Beatles thread

[dino]

woodostock 1969, The promoters contacted John Lennon, requesting The Beatles to perform. Lennon said that he couldn't get the Beatles, but offered to play with his Plastic Ono Band. The promoters turned him down.

how come they turned them down???

[zilla]

They were afraid Yoko would start screaming and scare everyone away.

[bart]

That's true. But I believe the exact words they used were "that would be a real downer, man."

[manho]

sounds like bullshit to me. there was no plastic ono band in august 69:

"The single release of "Give Peace a Chance" in July 1969, recorded in a hotel room in Montreal, Canada with many participants, was the first release to bear the credit the Plastic Ono Band.
The only album solely credited to the Plastic Ono Band, Live Peace in Toronto 1969, was recorded during the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival in September that year and featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass (an old friend of Lennon's from Germany, who was famous for the cover art of the Beatles' Revolver album) and Alan White"

before woodstock the plastic ono band was just lennon and yoko.

where is the evidence for this story?

[trex]

" The promoters contacted John Lennon, requesting The Beatles to perform"

lennon probably would have told them where they could shove the beatles

[manho]

sparks were very big in england in the early 70s. their first three singles were interesting: this town ain't big enough for the both of us, amateur hour, never turn your back on mother earth.

here's the second single, amateur hour:
www.sendspace.com/file/rrbvdu

and here are two bits of street cred. siousxie & the banshees covered their first big hit and they had a cool manager. fat guy called albert.

siousxie & the banshees, this town ain't big enough for the both of us:
www.sendspace.com/file/ukvfh7

[Steve]

toom likes sparks a lot.

[dino]

early 70s?? that guy was looking like a 30 years old person

[cripes]

www.variety.com/VR1117972815.html

Scorsese to direct Harrison film

Docu to cover artist's music, movie careers

By MICHAEL FLEMING Martin Scorsese has committed to direct an untitled documentary about the life of George Harrison.
Scorsese will produce with Harrison's widow Olivia and Nigel Sinclair in a co-production between Scorsese's Sikelia Prods., Harrison's Grove Street Prods., and Sinclair's Spitfire Pictures.

The docu is being constructed as a theatrical release, and the Harrison family will supply materials from its extensive archive. Interviews and early production will begin later this year, and the film will take several years to complete.

Pic will cover Harrison's Beatles career and later years that included a successful solo music career as well as a foray as a movie mogul when he backed Handmade Films and made pics such as "Monty Python's Life of Brian" and "Time Bandits." Scorsese, who explored themes of faith in "Kundun" and "The Last Temptation of Christ," will also focus closely on the Eastern spiritual pursuits that were central to Harrison's life.

The docu will be edited by David Tedeschi, who served the same role on the Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones film "Shine A Light." Tedeschi was also editor on the Scorsese-directed "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan."

Spitfire's Sinclair was a producer on the Dylan film with Scorsese, and he just teamed with Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend as a producer on "Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who," which will be released on DVD by Universal on Nov. 5.

Sikelia's Margaret Bodde will be exec producer of the Harrison film.

"George Harrison's music and his search for spiritual meaning is a story that still resonates today and I'm looking forward to delving deeper," Scorsese said.

It is expected that Harrison's surviving Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will participate, as well as the Beatles' Apple Records, which counts Olivia Harrison as a partner.

Harrison met her husband in 1974 and they were together until he died of lung cancer at age 58 in 2001. The two of them famously fought off and subdued an attacker who broke into the Harrison home and stabbed the guitarist several times in 1999. She was also the catalyst for the tribute show "The Concert for George," and organized a reissue of "The Concert for Bangladesh," which Harrison put together in 1971.

"It would have given George great joy to know that Martin Scorsese has agreed to tell his story," she said.

[dino]

surely cant be bad as that todd haynes of my ass thingie, right?

[manho]

possible titles for the george film:

Miserable Cunt
Cheer up, George, you're a fucking multi-millionaire
Stop that moaning, you useless twat
No George, levitation is impossible, you credulous dickhead

[dino]

he, i like the last one the better

[zilla]

What the hell is that "Shine A Light"? Also that Who film? I haven't heard of them. Marty really is going to town with these rock docs, huh?

Thanks for the heads up Cripes.

[manho]

Across the Universe
(Cert 12A)

Andrew Pulver
Friday September 28, 2007
The Guardian

Not quite the most barking idea of the week (that award, surely, must go to Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9) - but it runs it pretty close: a musical scored solely with Beatles songs, wrapped around a rambling (and inescapably idiotic) story involving two 60s kids called (what else?) Jude and Lucy - one British, one American - who find themselves involved in one stock peace-and-love situation after another. Filled with clunky Fab Four references (example: "Where did she come from?" asks someone of a new arrival; "She came in through the bathroom window," is the reply), this is the 1960s very much as the High School Musical generation must see it. After two hours of butchered classics, it's just a relief when it's over.


does that dialogue remind anybody of a recent todd haynes film?

[bart]

"where'd boby go?

"i think he went out back to blow ginsburg."

[manho]

there's also a sparks link to peter cook:

"In 1979 Cook recorded comedy-segments which were released as b-sides to the Sparks 12" singles Number One In Heaven and Tryouts For The Human Race"

maybe sparks are the link that links everything in the universe to everything else in the universe?

[dino]

give me the link then

[bart]

I know you're just having a bit of fun, nick, but it kinda pisses me off when guys slag Harrison.

According to people who've known him, he was the least haughty of the Fab Four, and had a great sense of humor--even surpassing Lennon in that regard in the later years. Although he comes in third of the four in writing and singing, I think he was vastly under-rated in terms of his musical contributions as well.

Here's a little nugget I've recently come across: An early, live version (the only one that I'm aware of) of the song "Any Road," which was on his last release, retitled here "If You Don't Know." According to the notes, it was a SNL outtake, probably from the 1980s.


www.sendspace.com/file/ojgzbe

[manho]

"it kinda pisses me off when guys slag Harrison"

i think you'll find it's just me. everybody else seems to love him.

any road, here's a little bit of liverpool culture for youse. the song title has a nice double meaning cos, "any road", in liverpool dialect means, anyway, or, whatever.

[owen]

"and had a great sense of humor--even surpassing Lennon in that regard in the later years"

when i first saw this i thought it was lennon who says "sod" at the end but it actually sounds like george. beatles and ken dodd:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Ef0SrTAvc