Архивы по рубрикам: commercial

Июнь 8, 2012

Iconic Twickenham Film Studios Is ‘Saved’

The Beatles get their hair done before going on set to film at Twickenham Studios
The iconic Twickenham film studios, which made the Beatles films, Blade Runner and War Horse, has been saved from closure following a celebrity-backed campaign.
Big names in the film industry such as Colin Firth, Steven Spielberg and Sir Paul McCartney signed a petition […]

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Beatles museum in Hamburg closing due to ‘lack of interest’

‘Beatlemania’ will be shut down by the end of June

The Beatles museum in Hamburg, Germany will close down at the end of this month, according to reports.
The five-storey ‘Beatlemania’ museum was opened in May 2009 but will apparently be shut at the end of June due to a lack of interest from Fab Four fanatics.
Speaking […]

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Май 23, 2012

‘Abbey Road’ Beatles in reverse photo sells higher than expected at auction

A photo of the Beatles walking a different way across Abbey Road sold at auction Tuesday for £16000 ($25,232).
The sale was conducted by Bloomsbury Auctions in the UK.
Bloomsbury’s Sarah Wheeler, who handles photo auctions, said the photo was one of six Abbey Road crossing photos taken by photographer Iain Macmillan during the album shoot on Aug. 8, 1969.

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Май 9, 2012

Lennon printing plates to be sold

A unique piece of Beatles memorabilia will go on sale with the original printing plates for John Lennon’s first book set to go under the hammer.
The metal plates were used to print words and illustrations by the Beatle in the 1964 book John Lennon, In His Own Write.
The lot to go on sale includes 35 […]

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Май 8, 2012

How Mad Men paid $250,000 to license The Beatles -

FIVE times more than any other song

Tune Up: The license for the single song cost $250,000
Viewers turning in to watch yesterday night’s installment of Mad Men were shocked - not at what they saw, but at what they heard.
AMC’s Sunday showstopper finally scored their first Beatles tune - a much sought after […]

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Май 4, 2012

BUY THIS $177,000 PAINTING OF JESUS CHEERING UP DEPRESSED PAUL MCCARTNEY

eBay: “Jesus Broke Out the Lambchop Puppet and Hired an Angel to Try and Cheer Up a Clinically Depressed Paul

Are you in the market for a painting of Jesus Christ cheering up Paul McCartney and have a spare $180,000? Of course you are! So here’s this $177,000 (plus framing) painting entitled ”Jesus Tries to Cheer Paul […]

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Апрель 25, 2012

‘Fifth Beatle’ Sir George Martin believes EMI break-up ‘the worst thing music has ever faced’

The break-up of EMI is the “worst thing that music has ever faced”, Sir George Martin, the legendary record producer who oversaw the rise of the Beatles, has claimed.

Sir George, often dubbed “the fifth Beatle” because of his great influence during their 1960s heyday, said he was “saddened” by the looming carve-up of EMI, which […]

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Апрель 23, 2012

THE BEATLES AUTOGRAPHED MONO VINYL ‘PLEASE PLEASE ME’ SELLS FOR BIG MONEY AT AUCTION

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An original and extremely rare 1963 mono copy of the Beatles‘  ‘Please Please Me’ album, signed by the Fab Four, sold April 18 during an eBay auction for nearly $25,000. Finding a copy of their debut record in decent condition is difficult enough, so to find it autographed with full signatures by all four members is the […]

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Март 27, 2012

Digitally Yellow Submarine restored DVD and BLU-RAY sets sail may 28th

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⁃ it’s not so pointless

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Март 21, 2012

Photos: The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road Traveling Experience’ arrives at Madame Tussauds

“The Abbey Road Traveling Experience,” a re-creation of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album cover, is at Madame Tussauds in the Venetian through May 28, 2012.
It’s another British invasion, except this time at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas at the Venetian. The Beatles’ “Abbey Road Traveling Experience,” which re-creates the band’s landmark album cover, arrived at […]

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