WHAT A WEEK FOR BEATLES FANS IN NYC!

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WHAT A WEEK FOR BEATLES FANS IN NYC!


WHAT A WEEK FOR

BEATLES FANS IN NYC!


USPS HONORS JOHN LENNON

WITH AN OFFICIAL STAMP


PAUL SECRET CONCERT AT

GRAND CENTRAL STATION


BED-IN FOR PEACE AT THE JOHN

LENNON EDUCATIONAL BUS


RINGO AND THE ALL STARR BAND

ROCKS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL


EXCITING CORRECTED UPDATE

PAUL'S NEW EGYPT STATION HITS #1

ON BILLBOARD'S TOP 200



It all started last Friday, Sept 7th (by coincidence, the exact 44th Anniversary of the very first day of the first Beatlefest.). Michelle and I (Mark) attended the John Lennon Stamp Ceremony at the Central Park Naumburg Band Shell. It was hosted beautifully by Dennis Elsas (The Beatles Channel's Fab Fourum Show). Yoko, Sean, Bob Gruen and the Postmaster General all spoke. Sean said his dad would have been really thrilled to be accepted this way, and so was he. Yoko was surprised at the size of the crowd. She thought there would be a few people, but 1,000 people showed up! From being on the President's list to be deported in the early 1970s to being honored with an official Forever Stamp in 2018. Absolutely historic.



Later that evening, just 30 blocks further downtown, Paul and his band did their 'secret gig'. Of course, Paul let the cat out of the bag the previous evening on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon! In attendance was Fallon, Sean, Meryl Streep, Paul's wife Nancy, Bill Flanagan (also of The Fab Fourum Show) plus a few hundred very lucky fans. Jessica took this photo as Paul was arriving, Michelle, Jessica and hundreds of other fans who did not get in could hear was was going on but that proved to be very difficult because of the acoustics. The show was live streamed and most of the set consisted of rockers.



Thursday at 11AM outside City Hall in lower Manhattan, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus held a Bed-In For Peace. Yoko, Ringo, and Jeff Bridges are pictured right there in the middle of a busy NYC street. The tour bus is making many stops around NYC 



Carol and I attended Ringo's concert Thursday night at Radio City. It was another great evening of music. New to the tour this year is Graham Gouldman of 10CC who went over very well with I'm Not In Love and Things We Do For Love. Ringo is so energetic and yes he still does those jumping jacks at the end of the concert. Carol took this photo from the audience. We saw and said hi to hundreds of Fest attendees there (as usual). Tom Frangione (the third wheel in The Beatles Fab Fourum) was there as was Billy J. Kramer, Ken Dashow, Billy Amendola, Henry Diltz, and George Martin Bio Author Ken Womack. We "Get by with a little help friend our friends"!!

EGYPT STATION
PAUL McCARTNEY'S FIRST ALBUM OF ALL NEW MUSIC IN 5 YEARS!
CD & LIMITED EDITION VINYL

UPDATE:
When we first posted this news on Friday, It seemed, based on Billboard's  estimated sales, that Paul would not be able to topple Eminem's new Album!
BUT IT DID!!!
Billboard's Top 200 #1 Charttopper
is Egypt Station.  We think this new album is excellent, with lots of energy and great tunes as only Sir Paul can write and create. Congratulations Paul
on another #1 Album!!!

1767 - EGYPT STATION CD BY PAUL MCCARTNEY BRAND NEW - September 7, 2018 Release. ONLY $14.00 Paul's first album of new music in 5 years. IN STOCK TOMORROW!  1851 - EGYPT STATION - 2 LP 180 GRAM VINYL - September 7, 2018 Release. LIMITED EDTION - ONLY $40.00 IN STOCK TOMORROW! SHOP NOW! BRAND NEW RELEASES SOUND PICTURES OF BEATLES PRODUCER GEORGE MARTIN: THE LATER YEARS, 1966 - 2016 by KENNETH WOMACK FIRST TIME OFFERED! 6356 - SOUND PICTURES: THE LIFE OF BEATLES PRODUCER GEORGE MARTIN: THE LATER YEARS 1966-2016. - SIGNED COPIES  by Kenneth Womack.  Jude will personalize your copy anyway you like.  548 Pages, Hard Cover. Premiered at our recent Chicago FEST, where is sold out!! This week is the official publication of this outstanding book that goes into deep details about the historic Revolver - Abbey Road recording sessions and beyond. Ken has agreed to sing all copies we will be offering. They will be arriving early next week. Be among the first to have this, yet another, must have Beatles related book. BRAND NEW. ONLY $35.00 SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER JUDE SOUTHERLAND KESSLER'S VOLUME 4 IN THE JOHN LENNON SERIES 6355 - SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER -- SIGNED COPIES  by Jude Southerland Kessler. Jude will personalize your copy anyway you like. BRAND NEW. ONLY $30.00 + separate $9.00 Shipping. 984 Pages. Sent directly from Jude to you. (International orders will have additional shipping charges). We were honored to help Jude launch her 4th in a series of 8 books about John Lennon at our recent Chicago FEST. CLICK HERE to read Jude's latest Blog, on the Fest site. Here in Jude's own words:1964! The Beatles made the award-winning film, “A Hard Day’s Night” and created/recorded the accompanying, best-selling soundtrack. They completed a World Tour, a Scottish sojourn, a lengthy North American Tour hitting cities all across the U.S. and Canada. And then, they returned to England to record their second LP of the year, Beatles for Sale. But that wasn’t enough! No, the Fab Four set out on a five-week tour of the United Kingdom whilst recording their second Christmas Fan Club record and preparing for The Beatles Christmas show! And on top of that, John Lennon penned the acclaimed best-selling book, In His Own Write, and won the prestigious Foyles Literary Award. His wife, Cynthia, and John bought a new home and completely remodeled it while raising a toddler and trekking together to Ireland and Tahiti. All this without even mentioning the scads of interviews, new conferences, radio shows, television specials, and photographs. What a year! And every single moment of it is brought to life in Vol. 4 of The John Lennon Series, Should Have Known Better! Fasten your “safety belts” for this page-turning, incredibly wild ride with John and the lads! JOHN LENNON  IMAGINE - THE ULTIMATE MIXES COMING OCTOBER 5TH! AVAILABLE IN FOUR CONFIGURATIONS! RESERVE NOW! This is turning out to be quite a season for Beatles related releases. First, Yellow Submarine was in theatres around the country most of the summer, A Limited Edition Color Vinyl Single of Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby was issued to go along with the movie. Paul's new CD Egypt Station is being released this Friday. Imagine John Yoko Book was announced in July and now a full reworking of John's classic 1971 album Imagine is also coming out during John's birthday week in October. PLUS, we have the White Album to look forward to later this year. All we can say is WOW!!! 1350 - JOHN LENNON: IMAGINE THE ULTIMATE MIXES COLLECTION BOX SET BRAND NEW, October 5th Release.RESERVE NOW. ONLY $95.00 Super Deluxe version includes 4CDs (new stereo mix, outtakes, raw studio recordings, track-by-track) and 2 BluRays (5.1 surround mixes, HD audio, Elements mixes, Elliot Mintz audio documentary + 120 Page book). For those who want to know everything about this release, here is the official release. READ FULL DESCRIPTION AND ALL TRACKS BY CLICKING THE IMAGE OR ITEM NUMBER 1344 - IMAGINE DELUXE 2 CD SET - Oct 5th Release RESERVE NOW BRAND NEW   ONLY $24.00  Disc One is identical to the one in the Ultimate Collection above. The second disc includes: 1. Imagine (Elements Mix), 2. Jealous Guy (Elements Mix), 3. Oh My Love (Elements Mix), 4. How? (Demo Version), 5. Imagine (Demo Version), 6. Imagine (Take 1 Version), 7. Crippled Inside (Take 3), 8. Crippled Inside (Take 6/ Alternate Guitar Solo), 9. Jealous Guy (Take 9), 10. It's So Hard (Take 6), 11. I Don't Wanna Be A Solider Mama I Don't Wanna Die (Take 11), 12. Gimme Some Truth (Take 4), 13. Oh My Love (Take 6), 14. How Do You Sleep (Take 1 & 2), 15. How? (Take 31) , 16. Oh Yoko! (Live At The Sheraton Hotel, Bahamas/1969, 17. Power To The People (Take 7), 18. God Save Us (Demo), 19. Do The Oz (Take 3), 20. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (Alternate Mix) 1343 - IMAGINE - THE ULTIMATE MIX CD -ONLY $14.00  1. Imagine (Ultimate Mix) 2. Crippled Inside (Ultimate Mix) 3. Jealous Guy (Ultimate Mix) 4. It’s So Hard (Ultimate Mix) 5. I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (Ultimate Mix) 6. Gimme Some Truth (Ultimate Mix) 7. Oh My Love (Ultimate Mix) 8. How Do You Sleep? (Ultimate Mix) 9. How? (Ultimate Mix) 10. Oh Yoko! (Ultimate Mix) 11. Power To The People (Ultimate Mix) 12. Well (Baby Please Don’t Go) (Ultimate Mix) 13. God Save Us (Ultimate Mix) 14. Do The Oz (Ultimate Mix) 15. God Save Oz (Ultimate Mix) 16. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (Ultimate Mix) 1852 - JOHN LENNON IMAGINE TWO DISC 180 GRAM VINYL Oct 5th Release. RESERVE NOW- ONLY $40.00 Release Date - October 5th 2268 - IMAGINE & GIMME SOME TRUTH FILMS ON DVD -with bonus material. This is not in the Box set ONLY $16.00 1134 - IMAGINE & GIMME SOME TRUTH FILMS ON BLURAY  -with bonus material. This is not in the Box set. ONLY $22.00 As if all the events of this past week weren't enough, Imagine is playing all around the country this coming Monday, September 17th. Some theatres are just having one showing and some are playing it all week. There are three bonus tracks never been shown before, at the end of the film. Check it out at www.imaginefilmtickets.com for a theatre in your vicinity. MORE NEW RELEASES 6354 - IMAGINE JOHN YOKO BOOK BRAND NEW - With contributions from the people who were there. Hardcover, 320 pgs. List Price $50.00 John Lennon and Yoko Ono's revelatory story of the making of the seminal 1971 album, "Imagine". It will tell through predominantly unseen photographs, artifacts and new interviews with everyone who was there how the album was conceived and recorded during an astonishingly creative year in John & Yoko's careers. Authored and curated by Yoko Ono herself, the book's timely release follows this year's announcement of her official co-credit on the title track which was in accordance with John's wishes and inspired by her 1964 book "Grapefruit". "Imagine" will be published on October 9, 2018, John Lennon's birthday, as a long-overdue and fitting tribute to one of the most important songs, albums and creative collaborations of the 20th century NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN MATERIAL: Features 80% unseen archive photos of all the key players, together wit every lyric sheet, all the tape boxes, the contact sheets panoramic shots of the interiors stitched from the newly remastered movies and photos of art installations created by Yoko Ono in 1971. RESERVE NOW! $46.00 6025 - IMAGINE JOHN YOKO COLLECTOR'S LIMITED EDITION BOOK  BRAND NEW Contains over 180 additional pages. $250.00 NEW HATS & BEANIES BEATLES LOGO HATS - $20.00 EACH 2031 - BLACK 2032 - BLUE DENIM 2033 - RED 2034 - WHITE BEATLES SGT. PEPPER HATS - $20.00 EACH 2039 - BLACK 2040 - GREY 2041 - WHITE YELLOW SUBMARINE HATS - $20.00 EACH 2044 - MEDIUM BLUE  2045 - NAVY 2046 - SAND BEATLES BEANIES - $20.00 EACH 2061 - BEATLES LOGO BLACK 2062 - SGT. PEPPER BLACK 2063 - YELLOW SUBMARINE BLACK

NOW IN STOCK The graphics in this book are just breathtaking. Every page is a winner, and follows the original story line. 6351 - YELLOW SUBMARINE GRAPHIC NOVEL by Bill Morrison.  ONLY $28.00  The music-loving, underwater paradise of Pepperland has been overrun by the music-hating Blue Meanies and their leader, Chief Blue Meanie. They turn the people of Pepperland into living statues by dropping apples on them and imprison the Pepperland's guardians, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band inside a soundproof blue glass globe, before confiscating all the music instruments in the land. Pepperland's mayor sends aging sailor, Young Fred out in the fabled Yellow Submarine to find help. He travels to our world where he stumbles across the Beatles and begs them to help him free his world. They agree and head back to Pepperland, teaming up with Jeremy The Nowhere Man along the way to help overthrow the evil Blue Meanies through the power of music and love. Hard Cover 128 Pages. We thank all of you who joined us at our 42nd annual Chicago FEST FOR BEATLES FANS. We had a fantastic line up of special guests, including British Invasion legends, Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde & Bill J. Kramer, Roy Orbison Jr., Jack Douglas, Geoff Emerick, Leslie Cavendish, 'Little Nicola', The Weeklings, Sandalwood Sitar, and live concerts each evening by LIVERPOOL. In the next week or so, we will be doing a complete wrapup of the celebration. In the meantime, here is a LINK to the first of many hundreds of images from Chicago. 6021 - THE BEATLES IN STEREOSCOPIC PROJECT - BRAND NEW - ONLY  $110.00 INCLUDES SHIPPING.  Simon Weitzman tells us all of the standard editions were shipped at the beginning of this past week.So they should start to be arriving next week,  from the U.K.! He again thanks you for you patience. Limited Edition of only 945 copies worldwide. Exclusively offered in the U.S. by The Fest. The world's first 3D photographic album on The Beatles, using state-of-the-art technology to generate stereographic photography (3D). The Beatles were never photographed in 3D, but Archivum has created an innovative and immersive way to allow fans to virtually step back in time and experience The Beatles as if they were right there in the moment, delivering a completely new experience to Beatles fans of all generations around the world. Presented in a specially engineered 10 inch collectors album box 'The Beatles In Stereoscopic 3D' features an accompanying 8 page overview booklet, high quality metal stereograph viewer and 50 digitally mastered viewable stereographic cards painstakingly re-imagined from our Beatles photographic vaults. This first introductory volume, to be released in 2018, covers the high points of The Beatles overall career. There are only 945 first editions available of this uniquely collectable set, all signed and numbered by the curators, artists and authors. And while the campaign is on submit images that you own the copyright to and we may be able to include them in the final production. Contact us here to find out more. Add this unique box set to your collection. Buy it for yourself, your parents, your grand parents and your children. Come and meet The Beatles in 3D! The Super Fan's Edition had some final tweaking this week and Simon expects to ship these out next week.

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