Consumos web. 02/20/2016

• Exclusive: Mersey Beat founder seeks permanent home for his Beatles archives | Examiner.com

  He says there are also over 500 photos he took of groups myself, still unpublished, and several hundred Beatles photos, at least 200 of them unpublished. In addition, there are nearly 1,000 interviews with Mersey musicians, over 1,000 books, more than 1,000 fanzines and hundreds of magazines.

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• Ken Orth discusses his unique Beatles collection for Grammy Museum MS symposium | Examiner.com

  As of today there are 428 “Sgt. Pepper” images, accounting for 21% of the total collection.

  tags: Beatles beatlealbums iconografía beatleart

• Yoko Ono Yes, I'm A Witch Too

  As on Yes, I'm A Witch, each artist has completely reinvented their respective tune, transforming and stripping it back so that the true strength of Ono's songwriting is revealed.

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• See the video: Lennon car rolls into Royal B.C. Museum

  But just prior to the release of the Beatles’ eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the car went through an epic transformation: Artist Steve Weaver was commissioned to paint his scroll-and-flowers design.

  tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlethings JohnLennon

• Giles Martin, ‘Love’ musical director, on refreshing The Beatles show: ‘It needed to be more vibrant’ - Las Vegas Sun News

  I was the first person to back up The Beatles’ catalog by doing the “Love” project. It was on four-track and eight-track and two-track tapes my dad recorded on. Instead of the legacy I thought that I’d leave, I thought that I was going to get fired from the project with the concept of taking The Beatles tapes and doing a show in Las Vegas. At that point, it was a completely ridiculous idea.

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• Bizarre Beatles tribute 'All This and World War II' back on CD, coming to DVD | Examiner.com

  "It's not quite the same film,” he said. “I have re-edited great chunks of it. But I've used much of the same material, and of course many of the same songs. Permit me to say it looks and sounds terrific.”

  tags: Beatles beatlemovies beatlealbums beatlecovers

• Action Figure Insider » Titan Merchandise announces new Beatles TITANS

  the next wave of releases in their deal with Apple Corps Ltd to produce an ongoing range of their award-winning TITANS vinyl collectibles, based upon The Beatles’ ultra-psychedelic cartoon classic, Yellow Submarine.

  tags: Beatles beatleart beatlethings yellow submarine

• Encuentran una copia original de Star Wars en celuloide, la restauran y la suben a Internet

  es injusto que a día de hoy no se pueda disfrutar de la versión original del film sin cambios. Un grupo de entusiastas han solucionado eso creando la única copia original en formato digital que existe.

  tags: decadencia cultural excesos antipiratería propiedad intelectual

• 30 minutos con Yoko Ono | Sopitas.com

  Un día como hoy pero de 1933 nació Yoko Ono, artista japonesa mayormente conocida por ser la viuda de John Lennon. Y es que cuando pensamos en Yoko Ono lo primero que nos viene a la memoria es la sombra de aquella lapidaria acusación que la señala como la responsable de que los Beatles se se...

  tags: YokoOno arte de vanguardia México

• The making of Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles’ most mysterious song.

  All our songs come out of our imagination. There was never an Eleanor Rigby. One of us might think of a song completely, and the other just adds a bit. Or we might write alternate lines. We never argue. If one of us says he doesn’t like a bit, the other agrees. It just doesn’t matter that much.

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