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Ringo Starr at 70
Ringo Starr celebrated his 70th birthday today, July 7th. He was known as the “oldest Beatle,” and by the time he joined the group, he was a already a popular drummer around Liverpool. Ringo talked with ABC’s Diane Sawyer about his remarkable life, as recorded in this video. Ringo is back out on the road [...]
Ringo’s Starr on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
Ringo finally has his own Starr on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. rollingstone.com/rockdaily posted about it. Ringo has released 15 studio solo albums beginning with 1970′s Sentimental Journey. He also has 10 live albums, 5 compilation albums, 26 singles, and a children’s TV series, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, to his credit. Plus he [...]
Grammy Awards 2010
The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards show was long and sometimes boring, but it’s always great to see such great artists performing together. First I gotta say I was really pleased to see Neil Young named as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year. Young was honored with an all-star tribute last Friday by Dave Matthews, [...]
Y Not Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr has a new album! For the first time in his career, Ringo has produced his own album, with a little help from his friends. “Y Not” was just released on Hip-O Records, and features some very special guests… Paul McCartney plays bass on “Peace Dream” and adds vocals on “Walk With You,” Joe [...]
Decade of Classic Rock 2000-2009
I read plenty of music reviews about the end-of-the-year and end-of-the-decade, but none of them really captured what I felt was a good look at the classic rock scene in the past ten years. So here’s my take on the past decade in classic rock… 2000: Santana wins a record nine Grammy Awards, including Album [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Happy Birthday Ringo Starr
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite drummers Ringo Starr, who is 69 years old today. His style of drumming has influenced anyone who has raised a stick to a drumkit, especially this young musician who first saw Ringo on the Ed Sullivan show and was instantly captivated by the beat and the boom. Ringo [...]
Paul McCartney still rocking at 67
Happy Birthday to Paul McCartney, who turned 67 years old on June 18th. McCartney is not showing any signs of slowing down because of age, that’s for sure. Just look at his tour itinerary. July 11 at Halifax Commons, Nova Scotia July 17, 18, 19 at New York’s Citi Field (the new home of the [...]
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. It [...]
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 and World [...]
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 roof top concert [...]
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 [...]
Happy Birthday Ringo Starr
Happy Birthday to Ringo Starr who turns 68 today. I’ve always considered Ringo as “the happy Beatle,” because he was always smiling in their group pictures. His official website says all he wants for his birthday is more “Peace and Love.” Source: www.ringostarr.com
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 [...]
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 of modern circus [...]
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 a close schoolmate with Paul [...]
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 book [...]
Grammys 50th is Solid Gold
Events like the Grammys are great learning moments. There’s so much more to most of these artists than their “hit songs.” Once you dig into their catalog and their roots, you find all kinds of things you may not have known before. But one thing’s for sure. This year’s 50th anniversary show really turned into [...]
Ringo raises Help! for charity
I’ve been watching with interest as music memorabilia fetches higher prices. A recent example is a pretty cool auction lot package from Apple Corps., Capitol and EMI that sold for $12,100 on eBay. The lot included a specially designed Beatles flag as part of a promotion of the new Help! DVD set. The 12 by [...]
Ringo & Dave Live at House of Blues Friday Jan.25
Ringo Starr & Dave Stewart and band will perform a short set of Ringo’s songs, live at an exclusive event celebrating the release of Ringo’s new Capitol/EMI album, Liverpool 8. Video with Ringo & Dave from media.ringostarr.com Join the free live webcast at ringostarr.com Friday 4:00 pm ET, 1:00 pm PST on Friday, January 25 [...]
VH1 Classic Series
I recently read this on whereseric.com/news: VH1 Classic just began a new television series called “Classic 60 Minutes” featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews. The debut episode put the spotlight on Eric Clapton, and will feature a host of classic rock artists. It’s really great to see one of the so-called music channels actually play music [...]
George Harrison Tribute
Born in 1942, the former Beatle passed away on this date (November 29th) in 2001. My friend Nellie O’Apple at FansOnTheRun posted a cool YouTube video that’s the perfect tribute to George Harrison, the man and his music. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is from the Concert For George, at London’s Royal Albert Hall in [...]
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