Capitol/EMI Press Release -
Digital Release Card is Format’s First-Ever Music Video Title; Features 21 of Lennon’s Capitol/EMI Music Videos
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Capitol/EMI Music Marketing and iTunes will release a new “John Lennon Video Album” on December 4 at Starbucks locations nationwide. The “John Lennon Video Album,” the iTunes Digital Release card format’s […]
According to this report on the BBC website, a recent poll conducted for Vanity Fairs’ “Movies Rock” special placed Prince’s Purple Rain ahead of A Hard Days Night as the “best soundtrack.”
I don’t think so…
PRESS RELEASE - KOCH Records is pleased to announce the release of “Ringo Live at Soundstage,” a live album by Ringo Starr.
Filmed and recorded at the Genessee Theatre in Waukegan, Illinois, this outstanding performance was captured on August 25, 2005, when Ringo Starr taped a show for the celebrated PBS concert series “Soundstage.”
“Ringo Live at […]
Beatles fan Tony Williams couldn’t believe his good fortune recently when his almost forgotten stereo copy of the very rare “Portrait Cover” edition of The Beatles & Frank Ifield On Stage sold to a California collector. The recording was purchased in the early 70s from a bargain bin at The Forest record store in Dayton OH. When […]
According to a report in the TIMES newspaper ” despite splitting up more than 30 years ago, The Beatles are still helping to boost sales of British bands abroad. There was a surge in the number of British albums being sold in Europe in 2006. The statistics from the BPI, the UK recorded music industry […]
EMI and iTunes have announced that they started offering didgital downloads of John Lennon’s solo albums earlier this week.
The digital retailer is offering the eight albums Lennon recorded between 1969 and his murder in 1980 in addition to collections such as “Anthology,” “Milk and Honey” and “Working Class Hero.” For the first 30 days, exclusive […]
EMI Press Release:
Photograph: Very Best of Ringo Starr CD and Digital on August 28
Since he first began his career in the 1960s with The Beatles, Ringo Starr has been one of the world’s brightest musical luminaries. On August 28, Starr’s four EMI Music catalog albums, Sentimental Journey (1970), Beaucoups Of Blues (1970), the platinum-certified […]
Over on Paul McCartney.com a quick note has been posted announcing that the ‘Ecce Cor Meum’ DVD is to be released through EMI Classics on 22nd October 2007! Details are to be confirmed very shortly, but the DVD is set include last year’s complete Ecce performance from the Royal Albert Hall in London.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the original Cavern Club, EMI will be releasing a three CD set featuring songs from a selection of acts that have appeared at the famous venue during its storied history.
Topping the bill, of course, is the group that called The Cavern home for many years, and […]
According to this article in Design Week, the iconic bubble writing that adorns the front of The Beatles’ 1965 Rubber Soul album is about to go on sale at Bonham’s, valued at £10 000.
The trademark stretchy font, which has been credited with launching a swarm of imitations, was created in 1965 by Charles Front, a […]
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
