Prudence Bury has put her home in France up for sale. Prue says it’s time to downsize, but “Oh how I hate that expression.” Here is a link where you can see her property, which includes a separate guest/vacation house, called a gîte.
http://www.vendeehousesales.eu/index.html
What a lovely place! The farm house was restored by Prue, and she did all of the decorating, of course.
Prudence Bury-Fuchs with the Beatles band Los Brandys, November 2009
The awareness in America of Swinging London in the 60’s is evident in these guest appearances on one of the classiest old game shows, “What’s My Line?” First, Prue Bury’s friend and former boss, fashion designer Mary Quant, then their hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, followed by one of the first supermodels, Jean Shrimpton.
What’s happening right now at the most famous crosswalk in music history?
http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/#
And click here to see Prue Bury’s favorite Beatles band, Los Brandys, working inside of the fabled Abbey Road recording studios.
Kudos to Microsoft’s Bing for coming up with this link that Google missed, about the Beatles Weekend held in Ouistreham, Normandy, France back in November. But I wish there were more of Prue in the video.
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Prue Bury with Beatles band Los Brandys. Hold your mouse over the picture…
With the release of OK GO’s new Capitol album, “Of The Blue Color of the Sky,” EMI, the eminent UK music company, is telling the band their videos on YouTube — like the new one, “This Too Shall Pass” — can’t be embedded on other sites.
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In 2006, OK GO made a big splash on YouTube by dancing on treadmills for their song, “Here It Goes Again,” that I have to assume helped make money for Capitol.
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Seems to me that EMI is applying the same faulty logic that Disney used in the early days of VHS, when it refused to allow their movies to be rented, rather than sold at retail. The comparison isn’t exactly comparable, because there was money to be made in both transactions. Once again I point out that the first printed warning of the coming age of digital downloaded music was made by Stewart Brand in 1972.
Maybe EMI is thinking that banning embedding will give them time to decide what they can do to generate a revenue stream from streaming videos, like those featuring the Lily Allen, Britain’s leading bad girl of Pop music, who resides on the Beatles’ original label, Parlophone.
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Is Lily any worse than a United States Senator who posed nude for Cosmo in his buff youth, and whose wife was once in a racy music video herself? Isn’t the Brown family only slightly less shallow?
