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Here we start the "legends" of Rock N Roll, Bards,
Psychedelic and Acid Rock bands and musicians.
I
will, in most cases, only be featuring their work from the 60s
and 70s other
than the new releases or the DVD's that are just too HOT not
to include.
The brief bio's I got from Wikipedia, so they're fairly clinical
and impersonal..sorry!
howvever, they will enlighten the young ones and remind us of
those incredible years we loved so much
and the musical signatures and legacies of the Hippie Era, Woodstock
Generation, the Peace and Love Revolution,
where free thinkers and free spirits came together in one family.
There
will only be DVD reviews and some Boxed Set or Compilation reviews.
Along with books and other interesting information.
If
you want to see reviews or listen to cuts of the albums just
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on the albums image and go for it.
LionHeart
June 2007
PENNY LANE!
After
Lennon composed his surreal "Strawberry Fields Forever,"
a song about his Liverpool childhood,
McCartney wrote his own, snappy memoir.
(Both songs were pulled from Sgt. Pepper
and released as a single, with no indication as to which was
supposed to be the A side;
"Penny Lane" appeared later that year on the soundtrack
album to Magical Mystery Tour.)
The places named in the lyrics are all real: Penny Lane was
a Liverpool bus stop where Lennon and McCartney would often
meet.
"John came over and helped me with the third verse, as
was often the case," McCartney said.
"We were writing childhood memories:
recently faded memories from eight or ten years before."
Formed: 1960
in Liverpool, England
Years Active: 1960 through 1970.
Group's Main Members:
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
“The
story began in Harold Macmillan’s “never had it so good”
‘50s Britain.
It should be fiction: four teenagers with no more than eight O’Levels
between them,
running and biking and busing and busking all over Liverpool in
search
of new chords and old guitars and half-decent drum kit and any
gig at all.
They
were determined to amount to something
– in George’s words “we just
had this amazing inner feeling of:
‘We’re going to do it’. I
don’t know why… we were just cocky” – and
make a record
(in Ringo’s words you’d kill for that bit of plastic
and make some money
and have a laugh and shout. That would do to be going on with.)
Six
years later, they were the four most famous band on earth,
the best dressed and on a good day the most captivating people
anyone can remember.
The narrative that began where Paul met John and clicked at a
garden party in leafy Liverpool,
and ended in high dudgeon in high-end London,
is so far fetched that it needs the power of a song punctuating
every page to remind you with a joyous jolt that it was all true.
We
didn’t dream it…though it came out of John’s dream
of the “man on a flaming pie” who said
“You are Beatles with an ‘A’”.
It did all happen.
The whole wonderful thing did happen,
a long time ago, on the Mersey, on the Elbe, by the Thames and
the Hudson River.
There
was of course several sides to the Beatles.
They not only changed how music was written, put out and sounded,
but lead the baby boomers to social change and rebellion against
the establishment.
They may not have started the hippie movment, but they did help
made it popular.
They also were amongst the first to publicly speak out about their
drug use and question the stiff, unjust drug laws.
They would in turn pay the price for those views with their own
drug arrests.
No question, the Beatles timing was right.
There will never again be a band that shapes the world the way
the Beatles did.
Amazing
and awesome and, nearly forty years on, forever young.
STRAWBERRY
FIELDS FOREVER!
Lennon often considered "Strawberry Fields
Forever" his greatest accomplishment with the Beatles.
The song, a surreal kaleidoscope of sound, was the first track recorded
for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(although it was subsequently released as a single instead).
The lyrics are a nostalgic look at Lennon's
Liverpool childhood and an expression of his own pride.
Said Lennon,
"The second line goes, 'No one I think is in my tree.
' Well, what I was trying to say in that line is,
'Nobody seems to be as hip as me, therefore I must be crazy or a
genius.' "
Appears on: Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)
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Please,Please
Me! (1963)
A Hard Day's Night(1964)
Help! (1965)
Rubber Soul (1965)
Revolver (1966)
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Magical
Mystery Tour (1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Heart's Club Band (1967)
The White Album-The Beatles- (1968)
The Yellow Submarine (1969)
Abbey Road (1969)
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The
Beatles DVD's
The
Concert for Bangladesh (Limited Deluxe Edition)
• Actors: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ringo
Starr, Eric Clapton, many more....
• Directors: Saul Swimmer
• DVD Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Run Time: 95 min (original theatrical or airing runtime)
George Harrison organized this spectacular
concert on August 1, 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden
to help and aid the people from Bangladesh with all the money
raised destined to that cause. Along with Harrison the concert
features Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Rusell,
Klaus Voormann and an Indian music section by Ravi Shankar and
a set by the legendary Bob Dylan.
The
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)DVD
• Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison,
Ringo Starr, Vivian Stanshall, See more
• Directors: George Harrison, John Lennon
• Number of discs: 1
• DVD Release Date: November 12, 1997
• Run Time: 50 minutes
This 1968 oddity is probably a film only
a total Beatlemaniac could love, but it carries both musical
and historical resonance. It also gives intimations of what
would happen in the next 30 years as artists gained more and
more popularity.
Yellow
Submarine (1968)DVD
• Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison,
Ringo Starr, Paul Angelis, See more
• Directors: George Dunning
• Number of discs: 1
• DVD Release Date: September 14, 1999
• Run Time: 88 minutes
The Beatles, at the height of their popularity,
made this cartoon of a land that is taken over by the Blue Meanies.
They are recruited by an escapee to come and bring joy (and
music) back to the land. The techniques are quite psychedelic
in the cartoons and much care was taken to have the walks and
mannerisms of the individual Beatles cartoons match the originals.
Imagine
(Deluxe Edition) (1988)DVD
• Actors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, George
Harrison, Ringo Starr, See more
• Directors: Andrew Solt
• DVD Release Date: December 6, 2005
• Run Time: 106 minutes
This "biography" evolves around
the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken
by Lennon of his life. The archive footage is transformed
into a fascinating life story of one of the most complex and
fascinating men of the modern music era. This effort includes
a 36 song soundtrack. Includes some very personal and insightful
footage, never before made available to the public.
A
Concert for George
(2003)DVD
• Actors: Gary Brooker, Joe Brown, Sam Brown, Jim Capaldi,
Eric Clapton, and many more.
• Directors: David Leland
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
• Run Time: 146 min (original theatrical or airing runtime)
George Harrison's friends, family, and bandmates
unite for a tribute concert on the one-year anniversary of his
death.
The
Beatles Anthology (1995)DVD
Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo
Starr, Neil Aspinall, See more
Directors: Bob Smeaton, Geoff Wonfor
DVD Release Date: April 1, 2003
Run Time: 600 min (original theatrical or airing runtime
Contains all 8 original video programs
on 4 DVDs
Production Team: The team behind the Anthology series discuss
how the programmes were made
Newly mixed in 5.1 surround sound with picture restoration
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