"Beatles for Dummies"
When someone says "The Beatles", what images come to mind? I see a black and white picture of four guys onstage, sporting mop-top haircuts and grey collarless suits. To many people, that's what The Beatles are - a black and white TV image of their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. In the spirit of unbiased journalism and avoiding clich?s, I will not tell you that The Beatles were the greatest and most influential rock band ever. Nor will I tell you that their...
1973 Interview with Paul McCartney - Forming Wingsband. As to where we play, we're easy. We'll play down a pub if it's cool, if we feel like it and they like it. But that's the thing for us, we won't naturally just play 50,000-seaters. That's' the interesting thing, we got Denny from New York, we auditioned some drummers there, and I knew Denny (Laine) was a good guitarist and good singer and stuff. So I just rang Denny up. And Henry was a kind of friend of Denny's and Ian's and he turned up...
5 Sure Fire Ways to Get Radio Play for Your ?Independent? Music!
You have to find radio airplay time if you?re going to be heard and we?re not just talking the local college campus. The trick is called promotion. Now that doesn?t mean you just put your press kit in an envelope with a demo and hope they take pity on you. Perhaps you call a station and they give you the standard pitch of, ?Send it and if we like it we?ll put you in rotation.? After a few months of never hearing your music,...
A Critique of Micheal Crichton's Best Selling Novel, PREYknow-how to solve problems that may prevent catastrophes as described in the new Michael Crichton best selling novel, PREY.I want to believe that all the many nations of the earth will apply wisdom to solve problems and work out mutually agreeable solutions to differences. I want to believe nations will not use the God given gift of scientific knowledge to foolishly build increasing powerful destructive weapons of mass destruction.I want...
All About HDTV
The HDTV has become increasingly popular since it?s introduction. There are many well-known electronic manufacturers that have designed many models of the HD style TV. There are multiple sizes, styles and colors that can be attributed to a HD television. Likewise, there are various price tags found on the HD television. With so many choices and decisions ahead of you, don?t feel overwhelmed; there are many great resources to help make your search as quick and painless as...
An Innovative Piano Instruction Video Game - Excellent Way to Learn to Play Piano
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People that play the piano beautifully fascinate me. It is interesting the different paths some of them take to become good at it. There are so many options now days for children and adults interested in becoming concert pianists, or just become comfortable with this instrument and play it whenever they feel like it, carry a tune for their enjoyment or to please others like myself. ...
BBC Promotes Elvis Presley 20052005 the British Broadcasting Company with appalling insensitivity used an Elvis Impersonator to sing the song! Millions witnessed this insult to Elvis fans world-wide. A case of total misrepresentation. Akin to a pub pianist being used as a stand in for the great Russian Concert Pianist, Sviatoslav Richter.Inadvertently the BBC has provided the late Elvis Presley with priceless publicity. Elvis was number 1 AND number 10 on their music chart! The already booming...
Blackmore?s Night-Beyond The Sunsetand the alluring Night make it a treat to watch. Of course, the backdrop is a castle and they are all dressed in period clothing. I understand that many of their fans will show up dressed the same way at concerts. It sounds like a lot of fun. For Ritchie, this is very different from his days with Rainbow and Deep Purple. I think he has finally found true love with his music and in his personal life with Candice. The couple has been together for several years...
Bob Dylanthat became an anthem of the '60's - "Blowin' in the Wind".
8. Bringing It All Back Home
In February 1964 Dylan and a small group of friends drove south out of New York City and stopped in unannounced to see poet 'Carl Sandburg' in North Carolina. Disappointingly, Dylan left only 10 minutes after arriving when he realized he couldn't get the venerable man of letters to take him seriously as a fellow poet.
He popped folk-rock into the mainstream after touring with Joan Baez with his own...
Bob Marley Remembrance in Meskal Square
Last Sunday saw the 60th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Bob Marley. Appropriately, thousands of Rastafarians, bedecked in red, gold and green, gathered in Meskal square, Addis Abbaba in Ethiopia, to salute their spiritual fellow traveller and great inspiration. They formed part of a vast crowd that had assembled to commemorate the life and philosophy of the towering figure that was Bob Marley, who died of cancer, aged 36, in 1981. A...
