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Thanks goes to my friend (D-b-y-) for turning me on to this...
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Peter Sellers Performs The Beatles in Shakespearean Mode
May 24th, 2011
Back in 1964, Peter Sellers (aka Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther films) made a cameo appearance on “The Music of Lennon and McCartney,” a television program produced at the height of Beatlemania.
The schtick? To read the lyrics of A Hard Day’s Night in a way that comically recalls Laurence Olivier’s 1955 performance of the opening soliloquy from Richard III. It starts famously “Now is the winter of our discontent …”Thanks goes to my friend (D-b-y-) for turning me on to this...... more
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With nostaligia in the air, I found myself in the front row filming the aging Beatles Paul Mccartney and Ringo Starr promoting their Radio City Music Hall concert. It was an awesome, successful fundraising event for the David Lynch's Foundation that is working on gifting one million school children in American to learn TM. The two "living" Beatles recalled their time "when the US and British media headlined that their popularity as greater than Jesus Christ ..." The time was the mid-60s when they traveled with their Maharishi guru and took a trip to the Ganges in India, learning TM (trans meditation) to ease their superhuman popularity, while a more sincere George Harrison started playing the "sitar" under Ravi Shanker as his tutor, singing "My Sweet Lord ..."With nostaligia in the air, I found myself in the front row filming the aging Beatles... more
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"The Beatles' extraordinary music and phenomenal legacy is set to rock across the universe in the form of a video game through an exclusive partnership between Apple Corps Ltd., Harmonix and MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks"
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm stoked for this. Imagine, rocking out to "Yellow Submarine" Rockband style."The Beatles' extraordinary music and phenomenal legacy is set to rock... more
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Dear Ringo,
First off: Can I call you Ringo? I've always considered you the down-to-earth Beatle, so writing this letter to Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey, Member of the Order of the British Empire, just seems too fussy.
At least it did until yesterday, when I watched your new Web site video, in which you shared a "serious message to everybody watching" that you would no longer accept fan mail.
"Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it's going to be tossed," you said. "I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do."
I can only imagine.
Heaven knows those $54.95 Ringo Starr hoodies you hawk on your Web site—or the $19.95 tote bags with the peace symbol—won't sell themselves. And it's surely up to you to promote your last book, "Postcards From the Boys," full of notes the other Beatles sent you through the years. (Obviously, fan mail to Beatle = waste of time. Beatle mail to Beatle = kaching!)
Your video reminded me of a Ringo before the fans' appreciation could be taken for granted. Bob Spitz's "The Beatles: The Biography" shares a heartwarming scene from the Liverpool days, in which you and your mother, Elsie, work hard to answer every fan letter. One can assume you believed that without the fans' support, the fame and fortune would all disappear.
And what if all the adulation did vanish?
For one, it would've made for a different day this past July when about 300 fans lined an entire block along East Wacker Place to help you celebrate your 68th birthday. Downtown traffic would've been better for Chicago. And you, you could've enjoyed a day without having to sign all those pesky autographs. You would've been "Free as a Bird," which as you know is also a Beatles song, featuring the lyric: "Where did we lose the touch that seemed to mean so much?"
Where did we?
Dear Ringo,
First off: Can I call you Ringo? I've always considered you... more
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