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Reply #80 on: December 22, 2010, 07:00:23 PM
Beatles' Abbey Road zebra crossing wins listed status
Its place in rock-and-roll history is already assured. Now the future of the Abbey Road zebra crossing is to be safeguarded as well.

The album cover of 'Abbey Road' featured the fab four on the crossing


The north London crossing that featured on the cover of The Beatles' 1969 album is to be given listed status, the first time the accolade has been given to a piece of road furniture. It follows the listing of the Abbey Road studios building earlier this year, and the crossing's growing status as one of the capital's most popular tourist attractions.

John Penrose, the tourism minister, will announce today that the Government is to publish an order granting the crossing Grade II-listed status on the advice of English Heritage. A Grade II listing, the most common protected status, means that a building or monument is recognised as nationally important and of special interest.

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Reply #81 on: December 23, 2010, 08:37:41 PM
8. If you trace the dots in the upper left corner, it says "3 Beatles"


My dad showed me so many of these.. there are a ton of other "clues" from Revolver on up...

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Reply #82 on: December 24, 2010, 11:47:10 PM
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Reply #83 on: December 26, 2010, 08:32:42 AM


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Reply #84 on: December 26, 2010, 08:42:42 AM
I remember listening to this album at an all night party Christmas eve 1967, I was a teenager, just left school, I can still remember the light cast by the mathmos lamp glowing red on everyone packed in that room.


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Reply #85 on: December 26, 2010, 02:30:05 PM
Quote from: Grm on December 26, 2010, 08:42:42 AM
I remember listening to this album at an all night party Christmas eve 1967, I was a teenager, just left school, I can still remember the light cast by the mathmos lamp glowing red on everyone packed in that room.

Wasn't it great that we, as teenagers, heard the Beatles as they were making what later was to become musical history?  Sometimes being "old" has its benefits. ;D 

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Reply #86 on: February 12, 2011, 05:43:40 AM
The Beatles were a great band, but unfortunately their hagiographers sometimes get in the way of things.  I find them both vastly over and underrated at the same time.  Harrison was a very idiosyncratric guitar player,you know right away when its him but not in the league of Jimi or Clapton.  Macca doesn't get nearly enough credit for being an awesome bassist.  Ringo parlayed being in the right place at the right time into a career and his All-Starr gigs are usually pretty rocking.  Lennon is easily my least favorite Beatle but more for his more experimental stuff.  None of them except Paul and George are approaching what I'd consider muscial viruosity, but they were vastly more than the sum of their parts.  For my money I like their Revolver period best, feeling some of their later albums were a bit excessive.  Lennon/McCartney remains the most important name in songwriting, but we have more what Macca's views were.  I also ding the Beatles heavily because 1) they did not tour the way later bands did and 2) mattered more in their early days for showing up as opposed to playing due to amp limitations.  This isn't meant to slam the Beatles but its difficult to get a really good appraisal from 50 years later.  All that said I'll take their filler over many bands' hits.

I noticed the Stones mentioned early in the thread...they did innovate some earlier on, competition is a good thing.  But everything since Sticky Fingers sounds exactly the same.  Ronnie Wood's solo stuff is worth checking out, though. 


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Reply #87 on: March 26, 2011, 06:19:46 AM
I love the beatles!


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Reply #88 on: April 10, 2011, 03:33:28 PM
Ideal business model: Learn from the Beatles

Everything budding entrepreneurs and venture capitalists need to know, they can learn from The Beatles, says a new book.

Come Together: the Business Wisdom of The Beatles, by Richard Courtney and George Cassidy, parallel The Beatles’ actions with lessons on business strategy, taxes and revenue.

“We look at their career as the business model it is: the most successful of all time and one that is easily adaptable,” Courtney said.

Among the lessons:

♦ In their early years, the Beatles would play eight hours a day over four sets in Hamburg, Germany. “Work like a dog. Eight days a week, if possible,” the authors write.

♦ Get “a little help from your friends.” Paul enlisted pal George Harrison to join. “Seek acquaintances with skills you lack,” they say.

♦ Watch the finances. The Fab Four were great musicians but terrible businessman at the start, earning far less than they should have. Hire an expert.

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Reply #89 on: May 10, 2011, 05:49:07 PM
Quote from: Gia1978 on September 21, 2009, 12:21:11 AM
How many Rolling Stones songs did the Beatles perform? Oh that's right.... NONE!

...or the movies and cartoons produced with the Rolling Stones?

...or how about all those remastered stereo and mono box sets of the entire Rolling Stones catalog that have been sold recently?

...or the amazing documentary on 5 DVD's called the "Rolling Stones Anthology".

...or the CD called "1" that featured all 27 of their number one singles?

...or the fantastic Rolling Stones edition of Rock Band?

...or all the hundreds and hundreds of books about "Stonesmania"?

...or the unbelievable wide range of cover versions of Stones songs recorded over the years by everyone from Count Basie to U2?

Yeah.... not so much.

The songs of Lennon and McCartney have stood the test of time and will continue to do so long after they have passed on. Hell long after I have passed on, and I was born eight years after they broke up!

In a period of seven short years, the Beatles not only redefined the fad known as Rock & Roll to entire world, they re-invented their style and sound no less than four times:

1963-64: The Moptops (The prototype for all Boy-Bands)
1965-66: Cool Hipster Stoners
1967-68: Mod Psychedelic Warriors
1969-70: Spiritual Revolutionaries

As to the Rolling Stones, they always took their cues from the Beatles, and if you break it down... they truly owed their initial success to George Harrison who recommended signing them to Dick Rowe (The man from Decca who rejected the Beatles as a passe guitar group, on their way out.)

Take for example "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" which is a vastly superior incarnation of The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request", the record that ironically came out seven months after Sgt. Pepper.

Pop archivists are clearly intrigued by this strange parallel between the Beatles and the Stones catalog... it often seems as if every interesting thing The Rolling Stones ever did was directly preceded by something the Beatles had already accomplished, and (to me) it feels like the Stones completely stopped evolving once the Beatles broke up in 1970. For fucks sake, they fired their most talented member (Mick Taylor) for not having the "Stones sound".

The Rolling Stones had just 8 number 1 singles in their career which continues as of today: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Get Off Of My Cloud - Paint It, Black - Ruby Tuesday - Honky Tonk Women - Brown Sugar - Angie and lastly, Miss You (which was in 1978... the year I came to be!)

Whereas the Beatles had no less than 27 #1 hits in a remarkable seven-year run of musical evolution, one that stretches from the neo-skiffle of "Love Me Do" through a remarkable synthesis of R&B, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley, gospel, country, and classical that still defies efforts to effectively deconstruct it.

These songs are so prolific and popular that they were compiled into a CD in November of 2000 with worldwide sales that have to date, exceeded 31 million copies worldwide, with 10 million of those sales being in the U.S. alone.

****{^}****

The Rolling Stones undoubtedly were a great rock band and had some really awesome songs... But the enduring legacy of the Fab Four will NEVER be matched.

There will always be those who prefer the sloppy, harder edge of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards...

However, the charm, style, musical invention and huge list of ground-breaking work by John, Paul, George and Ringo is and will be an island never visited by any other band.

... JUST SAYIN.

Rolling Stones Never... BEATLES FOREVER!

GET BACK 1969



All I can add is ditto!  You pretty much made my argument for me.  And as for the Stones still touring, why?  Can there really be that many people waiting to see the corpse of Keith Richards?  Or are they hoping to see Jagger break a hip?  They should have stopped touring about '75 or so.


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Reply #90 on: May 29, 2011, 07:58:42 PM
I'd forgotten how much I liked this, Paul McCartney and Wings big hit of 1974, I was married in June of that year. I remember this playing over and over again, we still hadn't got used to Paul not in the Beatles.


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Reply #91 on: June 02, 2011, 11:35:41 PM
Quote from: Gia1978 on September 21, 2009, 12:21:11 AM

Whereas the Beatles had no less than 27 #1 hits in a remarkable seven-year run of musical evolution, one that stretches from the neo-skiffle of "Love Me Do" through a remarkable synthesis of R&B, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley, gospel, country, and classical that still defies efforts to effectively deconstruct it.

I would also add blues, musical theater, folk, and vaudeville.

I just finished reading the new Keith Richards books, and at several points, albeit subtly, he makes disparaging remarks about the Beatles. Sounded like sour grapes to me.




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Reply #92 on: June 03, 2011, 12:57:03 AM
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I would also add blues, musical theater, folk, and vaudeville.

Good point, Miss B!

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On a related update: The Beatles' three remastered "Anthology" music collections make worldwide digital debut exclusively on iTunes June 14th.

http://www.beatles.com/#/news/The_Beatles_three_remastered
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Reply #93 on: June 04, 2011, 03:31:04 AM
awesome. And of course, my favorite; Will you still need me? Will you still feed me?  :emot_kiss:

one of the originals

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Reply #94 on: June 04, 2011, 03:40:17 AM
when I'm 64....... ;D

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Reply #95 on: June 04, 2011, 03:44:31 AM
lol, when YOU Are 64

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Reply #96 on: June 04, 2011, 09:14:58 AM
Quote from: watcher1 on June 04, 2011, 03:40:17 AM
when I'm 64....... ;D

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Reply #97 on: June 04, 2011, 01:45:34 PM
Quote from: Bexy on June 04, 2011, 09:14:58 AM
Quote from: watcher1 on June 04, 2011, 03:40:17 AM
when I'm 64....... ;D

I`ll save you some peanuts...ah no...that`s for parrots right?  ;D

Some nice Belgian chocolate would be fine..... ;D

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Reply #98 on: June 18, 2011, 09:32:06 PM
When I'm 69?!? :emot_weird:


HAPPY 69th BIRTHDAY, SIR JAMES PAUL McCARTNEY!!!
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Reply #99 on: June 23, 2011, 09:48:02 AM
McCartney & McCartney II Reissues now available!

http://www.paulmccartney.com/mccartney/usd.php
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