The Decibel Tolls Report:

Click here to go to TDT to check George Harrison “Thanks For The Pepperoni”

Over the years, Macca’s solo renditions of Beatles’ classics have gotten bigger — bloated really — for stadium shows.  All polish, no grit.

But here Paul straps on his guitar and gets after it with his 2009 touring band on the highly underrated Beatles tune “I’ve Got A Feeling.”  This performance has all the balls of the original and retains the feel of a barroom blisterer.  There’s no sense that this was performed by arena-ready hired guns.  It’s as if Paul was back on the roof with the lads.

I’m stunned at how good this rendition is.  There’s one major downside: Abe Laboriel, Jr. (badly) singing John’s middle eight.  Isn’t there a better singer in Paul’s band?

The video quality is pretty lame, but the audio is good and this duet performance of Paul and George on SNL in the late 70’s remains a classic.

Homeward Bound is the second song they do, after Here Comes The Sun, and it’s this Paul Simon song I was first looking for as fitting music for this traveling holiday.

For those with memories that stretch back this far,  filmmaker Gary Weiss also made an SNL short film with Homeward Bound as the soundtrack to wonderful montage scenes of family reunions at airports, and train and bus terminals.

Here’s hoping all your travels go well, even if only they’re  to and from the convenience store for tampons and tonic water.   Happy Thanksgiving!

photo: BMW

La Mini fête cette année son 50ème anniversaire avec une version contemporaine de la Mini Cooper S 1966 psychédélique de George Harrison. Cet exemplaire unique a été offert à Olivia Harrison, la veuve du Beatle décédé.

Ci-dessus, on voit à droite le modèle de 1966 et à gauche celui de 2009; ci-dessous, le modèle de 1966. À l’origine, cette dernière était noire et George Harrison l’avait fait peinturer à la mode de l’époque. Il l’avait reçue en cadeau de Brian Epstein, le gérant des Beatles, qui en avait donné une à chacun des membres du groupe. On peut voir celle de George dans le film ”Magical mystery tour”.

photo: (inconnu)

photo: (inconnu)

George Harrison est au volant de son auto.

Chris O’Dell no fue famosa ni siquiera Casi famosa…pero estuvo ahi!

Ella estuvo en el estudio cuando los Beatles grabaron el Album Blanco, Abbey Road y Let it be, incluso canto en el coro de “Hey Jude”.

Tambien estuvo sentada en la mesa cuando George Harrison le dijo a Ringo Starr: “Sabes una cosa Ringo? Estoy enamorado de tu mujer” a lo que Ringo le contesto: “Y bueno mejor vos a alguien que no conocemos!”

Ademas fue la mujer que tipio la cancion perteneciente a Harrison “All things must pass”.Vivio junto a George y Pattie Boyd en Friar Park. Se enamoro profundamente de Eric Clapton y sin saberlo quedo envuelta en la famosa historia de amor entre Eric y Pattie.

Es la musa de la cancion de Leon Russell titulada “Pisces Apple Lady”, ademas de salir con Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan entre otros.

Fue asistente personal de los Rolling Stones en el mal afamado tour del ‘72, en cual Keith Richards y Mick Jagger fueron encarcelados por posesion de drogas.

Tambien es “the woman down the hall” en la cancion de Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, que habla del triangulo amoroso entre ellas y Bob Dylan durante el Rolling Thunder Revue tour.

Ella es la misteriosa mujer que aparece en la parte de atras del album “Exile on Main Street” de los Rolling Stones. Y la cancion Miss O’Dell de George Harrison es sobre ella.

Miss O’Dell es la mujer que ha vivido el sueño de millones! Ser parte del circulo de las realezas del rock.

En su libro cuenta anecdotas intimas, fotografias personales, se podria decir que es un backstage pass a la vida de estos musicos en el momento mas soñado de la historia del rock.

Llego a los 20 a probar suerte en Hollywood, donde empezo a trabajar para la London’s Apple Studio. Fue su amigo Derek Taylor, que trabajaba en ese momento como publicista de los Beatles, quien le insistio a Chris de unirse a esta movida.

Rapidamente consiguio el trabajo de asistente de los Beatles, les traia el almuerzo, atendia los telefonos, llevaba a la gente al aeropuerto…antes de convertirse en un habitue del estudio. Incluso fue anfitriona de los Angeles del Infierno, cuando estos visitaron la Apple, ademas de hacer un viaje de Acido con tres de los motokeros.

Pero fue con George Harrison la conexion inmediata.

“El era muy abierto” recuerda ella sobre Harrison “los dos eramos de piscis, nos gustaba divertirnos y reirnos. Tambien hubo un coqueteo, que fue lo que nos unio mas”

Pero cuando Harrison quiso algo mas que solo sostenerle la mano, O’Dell lo rechazo.

“Deja de hacer eso, George!” le dije mientras lo miraba como si estuviera retando a un niño pequeño-recuerda Chris en su libro.

Ella y Harrison nunca tuvieron mas que una relacion de amistad. Y el resultado fue la cancion que George escrbio para ella, “Miss O’Dell”

“Te puedo decir que nada nuevo ha pasado desde la ultima vez que te vi/ ¿No me llamaras, Miss O’Dell?…” y la cancion sigue comentando momentos y pensamientos hacia ella.

Harrison la invito a vivir con el y su mujer, en ese momento, Pattie Boyd en su mansion de 120 habitaciones, Friar Park, en Inglaterra.  Para ese entonces la desconfianza de Pattie hacia O’Dell habia desaparecido y se habian vuelto muy buenas amigas. Con el tiempo Chris O’Dell se convirtio en la perfecta excusa de Eric Clapton para frecuentar Friar Park, dejando asi a Chris en el medio del amorio de Pattie y Eric.

Pattie no era la unica que jugaba a dos puntas, recuerda Chris, que  fue testigo de la declaracion de Harrison que admitia haber tenido sexo con la mujer de Ringo. Luego de la separacion, Ringo corrio a los brazos de Chris que recuerda haber tenido los tres meses mas sexies con Starr.

Pero sin lugar a dudas el momento mas erotico del libro es cuando cuenta uno de sus encuentros amorosos con Dylan en la habitacion de un Howard Johnson de Maine.

“Sentia el aliento de Bob en mi cuello, su pelo sobre mi mejilla, y sus labios rozaban suavemente mi oreja” escribio en el libro.

“Que bien hueles” Bob le suspiro al oido.

Quien luego haria su jugada final diciendo:”¿Queres venir a mi habitacion?Tengo algunos cigarrillos alli!”

Es un libro dificil de resistir con una biografia digna de una groupie.

O’Dell y George Harrison

O’Dell y Keith Richards

O’Dell y Maureen Cox, la mujer de Ringo Starr.

O´Dell y Mick Jagger

O’Dell y Ringo Starr

AW Music Report:

Click here to go to AWM to check the Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love”, and “Love Me Do”

On Saurday, November 14th, I had one of the greatest nights of my life! I saw thenewno2 and Wolfmother at the State Theater! YAY!!! They were so amazing!

thenewno2 is one of my favoritest bands of all time! There are only two people in the band; Dhani Harrison and Oli Hecks. Dhani is George Harrison’s son. But they add, like, three people when they tour. Yeah! thenewno2 is a blues-elecro alternative band. My favorite song by them is Another John Doe. And the video is pretty wicked too! Check it out! Actually, all the videos that they have are wicked. So check ALL of them out!

I’ve heard off the band Wolfmother and heard three of their songs, but ever since that fatefull day, I can’t stop listening to them! I even went out and bought their first CD! And it’s amazing! Andrew Shockdale is one of the coolest people ever. He’s the singer and lead guitar player for Wolfmother. He went into the crowd twice and people kept giving him drinks when he was on stage! How awesome is that? Now I need a time machine to go back to that night…

Para baixar, clique no título do CD.

Ladies and gentlemen. Here they are, The Beatles!

* Please Please Me (Parlophone, 1963)

* With the Beatles (Parlophone, 1963)

* A Hard Day’s Night (Parlophone, 1964)

* Beatles for Sale (Parlophone, 1964)

* Help! (Parlophone, 1965)

* Rubber Soul (Parlophone, 1965)

* Revolver (Parlophone, 1966)

* Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone, 1967)

* Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol, 1967)

* The Beatles (“The White Album”) (Apple, 1968)

* The Beatles (“The White Album”) 2 (Apple, 1968)

* Yellow Submarine (Apple, 1969)

* Abbey Road (Apple, 1969)

* Let It Be (Apple, 1970)

Saber mais sobre os Beatles

For this Thanksgiving edition of Tuesdays with George, I have chosen The Traveling Wilburys Handle With Care as a loving tribute to George and Roy who are only with us in song now.

Nevver Daily Report:

Click here to go to ND to check Ludella Black’s cover of the Beatles “I’ve Just Seen a Face”

Las crónicas de ‘The Traveling Wilburys’ de Nelson, Otis, Lucky, Lefty y Charlie, en sus propias palabras y con cientos de fotografías, dibujos, manuscritos, etc.

Si deseas ordenar el libro el libro puedes ir a:
http://www.genesis-publications.com/the-traveling-wilburys/

We have assembled live performances from Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Elton John and Bob Dylan into a “Rock and Roll Legends” collection.  Now available for purchase and download on iTunes Stores, these performances were captured live between 1965 to 1987, are among the most treasured moments in rock history.   Title by title information follows…

GEORGE HARRISON
→While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
George Harrison teamed up with Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr in this celebrated performance at the 1986 Prince’s Trust Rock Gala.   One of the few live performances that featured Harrison, Clapton, and Starr, and a best-selling video worldwide.  Running Time:    5:48   File Size:   74.8 MG
Preview This Video ♦ Buy This Video

PAUL McCARTNEY
→I Saw Her Standing There 
Paul McCartney is joined by Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and other music legends at the 1986 Prince’s Trust Rock Gala.   The performance was recorded on June 20, 1986 at Wembley Arena (London).  Running Time is 4:00 minutes.  File size is 51.8 MG.
Preview this video *  Buy this video

→Get Back 
McCartney teams up with Tina Turner to rock the crowd with this Beatles hit at the Prince’s Trust Rock Gala in 1986.   “I had never considered going back on tour until I got the royals rocking at The Prince’s Trust concert,” said McCartney.  “I joined Tina Turner on stage …and the packed crowd went crazy. I had missed playing live shows but I didn’t realize how much until I did The Prince’s Trust gig. That concert left me feeing so good….”  Read more about ithere.   Running Time is 3:57 minutes.   File Size  is 50.8MG
Preview This Video ♦ Buy This Video

→Long Tall Sally 
Paul McCartney leads Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Elton John and other legendary rock all-stars in this timeless Little Richard tune.  The fans at Wembley Arena go wild in this send-off to the 1986 Prince’s Trust Rock Gala.   Performance recorded on June 20, 1986.  Running Time is 2.55 minutes.  File size is 30 MG.
Preview This Video * Buy This Video

ERIC CLAPTON
→ Tearing Us Apart 
Clapton previews his new blues anthem, Tearing Us Apart, with Tina Turner (who performed the duet on his August album, which would be released after this performance at The Prince’s Trust Rock Gala).   There is a real joy to the performance, and the sparks are flying between Clapton and Turner.   Read more about it here.   Running Time is 6:00 minutes.   File Size is 74.2 MG.
Preview This Video ♦ Buy This Video

→Note: Eric Clapton also appears in a back up role on the following videos:  While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I Saw Her Standing There, Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting), and Long Tall Sally

ELTON JOHN
→Your Song 
Elton John performs an intimate, solo version of his timeless love song on a grand piano overlooking the crowd at Wembley Arena in London. Elton has remarked that “I don’t think I’ve written a love song as good since, ” and this performance is often cited as the best live version of his signature tune.   Read more about it here.   Running Time is 4:37 minutes.  File Size is 59.9 MG.
Preview This Video ♦ Buy This Video

→Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) 
One of the stand-out highlights from the Grammy Award winning 1987 Prince’s Trust Concert, this classic features Elton John with Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, and other legends of rock history.   Packed with live energy as the rock stars happily feed off each other.   Read more about it here.   Running Time is 5:17 minutes.   File Size is 68.9 MG.
Preview This Video ♦ Buy This Video

BOB DYLAN
→Maggie’s Farm 
When Bob Dylan brought an electric guitar to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he changed the course of music for good.  Dylan’s performance of Maggie’s Farm is “the most written about event in rock history,” and this video has a pulsating drive and urgency that is unlike any other live performance, before or since.  Read about it here.   Running Time:  5:19.  File Size:  68.6 MG.
Preview This Video ♦ Buy This Video

originally printed in the Trenton Times

BY BRENT JOHNSON

For 20 years, Pete Best barely played the drums.

You could call the former Beatle one of pop music’s greatest casualties. He was the group’s original drummer — until John, Paul and George replaced him with Ringo for reasons that remain a mystery even to Best.

He ditched music a few years later, beginning a two-decade career as a civil servant.

“I still had me drums,” Best, now 66, recalls in his charmingly cheeky Liverpudlian accent, ironically not a far cry from Ringo’s. “I just covered them up in a dustsheet.”

Not anymore. Forty-six years after his famous firing, he and the Pete Best Band have released their first record, a musical biography called Haymans Green. The group — which includes his younger brother Roag, who shares drumming duties with Pete — will play selections from the album at the Record Collector in Bordentown on Sunday.

The title of the album is an allusion the to street where Best’s childhood home sits in Liverpool.

Best Friends: Pete Best sandwiched between Lennon and Harrison.

Best doesn’t harbor bitterness or regret. He already collaborated on a book and documentary about his time with the Beatles. Now, the album, which he co-wrote with his bandmates, is even awash in melodies and
chord progressions that recall Rubber Soul.

“People turn around and say it’s Beatlesque,” Best says. “Other people turn around and say they hear Crowded House. … “I think it’s natural. Simply because of the era, because it deals with my life story. There had to be a certain amount of Beatlesque in it. I mean, like every other band we’re influenced by them. I played with them.”

‘40-Odd Years Ago’

Best’s family was actually instrumental in the Beatles’ beginning. His mother, Mona, turned the basement of their Haymans Green house into the Casbah Coffee Club, a music venue designed for local bands. The Quarrymen — featuring a young John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison — played opening night on Aug. 29, 1959.

Best was a member of a different group, the Blackjacks. But in August 1960, McCartney phoned the 19-year-old Best with an offer: The Beatles were about to begin a tour of Hamburg, Germany, and they needed a drummer.

The result was a legendary trip filled with sex and raucous rock that helped define the group’s attitude and sound. It’s chronicled in a track on Haymans Green called “Around And Around.”

Over the next two years, the Best-era Beatles stormed through sets packed with American R&B and rock songs, donning leather jackets and greaser haircuts. They landed a deal with legendary German producer
Burt Kaempfert that resulted in recordings of a few covers, a few originals and a minor hit, when they backed singer Tony Sheridan on a rocking version of “My Bonnie.”

But in 1962, shortly after auditioning for producer George Martin and EMI Records in Britain, the band decided to oust Best, assigning manager Brian Epstein to break the news. Rumors for the reason were many: that Martin didn’t like his drumming, that McCartney was jealousof the attention women paid to the handsome Best, that the drummer was too introverted.

Best says he doesn’t waste his time speculating.

Pete Best circa 2005

“The drummer theory, which was the one that was given as the dismissal, has never held up water,” he says of the idea that Martin didn’t like his playing. “People laugh at that. … People who saw me play then and people who have seen me play on the road shows now turn around and say, ‘That couldn’t have been the reason.’

“To me, it’s like: Fine, it happened. I’ve lived my life. … I’ve got my health and happiness and a sense of humor. And if I can wake up every morning to that, why the hell have I got to worry about something which happened 40-odd years ago?”

Stepping Outside

1963: The Beatles break big in Britain.
1964: Ed Sullivan, Beatlemania.
1967: “Sgt. Pepper.”

All the while, Best was bouncing around bands, releasing a few minor records.

But in 1968, he took the 9-to-5 route and focused on his family. The first single from Hayman Green, “Step Outside,” is about that period.

“You’re married, you have to basically step outside the business, have a look ’round, see what else was available, you had a family you have to provide security for,” explains Best, who has two daughters with
Kathy, his wife of for more than 40 years. “If you listen to the lyrics, that’s what you do. You’re stepping outside, seeing what’s available and making your own decision, which way you’re gonna go.”

Then, in 1988, Best agreed to play a one-off gig in Liverpool.

“My mother and my wife Kathy were there at the show,” he recalls, “and basically came up afterwards and turned around and said, ‘You don’t know it, Pete, but you’re going to be going back into show business.’
And how right they were.”

The Pete Best Band has been around for the last six years, featuring a revolving set of musicians he’s known from Liverpool. Appropriately, they recorded Haymans Green at a studio built on the first floor of
Best’s family home, right above the Casbah — which is still a tourist attraction in his hometown.

A Laugh And A Joke

As for the Beatles? Best played on a few bills with his former bandmates shortly after his sacking. But he says he hasn’t formally spoken with any of them since he was let go.

“If they want to get in touch with me, they know where I am,” says Best, who still lives in Liverpool. “I’ve tried to get in touch with them — not now, but in the early days. But it was pointless. You have different priorities in life.”

He’s open to the idea of speaking with McCartney or Starr, the only remaining members alive. And he certainly doesn’t plan on finding out what actually happened all those years ago.

“We’re no longer young kids anymore,” Best says. “We’ve matured, we’ve grown, we’re on the latter end of our careers. … It’s like, ‘Well, hang on a minute. Before we leave the planet, let’s get together and
have a laugh and a joke. Not re-open up old wounds again about what happened 40-odd bloody years ago.’ No one’s interested in that. At least I’m not.”

Best says he’s a Beatles fan, though. He has what he calls a “comprehensive album collection” of Fab Four recordings — which he never had to buy, since people often gave him records.

His favorite is The White Album.

The new album from The Pete Best Band

“I think instead if they put it into one album, it would have been slightly better,” he says. “But I think it’s an old favorite of mine. It more or less shows what they were all about.”

A few of the recordings Best played on with the Beatles were released in 1995 as part of the famed “Anthology” series. And Best has made a late-life career touring the U.S. with the Pete Best Band. In addition
to Haymans Green numbers, they mix in Beatles-era covers like “Kansas City,” “Slow Down” and “Besame Mucho.”

His legacy is still growing, too. Best was recently inducted into the Liverpool music hall of fame. And he made a cameo in the recent comedy The Rocker, appropriately about a former hard-rock drummer kicked out a band before it hit stardom.

After the album is released internationally, the Pete Best Band may tour a few other countries, as well. Then, maybe a new record next year.

“If the response continues to be the way it is at the moment, we’ll be back in the recording studio,” he says. “It’s as simple as that.”

No more dustsheets on drum sets.

and a reminder:

My friend came to me,
With sadness in his eyes,
He told me that he wanted help,
Before his country died,
Although I couldn’t feel the pain,
I knew I’d have to try,
Now I’m asking all of you,
To help us save some lies

.

Its either a cynical marketing exercise in the lead up to Christmas, or a really helpful move for those who can’t afford the steep asking price of the full Remastered boxed sets…

EMI in Europe has announced it is issuing (on 7 December) a limited edition boxed set of four of the new stereo remasters called The Beatles Christmas Pack.

The Beatles "Christmas Pack: Limited Edition"

The set will contain “Rubber Soul”,  “Revolver”, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road”.

Each album will include the bonus “Making Of” video that uses exclusive original footage from the Beatles’ own archive plus other rare footage and voice-overs by the Beatles and George Martin.

Have you ever met one of your heroes? As a teenager I was a huge Beatles fan. I knew all the songs, all the lyrics. In fact I was so nerdy I could have told you the track order of every single (British version) album they produced between the years of 1962 and 1970. I was an uber-Fab Four geek. The inspiration of their incredible songwriting led me to write and perform songs of my own. Of the four, John Lennon was my biggest hero but I was well aware that all four of them made the band what it was – take any of them away and I do not believe their career would have been quite as successful.

In 1990 the guitarist in my band, Niall, offered me a ticket to see Paul McCartney play at Wembley Arena. This was his first major tour in some time (possibly his first since having ditched the ‘Wings’ format of his ever-changing backing band) and punters were told to expect plenty of Beatles songs. Niall’s brother-in-law was McCartney’s press agent at the time, which meant that we not only had tickets, we had backstage passes (which explains how I met Donald Sutherland backstage at a McCartney gig).

I spent weeks anticipating the fact that I was going to meet one of my childhood heroes. Yes of course I’d have loved for John Lennon to still be alive and to be able to meet him (meet him? I’d have put super-glue on my palm before shaking hands with him in order to get plenty of time to chat to the guy!). What does one say to such an important, if distant, figure in their lives? “Your music changed my life, Paul.” Hmm, bit corny and probably something he’s heard his whole life. “I love you.” Me and several million other people. I couldn’t work out whether there was anything worth saying and decided to just realize how lucky I was to be able to be in the same room as the guy.

As it turned out, even if I’d had a perfect speech planned to harangue the man with, I wouldn’t have been likely to get it out as when he was suddenly stood in front of me (Linda by his side), my tongue stuck itself to the roof of my mouth and it was all I could do to mumble “Hello” as we shook hands. In my defence, as he entered the room he really did bring that superstar presence into the place. This was one of the most famous people in the world and I guess if I was going to be reduced to a speechless buffoon I’d rather it was by a Beatle than by anyone else in the world.

The gig that evening reduced me to tears of joy so many times. ‘Live and Let Die’ was amazing, as were quite a few of his solo classics (even ‘Ebony and Ivory’ took on a poignancy I’d never credited it with before). But it was hearing Beatle’s songs live that brought the tears to my eyes again and again: ‘The Long and Winding Road’, ‘Hey Jude’, ‘Yesterday’ and then the entire medley from the second half of Abbey Road, concluding with ‘The End’, fittingly the last thing his former band ever recorded. By the end of the night I was practically speechless again and I’d realised something. The middle eight of ‘The Long and Winding Road’, which I’d always felt was ‘mine’ as a teenager, do not apply. ‘Many times I’ve been alone and many times I’ve cried’? Actually, despite the many times I had cried in those formative years, I’d never been alone – I could always stick a Beatles album on the turntable and let their songs chase away my loneliness.

Every so often you come across a CD or LP where you just can’t identify the country it was released in. Its kind of frustrating because collectors usually like to know this kind of detail…especially when you come across usual or different packaging of a release you think you know well.

That’s the case here with this three-LP set from 1971 of George Harrison’s “Concert for Bangladesh”.

Every copy I’ve seen to date comes in a hard cardboard box, with a lid that lifts off and looks like this:

The usual "Concert for Bangladesh" box

The box contains the three vinyl discs, and the white-covered 64-page book of concert photos, text and credits for the album. The rear of this box is plain and has no writing on it.

However, I have a copy in the collection that’s a bit different. Its a box, but made of soft cardboard that doesn’t have a lid. The front cover looks familiar enough:

Front cover "Concert for Bangladesh"

So far so good. But this release has flaps on the back which you pull out to get access to the records and book inside:

The flaps in the closed position

You flip open these flaps and the “box” looks like this:

"Concert for Bangladesh" open

From what I can tell the US, UK and Australian versions all have the lidded box, and not this top-opening, slide-out style box. Also the US and UK versions have dark khaki brown inner sleeves in which the records sit (the Australian release doesn’t have any paper sleeves).

Inside this box  though the LPs are in light yellow colored thin paper sleeves:

The LPs are in yellow paper sleeves

The place you can usually tell the country of origin is in the small print on the labels of the records themselves. This one has no hints – with no mention of a country of origin. However, it does have a lot more copyright information on each disc, located just near the record number information (see top the left-hand side in the pics below as compared to the Australian release):

The label of the "strange" version - with copyright info top left

Compare this to the official Australian release:

The Australian release label - note no copyright info

The final main difference is that the words “Sole Distributors, Gramophone Record Company, Ltd” are written on the labels and prominently across the back of the box. The image below is from the rear of the box:

"Sole Distributors, Gramophone Record Company, Ltd" printed on the rear of the box

So, a weird one.

Being a huge worldwide Apple release, this concert disc set would have been issued in a large number of countries. I have my suspicions that this one here could be either the New Zealand or the Indian release.  But I don’t have anything to prove that.

If anyone has any information on this release please let me know by submitting a comment. Cheers for now.

For the Premier Fab Four Friday, I have selected a live performance of ‘Help!’. I’m not sure where the performance is from, but John seems to forget the lyrics at 1:00 and 1:50.

Enjoy!!!

Happy Parts Report:

Click here to go to HP to check The Beatles cover of The Shirelles “Baby It’s You”…Plus Love’s “My Little Red Book”

The truth has come out finally.  The Beatles never fully split.  In fact, they put together some tapes known as “Everyday Chemistry.”

Here, for your listening pleasure, is a link to this lost Beatles album.

http://www.thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/

LIVE FOR LOVE TOUR: Fred Vidal’s Massive INDIAN SUMMER Los Angeles Tour Beginning By The Open Mics Intown Will Include Tonight:

November 19: Library Cafe, 800 N Vermont Ave, LA, 7pm

On Twitter, At Noon: http://twitter.com/fredvidal

While SONG LiNdSaY LOHAN NOBODY ‘TIL YOU In Heavy Rotation In Fred’s Offices, Breaking News On WordPress-FV 2 Inform Of DECISION CD Release!

Press Communique: BRAMSTOCKER, After Multiple Delays, RELEASES IN DISCOTHEQUES, SiNgLe “Je hais la France”. CLUBS Santa Monica 1st And LA!!

Communique: To COMPENSATE Lack Of Audiences In LA Open Mic TOUR Beginning Due 2 Promotion Delays, Fred’s Entourage Proposed CD JHLF Release!

Single “JE HAIS LA FRANCE”: Lyrics Are in French, It’s BrAmStoCkEr (Punk rock Band from 77) REPERTOIRE, With MuSiC For Discotheques & Radio!

Music Insider: It’s A Song With The Quality Of KISS’ I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU With Something Else Regarding The Punk Influence Of The GROUP

DJ-Host: Panic Panic! Reminder: JE HAIS LA FRANCE (Fred VIDAL – ASCAP) Is A Homage To Belgian JACQUES BREL About The Fact LoVe & Hate = Same

CyB: So CD JHLF Is The BONUS GIFT Of This, I Know very Well The SoNg, Recorded In Paris 2002 In a Studio-UFO, It’s Remix Made In STUDIO CITY

BUZZ IN LONDON: The SonG Could Be Sent To Music MANAGERS In The UK Too, and Discotheques (Labels?) INDIES Labels Could Be Contacted IN UK-E

Fred VIDAL Tour Management Decides “A SECOND DATE WITH LA!”. In December, Performer Will Be Back In The 12-15 FIRST Locations 4 MORE LiVe!! 

In a Hurry, Fred VIDAL: It’s Not a Personal Problem, I Think These OPEN MIKES Don’t Attract ENOUGH People except Songwriters Or Performers!

FV: So I Will Do My BEST 2 PROMOTE with My (fantastic) NETWORK These Places Of DIFFUSION Of Good MUSIC & Great IMPRO (I LoVe) By Comedians

As Fred Vidal, PhD Invites Lindsay LOHAN Friends  To His Myspace Central In Order To Reach 5,000 Contacts For Xmas, The Epilogue Of The Week Tomorrow Could Be More Than Positive!

Breaking News On Twitter FV 9am: VIDAL’s LA Party With UNREEL LOCATIONS, His Only Agent On EaRtH (Until Now) CONFIRMED AS SILLY DVD Press & Majors RELEASE!!! Waaoouu! NOV 28 More To Come

“We Stopped The Web Last Summer, Our Songs Are Back, Myspace Is The Tool To Develop A PRESTIGE And NOTORIETY, I know Nothing Else, I’m Still Outside The Web, For A Coffee This Morning On Vermont. On Twitter, It’s A Phone CALL!” (Fred VIDAL, November 19)

Tomorrow Friday, Our Blog Will Do An Important Update About All The Subjects In Progress!

On Twitter FV 7:09am  http://twitter.com/fredvidal

It’s Not Only MARKETING, It’s FRIENDSHIP Too! WordPress Blog About To Explain WHY MYSPACE CRUCIAL For Fred’s Career DEVELOPMENT & WHY 5,000?

Los Angeles Looking Like A New LONDON For VIDAL & Friends, It’s The Return Of The 60’s & More!

WiThIn YoU WiThOuT YoU: This Song has Long history Between George HARRISON and Fred VIDAL, Mystical or more, Difficult to Hear Song, Strange

CONTROVERSY In Progress About Reasons Why Fred Vidal Didn’t Make It Since 2003! We’ll Let you Know. Plays TONIGHT Library Cafe 800 Vermont7

Picture: Lindsay LOHAN, Fred VIDAL’s Friend since His Beginning On Myspace, Is Also A Singer and An Actress Who  Represents, Possibly, For Mike FULLER, The New HOLLYWOOD, If She’s Back In Movie Acting.

Lohan Appears To Be Not a Controversy Person But A Free Mind And A Living Icon Who Deserves Respect And Admiration For Her Potential Impact On Our Culture Of The Screen.

Picture Featured On Site: www.biggeststars.com

LYRICS Today New Song, Dedicated to Singer-Actor STING:

BOOKS AND DREAMS (Fred VIDAL – ASCAP)

First verse
I have so many books
that I am a library

You are one of my books
and I an your publishing company

I want a baby from you,
his name will be Lovely.

Second verse
The other books are fine
but I don’t read them enough

I have no time to loose
to perfect the world at home

You want me to read your dream
I will call that a love story
within not without me

Third verse
You involve my feelings
in your life to write a sign

It makes me feel understood when
I’m too much knocking on wood

Knock on wood, let’s be happy
as we are with so many
BOOKS AND DREAMSSSSS
In our library

Chorus
BOOKS AND DREAMS,
lovely, finally,
BOOKS AND DREAMS,
heart to heart feelings,
BOOKS AND DREAMS,
sincerely ours to read and dream
BOOKS AND DREAMS,
BOOKS AND DREAMS

Bridge
I have no clue
about love
just think
it’s fair
to share
it’s true
that it’s not written
in a book
when you feel
that content
in your dream
LIFE, LIFE, LIFE!

For any fan of the Fab Four, there is always a moment where we are listening to their music (usually a Beatles album) and say to ourselves, ‘I wonder what would have happened if the Beatles never broke up…?’. Sometimes, when listening to a solo Beatles song that is just ok, we wonder what the result would have been if the other Beatles had been involved and collaborated for that song. We hear ‘Beatle-esque’ songs from other artists or groups and say to ourselves, ‘That should have been a Beatles song’.

In other realities on parallel universes anything could happen and even Hillary Clinton could be the first female U.S. President! As shocking as that sounds, maybe even the Beatles stayed together after releasing ‘Abbey Road’ and continued recording as a group between their solo projects. Imagine the Traveling Ono Band or Wings-A-Rama or just a cassette tape with 11 songs pulled from an alternate reality into our reality!

Thanks to James Richards at http://TheBeatlesNeverBrokeUp.com we have a glimpse into this alternate universe and the music off of the Beatles album ‘Everyday Chemistry’. On this tape we hear the music that we have come to know as the Beatles Solo material, but intertwined in a way that is reminiscent of  ’I've Got A Feeling’ or ‘A Day In The Life’ with ideas and song fragments swirling around in a musical tapestry that sounds both familiar and new at the same time.

What if Jeff Lynne was to produce the Beatles after George Martin retired? Is this what we would hear? It’s possible. Jeff Lynne has worked with and produced albums for Paul, George and Ringo and he posthumously worked with John on ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ for the project ‘Anthology’ in our reality and I can hear shades of Jeff Lynne in the contents of the ‘Everyday Chemistry’ album.

Don’t just take my word for it, just suspend disbelief like you would for a 90 minute big screen feature that the local multiplex and go to http://The BeatlesNeverBrokeUp.com and listen for yourself.