not [...]

Give Peace A Chance John & Yoko

May 26, 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono flew to Montreal and stayed at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. During the next seven days, John and Yoko conducted their second famous bed-in for peace.
The couple also recorded “Give Peace a Chance” in the hotel room on June 1st. The song became [...]

John Lennon: The NYC Years

Found a new classic rock resource on Twitter! The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!! twitter.com/rock_hall
The Rock Hall Annex in New York City just opened a great new exhibit; John Lennon: The NYC Years. It captures the spirit of John Lennon as he lived and worked in NYC in the early seventies. [...]

The Beatles: Rock Band Come Together 09-09-09

Beatles Rock Band? Oh Yeah! I want one after 09-09-09, which is the new release date, according to the website thebeatlesrockband.com
It took all three of them to make it happen, but Apple Corps Ltd., MTV and Harmonix have announced the official release date for The Beatles: Rock Band on September 9th, or 09-09-09. [...]

Paul & Ringo Play for Peace

EW.com posted some great news about Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The two surviving Beatles will perform together again, along with Ben Harper, Bettye Lavette, Donovan, Eddie Vedder, Jim James, Moby, Paul Horn and Sheryl Crow.
The Charity Begins Within concert is a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness Based Education [...]

Let It Be interactive

January 30, 1969: The Beatles perform for the last time in public, on the roof of the Apple building in London.
“Don’t Let Me Down?” Fans have been hoping for the past forty years to finally get a studio produced, fully sanctioned Let It Be movie with additional footage, including the famous [...]

Classic Rock Legends DVD New Releases

 
Classic Rock Legends Studios are releasing three special “In Performance” DVDs on January 13th…
 
Metallica DVD Collectors Box Set is a Double Disc set with a book, featuring rare documentary footage of the band on tour including their live performance at the new Woodstock. The Classic Rock Legends studio taps into Metallica’s own archive of [...]

The Fireman Christmas Song

I was listening to Electric Arguments, the new album from The Fireman. I got two really big impressions right away, after listening to the album in the car, really loud.
First, I would think John Lennon would be proud to say to Paul McCartney, (imagine after all these years,) “Well mate, you finally got past [...]

John Lennon – A Legend at 68

December 8th is the day we all remember losing John Lennon. But his spirit and his music lives on, with song lyrics just as relevant today as they were in 1980.
From Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)…”
So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is [...]

Christmas 1968

Ahh, December! Cold temperatures, festive foods, holiday decorations inside and out, seasonal shopping, and Christmas is right around the corner!!
So what was Christmas like forty years ago? What musical gifts did you get (or give) in December 1968? Let’s see…I was a freshman in high school, 15 years old and really excited [...]

The Beatles White Album

It was forty years ago this week when The Beatles released The White Album. Music collectors regard this double album to be the band’s best work, and many publications list it in their Best Top 10 or Top 20 Albums of all Time.
Regardless of your opinion, this album continues to endear The Beatles to [...]

We All Shine On with John Lennon

We can’t let this day go by without mentioning October 9th would have been John Lennon’s 68th birthday. Artist, Beatle, songwriter, musician, husband, father, activist and MBE, he just wanted to ‘imagine peace for all the world.’

Sgt. Pepper’s Bass Drum Beats A Million

The world’s most famous drum head, the hand-painted bass drum skin for The Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” sold to a private buyer for $1.1 million on Thursday July 10th. That made it the star attraction at Christie’s rock and pop memorabilia auction in London, among other items from The Beatles, [...]

Classic Album: Plastic Ono Band John Lennon

Classic Album: Plastic Ono Band John Lennon – DVD Release Date: April 29th
This DVD release is the latest addition to the ‘Classic Albums’ series that documents the making of important pop and rock albums.
This is John Lennon’s first solo album (from the studio) after leaving The Beatles. It was heavily influenced by John and [...]

Beatles autographs fetch $59K in auction

$59,750.00 was the winning bid for this very famous set of autographs from all four of The Beatles, during their visit with Elvis on August 27th, 1965.
The auction was held on April 5th at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. I was talking to my friend at FansOnTheRun about what a big deal it is [...]

Paul, Ringo & Larry King

CNN just rebroadcast a Larry King interview with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr this past weekend. Originally broadcast last June, the interview also features Olivia Harrison, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil. They celebrated the first year anniversary of the LOVE show, a high tech blend [...]

Neil Aspinall 1941 – 2008

Neil Aspinall has passed away in New York at age 66. He was receiving treatment for lung cancer. He was such a huge part of The Beatles success, it’s hard to overestimate how much he will be missed. Not only was he heavily involved in their business, but he was [...]

May Pang offers Instamatic Karma

Do you remember John Lennon’s “lost weekend?” Most fans don’t. That so called “lost weekend” lasted 18 months, from 1973 to 1975, when Lennon split from Yoko in New York and headed to L.A.
Ono hooked John up with a former personal assistant by the name of May Pang, who has just released a [...]

Caribou Ranch Studio

I was reading one of the best informed and brutally honest music industry blogs around today, “The Lefsetz Letter” at lefsetz.com/wordpress when I came across Bob’s post about the famous Caribou Ranch Studio in Colorado.
It’s a fascinating story about the many famous hit artists who recorded there; Joe Walsh, John Lennon & Chicago, just to [...]

Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940, and assassinated on December 8, 1980 in New York City. He would be 67 today. But his musical legacy lives forever on CD, DVD and online.
John Lennon’s solo works available in digital download:
amazon.com
iTunes
Official Website
Cool Video @ imaginepeace.com
CD:
“Working Class [...]

Imagine Peace on John Lennon’s Birthday

Tuesday October 9th would have been John Lennon’s 67th birthday. This year holds a special event; the unveiling of the Imagine Peace Tower; a work of art by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon. The tower of light bears the inscription “Imagine Peace” in 24 languages, and will light up between Lennon’s [...]

John Lennon Working Class Hero

This past October was the 65th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth. He was born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940, and assassinated on December 8, 1980 in New York City.

I just saw a television special a couple of weeks ago on John’s assassination by Mark David Chapman. I think it was Dateline NBC. [...]

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