In 2007 british actor Peter Serafinowicz made some funny sketches about the Beatles for his “Peter Serafinowicz Show” on BBC, playing the role of all of them.
Here you are the ones you can watch on internet. They’re great, aren’t they? I laughed to death.
For the Beatles, Across the Universe was rather an odissey than a song. More than two years passed from the very first recording to the release of the most famous remix. In the meantime, there were six takes, a lot of rehearsals and at least three mixings. All of it with without making its author satisfied.
Most people agree that the fourth Beatles album, called for a joke “Beatles for sale”, is not one of their best ones at all.
Explications talk about the hurry and the stressed mood the Beatles were involved in during recording sessions. When the four came in studio on August the 11th 1964, they came from mounths over mounths of hard work with no break at all. On June they had finished “A Hard Day’s Night”, new album and soundtrack of their first movie. Then they had travelled around the world for a couple of mounths, playing from June to July in Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zeland, Sweden and doing a lot of performances for radio and tv shows. In the meantime, on July the 6th there had been the premiere of the movie in London. All this effort led to another great ammount of success: at the beginning of August “A Hard Day’s Night” was on the top of the UK and US charts. And there was a tour in the United States to be done between August and September.
The story of this guitar is one of those when an instrument is so linked to a musician to become almost an icon of him. Ric 325 is to Lennon what Fender Stratocaster is to Jimi Hendrix, or Gibson SG is to Angus Young.
Lennon bought this guitar in Hamburg in 1961, after weeks and weeks spent saving money. It was a natural finish model with golden pickguard and “short arm” (the neck was shorter). It was a perfect instrument for rock n’ roll: its hollow body (without f-holes) but most of all the three “toaster” pickups (called so cause resembling to a toaster) produced a gingly, acute sound which probably has never been reproduced again by any instrument.
Yoko Ono is in legal feud over the release of a 2-hours documetary movie with unseen footage of John Lennon.The movie, originally filmed by her first husband Anthony Cox, has been purchased by World Wide Video company, but now is in possession of Lennon’s widow. The next week a court case is going to start in Boston, to decide which is the legal owner.
Rumors say that Yoko is worried about a couple of scenes, presenting Lennon while smoking marijuana and suggesting to put some Lsd in president Nixon’s tea.
To learn more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/music_nm/usa_beatles_dc
The legend of Strawberry Fields starts in Spain. John Lennon wrote it in 1966, while he was abroad playing in Richard Lester’s movie “How I Won the War”.
It’s not coincidental that such an important chapter of Beatles’ story was written in those days. The year 1966 is a main one in their career. In few mounths two important things happened: first, they decided to stop playing live, after one of their unluckiest tournée ever; second, they released “Revolver”, an album that showed the Beatles definitely on the way to avant-gard.
Although the success of the latter, it was all but sure that the Beatles would have a future together, the press often suggesting they were about to split.
