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rolloroberson · 1 year

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The Beatles recording, mixing: 'The Inner Light', 'Across The Universe' (Overdubs) / Location: EMI Studios, Abbey Road - Studio Two, circa February 8, 1968. Photos © Apple Corps Ltd.(http://www.thebeatles.com/)

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beatleshistoryblog · 1 year

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LECTURE 20: THE END: This is a CBS News Special Report on the breakup of The Beatles from April 1970. Much of it focuses on a lengthy (and, if you ask me, downright bizarre) interview with Beatles publicist Derek Taylor (I am very sorry about his dreadful, offensive ant-Japanese comments a little past the 12-minute mark, which are stomach-churning in the extreme), although there is an interesting man-on-the-street chat with some female fans at the beginning of the segment (boy, they really hate Linda Eastman, don’t they??), and some fans at the end singing “Hey Jude” in an emotionally-charged atmosphere outside the Apple Corps Ltd. headquarters.

#The Beatles #CBS News #television #Derek Taylor #Apple Corps Ltd.#1970 #documentaries #Linda McCartney

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sounwise · 2 years

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In December 1968, Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, arrived at Apple. [...] Kesey was accompanied by two Hell’s Angels—Frisco Pete and Billy Tumbleweed—plus sixteen hangers-on who had been told by George Harrison in San Francisco that Apple would look after them. They were expected because George Harrison had sent round a memo: Hell’s Angels will be in London within the next week on the way to straighten out Czechoslovakia. There will be 12 in number, complete with black leather jackets and motorcycles. They will undoubtedly arrive at Apple and I have heard that they might try to make full use of Apple’s facilities. They may look as if they are going to do you in but are very straight and do good things, so don’t fear them or uptight them. Try to assist them without neglecting your Apple business and without letting them take control of Savile Row. December 4, 1968. Derek Taylor lent Kesey a tape recorder and told him to go out and record a street diary of his visit to London, but because Miles was in the USA, no one was there to encourage him or give him direction, and the project went nowhere though the tape recorder did. Two gleaming Harley-Davidsons had preceded the arrival of Frisco Pete and Billy Tumbleweed by air freight at a cost to Apple of £250, and were now parked in Savile Row, attracting curious glances from the gentlemen on their way to be measured for suits identical to the ones they were already wearing. The Angels and their hangers-on took over the Apple guest lounge and hung out, terrifying people and drinking the place dry. Everyone was too scared to tell them they couldn’t live there indefinitely, so George Harrison, who had not yet visited his guests, finally came into the office and pointedly asked them when they would be leaving. They got the picture and left peaceably, taking only a few souvenirs.

[—from Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Barry Miles]

#OTHER GEORGE!!!#simply Knocked Out by this anecdote #george harrison #apple corps ltd.#1968 #the beatles #paul mccartney: many years from now #many years from now #barry miles #hell's angels #p.s. god the way miles writes is so funny the utterly deadpan delivery of this whole thing

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pressnewsagencyllc · 1 month

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Intel awarded up to $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act grants, with billions more in loans available

The money will help “leading-edge semiconductors made in the United States” keep “America in the driver’s seat of innovation,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said on a call with reporters. Intel and the White House said their agreement is nonbinding and preliminary and could change. Intel has long been a stalwart of the U.S. semiconductor industry, developing chips that power many of…

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reportwire · 1 year

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Apple may launch mixed reality device this year — but we're not scared, HTC CEO says

Cher Wang, chairperson, co-founder and CEO of HTC, speaks at a keynote on the second day of the Mobile World Congress 2023. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Nurphoto via Getty Images BARCELONA — The boss of consumer electronics firm HTC thinks Apple is going to launch its own mixed reality headset, but she’s not worried about the competition. Speaking with CNBC at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,…

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sinceileftyoublog · 1 year

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The Beatles Reissue Review: Revolver (Super Deluxe)

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BY JORDAN MAINZER

Listening to the Super Deluxe reissue of The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver, it’s of course important to consider the context of the record. Following Rubber Soul, the first album from the Fab Four instantly apparent as one of the greatest albums ever made, John, Paul, George, and Ringo decided to experiment. Both harking back (classical music, Hindustani instrumentation) and looking forward (inventive studio technology, LSD-inspired freakouts), the band delivered under a somewhat self-imposed pressure and made what some still consider to be their finest work. Indeed, they wanted to back up Lennon’s assertion that they were more popular than Jesus, all the while finishing in time to embark on their last-ever tour. With such weight in mind, I’ll certainly take any opportunity to appreciate and deeply hear (for the first time on streaming services) the original mono mix of the record, a new stereo and Dolby Atmos mix by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell, as well as early takes from the sessions, home demos, and remasters and remixes of “Paperback Writer” and “Rain”.

Yet, it’s also now important to consider how we now listen to The Beatles. Peter Jackson’s 2021 docuseries The Beatles: Get Back included hours of studio footage of the band making Let It Be, everything from chatter to inter-band drama to McCartney composing in real time. Critically acclaimed and widely watched, the series set a new standard for how fans, casual and diehard, consume new Beatles content. While there’s no video footage to go along with the music, this reissue of Revolver importantly does further illuminate how some of the band’s most beloved songs came to be, at times giving you greater appreciation for the originally released versions, sometimes even adding to the canon. Chronologically on the release, after the new stereo mix, each song is given its own treatment. That is, whatever alternative versions, demos, or instrumentals they have are presented in groupings so listeners can hear them back to back, piecing together themselves how, for instance, “Yellow Submarine” transformed so radically from a sadsack Lennon tune to a Kinks-like McCartney ditty and eventually to the silly, Starr-led stomp we all know and love. Even though some alternative versions have appeared on previous Beatles anthologies, hearing them as part of a progression is illuminating.

Of course, as popular as it may be, very few will claim “Yellow Submarine” is towards the top of The Beatles’ best songs, so how about the treatment to album closer “Tomorrow Never Knows”, their most hallucinogenic track ever, and remarkably the first song recorded for Revolver? That’s right: After the gorgeous pop of Rubber Soul, the band took a 360 and created an opus of meaty drums, muffled vocals, tape loops, and backwards guitars. The song’s first take includes those backwards guitars, albeit at a much more languid pace, but no tape loops, and Starr’s drums almost inventing motorik a few years too early. Still, it’s far in terms of even just structure than anything on Rubber Soul, and to deduce that the band, to get their final product, went further all-in on experimentation is revelatory. “Eleanor Rigby”’s another all-timer in terms of influence, melancholy baroque pop that redefined what constituted rock music in the 60s and even an entire generation of indie rock in the Aughts. McCartney came up with the melody on his piano and purportedly played a version on guitar--no proof is in the reissue--but George Martin eventually arranged it for a double quartet. On one of the album’s most Fifth Beatle moments, Martin educates McCartney on orchestral vibrato, asking him whether he can hear the difference between versions with and without vibrato. McCartney couldn’t; as such, you can really thank Martin for the song’s ultimate brilliance.

McCartney can sure play bass, though! Out of all individual Beatles performances on the reissue, he stands out the most, whether simply enhanced on the new mixes of “Taxman” or on the actual speed version of “Rain”, where his limber playing sounds like The Who’s John Entwistle. The bass is almost too prominent on an instrumental take on Motown-esque weed tribute “Got To Get You Into My Life”, with only some horns to contrast its timbre, but even that track shows the strength he exuded on an instrument he didn’t even really want to play in the first place. Yes, there are Harrison’s gorgeous sitar on “Love You To”, Starr’s thwacking drum fills on “Paperback Writer”, “I Want To Tell You”, and “Here, There And Everywhere”, and Lennon’s contemplative rasp on his demo of “She Said She Said”, whose non-sensical lyrics and lo-fi recording could fit on Bee Thousand. But just as on Get Back, it’s McCartney who comes out looking like the genius of the band--even if he didn’t understand orchestral vibrato, music for him was and continues to be simply intuitive. I guess, then, that could be the ultimate takeaway from Revolver’s Super Deluxe reissue: We should consider ourselves lucky that the ultimate showman is still here to grace us with his erudition.

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globalcourant · 2 years

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Spirit Airlines, Didi Global and more

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clothinglennyco · 2 years

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Tesla investor calls for $15 billion stock buyback after share price falls

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter and manage multiple companies at the same time. James Glover II | Reuters Billionaire Leo Koguan, who claims to be the third largest individual shareholder of Tesla stock, is calling on the carmaker to announce a $15 billion stock buyback as the company’s share price continues to fall. In a tweet to Martin Viecha, Tesla’s senior director of investor…

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ljblueteak · 2 months

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From The Beatles site X

Culver City, CA (February 20th, 2024) -- Today, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Sam Mendes, and Neal Street Productions announced a groundbreaking creative endeavor to tell the story of The Beatles with four distinct theatrical feature films. The project marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd. and The Beatles – Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison – have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.

As conceived by Mendes, who will direct, the four theatrical feature films – one from each band member’s point-of-view – will intersect to tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history.

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SPE will finance and distribute worldwide with full theatrical windows in 2027. The dating cadence of the films, the details of which will be shared closer to release, will be innovative and groundbreaking.

Mendes will direct all four films and produce alongside his Neal Street Productions partner Pippa Harris and Neal Street’s Julie Pastor. Jeff Jones will executive produce for Apple Corps Ltd.

“I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” said Sam Mendes.

“We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” said Pippa Harris. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege. From our first meeting with Tom Rothman and Elizabeth Gabler, it was clear that they shared both our passion and ambition for this project, and we can’t think of a more perfect home than Sony Pictures.”

“Apple Corps is delighted to collaborate with Sam, Pippa and Julie to explore each Beatle’s unique story and to bring them together in a suitably captivating and innovative way,” said Apple Corps Ltd. CEO Jeff Jones. “Sony Pictures’ enthusiastic support, championing the project’s scope and creative vision from the start, has been invaluable for all of us.”

“I know I speak for our CEO Tony Vinciquerra, who was instrumental in making this happen, and every Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group colleague around the world when I say: ‘yeah, yeah, yeah!’” said Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group. “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some. Pairing his premiere filmmaking team, with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe. We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam’s uniquely artistic vision.”

#The Beatles #omg

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delightfullyatomicfest · 5 months

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I’m still obsessed with Ken Womack deciding a cartoon strip character was Paul on 9 May 1969.

Mainly because it seems like a misinterpretation of an image based on a misrepresentation of the situation?

Here’s what Womack wrote thanks to @muzaktomyears.

To summarise: Womack says the other three cornered Paul, insisting he appoint Klein. Paul started to lose him cool when the others accused him of creating needless roadblocks and wanting to appoint his relatives, Paul refused to sign, there’s a quote from Paul saying that was the night we broke The Beatles and that it was the liberty bell moment and… that’s it, end of chapter with some musing about Mal’s heartbreak and the pic of ‘Paul’ (i.e. Maisie) framed like this:

But… that seems a pretty lopsided view of how it went???

According to You Never Give Me Your Money, on 8 May the other three had signed with Klein without Paul’s knowledge (though George tried to tell him but he’d changed his phone number). The contract appointed ABKCO ‘exclusive business manager’ to Apple Corps Ltd ‘on behalf of The Beatles and The Beatles Group of Companies’. They knew at this point that Paul might not sign and it still needed to be ratified by the Apple board of directors (I.e. The Beatles).

On 9 May they gathered to do LIB overdubs and the other three tried to strong arm Paul into signing with Klein, bullying him and growing furious with him:

You Never Give Me Your Money p. 130

[Note: Womack included a quote from Paul about the 15% stuff but not the bullied and ganged up on bit.]

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And In The End, p. 113

So in the above we have:

‘They really bullied me and ganged up on me’

‘The others grew furious, but McCartney held his ground’

‘They said “Oh, fuck off!” and they all stormed off’

‘Lennon, Harrison and Starkey lost their cool and unleashed an unsparing verbal assault on McCartney leaving him bruised and bleeding on the canvas’

(These are selective quotes so this post doesn’t get too long - more context here which is also the source for the below paragraph. Also the quotes are all Paul’s POV - I’d like to find what the others have said about this day).

John then called Klein, who was on his way to the airport, and Klein came back, lied to Paul about needing approval from the board of ABKCO to try and pressure him into signing and, according to Glyn Johns “… all that equipment was not enough to prevent me hearing Paul McCartney defend himself from Allen Klein’s attempt at bullying him into submission. It was extremely unpleasant to witness”.

[Note: Womack doesn’t actually mention Klein being there]

Paul continued to refuse but the other three carried on anyway. John and George signed the document ratifying their decision to appoint ABKCO exclusive business manager to Apple Corps Ltd. The unanimous agreement rule which The Beatles had always had was resoundingly broken (though they’d already broken it on 21 March 1969 when they appointed Klein against Paul’s wishes the first time).

The full page from You Never Give Me Your Money is here but here’s the really pertinent section:

The signing of this resolution is surely the Liberty Bell moment and Womack doesn’t mention it, nor the fact that they’d previous made unanimous decisions.

So turning back to the cartoon - I imagine Paul was furious (YNGMYM mentions his rage on the next page in the context of drumming for Steve Miller), but from the sources above it seems that there were four other people who’d be equally good candidates for someone going apeshit and screaming at the top of their lungs.

Also, I don’t even know if Mal was there for these bits of unpleasantness (he’s not mentioned in YNGMYM).

Here’s Womack’s sources by the way:

Womack’s source for the events of the day is Anthology p. 326. I went and looked it up. It’s all from Paul and Neil’s PoV and says the same as above - the closest thing is Paul says about anger is “there was a big argument and they all left, leaving me at the studio”. (Here free on the internet archive). The fact that it is all from Paul’s PoV suggests JGR haven’t spoken about this day but I could be wrong on that.

That twitter link is Paul saying that was the day the liberty bell cracked.

And here are my sources:

Rolling Stone article Why The Beatles Broke Up: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/why-the-beatles-broke-up-113403/

You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett

Amaralto’s quote from Sound Man by Glyn Johns book (god I wish he hadn’t turned the audio off. Why couldn’t he have MLH’s lack of ethics when it comes to recording the Beatles interactions?)

Beatles Bible 9 May 1969: https://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/05/09/mixing-get-back-album-inserts-2/#:~:text=It%20took%20place%20at%20Olympic,Klein%20as%20Apple's%20financial%20manager (which also doesn’t include about the signing of the resolution that evening. Is YNGMYM wrong about the day or is it just that no one thinks it specifically matters?)

Paul McCartney Project, 21 March 1969: https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/1969/03/allen-klein-becomes-business-manager-of-apple/(When they first appointed Klein as Business Manager when Paul was out of the country on his honeymoon. Paul sent a legal rep along but they went with majority - not unanimous - rule and voted Klein as Apple Business Manager).

#this feels like stupid Paul girl nit picking but there’s enough shit where he’s the main one at fault #this day isn’t one of them #also disclaimer: maybe I’ve got all of this wrong #sorry for this Ken #you seem very nice in podcast interviews

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rolloroberson · 1 year

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Paul McCartney and George Martin during the recording sessions for “Every Little” and “What You’re Doing” amongst others circa September 30, 1964. Photo by Robert Whitaker © Apple Corps Ltd.(http://www.thebeatles.com/)

#the beatles #paul mccartney #george martin #abbey road emi studios #every little thing #look what you’re doing #robert whitaker #apple corps ltd

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beatleshistoryblog · 1 year

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LECTURE 19: COMING APART (PART 2): In this 1969 interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), George Harrison weighs in on Apple Corps Ltd. He is open about the problems in the company, and the shortcomings of some of the grandiose schemes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who wanted Apple to become a vast multimedia company that would serve as a launching pad for new talent. He is clearly skeptical – and for good reasons – about Apple’s ability to help discover budding talented young musicians. On a broader level, George’s frustration with his band mates is clearly evident in this interview.

#George Harrison #The Beatles #Interviews #1969 #Apple Corps Ltd.#CBC

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beatleswings · 5 months

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#they're so smol here #look at them!#not sure if it's been shared here but whatevs #will do the honors #so proud of my bug boys!#the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #1960s #60s #1963 #non edits

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javelinbk · 1 year

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Beatles for Sale recording sessions, 30th September 1964: George edition

30 September 1964

#some of my favourite photos #from one of my favourite albums #beatles for sale #george harrison #the beatles #september 1964 #emi studios #robert whitaker #1964

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reportwire · 1 year

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Taiwan's Foxconn seeks chip, EV cooperation with India

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harrisonarchive · 8 months

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“I’m Only Sleeping” —

“[George] would play the solos normal, then we’d flip the tapes and he’d listen to them backwards, just to see how they sounded. This would go on for maybe 70 takes, turning the tape over, listening, turning it back again — it would take literally hours to accomplish.“ - Richard Lush (engineer), Acoustic Guitar, February 2003

“Between my dad, John, Paul and Ringo, there was pretty much no musical stone they left unturned. I remember saying to my dad: ‘The backwards solo guitar on that Hendrix thing is just the stickest thing I ever heard.’ Dad just replied, without looking up from his tea: ‘I did the first backwards guitar solo on “I’m only sleeping.”’” - Evening Standard, June 26, 2006 (x)

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