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4 June 2019
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Elementary Penguin said

Ahhh Girl said

Just another day…

  

Slipping into stockings, stepping into shoes. 

  

Dipping in the pocket of her raincoat…

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Ahhh Girl said
Just another day…

  

Cracking song.

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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus has just been reissued as a four-disc box set (2CD/DVD/Blu-Ray).

The Dirty Mac (John Lennon , Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell) have two previously unissued tracks included. Warmup Jam, which lives up to its name:

and a rehearsal of Revolution :

(Let’s hope this Revolution  stays up longer than the last one…)

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I am listening to the expanded edition right now. I already had the DVD from 2004, so I just got the 2-CD version. I didn’t have the 2004 CD, just the mp3s.

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THe Beatles first management contract with Brian Epstein – signed by John, Paul, George and Pete on 24 January 1962, but never signed by Brian – is coming up for auction for the first time next month. It’s estimated at £300,000 (approx $380,000 US).

It’s an interesting document as it shows, despite Brian being known for his 25% cut, the first contract gave him 10%, raising to 15% if they earnt more than £120 a week, and negotiated down from the 20% he wanted.

When the second contract was signed in October 1962, with Ringo having joined, the percentage was raised to 25%, and Brian signed.

Much had changed in 10 months.

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The Washington Coliseum show from February 1964 is available to buy on/from iTunes for £1.89. No idea on regional availability or if the price is the equivalent.

£1.89 is incredibly cheap for the whole show in pristine quality.

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meanmistermustard said
The Washington Coliseum show from February 1964 is available to buy on/from iTunes for £1.89. No idea on regional availability or if the price is the equivalent.

£1.89 is incredibly cheap for the whole show in pristine quality.

  

It is good to see these shows become available in some way.

I haven’t checked to see if it is available in Australia but I am interested. 

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Here’s an interesting article relating to the “Yesterday ” film and Peter Asher…

 

https://slate.com/culture/2019…..erday.html

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Oh I remember reading that. It was very interesting to learn about since I’d never heard of them before.

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The Official Charts Company in the UK, to coincide with Yesterday  being in cinemas, have released the Top 40 streamed Beatles songs since streams started being counted toward the charts in 2014 (this, obviously, applies to the UK):

1 Here Comes The Sun
2 Hey Jude
3 Come Together
4 Let It Be
5 Twist And Shout
6 Help !
7 Blackbird
8 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9 In My Life
10 Yesterday
11 I Want To Hold Your Hand
12 Eleanor Rigby
13 Penny Lane
14 Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
15 A Day In The Life
16 Something
17 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
18 Yellow Submarine
19 All You Need Is Love
20 Love Me Do
21 Hello, Goodbye
22 With A Little Help From My Friends
23 A Hard Day’s Night
24 Strawberry Fields Forever
25 We Can Work It Out
26 Ticket To Ride
27 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
28 She Loves You
29 Can’t Buy Me Love
30 Revolution
31 Get Back
32 Day Tripper
33 Don’t Let Me Down
34 Eight Days A Week
35 I Am The Walrus
36 I Saw Her Standing There
37 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
38 Back In The USSR
39 I Feel Fine
40 Across The Universe

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Some surprises I thought, particularly Twist And Shout  coming in at #5, and more so Love Me Do  at #20.

More details here.

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Not a single surprise there for me.

Twist And Shout is incredibly popular in my generation, which explains it being so high. 

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I know it’s typically around #5 on spotify’s popularity chart, and it probably gained notoriety points for being in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Also shout out to my favorite beatles song, I Feel Fine for cracking the top 40.

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Ah here now, where’s I’ve Just Seen A Face ??? a-hard-days-night-george-10

Norwegian Wood and While My Guitar…’s spots make me happy though.

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The Hole Got Fixed said
Not a single surprise there for me.

Twist And Shout is incredibly popular in my generation, which explains it being so high. 

  

Kaniffee said
I know it’s typically around #5 on spotify’s popularity chart, and it probably gained notoriety points for being in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

 

It’s in ‘The Goldbergs’ as one of the kids recreates the Ferris Bueller film which will help the popularity so it’s not a surprise. Plus a lot of football fans sing it.

 

 

 

Would imagine the ‘Pepper’ tracks were helped by the 2017 anniversary which got more promotion than the ‘White Album ‘ did.

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I can confirm as a teen that Twist And Shout is probably the most popular Beatles (or at least Beatles rendition) song among people my age, even more so than Here Comes The Sun and Come Together , which I also hear played by people. 

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I can also confirm that. A couple weeks ago I asked a friend to name a Beatles song and the only one he knew was Twist And Shout .

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Ron Nasty said on 14 June
THe Beatles first management contract with Brian Epstein – signed by John, Paul, George and Pete on 24 January 1962, but never signed by Brian – is coming up for auction for the first time next month. It’s estimated at £300,000 (approx $380,000 US).

It’s an interesting document as it shows, despite Brian being known for his 25% cut, the first contract gave him 10%, raising to 15% if they earnt more than £120 a week, and negotiated down from the 20% he wanted.

When the second contract was signed in October 1962, with Ringo having joined, the percentage was raised to 25%, and Brian signed.

Much had changed in 10 months.

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The BBC report that it sold yesterday, raising £275,000 (approx. $337,720) for the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation.

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Now, you may decide this is not news but, instead, 2 + 2 = 5; however, I’m going to run with it…

I was wandering around some of my lesser visited Beatles-related Twitter feeds when I popped in on Giles’.

He tweeted this on 4 July:

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The “last” line of the “last” song on the “last” Beatles album, along with a picture of a period mixing-desk…?

What do we reckon on 8 August for the official announcement?

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oooo speculations a-plenty! 

There was already a good chance of getting AR duluxe based on history, but this is very promising especially as there is no real prior explanation for it.

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I’d be amazed if a deluxe ‘Abbey Road ’ doesn’t come but I think it may end with whatever they end up doing with ‘Let It Be ’ as I don’t see Apple going back. All of these so far are 50 year anniversaries and Apple love tie-ins – the only argument against it is that Apple went back in ‘87 with the cd releases. I hope I’m wrong as surely there is deep justification to get ‘Revolver ’ and ‘Rubber Soul ’ out there. 

So a 494 disc hardcore collectors edition where they give us every single second of what’s in the archives for the album sessions plus a remix album plus all the footage shot on their last photo session by Linda plus anything else related. Just send your last living will and testimony plus title deeds to any property and your first born child along with a self-addressed envelope to Apple to pay for it. 

Maybe there should be a thread for the reissue speculation and then all talk pre and post is held together. Not sure. 

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