Category : Tout sur les Beatles

How San Francisco’s hippy explosion shaped the modern world

You Say You Want a Revolution, the V&A’s new exhibition, explores the birth of late-1960s counterculture that helped spawn Silicon Valley. Alex Needham takes a tour of where it all began, guided by former hippies and subversive visionariesOn 12 J...

1966: The Greatest Year EVER For Music!

By Randy Lewis the Los Angeles Times What’s the most innovative year ever for rock ’n’ roll? Fans, critics and academics have any number of watershed years they can point to in the more than six decades of post-World War II popular mus...

1966: Greatest Music Year Ever!

by Randy Lewis, the Los Angeles Times | What’s the most innovative year ever for rock ’n’ roll? Fans, critics and academics have any number of watershed years they can point to in the more than six decades of post-World War II popular...

Paul McCartney signs to Capitol Records

Paul McCartney is getting back to where he once belonged, returning to Capitol Records in a deal which encompasses his future releases as well as his entire catalogue of post-Beatles master recordings as a solo artist and with Wings. Although Capitol...

Paul McCartney Signs Worldwide Deal with Capitol Records!

from Billboard Magazine by Shirley Halperin Paul McCartney is returning to Capitol Records, signing a new worldwide recording agreement, the Universal Music Group label announces today. What’s being billed as a “historic deal” will...

Macca Signs Global Capitol Pact!

by Shirley Halperin, Billboard Magazine | Paul McCartney is returning to Capitol Records, signing a new worldwide recording agreement, the Universal Music Group label announces today. What’s being billed as a “historic deal” will en...

The Beatles release Revolver – archive, 15 August 1966

15 August 1966: Edward Greenfield reviews The Beatles’ latest album“Turn off your mind; relax and float downstream; it is not dying. Lay down all thought; surrender to the voice: it is shining. That you may see the meaning of within: it is being.”A c...

Paul McCartney Looks Back: The Rolling Stone Interview

from Rolling Stone Magazine | Paul McCartney strums an acoustic guitar on a sofa in his London office, humming to himself as he tries to recall a melody from his adolescence – one of the first, never-recorded songs he wrote with his teenage friend J...

McCartney Reflects: The Rolling Stone Interview

Beatles’ ‘Revolver’: 15 Things You Didn’t Know

from Rolling Stone Magazine | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked the Beatles‘ cultural apex, effectively re-tuning the zeitgeist of Western society in 1967’s Summer of Love, but its predecessor – Revolver, rel...

How ‘Beat Bugs’ Sells the Beatles to a New Generation

from Rolling Stone magazine | & Jasper, a grasshopper with a cane and a top hat, is caught in a plastic box that he sees as an opportunity. “Hop on board this luxurious viewing vehicle,” he tells five little bugs staring back at him...

Owen Holder obituary

My father, Owen Holder, who has died aged 95, was a playwright, actor, theatre director and television scriptwriter. He appeared on stage in the West End and toured all over the US.His father, Harry, died when Owen was eight, which made him determine...

SHEA STADIUM GIG TO SCREEN AS PART OF THEATRICAL RELEASE OF THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS

The restored, remastered Shea Stadium performance will screen as part of the worldwide theatrical release of Academy Award®-winner Ron Howard’s authorized documentary feature film The Beatles played Shea Stadium on August 15th 1965 in what was to be...

Shea Stadium Gig Screens, Part Of Theatrical Release: The Touring Years

Beatlesarama sources | The restored, remastered Shea Stadium Beatles performance will screen as part of the worldwide theatrical release of Academy Award®-winner Ron Howard’s authorized documentary feature film.” The Beatles played Shea Stadiu...

Denny Laine Gets Special Beatles Tour of Los Angeles

by Adam Forrest | Last Sunday, Gillian Lomax’s Beatles Magical History Tours of Los Angeles had a very special guest, founding member of The Moody Blues and guitarist with Paul McCartney and Wings, Denny Laine. According to Gillian, there were...