Tony Hendra’s already on this blog; he impersonated John Lennon on “Magical Misery Tour,” the musical parody based on Lennon’s shockingly frank Rolling Stone interviews done at the time of his primal scream therapy and first album. Actually, Tony began satirizing the rock world much earlier. After working with John Cleese and Graham Chapman in the “Cambridge University Footlights Revue,” the pudgy blond teamed with dark-haired straight man Nick Ullett. They recorded “To Be Or Not To Be, Babe” a spitting satire on the pretentiousness of the folk-rock movement

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Ill Folks: HENDRA AND ULLETT mash Hamlet and The Beatles

RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles Brings Mop Top Mania To Appleton Put your dancing shoes on and take a trip down memory lane with RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles when Beatle mania makes a stop at the Fox Cities P.A.C. in Appleton this weekend. T he multimedia Beatles experience is complete with large screens transporting the audience back to “the good old days” with the images and sounds of the phenomenon that was the Beatles during a volatile and pivotal time for the world and our country.

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Can’t buy me love, however you should purchase yourself a slice of happiness and fend off a Laborious Days Evening in A Laborious Days Evening t- shirt ) This time Apple Corps misplaced and on February 5th of 2007 a settlement was reached to end the trademark dispute once and for all. This trademark settlement lead people to believe that The Beatles music would be on the iTunes retailer quickly, nevertheless it was not. Maybe The Beatles folks needed to attend until the new remastered variations were accomplished? As of November 16th of 2010 iTunes has The Beatles whole remastered stereo catalog obtainable for download.

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The Beatles Remasters on Vinyl LPs

Show taped in London: –The Beatles – “Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey” (opening song). –Karl Denver Trio – “Wimoweh.” –Lyn Cornell – “Fever.” –Tommy Quickly “Stagger Lee.” –Sandie Shaw “(There’s)

Abba album joins 5m sales club (UKPA) – 1 day ago

May 16, 2012 7:54 Snap is expected to fetch up to £9,000 Photo Gallery: The Beatles Photo: Bloomsbury Auctions A rare photograph showing The Beatles walking ‘backwards’ across Abbey Road is set to fetch up to £9,000 at auction. The snap, taken by late photographer Iain Macmillan, shows the band walking right to left across the zebra crossing outside the London studio where they made their 1969 album – the opposite direction to the picture which made it onto the sleeve.

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Rare photo of The Beatles walking ‘backwards’ across Abbey Road to be auctioned – NME.com

The metal plates were used to print words and illustrations by the Beatle in the 1964 book John Lennon, In His Own Write, – the first solo project by any of The Beatles. Featuring a photo of Lennon taken by Robert Freeman, the book included an introduction by Paul McCartney detailing how the band first got together in Liverpool and contained Lennon’s short stories, poems and line drawings, often surreal, whimsical and nonsensical with the Beatle using free association and improvisation. The book was also transformed into a play, co-authored with Victor Spinetti, who directed, at the National Theatre

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Printing plates for John Lennon’s first book sell at auction – Telegraph.co.uk

Bono has denied claims he will become a billionaire – and the world's richest rock star – on the back of the Facebook flotation.

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A Facebook Billionaire? Not Me, Says Bono

For a time in 1964, Art Schreiber was not the most liked man among his peer group. All his peers wanted was for him to get an autograph from four of the most celebrated people of all time, people to whom Schreiber had immediate access. But the newsman, then news director at Cleveland radio station KYW, wouldn’t oblige.

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Former Cleveland newsman recalls time traveling with Beatles; seeks those he entertained in homes in 1960s with …