Note: Denro says at first glance it isn’t obvious the image above isn’t official. This is the original.
My edit was done in five minutes, with Microsoft Paint and XnView, and I think it more accurately describes the significance of the announcement.
I don’t use iTunes, but it seems that the service will finally be offering the Beatles catalog.
Even in these recessionary times, there’s always something to buy! As featured previously here and also here, next week there’s a great new CD coming out, called Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records. It includes a track by Lon and Derrik Van Eaton, and at 5 minutes into this video from Ringo’s 1978 TV special, you’ll see Lon playing fantastic slide guitar on a rockin’ rendition of “Hard Times”. You can hear Ringo say, “All right, Lon!” Thank you, Elaine Staats for pointing this out.
Yes, that’s Carrie Fisher, a year after Star Wars, before cocaine started to wreck her. For me, 1978 was the year after my college graduation, which I didn’t attend. I was working in radio with Cactus Lizzie, and I was broke. I was living in a rented room in a finished basement, and I didn’t have a TV, so I missed the Ringo special, but I remember watching The Rutles with Bismo at his parents’ house.
Something else that’s coming out soon is the DVD of Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)?
And Sir Paul’s remastered Band on the Run CD+DVD, is a couple of weeks away.
I grabbed this great picture from Women of The Beatles.
Click here to see one reason why Wolfram Alpha isn’t of much use for this site.
Samjay pointed out something on Boston public TV tonight — How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin. The show apparently first aired on PBS nearly a year ago, but it got by me. Click here to watch it.
