I've got good news and great news! Which do you want to hear first?!
-THE BIG BEAT w/ Bob Vincent returns to Mt ROCK next Friday, September 6 at 12pm PT/3pm ET.
Hello, Hello! Welcome to THE BIG BEAT BLOG! This blog is a companion to "The Big Beat" radio show hosted by Bob Vincent. Here you will find Beatles-related topics, discussions, trivia, and info on "The Big Beat" radio show which airs Fridays at Noon (Pacific) ONLY MtRockRadio.com.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
"NEW" Song by Paul McCartney + Season Premier of THE BIG BEAT!
Hey, Beatlemaniacs!
I've got good news and great news! Which do you want to hear first?!
-THE BIG BEAT w/ Bob Vincent returns to Mt ROCK next Friday, September 6 at 12pm PT/3pm ET.
- Paul McCartney has released a single from his upcoming NEW album. 12 NEW Paul songs hit stores in the UK and US on October 14 and 15, respectively. Check out the NEW song below!
I've got good news and great news! Which do you want to hear first?!
-THE BIG BEAT w/ Bob Vincent returns to Mt ROCK next Friday, September 6 at 12pm PT/3pm ET.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Jeff Lynne to Receive Star on The Walk Of Fame
From ELO.bizBritish singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer JEFF LYNNE was recently announced as a 2014 recipient of a star on the prestigious HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME.
The ELO frontman and founder, solo artist, Traveling Wilbury member and record producer (The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh) was one of seven honorees in the 2014 recording category. Lynne will be inducted next year and will permanently be remembered on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside icons of film, television and radio.
"I'm thrilled to be recognized by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and feel honored to be in the great company of some of my biggest heroes," says LYNNE of the honor. "Growing up in Birmingham, England, I never imagined my name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame--it really is fantastic..." Read More...
Monday, March 4, 2013
Update: I'M ALIVE! (PLUS A GREAT FILM!)
Hello, Beatlemaniacs!
Boy, I've missed you all! I've been experiencing problems with accessing my blog to update. But all bugs seem to be fixed and now I can get back to all the Beatlemania this page can handle!
As of now THE BIG BEAT radio show is on hold due to some construction at 90.1 Mt ROCK, but I will return to the studio as soon as the dust settles. Don't fret if you cannot get 90.1 Mt ROCK on your FM tuner. You'll still be able to listen in on MtRockRadio.com. I'll keep you all updated on the season premiere so you don't miss a beat!
In the meantime, get a load of this! I was perusing YouTube earlier today and came across a fantastic BBC documentary called 12 Hours to Please Me. This film celebrates the iconic 12-hour recording session of The Beatles' hit debut record Please Please Me. If that's not cool enough this film was recorded in Abbey Road Studios on the exact 50th anniversary of the recording of the original album. The film does a fab job recreating the Beatles February 11, 1963 recording schedule down to the hour and minute that each song was originally recorded. Musicians young and young-at-heart came together for this special day to re-record The Beatles' Please Please Me repertoire of songs. Joss Stone, Stereophonics, Mick Hucknall, and I Am Kloot are just a few of the artists featured in this film. Even some of the people present in the studio 50 years ago returned to Abbey Road Studios to re-live the magic they witnessed, including engineer Richard Langham and NME reporter Alan Smith who requested to The Beatles that they close the day by recording "La Bamba".... "LA BAMBA?" Watch and see!
Boy, I've missed you all! I've been experiencing problems with accessing my blog to update. But all bugs seem to be fixed and now I can get back to all the Beatlemania this page can handle!
As of now THE BIG BEAT radio show is on hold due to some construction at 90.1 Mt ROCK, but I will return to the studio as soon as the dust settles. Don't fret if you cannot get 90.1 Mt ROCK on your FM tuner. You'll still be able to listen in on MtRockRadio.com. I'll keep you all updated on the season premiere so you don't miss a beat!
In the meantime, get a load of this! I was perusing YouTube earlier today and came across a fantastic BBC documentary called 12 Hours to Please Me. This film celebrates the iconic 12-hour recording session of The Beatles' hit debut record Please Please Me. If that's not cool enough this film was recorded in Abbey Road Studios on the exact 50th anniversary of the recording of the original album. The film does a fab job recreating the Beatles February 11, 1963 recording schedule down to the hour and minute that each song was originally recorded. Musicians young and young-at-heart came together for this special day to re-record The Beatles' Please Please Me repertoire of songs. Joss Stone, Stereophonics, Mick Hucknall, and I Am Kloot are just a few of the artists featured in this film. Even some of the people present in the studio 50 years ago returned to Abbey Road Studios to re-live the magic they witnessed, including engineer Richard Langham and NME reporter Alan Smith who requested to The Beatles that they close the day by recording "La Bamba".... "LA BAMBA?" Watch and see!
(Thank you to YouTube user GOSFanUSA for uploading this video)
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Today In Beatles History: Brian Epstein Signs The Beatles
From BeatlesAgain.com
January 24, 1962: Signing of a management contract of Brian and the Beatles, at Brian's office at the NEMS record store in Whitechapel.
January 24, 1962: Signing of a management contract of Brian and the Beatles, at Brian's office at the NEMS record store in Whitechapel.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Beatles Music Enters The Public Domain
From The Examiner.com
The Beatles' song “Love Me Do” is available on compilations outside the United States thanks to a European law that allows it to enter the public domain after 50 years, Rolling Stone reported Friday.
The current law requires songs to be 50 years old to hit public domain, but a move is in the works to change the requirement to 70 years, which may not happen until later this year. According to Complete Music Update, the change will not affect “Love Me Do” and it will remain in public domain.
The song fell out of protection on
Dec. 31. There were efforts to change the requirement to 95 years as in the U.S., said CMU, but the agreement reached called for 70.
"Love Me Do" isn't the only song being affected in this way. The Beatles' "P.S. I Love You" is available on a similar collection, "The 1962 British Hit Parade: The B Sides Part Three September - December" And "Please Please Me," which just passed its 50th anniversary of release, could also find itself on a similar compilation in the future.
And there are many such British hit parade sets available as labels take advantage of the public domain law in the UK. In fact, the public domain compilations are all over Europe. There are two interesting ones relating to Elvis Presley that examine his musical roots...
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The Beatles' song “Love Me Do” is available on compilations outside the United States thanks to a European law that allows it to enter the public domain after 50 years, Rolling Stone reported Friday.
The current law requires songs to be 50 years old to hit public domain, but a move is in the works to change the requirement to 70 years, which may not happen until later this year. According to Complete Music Update, the change will not affect “Love Me Do” and it will remain in public domain.
The song fell out of protection on
Dec. 31. There were efforts to change the requirement to 95 years as in the U.S., said CMU, but the agreement reached called for 70.
"Love Me Do" isn't the only song being affected in this way. The Beatles' "P.S. I Love You" is available on a similar collection, "The 1962 British Hit Parade: The B Sides Part Three September - December" And "Please Please Me," which just passed its 50th anniversary of release, could also find itself on a similar compilation in the future.
And there are many such British hit parade sets available as labels take advantage of the public domain law in the UK. In fact, the public domain compilations are all over Europe. There are two interesting ones relating to Elvis Presley that examine his musical roots...
Read More...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Paul McCartney Joins Nirvana!
From BBC America
Sir Paul will join Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear for a special performance at tonight’s benefit concert for families effected by Hurricane Sandy, which effectively means he’ll be playing the Kurt Cobain role, right down to being the sole left-handed guitarist in a group of northpaw rockers. JUST LIKE KURT OMG!
This odd union came out of a conversation between Sir Paul and Dave, in which they planned to do something special for the concert, which takes place tonight in Madison Square Garden. According to Sir Paul, Dave invited him to a rehearsal room to work out a new song in the time-honored tradition of rockers everywhere. They agree to meet up and “jam with some mates,” only Dave failed to reveal the exact significance (or indeed identity) of the mates in question.
Sir Paul told the Sun: “I didn’t really know who they were. They are saying how good it is to be back together. I said ‘Whoa? You guys haven’t played together for all that time?
“And somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it...”
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Sir Paul will join Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear for a special performance at tonight’s benefit concert for families effected by Hurricane Sandy, which effectively means he’ll be playing the Kurt Cobain role, right down to being the sole left-handed guitarist in a group of northpaw rockers. JUST LIKE KURT OMG!
This odd union came out of a conversation between Sir Paul and Dave, in which they planned to do something special for the concert, which takes place tonight in Madison Square Garden. According to Sir Paul, Dave invited him to a rehearsal room to work out a new song in the time-honored tradition of rockers everywhere. They agree to meet up and “jam with some mates,” only Dave failed to reveal the exact significance (or indeed identity) of the mates in question.Sir Paul told the Sun: “I didn’t really know who they were. They are saying how good it is to be back together. I said ‘Whoa? You guys haven’t played together for all that time?
“And somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it...”
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Ravi Shankar, Dead At 92
From USA Today.com
Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over a 10-decade career, died Tuesday. He was 92.
A statement on the musician's website said he died in San Diego, near his Southern California home. The musician's foundation issued a statement saying that he had suffered upper respiratory and heart problems and had undergone heart-valve replacement surgery last week.
Labeled "the godfather of world music" by George Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music.
His close relationship with Harrison, the Beatles lead guitarist, shot Shankar to global stardom in the 1960s.
The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California.
Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, Harrison recorded the Indian-inspired song "Within You Without You" on the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," helping spark the raga-rock phase of 60s music and drawing increasing attention to Shankar and his work...
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Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over a 10-decade career, died Tuesday. He was 92.
Labeled "the godfather of world music" by George Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music.
His close relationship with Harrison, the Beatles lead guitarist, shot Shankar to global stardom in the 1960s.
The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California.
Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, Harrison recorded the Indian-inspired song "Within You Without You" on the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," helping spark the raga-rock phase of 60s music and drawing increasing attention to Shankar and his work...
Read More...
Monday, November 19, 2012
Howard Smith's Interviews With Legendary Rockers To Be Released
From New York Times.com
Those are among more than 100 interviews with rock stars, artists and assorted radicals recorded from 1969 to 1972 by Howard Smith, a longtime writer for The Village Voice. They have now been cataloged and packaged for the digital era as “The Smith Tapes” and will be released in monthly batches over the next year. The first, with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, Mr. Clapton and others, comes out Tuesday through Amazon’s MP3 store and next week on iTunes.
John and Yoko are there, talking for hours and hours — during a bed-in, at a “happening,” listening to the Beatles at home. Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, just back from Cannes in June 1969, rap about their new movie, “Easy Rider.” Eric Clapton, between shows at the Fillmore East in 1970, struggles with a sense of responsibility for his new band, Derek and the Dominos.
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At a time when rock ’n’ roll, the sexual revolution and the antiwar counterculture all intersected, Mr. Smith spoke to seemingly every boldface name for “Scenes,” his influential column in The Voice. He also had a knack for being in precisely the right place at the right time...
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Copy of Beatles' Rejected Audition Tape To Be Auctioned
From Examiner.com
A tape of the recordings made by the Beatles' at their audition session for Decca Records on January 1, 1962 will be auctioned Nov. 27, UK auctioneer the Fame Bureau announced [November 16].
The 10-track tape, described as a mono master safety copy, features the songs “Like Dreamers Do,” “Money,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Sure to Fall,” “Three Cool Cats,” “Love of The Loved,” “Memphis,” “Crying Waiting Hoping,” “Till There Was You” and “Searchin'.” The tape was rejected by Decca before the group was signed to Parlophone Records.
“We've been told it's a safety master," Ted Owen of the Fame Bureau told Beatles Examiner. "It came out of Capitol Records in Los Angeles.”
Owen said, "The great thing for me is the quality,” which he described as “pristine.” The value of the tape is estimated at between £18,000/20,000 ($28,600 to $31,770 USD).
The auction takes place at 5 p.m. GMT November 27 at the London Playboy Club. Other Beatles items in the auction include an RIAA gold record award for “The Beatles Anthology 3” and unreleased cover proofs for the Beatles' “Yesterday and Today” album, including a proof of the Butcher cover picture...
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A tape of the recordings made by the Beatles' at their audition session for Decca Records on January 1, 1962 will be auctioned Nov. 27, UK auctioneer the Fame Bureau announced [November 16].
The 10-track tape, described as a mono master safety copy, features the songs “Like Dreamers Do,” “Money,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Sure to Fall,” “Three Cool Cats,” “Love of The Loved,” “Memphis,” “Crying Waiting Hoping,” “Till There Was You” and “Searchin'.” The tape was rejected by Decca before the group was signed to Parlophone Records.
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“We've been told it's a safety master," Ted Owen of the Fame Bureau told Beatles Examiner. "It came out of Capitol Records in Los Angeles.”
Owen said, "The great thing for me is the quality,” which he described as “pristine.” The value of the tape is estimated at between £18,000/20,000 ($28,600 to $31,770 USD).
The auction takes place at 5 p.m. GMT November 27 at the London Playboy Club. Other Beatles items in the auction include an RIAA gold record award for “The Beatles Anthology 3” and unreleased cover proofs for the Beatles' “Yesterday and Today” album, including a proof of the Butcher cover picture...
Read More...
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