Neil Aspinall died
The Nattering Nabob (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Actually, he died a couple of weeks ago, and I didn't even know it.
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The Nattering Nabob (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Actually, he died a couple of weeks ago, and I didn't even know it.
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
“..The Beatles he loved couldn’t be there to say goodbye. It was left to the women to pay the band’s final respects to Neil Aspinall, the man who ran the group’s business empire for 40 years and was known as the “fifth Beatle”. He died two weeks ago at 66 after a battle with lung cancer. John Lennon’s [...]
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
STELLA McCartney and Yoko Ono attended the funeral of "fifth Beatle" Neil Aspinall yesterday.
Music News (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Bob Dylan became the first rock musician to win a Pulitzer Prize when he was given an honorary award yesterday for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture.” In honor of Record Store Day, the upcoming celebration of independent music stores, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, the Black Keys and Built to Spill [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Neil Aspinall, keeper of the Beatles' secrets, died on March 24th, aged 66 HE WAS brighter than they were. He had eight O-levels, where they mustered hardly any between them. He was richer: in 1961 he earned GBP2.50 a week as a trainee accountant in Liverpool, enough to have saved up for a second-hand van, while they had to scrape the fare for the 81 bus across town, lugging their guitars up to the...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Neil Aspinall, a longtime friend of the Beatles who managed their business enterprises and helped make the group a money- making phenomenon decades after they split up, has died. Mr.
Daryl Lorette 1.0 (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
NEW YORK — Neil Aspinall, who left an accounting job to become the Beatles’ road manager when the group was still a local dance band and who went on to manage its production and management company,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Paul ScofieldBob Friend writes: I sat next to Paul Scofield (obituary, Mar 21) at an awards ceremony and he'd heard that I'd appeared briefly in the Hollywood blockbuster Independence Day. “I only had to say God help us all”, I said to him meekly. He looked at me with something approaching pity and said in that lovely voice of his “Remember old boy it's not the words, it's the way you say them”. Jem...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Beatles roadie who went on to run their empire
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Beatles roadie who went on to run their empire
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has paid tribute to the man widely acknowledged as the 'fifth Beatle', who died on Monday. Neil Aspinall had reportedly been receiving treatment for lung cancer in New York prior to his death.[...] Read more!
AlterDudes (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Neil knew everything, everybody, and now, alas, has taken it all to the grave. Unless there is a posthumous memoir, waiting to be released, which I doubt. I asked him countless times, saying he should get it all down, before it's too late, if just for his children. He always said no. Neil was there from the very beginning, a constant friend and associate, never leaving the magical mystery circle, until...
The Beatles's topics - tribe.net (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
I don't know if everyone has heard, but Neil Aspinall died Sunday. Here's the obit from the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml'xml=/news/2008/03/24/db2405.xml posted in The Beatles - 1 reply
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Beatles biographer Hunter Davies, author of the definitive The Beatles, laments the fact that Neil Aspinall takes his secrets to the grave: Neil was totally loyal and faithful to them - and yet not at all starstruck. He was...
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Neil Aspinall, who ran the Apple Corps music empire for the Beatles, has died at a hospital in New York, aged 66. A school friend of Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he was regarded by some of the band as the "fifth Beatle". In an Apple Corps statement, Sir Paul, Ringo Starr, and the widows of Harrison and John Lennon paid tribute to "Neil's trusting stewardship and guidance". : 0 Hits: 1 Points:...