01 Feb
2012
2012
Ringo Starr stopped by the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for an interview and performed “Wings” and “I Wanna Be Your Man.”
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Posts Tagged ‘The Beatles’
01 Nov
2010
2010
MPL and the Concord Music Group are pleased to announce the re-release of Paul McCartney & Wings’ iconic Band on the Run on November 2nd, 2010. Heralded as one of the greatest albums of all time, the GRAMMY winning, smash # 1 album – originally released December of 1973 – yielded the immortal title track and world-wide hit “Jet” becoming Wings’ most successful and celebrated album ever.
Paul McCartney personally supervised all aspects of the Band on the Run reissue. The remastering work was done at Abbey Road using the same team who recently remastered the complete Beatles’ catalog.
Band on the Run will be available in a variety of formats originating with the single disc digitally remastered, essential 9-track standard edition. The 3 disc (2CD, 1 DVD) special edition features nine bonus audio tracks (including the top 10 smash “Helen Wheels”), rare footage of the McCartneys in Lagos and behind-the-scenes at the famous album cover shoot, original Band on the Run promotional video clips, the One Hand Clapping television special (highlighted by studio performances filmed at Abbey Road in 1974) all with beautifully enhanced packaging. Collectors will be especially thrilled by the 4 disc (3CD, 1 DVD) deluxe edition which adds an extraordinary 120-page hard bound book containing many unseen and unpublished photos by Linda McCartney and Clive Arrowsmith, album and single artwork, downloadable hi-res audio versions of the remastered album and bonus audio tracks, a full history of the album complete with a new interview with Paul and expanded track by track information for all four discs. The deluxe edition also includes a special Band on the Run audio documentary (originally produced for the 25th Anniversary edition.) The original remastered album and bonus audio content will also be issued in a 2 disc 180gm audiophile vinyl edition that comes with an MP3 download of all 18 tracks. Lastly, the standard and deluxe versions of Band on the Run will be available digitally worldwide.
The musical achievement of Band on the Run is nearly matched by the amazing story behind its creation. Intrigued with recording abroad in the summer of 1973, McCartney searched for a list of studios around the world. Spotting one in the remote location of Lagos, Nigeria, he became enthralled with the idea of recording in Africa. Days before departure, lead guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell quit the band leaving the entire project to the three core members, Paul, his wife Linda McCartney and band-member Denny Laine (along with recording engineer Geoff Emerick). Recorded in August and September of 1973 (with further work done at AIR Studios in London in October 1973), they persevered through a tumultuous, yet creatively invigorating 2 month recording process battling difficult studio conditions, oppressive heat and a dangerous mugging at knife point. The thieves made off with the demo tapes (among other valuables), forcing the band to record the entire album from memory.
Band on the Run triumphed both critically and commercially. The album topped the US album chart 3 separate times, won a Grammy and went on to sell more than 7 million copies. Upon the release of Band on the Run, then Rolling Stone reviewer Jon Landau famously gushed, “The finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called The Beatles.”
Paul is currently playing five songs from the album on his ‘Up and Coming Tour’. Live favorites over the last 8 years of touring have included “Jet”, “Band on the Run” and “Let Me Roll It”. In 2008 when Paul played a free outdoor show to over 500,000 people in Kiev, a Ukrainian poll listed “Mrs Vandebilt” as their all time favorite Paul McCartney song. It’s been included in the set ever since. At the start of this tour Paul added “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” to the set.
Band on the Run marks the first release from the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, an ambitious reissue program that encompasses 40 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history. It’s also the initial physical release of the recently announced agreement between McCartney’s MPL and Concord Music Group to globally market and distribute McCartney’s venerated solo and Wings catalog.
BAND ON THE RUN TRACKLIST:
Remastered Album
1. Band on the Run
2. Jet
3. Bluebird
4. Mrs Vandebilt
5. Let Me Roll It
6. Mamunia
7. No Words
8. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me)
9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
Bonus Audio Tracks
1. Helen Wheels
2. Country Dreamer
3. Bluebird [from One Hand Clapping]
4. Jet [from One Hand Clapping]
5. Let Me Roll It [from One Hand Clapping]
6. Band on the Run [from One Hand Clapping]
7. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five [from One Hand Clapping]
8. Country Dreamer [from One Hand Clapping]
9. Zoo Gang
Audio Documentary
Remastered documentary disc originally produced for the 25th Anniversary release of Band on the Run. Featuring interview contributions from Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Geoff Emerick, Tony Visconti, Al Coury, Clive Arrowsmith, James Coburn, John Conteh, Kenny Lynch, Michael Parkinson, Christopher Lee, Clement Freud, and Dustin Hoffman.
DVD
1. Band on the Run Music Video
2. Mamunia Music Video
3. Album Promo
Featuring Band on the Run, Mrs Vandebilt, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five, Bluebird
4. Helen Wheels Music Video
5. Wings In Lagos
6. Osterley Park
7. One Hand Clapping
07 Oct
2010
2010
Voyageur Press has joined forces with Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot — renowned Chicago rock journalists, critics, and co-hosts of the nationally syndicated public radio program Sound Opinions — for the new book, THE BEATLES VS. THE ROLLING STONES: Sound Opinions on the Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Rivalry. This lovingly assembled tome — the first that compares and contrasts two of rock’s most successful and legendary acts — arrives on October 15th, 2010. The 194-page volume, illustrated throughout with rare photography and memorabilia, and a uniquely designed “flicker” image alternating the Beatles and Stones on the cover, follows more than two dozen topics of debate, with cases being made both for the lads from Liverpool and rock’s proto-bad boys. From the Cavern and Crawdaddy clubs through head-to-head comparisons of specific albums (e.g., Exile on Main St. or The White Album?), members’ roles within the bands, the Svengali-like managers, influential producers, musical influences, movies, and more, this is the book that dares confront the topics over which fans have clashed for almost 50 years.
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Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones have been household names since the 1960s, and continue to thrive to this day. Dropping classic albums such as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beggar’s Banquet, Revolver, and Let It Bleed one after another, the Beatles and the Stones duked it out not only on the charts, but in the hearts of rock fans worldwide. Few rock bands can be listed as more influential than these acts, as they not only broke ground musically, but also affected fashion, politics, and even how we view society in general.
From the beginning to the end of THE BEATLES vs. THE ROLLING STONES: SOUND OPINIONS ON THE GREAT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RIVALRY, readers will be engrossed in a thought-provoking and extensive analysis of what made each of these groups so special, original and enduring. No “stone” is left unturned, as both authors have teamed to assemble a must-read book. And with the Beatles being the best-selling rock band of all time in album sales and the Rolling Stones ranked as the top-grossing live band of all time, it’s bound to be one fierce battle!
In addition to the THE BEATLES vs. THE ROLLING STONES, Voyageur Press will be issuing another volume in their ongoing “Illustrated History” series this fall, Phil Sutcliffe’s AC/DC: The Ultimate Illustrated History. These titles join a trio of releases from last year, Jon Bream’s NEIL DIAMOND IS FOREVER: The Illustrated Story of the Man and His Music , Phil Sutcliffe’s QUEEN: The Crown Kings of Rock, and Jim DeRogatis’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: An Illustrated Historyof A Walk on the Wild Side. All are jam-packed with photos, artifacts, and comprehensive histories of each artist.
ABOUT VOYAGEUR PRESS:
Since 1972, Voyageur Press has published high-quality books and calendars in a variety of subjects, including nature and science, regional interest and travel, American heritage and country life, crafts, sports, and more.
ABOUT JIM DeROGATIS & GREG KOT:
Jim DeRogatis is a full-time lecturer in the English Department at Columbia College Chicago and the co-host of Sound Opinions. He spent 15 years as the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, continues to blog about music at Vocalo.org, and is the author of several books about music and culture, including Velvet Underground (Voyageur Press) and Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs.
Greg Kot has been the Chicago Tribune’s rock music critic since 1990. He co-hosts the nationally syndicated rock ‘n’ roll talk show Sound Opinions (soundopinions.org) on public radio and is the author of Wilco: Learning How to Die and Ripped: The Digital Music Revolution.
For more information on these and other Voyageur titles, go to www.voyageurpress.com.
THE BEATLES VS. THE ROLLING STONES: Sound Opinions On The Great Rock N’ Roll Rivalry
By Jim DeRogatis & Greg Kot
9.5 x 11.125
192 pages, 150 color photos & 250 b/w photos
$35.00 US · £20.00 UK · $39.00 Canada
ISBN-13/ISBN-10: 978-0-7603-3813-1 / 752748338135
Pub Date: October 15, 2010
10 Aug
2010
2010
The longest-running, most successful partnership in the history of rock takes flight anew, as legendary Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductees Carlos Santana and Clive Davis, Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, collaborate on the brand new concept album, GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME, arriving in stores September 21st on Arista Records. The album was co-produced by Howard Benson, Matt Serletic, Carlos Santana and Clive Davis.
Working from their collective encyclopedic knowledge of rock, Carlos Santana and Clive Davis devised a list of guitar-centric titles – and then invited a Who’s Who of guest vocalists to perform on every track. Singers range from Chris Cornell (on Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”), Pat Monahan (on Van Halen’s “Dance the Night Away”), Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (on The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm”), Rob Thomas (on Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love), Scott Weiland (on the Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’”), Chris Daughtry (on Def Leppard’s “Photograph”), Gavin Rossdale (on T. Rex’s “Bang A Gong”) to rapper Nas (on AC/DC’s “Back In Black”), veteran Joe Cocker (on Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing”), and more.
A very special dedication to George Harrison comes together on GUITAR HEAVEN…, with “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” on the album’s first single featuring singer india.arie and master cellist Yo-Yo Ma. “Listening to the song,” Olivia Harrison told Carlos, “it made me jump for joy and cry at the same time.” (Please see below for complete and deluxe edition track listing.)
Along with these stars, Carlos offers “supreme validation and compliment” to his full-time band for their work on GUITAR HEAVEN…, their first entire full-length studio album recording together. Band members who join him on the album include Dennis Chambers (drums), Benny Rietveld (bass), Karl Perrazo (timbales), Tommy Anthony (rhythm guitar), Freddie Ravel (keyboards), Andy Vargas (background vocals), and Raul Rekow (Congas). Bill Ortiz (trumpet) and Jeff Cressman (trombone) also appear on the record.
“To create these songs,” said Carlos, “it took an incredible amount of trust – from Howard Benson and Matt Serletic, and from, and all these incredible singers, all these incredible musicians, they had to trust me, and I trusted Clive, so it’s a chain reaction of love, because that’s the highest form of love that there is on this planet: Trust.”
“The cuts are special and the guest stars are special,” said Clive Davis. “But what is unique and why this album stands for more than just the individual songs or titles, is that they were indeed chosen because they’re guitar classics. And they celebrate the guitar because of the performance of Carlos Santana.”
GUITAR HEAVEN… is the first new studio album by Santana since their trilogy of consecutive blockbuster Arista releases: Supernatural (1999), Shaman (2002), and All That I Am (2005). All three albums were produced by Carlos Santana and Clive Davis. They represented a warm and well-received reunion with the executive who first signed Santana to Columbia Records (after seeing them at San Francisco’s Fillmore West over Christmas week, 1968, at Bill Graham’s request). Clive oversaw their formative years on the path to international superstardom starting in 1969, with the release of their debut album on August 18th, the Monday after their historic Saturday performance at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.
Three decades later in 1999, Supernatural became – and remains – an unsurpassed industry phenom, 15-times RIAA platinum in the U.S. alone, nearly double that number of sales globally, the #6 best-selling album in Soundscan history. Supernatural spent 102 weeks on the Billboard chart including 12 weeks at #1. Its success was fueled by the #1 singles “Smooth” (co-written by and feat ur ing Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty) and “Maria Maria” (featur ing Product G&B).
Most significantly, Supernatural generated nine GRAMMY awards, an all-time record for a single album project, including Album Of the Year and Best Rock Album, as well as Record Of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Collaboration, all for “Smooth”; plus Best Pop Performance by a Duo/Group for “Maria Maria.” There were also premiere Latin GRAMMY Award wins (the show’s first year) for Record Of The Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo/Group.
Supernatural was a hard act to follow – but 2002’s Shaman gave Santana a second consecutive #1 multi-platinum album, propelled by the GRAMMY-winning Top 5 single “The Game of Love” featuring Michelle Branch; and Top 10 “Why Don’t You and I” with Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. Third in this series of collaborative albums was 2005’s All That I Am, which entered Soundscan at #2, highlighted by the anthemic rocker “Just Feel Better,” featuring Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
Ultimate Santana was released in 2007, the first career-spanning anthology to include touchstone tracks from the band’s earliest hitmaking years on Columbia Records (“Evil Ways,” “Black Magic Woman,” “Oye Como Va,” “Samba Pa Ti,” “Everybody’s Everything,” “No One To Depend On,” “Europa”) – alongside material from the three Arista albums, the groundbreaking collaborations plus new and previously unreleased tracks.
It has been more than 40 years since the original Santana Blues Band played its first shows at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West in San Francisco, opening for The Who in October 1967. Santana is unique among all the first generation Bay Area bands for sustaining its success on the charts and on the road as a sold-out stadium attraction. Their track record boasts 20 RIAA gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums (including their first 14 consecutive certifications) and lifetime sales of more than 90 million albums worldwide. GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME carries the continuum to the next generation.
GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME
Standard edition – final track listing:
“Whole Lotta Love” featuring Chris Cornell (Led Zeppelin)
“Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” featuring Scott Weiland (The Rolling Stones)
“Sunshine Of Your Love” featuring Rob Thomas (Cream)
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” featuring india.arie and Yo-Yo Ma (The Beatles)
“Dance the Night Away” featuring Pat Monahan (Van Halen)
“Back In Black” featuring Nas (AC/DC)
“Riders On the Storm” featuring Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (The Doors)
“Smoke On the Water” featuring Jacoby Shaddix (Deep Purple)
“Photograph” featuring Chris Daughtry (Def Leppard)
“Bang A Gong” featuring Gavin Rossdale (T. Rex)
“Little Wing” featuring Joe Cocker (Jimi Hendrix)
“I Ain’t Superstitious” featuring Jonny Lang (Howlin’ Wolf, Jeff Beck Group)
Deluxe Edition
Includes standard edition track listing plus “Fortunate Son” featuring Scott Stapp (Credence Clearwater Revival) and “Under the Bridge” featuring Andy Vargas (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
The deluxe edition also features never-before-seen footage on DVD entitled “The Making Of Guitar Heaven…” including “behind the scenes” footage from the studio and interviews with guest vocalists from the album and producers Howard Benson, Matt Serletic, and Clive Davis, as well as an extensive one-on-one interview with Carlos Santana and Clive Davis.
15 Jul
2010
2010
The longest-running, most successful partnership in the history of rock takes flight anew, as legendary Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductees Carlos Santana and Clive Davis, Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, collaborate on the brand new concept album, GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME, arriving in stores September 21st on Arista Records. The album was co-produced by Carlos Santana and Clive Davis with tracks produced by Matt Serletic and Howard Benson.
PRE-ORDER GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME
Working from their collective encyclopedic knowledge of rock, Carlos Santana and Clive Davis devised a list of guitar-centric titles – and then invited a Who’s Who of guest vocalists to perform on every track. Singers range from Chris Cornell (on Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”), Pat Monahan (on Van Halen’s “Dance the Night Away”), Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (on The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm”), Rob Thomas (on Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love), Scott Weiland (on the Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’”), Chris Daughtry (on Def Leppard’s “Photograph”), Gavin Rossdale (on T. Rex’s “Bang A Gong”) to rapper Nas (on AC/DC’s “Back In Black”), veteran Joe Cocker (on Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing”), and more.
PRE-ORDER GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME
A very special dedication to George Harrison comes together on GUITAR HEAVEN…, with “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” featuring singer india.arie and master cellist Yo-Yo Ma. “Listening to the song,” Olivia Harrison told Carlos, “it made me jump for joy and cry at the same time.” (Please see below for a working track listing.)
Along with these stars, Carlos offers “supreme validation and compliment” to his full-time band for their work on GUITAR HEAVEN…, their first entire full-length studio album recording together. Band members who join him on the album include Dennis Chambers (drums), Benny Rietveld (bass), Karl Perrazo (timbales), Tommy Anthony (rhythm guitar), Freddie Ravel (keyboards), Andy Vargas (background vocals), and Raul Rekow (Congas). Bill Ortiz (trumpet) and Jeff Cressman (trombone) also appear on the record.
“To create these songs,” said Carlos, “it took an incredible amount of trust – from Matt Serletic, and from Howard Benson, and all these incredible singers, all these incredible musicians, they had to trust me, and I trusted Clive, so it’s a chain reaction of love, because that’s the highest form of love that there is on this planet: Trust.”
“The cuts are special and the guest stars are special,” said Clive Davis. “But what is unique and why this album stands for more than just the individual songs or titles, is that they were indeed chosen because they’re guitar classics. And they celebrate the guitar because of the performance of Carlos Santana.”
PRE-ORDER GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME
GUITAR HEAVEN… is the first new studio album by Santana since their trilogy of consecutive blockbuster Arista releases: Supernatural (1999), Shaman (2002), and All That I Am (2005). All three albums were produced by Carlos Santana and Clive Davis. They represented a warm and well-received reunion with the executive who first signed Santana to Columbia Records (after seeing them at San Francisco’s Fillmore West over Christmas week, 1968, at Bill Graham’s request). Clive oversaw their formative years on the path to international superstardom starting in 1969, with the release of their debut album on August 18th, the Monday after their historic Saturday performance at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.
Three decades later in 1999, Supernatural became – and remains – an unsurpassed industry phenom, 15-times RIAA platinum in the U.S. alone, nearly double that number of sales globally, the #6 best-selling album in Soundscan history. Supernatural spent 102 weeks on the Billboard chart including 12 weeks at #1. Its success was fueled by the #1 singles “Smooth” (co-written by and feat ur ing Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty) and “Maria Maria” (featur ing Product G&B).
Most significantly, Supernatural generated nine GRAMMY awards, an all-time record for a single album project, including Album Of the Year and Best Rock Album, as well as Record Of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Collaboration, all for “Smooth”; plus Best Pop Performance by a Duo/Group for “Maria Maria.” There were also premiere Latin GRAMMY Award wins (the show’s first year) for Record Of The Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo/Group.
Supernatural was a hard act to follow – but 2002’s Shaman gave Santana a second consecutive #1 multi-platinum album, propelled by the GRAMMY-winning Top 5 single “The Game of Love” featuring Michelle Branch; and Top 10 “Why Don’t You and I” with Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. Third in this series of collaborative albums was 2005’s All That I Am, which entered Soundscan at #2, highlighted by the anthemic rocker “Just Feel Better,” featuring Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
Ultimate Santana was released in 2007, the first career-spanning anthology to include touchstone tracks from the band’s earliest hitmaking years on Columbia Records (“Evil Ways,” “Black Magic Woman,” “Oye Como Va,” “Samba Pa Ti,” “Everybody’s Everything,” “No One To Depend On,” “Europa”) – alongside material from the three Arista albums, the groundbreaking collaborations plus new and previously unreleased tracks.
It has been more than 40 years since the original Santana Blues Band played its first shows at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West in San Francisco, opening for The Who in October 1967. Santana is unique among all the first generation Bay Area bands for sustaining its success on the charts and on the road as a sold-out stadium attraction. Their track record boasts 20 RIAA gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums (including their first 14 consecutive certifications) and lifetime sales of more than 90 million albums worldwide. GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME carries the continuum to the next generation.
PRE-ORDER GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME
GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME (working track listing):
“Whole Lotta Love” featuring Chris Cornell (Led Zeppelin)
“Sunshine Of Your Love” featuring Rob Thomas (Cream)
“Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” featuring Scott Weiland (The Rolling Stones)
“Dance the Night Away” featuring Pat Monahan (Van Halen)
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” featuring india.arie and Yo-Yo Ma (The Beatles)
“Bang A Gong” featuring Gavin Rossdale (T. Rex)
“Smoke On the Water” featuring Jacoby Shaddix (Deep Purple)
“Photograph” featuring Chris Daughtry (Def Leppard)
“Back In Black” featuring Nas (AC/DC)
“Little Wing” featuring Joe Cocker (Jimi Hendrix)
“Riders On the Storm” featuring Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (The Doors)
“I Ain’t Superstitious” featuring Jonny Lang (Howlin’ Wolf, Jeff Beck Group)
“Fortunate Son” featuring Scott Stapp (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
13 Jan
2010
2010
Ringo Starr was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Ringo with Ben Harper and Relentless7 as his backup band performed “I Wanna Be Your Man”, “Walk With You”, “The Other Side of Liverpool”, and “With A Little Help From My Friends” (with Fallon!). Ringo also sat down for an interview and answered fan submitted video questions. Watch the videos below:
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“I Wanna Be Your Man”
“Walk With You”
“The Other Side of Liverpool”/”With A Little Help From My Friends”
Ringo Starr Interview
Ringo Answers Fan Questions
08 Dec
2009
2009
Twenty nine years ago today, John Lennon was killed outside of his New York apartment. On October 2nd, 2001, a tribute concert was held at Radio City Music Hall. Come Together: A Night for John Lennon’s Words and Music was hosted by Kevin Spacey and featured performances from Dave Matthews, Cyndi Lauper, Stone Temple Pilots and more. Here’s Stone Temple Pilots rendition of the Beatles’ classic “Revolution.” If you like the performance, you can pick up the DVD on Amazon. RIP John.
(photo credit: Lennon Photo Archive)
23 Nov
2009
2009
We love giving away free gifts to our readers. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be giving away some TRULY AWESOME presents. We kick it off today with a really cool Beatles Holiday Poster. (Click on the image to enlarge). You’re really going to want to win this for yourself. Sure, you could probably give it to someone important in your life but you’d rather keep it yourself. In fact, we don’t even wanna give this away. We wanna keep it.. but we’re not greedy (much). Enough talking, email us your name and we’ll email you back if you win! (U.S. entries only, sorry!)
19 Oct
2009
2009
Beatlemania is rampant once again! With Fab Four items topping many holiday gift lists, I hope you’ll consider including the new Beatles Box of Vision® in your Holiday Gift Guide. Officially licensed by Apple Corps Ltd., The Beatles Box of Vision is the perfect companion to the digitally re-mastered Beatles catalog, which was released 09/09/09. “I’d consider the Box of Vision a must for Beatles fans who want the full experience of exploring this amazing music all over again,†said Los Angeles Times pop music writer Randy Lewis. Heralded as “dazzling†by Associated Press, the collection includes:
- The Box Of Vision storage book, a unique and elegant way to organize and display
all 32 discs of The Beatles’ core catalog. - The first LP-size book with all The Beatles’ LP artwork (almost 200 pages), brilliantly
restored in brand new art prints. - The “Catalography,†a new, full color discography with photos, text and track-listings
– the first-ever side-by-side presentation of the UK albums and their US counterparts.
Millions of Beatles CDs will be sold by year’s end – and The Beatles Box of Vision is a great way to store them– and alongside the original, full-size LP artwork. Rather than guess which CDs friends or family still need, why not surprise them with an ingenious system that allows them to safely store and display these treasured albums? The two exclusive accompanying books are extraordinary additions to any Beatles collection and give families a fun way to learn more about the music – and more about each other in the process.
Journalist Fred Mills shared his experience with blurt-online.com readers, acknowledging: “as luscious a piece of Beatles swag Box of Vision is…it took my young son to drive home one of the central reasons it exists in the first place. With a simple, ‘Can we listen to some Beatles and look at that book tonight?’, he helped me recover, if just for a moment, the same sense of wonderment and awe I must have felt back in the days when I was buying Beatles records at the local five-and-dime and playing them to death on my battered old Magnavox drop-down record changer.â€
The 7,200-copy, limited first edition of The Beatles Box of Vision has already sold out but the second printing of The Beatles Box of Vision is ready to ship and can be purchased online at http://www.BoxOfVision.com
16 Sep
2009
2009
Jay-Z has his eleventh #1 album in a row. The Blueprint 3 sold 476,000 copies. The Beatles’ reissues combined to sell 626,000 copies. Abbey Road sold the best with 74,000 copies. Check out the rest of the top 10 below along with The Beatles figures
1. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3 (476,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
2. Miley Cyrus – The Time Of Our Lives (120,000) Go to Wal-Mart to buy it.
3. Whitney Houston – I Look To You (88,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
4. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. 2 (68,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
5. Brooks and Dunn – #1s … And Then Some (55,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
6. Trey Songz – Ready (45,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
7. Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. (44,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
8. Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk (41,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
9. Kings of Leon – Only By The Night (40,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
10. Taylor Swift – Fearless (33,000) BUY ON ITUNES, AMAZON MP3
Also:
15. The Beatles – The Beatles in Stereo Box Set (26,000) BUY THE BOX SET
20. The Beatles – The Beatles in Mono Box Set (12,000) BUY THE BOX SET
The Beatles reissues
Abbey Road (89,000) CD
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (74,000) CD
The White Album (60,000) CD
Rubber Soul (58,000) CD
Revolver (46,000) CD
Help! (39,000) CD
Let It Be (32,000) CD
Past Masters Vols. I and II (31,000) CD
Magical Mystery Tour (30,000) CD
A Hard Day’s Night (29,000) CD
The Beatles in Stereo Box Set (26,000) BUY THE BOX SET
Please Please Me (23,000) CD
With the Beatles (22,000) CD
Beatles For Sale (21,000) CD
Yellow Submarine (14,000) CD
The Beatles in Mono Box Set (12,000) BUY THE BOX SET
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Sept. 13) totaled 6.70 million units, up 7% compared to the sum last week (6.29 million) and down 2% compared to the same sales week of 2008 (6.84 million). Year to date album sales stand at 244.1 million, down 14% compared to the same total at this point last year (284.4 million).
(via Billboard.com)
