Ringo Starr dará concierto en Lima el 11 de noviembre

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Ringo Starr dará concierto en Lima el 11 de noviembre
Aún no se conoce dónde se realizará el concierto ni el lugar de la venta de entradas.
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El ex baterista The Beatles, Ringo Starr, llegará a Perú por primera vez para ofrecer un concierto en Lima el próximo 11 de noviembre, confirmó MVV Asociados, empresa encargada de las relaciones públicas del evento.

Hasta el momento no se han dado a conocer los detalles alrededor de la presentación, como el luegar donde se realizará y tampoco la empresa en donde se pondrán a la venta las entradas, según indicó El Comercio.

Sin embargo, se supo que Ringo Starr estará acompañado de su "All-Starr Band" formada por figuras de la música como Steve Lukather (Toto), Gregg Rolie (Santana), Richard Page (Mr. Mister), Todd Rundgren, Mark Rivera y Gregg Bissonette.

Además de Lima, se confirmó la presentación de Ringo Starr  en la ciudad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México el 18 de noviembre.


Ringo Starr vendría en noviembre de este año


Ringo Starr estará acompañado de su "All-Starr Band" (Foto: excelsior.com)

A New Addition to the Collection – Ringo the 4th

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A New Addition to the Collection – Ringo the 4th
by beatlesblogger
April 28, 2013

I have found an interesting second-hand record store not far from my local area which I didn't even know existed.

It is called Audiomania. It's a bit oddly located in a semi-industrial area and, unusually, is only open two day's a week for four hours at a time! On one side of the shop there's an extensive selection of good quality vinyl (pop, rock, blues, lots of jazz and a bit of a specialty of the store - reggae). On the other side of the space they have vintage hi-fi (amps, turntables, CD players, etc.) and - wait for it - restored motor cycles....

It is the most eclectic record shop I've come across in some time.

My son and I descended on Audiomania on the weekend a couple of weeks ago. He was on the hunt for jazz vinyl, and me in search of the Beatles (or anything else Beatle-related).

I ended up with three items. An Australian copy of Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway; a copy of his Give My Regards to Broad Street; and Ringo Starr's Ringo the 4th.

I wanted the McCartney LP's because the Red Rose Speedway (Australian pressing) had a cover which didn't have the Braille writing on the back, and the Broad Street was a US copy on the Columbia label (in Australia this LP came out on Parlophone).

Like I said in the previous post, I seem to moving from not having much of Ringo solo on vinyl to now having quite a few of his releases all of a sudden. I didn't have this LP at all in my collection. Despite the ringwear on the cover (which you can see below), this one being both a US pressing and a promo copy, it seemed worth the A$5.00 asking price:

As you can see it has a big black and white Atlantic Records "Promotional Copy" sticker on the front containing a track-listing with composers, song publishers and running times (for use by radio stations I guess), plus a gold-embossed stamp on the upper left-hand side saying "Promotional Copy NOT FOR SALE".

You can see the rear cover above (pardon the pun). I don't know who that is sitting on his shoulders or why they are there....if you know please drop us a line. There is also a paper inner sleeve with a photo of Ringo and his co-writer of many tunes on the album Vini Poncia:

The album came out in 1977 on the Atlantic label and has a cast of top session players and guest artists of the day including David Spinozza (guitar), the great Steve Gadd on drums, Chuck Rainey (bass), Michael and Randy Brecker (horns), and Bette Midler, Melissa Manchester, Jim Gilstrap and Luther Vandross (background vocals).

 

So, one more Ringo Starr for the collection - and a promo copy at that.

Paul McCartney abre sua nova turnê mundial em Belo Horizonte

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Paul McCartney abre sua nova turnê mundial em Belo Horizonte

Para felicidade dos fãs da cidade, que fizeram até campanha nas redes sociais, cantor se apresenta sábado (4) no Mineirão, sua nova turnê mundial

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"Sem querer fui me lembrar / De uma rua e seus ramalhetes / O amor anotado em bilhetes / Daquelas tardes (...) / Muito prazer, vamos dançar / Que eu vou falar no seu ouvido / Coisas que vão fazer você tremer dentro do vestido. / Vamos deixar tudo rodar / E o som dos Beatles na vitrola. / Será que algum dia eles vêm aí / Cantar as canções que a gente quer ouvir?"

Não, eles nunca vieram. Sucesso do longínquo 1979, Rua Ramalhete, do mineiro Tavito, falava de namoros adolescentes, do colégio Sacré-Coeur e do desejo que todos tinham de um dia ouvir aqui os Beatles ao vivo. (Na verdade, o grupo já estava desfeito quando a música foi composta.) Mas parte desse sonho de várias gerações de belo-horizontinos vai se realizar no próximo sábado (4), no momento em que Paul McCartney subir ao palco para finalmente realizar um show na cidade. Nessa noite, um recorde deverá cair. O público de 53 000 pagantes será o maior já registrado na capital em um espetáculo-solo, superando os 40 000 que viram o também inglês Elton John, em março. Belo Horizonte vinha sendo cotada para receber um show de Paul McCartney desde 2010, quando o ex-beatle voltou a se apresentar no Brasil depois de dezessete anos. Naquela ocasião, a produtora mineira Nó de Rosa entrou na briga por uma das datas disponíveis, mas esbarrou na falta de espaços adequados. O estádio da Pampulha, candidato natural, havia sido fechado para as obras de modernização antes da Copa do Mundo. Em 2012, quando uma nova vinda de sir Paul foi anunciada, a Nó de Rosa chegou a cogitar a possibilidade de levar o espetáculo para o Estádio Inde­­­pendência, no Horto, ou para o Mega Space, em Santa Luzia. Não deu certo. No primeiro, o problema foi a altura do teto do vestiário. Palcos montados sobre ele ficam 1,70 metro mais altos que a medida ideal, prejudicando a visibilidade para o público. No caso do Mega Space, o obstáculo foi a distância (18 quilômetros do centro de BH). "O único lugar possível era mesmo o Mineirão", diz Gegê Lara, sócio da Nó de Rosa.

Lara e sua sócia já tinham perdido as esperanças de trazer o ex-beatle. Depois de três passagens de Paul McCartney pelo país - por São Paulo e Porto Alegre, em 2010, pelo Rio de Janeiro, em 2011, e por Recife e Florianópolis, em 2012 -, eles não acreditavam que o músico tivesse interesse em voltar pelo quarto ano consecutivo. No meio de 2012, porém, Barrie Marshall, empresário do cantor, ligou para Luiz Oscar Niemeyer, dono da produtora carioca Planmusic e responsável por todas as vindas de McCartney, e informou que o astro de 70 anos faria mais uma turnê em 2013 e gostaria de passar novamente pelo Brasil. "Pensei em BH na hora", conta Niemeyer. Àquela altura, as obras no Mineirão já estavam na reta final e o problema da falta de espaço adequado deixaria de existir. As negociações começaram em agosto.

A ideia era que Paul McCartney fosse o primeiro artista a se apresentar no novo Mineirão, privilégio que ficou para Elton John. "Tivemos de nos adequar à agenda do ex-beatle, que é complicada", explica Márcia Ribeiro, a outra sócia da Nó de Rosa. A espera, garantem os produtores, será recompensada. O show de três horas de duração no sábado será o primeiro da nova turnê internacional do artista, a Out There, que passará ainda por Goiânia e Fortaleza e depois seguirá para Estados Unidos, Canadá, Áustria, Itália e Polônia.



Oriente-se: o Mineirão foi dividido em oito setores. Cada um deles vai contar com um portão específico para a entrada do público

Pesou na decisão a boa estrutura do novo Mineirão. Ao contrário do Engenhão, no Rio de Janeiro, que precisou de ajustes para receber o cantor em 2011, o nosso Gigante da Pampulha atende a todos os critérios para a imensa logística do espetáculo. Na última quarta (24), quando o amistoso entre Brasil e Chile terminou, vinte carretas de equipamentos já estavam a postos para descarregar o equipamento alugado no país. Neste fim de semana, chega da Inglaterra o resto da estrutura, suficiente para encher outras vinte carretas e que inclui o palco com quase 75 metros de largura, 35 metros de profundidade e 15 metros de altura. No meio da parafernália eletrônica, há até um elevador, que será instalado na frente do tablado para suspender o cantor a 8 metros de altura. Quatro torres - duas no meio do campo e duas do lado oposto ao palco - garantirão que o som chegue com qualidade a qualquer ponto do estádio. Tudo deverá estar pronto até quinta-feira (2), já que na sexta McCartney fará um show completo sem plateia, para testar som e efeitos especiais. Será o ensaio geral da nova turnê do músico.

Desde que os primeiros boatos sobre a vinda do ex-beatle começaram a circular, no ano passado, os fãs estavam ansiosos pela confirmação da data, que só ocorreu em março. O primeiro lote de 19 000 ingressos - uma pré-venda restrita a clientes do Banco do Brasil e integrantes do fã-clube oficial - esgotou-se em poucas horas. As outras 34 000 entradas postas à venda dois dias depois viraram fumaça em menos de 24 horas. Durante a madrugada, o volume de acessos fez o site de comercialização ter uma pane, o que acabou sendo providencial. "Se não fosse por isso, não teríamos ingressos nas bilheterias físicas, onde já havia filas esperando pelo horário de abertura", conta Márcia. Assim que McCartney subir ao palco, os belo-horizontinos deverão ser gratos não apenas ao empenho dos produtores, mas ao grupo de seis amigos que criou a campanha "Paul, Vem Falar Uai". O sexteto se conheceu pelas redes sociais - quando se preparava para o show de outro ex-beatle em BH, o baterista Ringo Starr, em 2011 - e teve a ideia da mobilização virtual para mostrar que havia grande interesse dos belo-horizontinos por um espetáculo do ex-beatle. A campanha caiu na boca do povo. "Não esperávamos criar um bordão que acabaria sendo adotado até pela organização do show", diz a jornalista Priscila Brito. Os próprios produtores reconhecem que o esforço do grupo contribuiu para as negociações com o time de McCartney. "A empolgação deles foi contagiante", afirma Niemeyer.

Por questões de segurança, vários detalhes sobre a chegada e a estada do cantor na cidade não são divulgados. O nome do hotel onde ele se hospedará, por exemplo, é mantido em sigilo. Muitos fãs, porém, reservaram quartos no Ouro Minas, no Ipiranga, apesar de a direção do cinco-estrelas não confirmar nada. Embora se mostre sempre muito simpático com o público, McCartney é extremamente preocupado com a própria segurança desde que John Lennon foi assassinado por um criminoso que se passou por fã, em 1980. Por isso, sessões de autógrafo e passeios pela cidade estão fora do programa. Entre técnicos de som e assistentes particulares, cerca de 120 pessoas acompanham o astro na turnê. No sábado, elas se juntarão a mais 2 400 profissionais daqui envolvidos na montagem do espetáculo. Durante as três horas previstas de apresentação, o músico se alternará no comando de diferentes instrumentos, passeando por contrabaixo, guitarra, violão, bandolim, piano e ukelele, uma espécie de guitarra havaiana, enquanto interpreta sucessos dos Beatles, do Wings e da carreira-solo. O repertório do show ainda é segredo. Mas não devem ficar de fora clássicos como Hey Jude, Yesterday, Live and Let Die, Let It Be - enfim, as canções que a gente quer ouvir, quem sabe com um "uai" no meio.

A longa espera pelo astro

Há três anos, produtores locais tentam trazer o ex-beatle

Primeira tentativa

Com o Mineirão fechado para a reforma, a capital foi descartada na turnê de 2010, que acabou passando apenas por São Paulo e Porto Alegre.

Dupla empenhada

Donos da Nó de Rosa, Márcia Ribeiro e Gegê Lara resolveram, em 2012, estudar a possibilidade de trazer Paul McCartney para outros espaços na cidade.

Locais vetados

A impossibilidade de montar um palco adequado no Estádio Independência, no Horto, e a distância entre a capital e o Mega Space, em Santa Luzia, tiraram BH da disputa por datas na turnê do ano passado.

Enfim entre nós

Com a reabertura do Gigante da Pampulha, BH finalmente conseguiu ser incluída na agenda do pop star. Desde a madrugada, fãs já estavam na fila da bilheteria no dia 1º de abril. Os ingressos viraram fumaça em menos de 24 horas.

Um chef para Paul

Fernando Abdo Mendonça, do Verdemar, servirá o músico

Vegetariano radical, Paul McCartney viaja sempre acompanhado do seu próprio chef de cozinha, Sean Leitch. Toda a sua equipe de apoio tem de aderir à dieta sem carne. Em cada parada da turnê, um mestre-cuca da cidade é convidado para auxiliar Leitch na compra de ingredientes e no preparo dos pratos. Em BH, a missão ficou com Fernando Abdo Mendonça, chef do supermercado Verdemar, que passou oito anos na Inglaterra e trabalhou no Royal College de Westminster. Segundo ele, o maior desafio é encontrar fornecedores orgânicos, como exige McCartney. Mendonça pretende dar um toque regional ao cardápio. "Quero mostrar coisas nossas, como couve, laranja-serra-d’água e ora-pro-nóbis."

McCartney ao piano: o cantor se reveza em vários instrumentos 

ON THE RUN TO BRAZIL 2013

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PAUL MCCARTNEY AUSTIN LO ESPERA

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PAUL MCCARTNEY AUSTIN LO ESPERA
SALVADOR MUNGUIA
WEDNESDAY, 24 APRIL 2013


La Capital Mundial de la Música en Vivo se prepara para recibir en el Frank Erwin Center al Sir James Paul McCartney, célebre personaje inglés quien nos estará visitando por dos días consecutivos para deleitarnos en directo con todo ese rico caudal de viejas, nuevas y clásicas canciones que ha acumulado a lo largo de su exitosa y fructífera carrera artística. El 22 y 23 de mayo son las fechas que se encuentran incluidas dentro de su tan esperado tour: “Out there!”.

McCartney ganó fama mundial como miembro de The Beatles, junto a John Lennon, George Harrison y Ringo Starr. Después emprendió una exitosa carrera en solitario y formó el grupo Wings con quien editó McCartney, un álbum de carácter minimalista en el que Paul compuso todas las canciones y tocó todos los instrumentos, y que alcanzó el primer puesto en la lista estadounidense Billboard durante varios meses.

Dentro de sus múltiples logros, el cantante inglés figura en el libro Guinness como el “músico y compositor más exitoso en la historia de la música popular”, con 60 discos de oro y ventas de 100 millones de sencillos en el reino unido; y citó la canción de los Beatles “Yesterday” como la canción más versionada en la historia de la música, grabada por más de dos mil 200 artistas y repetida, desde su publicación en 1965, más de siete millones de veces en la televisión estadounidense y la radio. Toda una celebridad.

El Frank Erwin Center se encuentra en el 1701 Red River St., en Austin. Para boletos e informes, llame al (512) 471-7744 o visite www.uterwincenter.com.

Tickets for Paul McCartney show at Scotiabank sell out in record time

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Tickets for Paul McCartney show at Scotiabank sell out in record time
BY OTTAWA CITIZEN, OTTAWA CITIZEN 
APRIL 27, 2013


OTTAWA — In what is probably the fastest-selling show in the history of Scotiabank Place, tickets to a July concert by Paul McCartney sold out in less than 10 minutes Friday.

The July 7 show will be the first appearance by a member of the Beatles in Ottawa history. Eager fans snapped up tickets in record time when they went on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Sales appear to have beaten the record held by Madonna. Tickets for her show in September 2012 sold out in 21 minutes, and at the time concert promoter Live Nation said it was the fastest-selling show in Scotiabank history. There were, almost immediately about 330 tickets for sale on the ticket reseller StubHub ranging in price from $250 US for two seats in section 310 to $9,999 US for two in the first row on the floor.

McCartney is also gearing up to re-release two classic projects: Wings’ 1976 live album, Wings Over America, will be re-released May 17, with bonus material, while a DVD release of the live concert film, Rockshow, which documents the Wings over the World tour, comes out June 10.

Free party to celebrate

25th anniversary

of Centrepointe

Centrepointe Theatre and Ben Franklin Place will celebrate their 25th anniversary by hosting a free party May 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Alive@25 Block Party includes performances throughout the day by buskers, the Aboriginal Experience Hoop Dancing troupe, Mushfiq Ensemble and comedian Buddy Wasisname, children’s performer Jennifer Gasoi and others. Partygoers can also drop into a rehearsal of the latest production by Orpheus Musical Theatre or go on a backstage tour. There will be skateboarding demonstrations, juggling and pottery workshops, a musical petting zoo, and a performance of excerpts from a children’s ballet. Organizers promise a surprise event at 11:30 a.m. that will “bring the building to life.” Information: centrepointetheatre.com

Theatre students present

The Wizard of Oz

The Orléans Young Players Theatre school presents The Wonderful Wizard of Oz May 3 and 4 at The Shenkman Arts Centre. The cast includes students from the school as well as Ottawa musician Russell Levia and CBC-radio host Alan Neal as the Wizard of Oz. It is not the movie version of the story, but rather a stage production adapted from the book, and is suitable for all ages. Tickets for the event, which is a fundraiser for the school, are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Seating is limited: call 613-580-2765 or email office@oypts.ca to reserve; cash only when picking up tickets before the performance. Showtimes are May 3 at 7:30 p.m. and May 4 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.



Tickets to the July 7 concert at Scotiabank Place by Paul McCartney sold out in less than 10 minutes Friday.
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Fans can't grab McCartney tickets

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Fans can't grab McCartney tickets

BY JEFF DEDEKKER, LEADER-POST
APRIL 26, 2013


Fans were left frustrated by the ticket pre-sale Thursday morning for Paul McCartney's upcoming Regina concert.

Lance Hackewich has a theory about what caused the problems.

Hackewich, who estimates he attends 50 concerts a year, attempted to buy tickets for the Aug. 14 show at Mosaic Stadium. Like many others, he came up empty-handed.

"Not that long ago, pre-sales weren't that popular. Not everybody knew about pre-sales. Now you have radio stations sending out emails to everybody telling everybody what's going on," Hackewich said.

"The secret is now out. There were times in the past when getting tickets through pre-sales wasn't a problem. Now that the word is out, it's become quite common for lots of people to take advantage of the pre-sales."

Tickets for the concert go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Monday, but Thursday marked the first of two pre-sales for the show. Tickets were available through McCartney's website, and when the site opened for business at 10 a.m., it didn't take long for fans to realize it would be a tough morning.

While many were fortunate to experience the thrill of victory with the purchase of up to four tickets, many others were left frustrated by the experience as it appeared the volume of ticket requests overwhelmed the site's computer server.

"We were trying all sorts of little tricks we've learned over the years and nothing was working today," Hackewich said. "It would even give us tickets and then when we went to pay for them we'd get the message, 'Network error.'"

Hackewich has attended major shows at Mosaic Stadium - the Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Bon Jovi - and said getting tickets for those shows was quite painless.

"All of those other big concerts went rather smoothly for me. I got all the tickets I needed," he said.

Despite coming up empty on Thursday, he isn't deterred from taking another shot at it on Friday morning with the Live Nation presale through Ticketmaster.

"It's the luck of the draw. It really is," he said.

Live Nation did not respond to an interview request.



Tickets for Paul McCartney's Regina show were hard to come by Thursday.
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Track Of The Week - 'Maybe I'm Amazed' (from 'Rockshow')

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Track Of The Week - 'Maybe I'm Amazed' (from 'Rockshow')

'Maybe I'm Amazed' taken from the forthcoming film 'Rockshow' released on DVD, Blu-ray and Download from June 10th 2013.

The film will also receive a limited cinema run from May 15th. To find your local showing click HERE!



More info on 'Rockshow':

For the first time a DVD will be released by Eagle Rock of the live concert film 'Rockshow' which was shot in 1976 when Paul McCartney & Wings undertook the epic ‘Wings over the World’ tour which was the largest-scale tour they would ever undertake as a band.

Packed with all the classic Wings hits - plus some of The Beatles’ and Paul’s solo classics - the film is released on both DVD and Blu-ray formats. Although filmed on this tour at the enormous Kingdome in Seattle, ‘Rockshow’, originally a cut down version of the concert, was not premiered until November 1980 in New York and April 1981 in London.

It was originally released on Betamax (later on laserdisc) but it’s only now that the complete full length concert is being made available fully restored from the original 35mm film and with restored & remastered sound, including a 5.1 mix for the first time.

‘Rockshow’ Theatrical Release:

Eagle Rock has partnered with distributors Specticast who are releasing the film theatrically worldwide for a ‘one night only’ event on May 15th (see here for more details: www.rockshowonscreen.com) – meaning the film will be shown in more than 500 cinemas across the world!

The theatrical release features an exclusive introduction with Paul McCartney, but there will also be an exclusive VIP premiere screening of ‘Rockshow’, with Paul in attendance and introducing the film, at BAFTA on 15 May 2013.

Paul Backs The Global Zero Movement

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Paul Backs The Global Zero Movement

#demandzero

Paul has given his backing to the Global Zero movement who are calling for an end to nuclear weapons. There are currently around 17,000 nuclear weapons on earth; Global Zero's aim is to bring that total down to zero.

Fans interested in the campaign can watch their video below and sign their petition HERE!

Quebec City Confirmed For "Out There" Tour

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Quebec City Confirmed For "Out There" Tour

Five years almost to the day from his historic first concert in Quebec City, Paul is back. He'll be playing the Plains of Abraham on July 23. Touched by the reception he got in 2008, in what was "a night to remember" for everyone who had the chance to be there, Paul quickly got behind the idea of bringing Quebec audiences his new production, "Out There".

"We can say that Paul McCartney was thrilled to accept our invitation. With so many surveys showing that his 2008 concert was the high point of the celebrations marking the 400 years of Quebec, what better way to mark it's fifth anniversary?" said Daniel Gélinas, General Manager of 3E event-experience-emotion, which is putting on this new show.

Paul McCartney's "Out There" tour is an all-new production featuring close to three hours of songs spanning his entire career – as a solo artist, member of Wings and, of course, The Beatles. The McCartney live experience is a once in a lifetime opportunity to share many of the greatest moments of musical history with material from the most beloved catalog in popular music.

Paul has thrown himself into 2013 with full force following a landmark year in 2012, which saw him conclude his record-breaking “On The Run” tour, release his Grammy-winning Kisses On The Bottom album, play at both the Diamond Jubilee and Olympics Opening Ceremony, headline The Concert For Sandy Relief and accept a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

An advance ticket sale reserved for those having Festival passes and Front-Stage Zone tickets for the 46th Festival d’été de Quebec will take place from May 4 to 10. All ticket holders will receive a box office access code by e-mail or by phone, on Wednesday May 1st, so they can buy their wristbands for this show.

Regular ticket sales start the following day, May 11, and continue while wristband supplies last.

Wristbands sales:
       • Online : www.3e-evenement.com/outthere
       • By phone : Quebec City Area and international (outside North America) : 418 380-8290 / Toll-free (Canada and US) : Check local listings

For more details, go to www.3e-evenement.com/outthere

Rockshow (Full Trailer)

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Rockshow (Full Trailer)


Trailer del Rockshow!
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Publicado el 24/04/2013
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The full trailer for Rockshow.

Never Before Seen Beatles Photos From 1964

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Never Before Seen Beatles Photos From 1964
by Leslie Woodhead
Apr 24, 2013

Sure they’re one of the most documented bands ever but once and a while we get to see them in a new light. Documentary filmmaker Leslie Woodhead uncovered these photos he took of the Fab Four back in 1964 when they were recording in Manchester. He tells the story of the photographs in an excerpt from his new book, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin.



I had only recently rediscovered my rock photographs, and the show in Vladivostok would be the first time I had put them together for an exhibition. Bringing them all the way from England, nestled between the shirts and underpants in my suitcase, had made me revisit the time, almost fifty years before, when I had taken the pictures. Could it possibly have been so long ago? I could still see those afternoons in the Manchester TV studios when I was a kid with a camera. The Beatles, the Stones, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis came to record shows in the studios where I was a trainee director, finding my feet in the routines of nightly magazine programs. As the sixties began to lift off , an extraordinary parade of people who would soon become rock royalty passed through the studios to plug their latest records. The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, the Kinks, the Hollies, and countless others came and went, most of them without causing much of a stir. The Rolling Stones did upset one producer, who declared that their hair was unacceptably long for a family program and tried to have them ejected. Crisis talks ensued, hair was preserved, and the Stones did their thing.


How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin By Leslie Woodhead 304 pages. Bloomsbury. $26.

My boyhood passion for photography had recently been rekindled by a new single-lens reflex camera, and from time to time I wandered into the studios where the visiting rock folk were performing to grab pictures. Following that first filming with the Beatles in August 1962, I had renewed the acquaintance when they came to perform “Please Please Me” in January 1963. Over the following year they returned regularly to the Manchester studio, and when they came to perform “I Should Have Known Better” in October 1964, I grabbed a single roll of film, exchanged a few words with the boys, and moved around the studio snapping a couple dozen shots as they rehearsed the song. I finished the roll of film, and then went back to working in another studio on a program about the history of cycling. Over the next few months, I looked in on other rock people with my camera and took a few more rolls of film. And then, unaccountably, I lost my rock photos.


Where the hell were they? Why didn’t I take hundreds more pictures? How could I have been so casual about having a front- row seat as the giants of 1960s rock ’n’ roll paraded past my camera? From time to time I kept looking, but after a while I reckoned that between office juggling and house moves, they must have slipped through the cracks in my life. That was how it was, after all, with making documentaries. I would be consumingly involved with a project for a few weeks or months—guerrilla war in Africa, earthquake in Peru, nomadic tribes in Ethiopia, jazz in New Orleans—and then one night the film would be broadcast, and the next morning it was gone. All those intense relationships, the war criminals, the saints, the film crews, the never- ending cycle of engaging and moving on. I took thousands of photos wherever I went, but I kept remembering the missing rock photos. Where were they? Were they any good? Might they be worth a fortune?

And then, not long ago, I had found them. I opened a drawer and there they were, shut away in a plain envelope. I peered at the shadowy images preserved on negatives—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis. They had slumbered in my drawer over the decades, like pharaohs snoozing in their tombs. I was ecstatic. I hunted down a man who could print the negatives, a rare craftsman in an age where digital cameras had made black- and- white negatives as irrelevant as typewriters and carbon paper. In a London basement, I watched as Peter Guest—who prints Linda McCartney’s archive—coaxed life back into my old negatives. The Fab Four swam up out of the developing bath, youngsters again on the verge of everything.

Reprinted from How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin.

BEATLES PRE 1966 : En el Círculo Beatle

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New Website for The Bayonets

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~New Website for The Bayonets~‏

Dear friends, far and wide~ There are so many things to report but firstly, The Bayonets now have their own site! Yes, www.thebayonets.com is up and running and we would love your support! So for a limited time, during the merry merry month of May we have an offer for you: You will receive a free download of our first single, "Sucker for Love" when you join our new mailing list. We want to share the next 4 singles and tour news with you and this is the best way to get our upcoming offers and events delivered into your hot little hands before anyone else gets it! We would like our newsletter for our new band, The Bayonets to come from our new site. (www.brianray.com will remain the place for my own news, my merch and tour news with Paul and the guys.) So, click away and share. We will be ordering some awesome 'vintage feel' Bayonets tee shirts very soon and we want your feedback on the design, so please add your voice to our comment section below this post and tell us what color of tee shirt you would be most into wearing, women and men. Keep in mind The Bayonets logo will be written in black.. unless you all want black tees, in which case we will be happy to do a white logo. We would like to do only one color tee to begin with.

BREAKING: In live performance news, Oliver and I will be performing in Buenos Aires, Argentina with Nube 9 during my first tour break with Paul. May 10th on local prime time TV, May 11 for a VIP unplugged show at Hotel Feana, and later that night at Club Mod. Then we're playing on the 12 at Club Mod again. Our last show will be at Mr Jones club on May 13th. So... Who's coming? Also, we hope to fit in other Bayonets shows on breaks from the exciting tour schedule with Paul on his upcoming "Out There" tour! Thanks for your support and please know that your feedback is appreciated! Best, Brian Ray and Oliver Leiber of The Bayonets

Whooray Records is moving from PO Box 69394 to a new address in Santa Monica. The new address will be revealed on the return address of your shipment. Thank you for all of your support at my previous address. 

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'Linda McCartney - Life in Photographs' On iBookstore Plus Apple Store Event

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2013    'Linda McCartney - Life in Photographs' On iBookstore Plus Apple Store Event

 

Linda McCartney - Life in Photographs
New digital book brings Linda's world exclusively to the iBookstore on iPad from Thursday 25th April


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From her early rock'n'roll portraits and final years with The Beatles to her touring days with Wings and raising four children with Paul, Linda McCartney captured her whole world on film.
Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to sessions with Janis Joplin and Michael Jackson, as well as artists Willem de Kooning and Gilbert and George. Always unassuming and fresh, her work displays a warmth and feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photographing her children, celebrities, animals, or a fleeting moment of everyday life, McCartney did so without pretension or artifice.


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Made exclusively by TASCHEN for iBooks, Linda McCartney – Life in Photographs features:

       • Over 170 photographs selected from Linda's archive of over 200,000 images — most of which users can pinch to zoom.

       • Forewords by Paul, Stella, and Mary McCartney, texts by Annie Leibovitz and Martin Harrison, and excerpts from interviews with Linda from BBC’s highly acclaimed 1994 “Behind the Lens” profile.

       • A bonus video interview with Paul McCartney and his daughters, Stella and Mary.

This collection was produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. As such, it is a moving personal journal and a lasting testament to Linda’s talent.

Get your copy of Linda McCartney - Life In Photographs HERE!

Apple Store Event:

To celebrate the publication of Linda McCartney - Life in Photographs on Apple's iBookstore daughter Mary McCartney will be in conversation with GQ editor Dylan Jones at the Apple Store on Regent Street in London on Thursday 25th April from 6pm. Details of the even can be found HERE!


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The Photographer:

Linda McCartney (née Eastman) was born in New York in 1941. She took a photo course with Hazel Archer and studied art history at the University of Arizona before settling in New York City, where she began her photo career shooting rock portraits. Outside of her photography, which has been exhibited in over 50 galleries worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, and the International Center of Photography, New York, Linda McCartney is known for her passionate animal rights activism and her staunch vegetarianism. She wrote cookbooks and founded her own brand of frozen vegetarian meals, all the while raising a family, continuing to take photographs, and participating as a Wings band member alongside Paul McCartney. She died in 1998 at the age of 56.

The Contributing Authors:

Annie Leibovitz has been a working photographer for 40 years. She was the chief photographer for Rolling Stone and then the first contributing photographer for the revived Vanity Fair. In addition to her editorial work at Vanity Fair, and later at Vogue, she has created several award-winning advertising campaigns. She has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Martin Harrison is a historian of art and photography and an exhibition curator. He worked with Linda McCartney on Roadworks (1996), Light from Within (2001), and her exhibitions at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford and the International Center of Photography in New York. He has published widely on photography and, most recently, on the paintings of Francis Bacon.

The Editor:
Alison Castle received a BA in philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in photography and film from New York University (NYU/International Center of Photography masters program). She is the editor of titles on photography, film, and design, including Some Like it Hot, The Stanley Kubrick Archives, and Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs.

PETE BEST ON TOUR

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Publicado por MaccaMexico
Lunes 22 de abril de 2013

Pete Best se presentará en México y Argentina
Argentina 1 de septiembre
México 7 Febrero en Hard Rock de la Riviera Maya

Aqui les dejamos las fechas completas:

The Beatles Invasion ....50 Years Later
The Pete Best Band plus guests20 July 2013 Stoke On Trent, UK Stafford Hotel
24 August 2013 Liverpool, UK The Casbah Coffee Club
27 April 2013 Tokyo, Japan The Cotton Club
28 April 2013 Tokyo, Japan The Cotton Club
29 April 2013 Tokyo, Japan The Cotton Club
28 May 2013 Carlisle, UK The Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom
15 June 2013 Lima, Peru
22 June 2013 Michigan, USA Freedom Hill
20 July 2013 Stoke-On-Trent, UK Stafford Hotel
24 August 2013 Liverpool, UK The Casbah Coffee Club
01 September 2013 Argentina
01 October 2013 Phillipines
07 February 2014 Riviera Maya, Mexico Hard Rock Hotel

Ottawa, Winnipeg And Regina Dates Added To "Out There" Tour!

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Apr
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2013

Ottawa, Winnipeg And Regina Dates Added To "Out There" Tour!

PAUL McCARTNEY RETURNS TO CANADA ON ALL-NEW 2013 "OUT THERE" TOUR

July 7: Ottawa ONT - Scotiabank Place
August 12: Winnipeg MB - Investors Group Field
August 14: Regina SK - Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field

Paul McCartney has confirmed that his all-new 2013 "Out There" tour will include a visit to Canada for three new shows -- two out of three in cities Paul has never before played: On July 7, Paul will play his historic first ever show in Ottawa, at Scotiabank Place. On August 12, Paul will return to Winnipeg for the first time since his New World Tour in 1993, for one night only at Investors Group Field. Finally on August 14, Paul will make his debut in Regina, playing his first ever show in the Queen City at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field.

As previously announced, the "Out There" tour will also be making stops May 18 and 19 in Orlando FL at Amway Center, May 22 and 23 in Austin TX at the Frank Erwin Center, May 26 in Memphis TN at FedEx Forum, May 29 and 30 in Tulsa OK at the BOK Center, June 8 and 10 in Brooklyn NY at Barclays Center, July 9 in Boston MA at Fenway Park, July 12 in Washington DC at Nationals Ballpark, July 14 in Indianapolis IN at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, July 16 in Milwaukee WI at Miller Park and July 19 in Seattle WA at Safeco Field.

Tickets for Ottawa will go on sale Friday April 26 at 10am (local time) through Capitol Tix. Winnipeg and Regina go on sale Monday April 29 at 10am (local time) through Ticketmaster.

Registered fans of PaulMcCartney.com will have the opportunity to buy pre-sale tickets for Paul's show in Ottawa from 9am (local time) on Wednesday 24th April, and for Winnipeg and Regina from 10am (local time) on Thursday 25th April directly from the website. Fans will need to be registered by 6am (EST) on Wednesday 24th April for Ottawa and by 6am (EST) on Thursday 25th April for Winnipeg and Regina. Fans who are not currently signed up to the website can do so by clicking HERE!
Paul McCartney's "Out There" tour will feature brand new, never before seen production and, as ever, hours of material from the most beloved catalog in popular music, with Paul performing songs spanning his entire career--as a solo artist, member of Wings and of course The Beatles.

The McCartney live experience is a once in a lifetime opportunity. For approximately three hours, many of the greatest moments of the last 50 years of musical history -- not to mention the soundtracks of entire lives -- are magically brought to life as only Paul can do. Last year marked 40 years since Paul's premiere tour as a solo artist and these past four decades have seen him play in a staggeringly impressive range of venues and locations, including outside the Coliseum in Rome, in Moscow's Red Square, at the White House, a free show in Mexico to over 400,000 people and even a performance beamed into outer space! Having played with his peerless band of Paul 'Wix' Wickens (keyboards), Rusty Anderson (guitar), Abe Laboriel Jr. (drums) and Brian Ray (bass/guitar) for over ten years, Paul never disappoints -- as reviews of his last trek through Canada in November 2012 will attest:

"It took close to half a century for Paul McCartney to step on a Vancouver stage for the second time in his musical career, and in the span of nearly three hours at BC Place, Sir Paul closed the gap, looped the loop and gave his fans a timeless experience... McCartney never even paused to take a break, commanding the stage with more power, presence and stamina than pop stars half his age... Flat-out amazing." -- VANCOUVER SUN

"The last time Paul McCartney graced a stage in Vancouver was August 22, 1964. The show was cut short due to fear of a riot... There were times last night at BC Place when the 70 year-old could make you believe the clock was running backwards... The catalogue of tunes is positively staggering... McCartney really loves performing them too. Paul McCartney still does his legacy justice. Few of his living peers can make any similar claim. This was a bucket list gig and turned out to be one for the memory books as well. Thanks for that." -- VANCOUVER PROVINCE

"This was young McCartney again. And, the new one. It was vintage and voyage. There was that same boyish smile you see in early photos from their time in Liverpool, or the psychedelic German clubs, or their first appearance at Shea Stadium. There was a floppy-haired rocker who seemed very well aware of who he was and where he'd been, but was also transfixed on enjoying the moment. For the audience, you got to cross another one off your bucket list. Hearing 'Hey Jude' live? How can that not be on there? Is there another song anywhere in the universe that begs the same effect, or comes with the same aura, when its played to people who've paid to see and hear it? He played for three hours. Three hours. Paul, meanwhile, has more energy than Bruno Mars jumping in front of a train for you. On Sunday night, Paul McCartney had his way with 60,000 Canadians. They're all now on the other side of the bed, enjoying a cigarette." -- HUFFINGTON POST CANADA

"The hand-painted sign draped over the BC Place railings before the show read 'Paul Thanks For The Music.' It summed up the mood perfectly. This was stadium rock built on warmth, not swagger. It was a night carried on a wave of love and admiration for Paul McCartney the artist and man, an incredible talent who has somehow remained down-to-earth despite the endless and wholly deserved accolades... After a spectacular journey through the past from one of the very greatest of the greats, Paul McCartney left the stage basking in the love of an entire stadium. No one could deserve it more." -- CTV

"It was a long and winding road back to the yesterdays that seemed so far away — or mangle your own favourite line from your own favourite Beatles song to describe Paul McCartney’s show. He must’ve played them all at Rexall Place on Wednesday night... an epic concert that stretched almost three hours through almost 40 songs... Sir Paul should get an honorary Order of Canada just for that... Just when you think there was a climax would come an even higher highlight, then another, one encore, then another. What a marathon. You may think that McCartney would draw mainly Baby Boomers, and yes, there were certainly a lot of them at the show, screaming their faces off and gasping with the pleasure of recognition of one hit after another. But Paul’s appeal cuts a huge swath through the population. There were Gen-X fans brandishing home-made signs. There was even a gaggle of screaming young girls in the front, stricken with Beatlemania 50 years later. It’s a chronic, multi-generational epidemic, this Beatlemania – thanks to Paul McCartney still going as strong as ever." -- EDMONTON SUN

"May I be a human — and not a supposedly unbiased or clinical reviewer — for a moment? OhmygoshohmygoshPaulMcCartneyisonstage! Hesrightinfrontofme! andthousandsoffans! OneoftheBeatlesisfinallyinEdmonton! Wegettowitnessrocknrollhistoryintheflesh! IhopeheplaysHeyJudeorYesterday! And breathe. C’mon, who wasn’t thinking the same silly thoughts during Wednesday’s sold-out show, the first of two at Rexall Place? As the 70-year-old elder statesmen casually strolled onstage, 14,500 fans erupted in cheers — an explosion 50 years in the making… and McCartney more than made up for avoiding us all these years, gracefully attacking us with all his charm and greatest hits, making us feel like giddy 15-year-olds watching the Fab Four on The Ed Sullivan Show in the ’60s. Or giggly five-year-olds, watching the Beatles battle the Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine for the first time in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s or ’00s.... His entire show was epic... McCartney’s visit caps off a year stacked with classic-rock concerts... Do I even need to tell you Sir Paul’s three-hour show topped them all?" -- CALGARY HERALD & EDMONTON JOURNAL

Paul is throwing himself into 2013 with full force following yet another landmark year in 2012, which saw him conclude his record-breaking "On The Run" tour, release his Grammy-winning Kisses On The Bottom album, accept a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, play at both the Diamond Jubilee and Olympics Opening Ceremony, be named MusiCares Person of the Year, and headline 12-12-12 The Concert For Sandy Relief -- to highlight just a few memorable moments. With the "Out There'" tour and a new studio album in the works, it looks like 2013 will show no signs of Paul slowing down.

The "Out There" tour will see Paul and his band travel the world throughout the year, visiting both places of historical significance to Paul and new spots for the very first time. Further announcements and dates will be added in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to PaulMcCartney.com for official news and updates.

PAUL McCARTNEY
OUT THERE U.S. Tour 2013

May 18: Orlando FL - Amway Center (SOLD OUT)
May 19: Orlando FL - Amway Center (SOLD OUT)
May 22: Austin TX - Frank Erwin Center (SOLD OUT)
May 23: Austin TX - Frank Erwin Center (SOLD OUT)
May 26: Memphis TN - FedEx Forum - GET TICKETS!
May 29: Tulsa OK - BOK Center (SOLD OUT)
May 30: Tulsa OK - BOK Center - GET TICKETS!
June 8: Brooklyn NY - Barclays Center - GET TICKETS!
June 10: Brooklyn NY - Barclays Center - GET TICKETS!
July 7: Ottawa ONT - Scotiabank Place
July 9: Boston MA - Fenway Park (SOLD OUT)
July 12: Washington DC - Nationals Ballpark (SOLD OUT)
July 14: Indianapolis IN - Bankers Life Fieldhouse (SOLD OUT)
July 16: Milwaukee WI - Miller Park - GET TICKETS!
July 19: Seattle WA - Safeco Field (SOLD OUT)
August 12: Winnipeg MB - Investors Group Field
August 14: Regina SK - Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field

 

JAMES McCARTNEY :: First Single, "Strong As You," Now Available Exclusively at iTunes‏

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JAMES McCARTNEY :: First Single, "Strong As You," Now Available Exclusively at iTunes

Forty-Seven Date US Tour and First Full-Length Album

Hear and download the iTunes Exclusive single "Strong As You" HERE

Pre-order the debut album, Me at iTunes HERE

Following a year that introduced him to international success in 2012, James McCartney now heads towards an exciting and unprecedented 2013––a year that will see him release his first full-length album and embark on a forty-seven date, twenty-seven state tour of the USA. (Get Ticket Info HERE »)

McCartney is fresh off the release of his two digital-only EPs, Available Light and Close At Hand, as well as his first physical release, The Complete EP Collection, a special two-disc package that includes the debut EPs in their entirety along with five bonus tracks. 

Now, James McCartney is set to release his first full-length album, Me, May 21st on ECR Music Group. "For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest," says McCartney. "An album that would say, 'This is who I am…both musically and personally. This is me.'"

The tour to accompany the release of Me reflects this singular idea. Beginning April 6th, McCartney will visit forty-seven cities coast to coast performing a unique solo-acoustic show in intimate and elegant listening rooms throughout the country. Accompanying himself on guitar and piano, McCartney's soaring vocals, songwriting, and musicianship will take center stage in this distinctive and powerful setting. (Read the Full Story HERE »)

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