Giants Stadium Countdown: George Martin's Slow-Motion Return
The Fifth Down (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
In a bit of Super Bowl foreshadowing, George Martin and the Giants got the best of John Elway on Nov. 23, 1986.
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Behind the music: Peter Gabriel on the future of the industry
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The former Genesis frontman on fan funding, reliable filters, and why he would commission an alternative to The X Factor When I blogged about the lack of women in the music industry , one manager claimed that this is because girls are less interested in who worked on a record than what the band looks like on the cover. I'm not sure that's entirely true. After all, I was one of those girls who studied...
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Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Actor John Turturro and Executive Director of NFL Alumni Association, George Martin Honored at The Stephen Siller Children's Foundation Gala
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stephen Siller Children's Foundation (the Foundation) is pleased to announce that it will host the first annual Stephen Siller Children's Foundation Gala, held at Cipriani Wall Street on December 5, 2009. Former Mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani will serve as Honoree Chair, and Actor, John Turturro and Executive Director of the NFL Alumni Association, Founder...
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'The Beatles on Record' Premieres in U.S. (trailer) (Mixed Media)
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Beatles on Record will premiere in the U.S. Wednesday 25 November 10PM ET/PT on the History Channel. The documentary was originally released by the BBC in September and it covers the Beatles’ musical and creative journey from Please Please Me through Abbey Road. The Beatles on Record was narrated by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Sir George Martin and directed...
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The Beatles - Box set in Mono
Never-Complete (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Expensive? Yes. Better than Stereo? Yes, but why? It just sounds more complete and full, the stereo mixes introduced some dynamics of their own, adding reverb and effects just not present in the mono mixes. That and the fact the group never oversaw anything mixed in stereo until Abbey Road. Every stereo mix was done by George Martin (or someone else) and at times even got the tape speed completely...
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Montserrat, back from the ashes
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
In 1995 most of Montserrat, including a new eco-camp, was devastated by a volcano. Last month the camp reopened, signalling green shoots of recovery for the island's tourism A mountain chicken that's actually a frog; a half-snake, half-lizard creature called a galliwasp; and an avian Dr Dolittle ... this is the stuff of a children's fantasy, or perhaps a particularly vivid hallucination. In fact I...
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Album Announcement, Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel to Release Orchestral Covers Album
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
If you think of the ‘80s as an era of too much Aqua Net and metrosexual bands who wore puffy pirate shirts, you’d only be half right. One of the decade’s bright spots was the former frontman of Genesis, Peter Gabriel , who had several MTV art-house video hits with songs like “Sledgehammer” and “Shock the Monkey.” For his first release in seven years, Gabriel...
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Sacrilege!
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Last week, after my night with Fleetwood Mac, I Spotified a few of their classics onto the phone. I hadn't heard the remastered Rumours with all the attendant bonus tracks, so I put the whole thing on. I could handle the revisionist notion (and band politics) that now puts Silver Springs as a bonus track in the middle of the album, ruining the switch between Songbird and The Chain but there was a...
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Beatles Documentary Offers Intimate Look at Recording Sessions
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Filed under: News , News Today, Oh Boy! , Television Get excited, Beatles fans -- a new special about the Fab Four, 'The Beatles on Record,' is set to premiere on the History Channel later this month. Debuting on Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 10PM, the Thanksgiving Eve broadcast promises a rare and intimate glimpse of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr . Narrated entirely by the...
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Tribeca gets two year deal at CBS
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Front Page: George, Martin, Ridley writing NYC-set pilots -- Tribeca partners Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro are working on a trio of projects for CBS.
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Tribeca gets two-year deal at CBS
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
TV News: George, Martin, Ridley writing NYC-set pilots -- Tribeca partners Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro are working on a trio of projects for CBS.
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Sir Paul McCartney Says Beatles 'Weren't That Good'
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Filed under: News , UK Sir Paul McCartney has said he can understand why the Beatles weren't signed early on -- because they weren't very good. Sir Paul made the comment in an interview with London radio station Xfm. He told DJ Ian Camfield: "We obviously weren't that good. We were formulating it all. "You wouldn't have thought we were that great. You'd have turned us down if you were a...
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U2 Open Up New Revenues Online
Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
We once watched sport for free on TV but increasingly we now have to pay to watch it live and even those national soccer games are under threat as sport goes live over the internet. People will always pay for something they want now and so achieve instant gratification. After all its why the porn industry has always been on the bleeding edge of technology. Now music may have found a niche too and as...
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Paul McCartney Comes Clean
Splash News Online (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Sir Paul McCartney has a revelation to make - that The Beatles 'weren't that good' when they started out. The rocker told a UK radio station: "We obviously weren't that good. We were formulating it all. You wouldn't have thought we were that great. You'd have turned us down if you were a record company. And they did - Decca turned us down." Luckily good taste prevailed and producer George...
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Review: Pioneer A-A9 Mk2
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Pioneer's 'G-clef' range, of which the A-A9 Mk2 is a part, was launched a couple of years ago and marked Pioneer's re-entry into the serious stereo separates market. One of the key features of the range was that it had been subjectively assessed and honed at Air Studios, George Martin's recording facility in Hampstead, where Pioneer has strong connections. Now in Mk2 guise, the products have been...