In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about peace, popularity, and messages in music.
In 2007, Levitan collaborated with director Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and animator Alex Kurina to produce […]
The BBC reports that a full set of Beatles’ autographs scrawled on a birth certificate is expected to fetch up to £3,000 when it goes under the hammer later this year.The owner was serving on Salisbury Plain in the 1960s when the band filmed Help! there with the Royal Scots Greys. He was drinking […]
Bob Neaverson, author of The Beatles Movies (Cassell, 1997) and co-author (with former Apple Film boss Denis O’Dell) of At the Apple’s Core, has just launched a Beatles Movie website, www.beatlesmovies.co.uk.The site is dedicated to celebrating the importance of the group’s five forays into film, and includes a re-vamped version of his first book, the […]
This year’s Sundance Film Festival will include an animated short film featuring the voice of John Lennon.
According to the Festival’s press release this year’s list of Animated Shorts includes I MET THE WALRUS by Canadian Director Josh Raskin. In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into […]
From WhatGoesOn.com: Most Beatles fans know that the Beatles perfected their craft in Hamburg in 1960, where they met Astrid Kirchherr, a budding photographer who became close friends with the band, eventually becoming engaged to their original bassist, Stu Sutcliffe. Astrid took the first iconic and best known photographs of the Beatles during those years […]
Saturday, October 27: Sundance Channel exclusively premieres Help! at 10pm ET/PT, with repeated airings scheduled through November.
Week of October 29: Amazon.com exclusively premieres The Beatles’ full-length performance of You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away from the film. AOL Music exclusively premieres The Beatles’ full-length performance of Help! from the film.
Thursday, November 1: MSN.com exclusively […]
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…
I was in Cleveland last week on business and managed to spend some time at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. The 5th Floor, which was advertised as holding an exhibit on The Clash (that I was looking forward to seeing), was closed down and inaccesible as the Hall Of Fame was getting ready […]
According to a report on the UK’s Metro site, Paul McCartney is reportedly in talks to work on the soundtrack to Shrek 4, due out in 2010. He contributed to Shrek The Third and is apparently keen to help with the next film because his three-year-old daughter Beatrice is a big fan.
A source told the Daily […]
According to a report in Variety, despite Revolution Studios paying Sony/ATV Publishing $8.25 million for the right to record the film’s 33 Lennon & McCartney songs, the studio is barred from invoking the Beatles in its campaign for the Across the Universe movie which opened this weekend to positive critical reviews.
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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.
