The Beatles

[The Nal]

Anyone got $13k to spare?

[The Nal]

17k, and the reserve not met!!

Id want the record and the dolls for that. And an acoustic performance from McCartney and Ringo in my living room.

[Cardboard Box City]

John Lennon's killer up for parole again in NY

BUFFALO, N.Y. — John Lennon's killer will seek his freedom this week for a sixth time.

Mark David Chapman is scheduled to appear before a parole board at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. It's Division of Parole policy to identify only the week, not the day, the hearing will take place.

Parole officials are expected to release their decision the day after the hearing and a transcript about a week later.

The former maintenance man from Hawaii has been in prison nearly 30 years for gunning down the former Beatle on a Manhattan sidewalk in 1980. He was sentenced to 20 years to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

Now 55, Chapman has been denied parole five times, appearing before the board every two years since 2000.

[Kowalski]

No chance. Wouldn't last a day outside prison.

[Wooderson]

in what way..?

For a film about the late teens of a man who dominated mine I found it dull and nearly unwatchable at times. Felt like I was watching Coronation Street.

[sifi]

I think it was based on the memoirs of his half-sister, wasn't it? The only thing I found uncomfortable about it was his relationship with his mother, it almost seemed incestious at times.

[Kowalski]

I think it was based on the memoirs of his half-sister, wasn't it? The only thing I found uncomfortable about it was his relationship with his mother, it almost seemed incestious at times.

Agreed, it was a little uncomfortable to watch.

I watched the film last night, I thought it was pretty good. I was lacking in knowledge of Lennon's mother so the end was a bit of a shock!

[Cardboard Box City]

Agreed, it was a little uncomfortable to watch.

I watched the film last night, I thought it was pretty good. I was lacking in knowledge of Lennon's mother so the end was a bit of a shock!

She doesn't get hit by a car driven by an off duty police officer by any chance does she?

Interesting coincidence, years later, the bloke who was driving the car lost his job and became a postman - part of his job was delivering the bags of fanmail to Paul McCartney's house.

[Wooderson]

She doesn't get hit by a car driven by an off duty police officer by any chance does she?

Interesting coincidence, years later, the bloke who was driving the car lost his job and became a postman - part of his job was delivering the bags of fanmail to Paul McCartney's house.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19980222/ai_n14474027/

[Kowalski]

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Edited August 24, 2010 by Kowalski

[The Nal]

Anyone heard this before? I never had. Pretty good for something he probably made up in two minutes.

[ampersand]

Anyone heard this before? I never had. Pretty good for something he probably made up in two minutes.

i turned off jeremy vine for that. apologise!

[ampersand]

bluebird or blackbird?

oh and since when did wings only have 3 members?

[Cardboard Box City]

bluebird or blackbird?

Blackbird.

[ampersand]

I thought for a while the were only 3 'officially'... Paul, Linda and Denny Laine...

no? (Mull of Kintyre-ish time?)

yeah it was just a question on rob dj's pub quiz this morning.

which artist has had a uk no.1 as a solo artist, part of a duo, trio, 4-piece and larger than a 4-piece?

was mccartney and apparently wings had 3 members. i always assumed they had 6+.

[The Nal]

I thought for a while the were only 3 'officially'... Paul, Linda and Denny Laine...

no? (Mull of Kintyre-ish time?)

First Wings line up was Paul, Linda, Denny Laine and Denny Seiwel (who also played drums on Ram).

Although Band on the Run, a number 1 album, was credited as a trio. (Paul, Linda and Denny Laine). Ginger Baker played drums on a few of the tunes.

Edited September 7, 2010 by The Nal

[The Nal]

Ed Sullivan shows on sale in its entirety for the first time

I have the Elvis version of this, quite good. Awful show looking back at it though, like a poor variety thing. And then Elvis rocks in shaking hips everywhere. You can see why he scared post war America.

[Kowalski]

Primal Scream covering "It's All Too Much" on last night's Radio 1 tribute to Annie Nightingale:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/yC6IMtn0/01_Its_All_Too_Much__Rocks.html

[The Nal]

John Lennon article in the Guardian.

Talks about the car ad.

Sean: "But intention was not financial, was simply wanting to keep him out there in the world."

Richard Williams: Pull the other one, Sean. This is a man, your father, whose Wedgwood-style lavatory, originally installed at Tittenhurst Park, Ascot, his last home in Britain, was auctioned for £9,500 last month.

Edited September 27, 2010 by The Nal

[sifi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIOdvXE7kbI

This disturbs me.

[The Nal]

More Beatles and Diamond Dave.

[The Nal]

Love Me Do. Released yesterday 48 years ago. Still sounds pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7dsYGaXjTc

[dakyras]

I think Across The Universe was a really good idea; it could have been a Moulin Rouge type of quality and brilliance, but instead the story was shit and so was most of the acting. However, this little arrangement of I Want To Hold Your Hand always strikes me as pretty good:

Edited October 6, 2010 by dakyras

[The Nal]

48!!

f**k me....

Yeah, thought that may have surprised/stunned/depressed certain people alright.......

[Cardboard Box City]

Saw this earlier on from a Rolling Stone article, top 100 Beatles songs:

1. A Day in the Life

2. I Want to Hold Your Hand

3. Strawberry Fields Forever

4. Yesterday

5. In My Life

6. Something

7. Hey Jude

8. Let it Be

9. Come Together

10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

11. A Hard Day’s Night

12. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

13. Revolution

14. She Loves You

15. Help!

16. I Saw Her Standing There

17. Ticket to Ride

18. Tomorrow Never Knows

19. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

20. Please Please Me

21. All You Need is Love

22. Eleanor Rigby

23. Abbey Road Medley

24. Happiness is a Warm Gun

25. Here, There, and Everywhere

26. If I Fell

27. You’re Going to Lose That Girl

28. Here Comes the Sun

29. Can’t Buy Me Love

30. We Can Work it Out

31. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away

32. Penny Lane

33. I Am the Walrus

34. Eight Days a Week

35. Paperback Writer

36. I Should Have Known Better

37. She Said She Said (yayyy!!!!!)

38. Blackbird

39. Day Tripper

40. For No One

41. Get Back

42. I Feel Fine

43. Drive My Car

44. All My Loving

45. No Reply

46. Don’t Let Me Down

47. Things We Said Today

48. The Ballad of John and Yoko

49. The Night Before

50. Got to Get You Into My Life

51. If I Needed Someone

52. Helter Skelter

53. It Won’t Be Long

54. Two of Us

55. Taxman

56. I’m Down

57. I’m Only Sleeping

58. I’ve Just Seen a Face

59. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

60. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

61. With a Little Help From My Friends

62. Girl (Lennon)

63. Dear Prudence

64. I’ve Got a Feeling

65. And I Love Her

66. Nowhere Man

67. Oh! Darling

68. Baby, You’re a Rich Man

69. Julia

70. You Can’t Do That

71. I’m a Loser

72. From Me to You

73. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey

74. Yellow Submarine

75. Think for Yourself

76. Yer Blues

77. Because

78. And Your Bird Can Sing

79. I’ll Follow the Sun

80. Mother Nature’s Son

81. Hey Bulldog

82. She’s Leaving Home

83. I’m So Tired

84. Across the Universe

85. Back in the USSR

86. Lady Madonna

87. Love Me Do

88. Rain

89. Good Day Sunshine

90. The Long and Winding Road

91. Every Little Thing

92. Dig a Pony

93. Sexy Sadie

94. You Won’t See Me

95. Any Time at All

96. Within You Without You

97. All I’ve Got to Do

98. Long, Long, Long

99. Yes It Is

100. Hello, Goodbye