On this date 11/29/01 - The Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer. He was 58 years old.
Following The Beatles breakup he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM&list=RDEMpapDu9V1HLtqD6LLJq…
George was the youngest member of The Beatles, aged 16 when he joined, his compositions include:
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Calling Beatle maniacs and music fans of all ages. What if the sons of John, George, Paul, and Ringo record at Abbey Road Studio?
Could there be an extension of The Beatles 2.3, a new band including the Fab Four or five sons, who are grown-up and independent music producers?
The Beatles' major motion picture, A Hard Day's Night, had sequences designed to highlight certain songs, but the Fab Four wanted to push the idea of art and marketing even further and filmed their performance clips for "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out."
On this date in 1955, RCA acquired Elvis' recording contract from Sun Records for a whopping grand total of $40,000! How's that for a savvy investment?
Elvis Aaron Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
This very popular delicate track features a single guitar line with only Paul McCartney crooning out The Beatles lyrics is over the top.
Every so often, a few chirps from a bird can be heard as a nod to the song’s opening refrain blackbird singing in the dead of night. This image above is of two of the Little Rock Nine--pioneers of the civil rights movement and John Lennon's inspiration for Blackbird.
We all grow up making life decisions with more successes and fewer failures resulting in lessons that hopefully will allow us to grow.
During the condition of being fully mature, we all walk through the crucial years between adolescence and adulthood. Some of us may choose to work or play, to be straight or gay, to embrace education, or reject it. We can be an optimist or a pessimist, to become a leader or a follower. However, no individual who is a fully grown adult should intentionally break their grandmother and mother’s heart. There is a difference between right and wrong!
Five decades ago The Beatles were changing the world with songs the band recorded is staggering.
Their sheer creative output is part of why they have such a lasting legacy, and it becomes even more overwhelming when you remember they were also movie stars. The quality of those movies varies wildly, but there are several all-time classics among the films The Beatles made together, and none hold up better than Yellow Submarine.
We are sharing a recent performance at NYC's The Advent Lutheran Church by a newfound friend and marvelous musician.
Here are two sample videos on YouTube. We hope you like Jose Luis M Rodriguez and would like to hear from you. cityimages3@gmail.com
For nearly one hundred years musical artists in the USA have endured their songs being banned for one reason or another.
There was "The Fab Four" but only one of The Beatles never shied away from vocal political protest: Libra leader John Lennon.
Some judged him as bad and those who knew him said he was a lovely person. John said he was who he was and that was his final answer. He was the first to die and the only one to be murdered with a firearm, but yet little has changed.