F@c#$@!! Mark David Chapman!! (i wonder if Google can search that word… :)

The photograph on the left was taken December 8, 1980, the day that John Lennon was murdered. That dude in the picture, the one who’s asking for John’s autograph is Mark David Chapman, John’s Killer.

As John Lennon was leaving The Dakota Building early on the day of December 8th, he was approached by what he thought was a fan. Mark had asked him, “John, will you sign this?” and John said “Sure, no problem”. And he signed it with Mark’s pen. After he had signed it, He asked Mark “Is that all you want?” and then He asked it again, “Is that all you want?” and Mark replied with a yes, “Yes, thank you John.”

Then John went to his car and drove away. That very same night, Mark was waiting for him and was prepared to kill him.

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Paul McCartney is set to release a collection of his music videos, live concerts and performance, personal commentaries, behind the scenes excerpts and other goodies on a boxed DVD set.

The release date was reported to be today (or yesterday - timestamp tool) November 13, 2007.

The DVD Set, amply titled McCartney Years is a 3 volume DVD collection that put together all 4 decades of Paul McCartney’s career. This will surely make all fans of Paul (and The Beatles) super excited.

Here’s the promotional video for the McCartney Years from Sir Paul himself…

The McCartney Years is also packed with bonus features and extra never before seen footage and performances, including Let It Be from Live Aid, archive interviews with Melvyn Bragg and Michael Parkinson, alternative versions of music videos and the full-length 2005 documentary Creating Chaos at Abbey Road. Paul has recorded exclusive commentary and personal introductions for each promo video and each live concert.

Another one on my wish list…

3 words.

I want one!

Apple Corps Ltd.’s eagerly anticipated DVD release of The Beatles’ second feature film Help! on November 6 will be accompanied by several high-profile television, radio and online promotions. AOL Music, Yahoo! Music, MSN.com, Clear Channel Online, Amazon.com, Sundance Channel, QVC, and public television affiliates are among the DVD’s major promotional partners.

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Remember my post about John Lennon’s hidden message on a backmasked song “Tomorrow Never Knows“?

Although there are lots of things that you can hear when you turn a song around, they are only bits and pieces. There really is no song (or anything produced in a recording studio) that is backmaskable from beginning to end, meaning the whole song.

Except for one. The Beatles’ Revolution Number 9.

Revolution 9

Revolution 9, a “song” from The Beatles’ White Album, is one of the first projects of many collaboration of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It is complete non-sense when I first heard it (Thanks to my father who bought the 2-disc CD of The White Album). I listened to it in full once and then never again - skip it ever since. It’s a whole 8 and a half minutes of junk.

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I am the number one fan of The Beatles! (every Beatle fan claims that).

I have all (most) of their CDs (original ha), their Anthology DVDs (pirated), several VCD of their documentary, their movies (A Hard day’s night, HELP!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) sige pa, I have their classic Jingle chordbook, I have (2) biography book, A Time magazine special of John Lennon, a Peoples mag version of the Time magazine version (ano raw?heheh) and others… (too many daw to mention)
I wished GMA 7 or ABS-CBN or even ABC-5 buy the rights to air The Beatles Revolution Documentary! Para naman mapanood din ng ibang pinoy yun, Para dumami pa mga fans nila.

Anyway, with all the books I have about The Beatles, di parin ako nagsasawang magbasa ng kung ano anong related sa Beatles.

I have this website, every time I wanted to know some trivia about their songs… but you still have to search for the song… Buti nalang my officemate forwarded this Wikipedia article! Ayus na! Complete list!
Beatles Forever!

Good news to all Beatles fans out there! Remember my ‘Let It Be’ post? I found that one night while looking for some John Lennon interviews. I found the full length Beatles movie instead.

Well, the good new is, I found the full movie of their first movie, “A Hard Day’s Night”….

Few facts about the movie:

• The people chasing The Beatles into the train at the beginning of the film are real fans.

• The movie’s working title was simply “The Beatles”.

• The title song was written after the movie was filmed.

• A young Phil Collins can be seen in the audience at the television theatre. He’s wearing glasses.

• Once “A Hard Day’s Night” was confirmed as the movie’s title, John Lennon (with help from Paul McCartney) composed the song that same night, playing it the next morning to producer Walter Shenson in their dressing room.

nalulungkot ako di dahil sa ako pinag reply ni Rachel sa email ni Bezella, tungkol sa enhancement ng Skypage namin, ayun ako tuloy ang primaring gagawa..pero para saming lahat naman un…;) … or nalulungkot ako di dahil sa kailangan kong i-replicate ung server para ma-test ung feature na pinapagawa ni Andy… Di rin dahil ung EPCI na nagfollow-up kay Rachel eh, ifo-follow-up ko rin (oooppps, di ko na followup.. nyayayaya!!) Di rin ako nalulungkot dahil may request sa ‘kin ung isang developer sa server nila…

Malungkot ako, dahil nakikinig ako ngayon ng Ultraelectromageneticpop, and unang CD ng Eraserheads..

Ang galing ni Ely sa pagkanta nya dun… ‘Tindahan ni aling nena parang isang kwentong pampelikula ha…’… Wala namang debata na di sya ganon kahusay kumanta pero yung orihinal na kalidad ng boses nya… iba eh.. may distinction, ika nga… saka iba ang dating nya sa mga masang people eh..

Ngayon, when I see Ely.. ngayon pala, pag nakikita ko si Ely sa tapat, iniisip ko sayang talaga ang grupo nila… Minsan nakausap ko si Raymond (Marasigan) sa isang mall tour ng Sandwich, tinanong ko sa kanya kung magkakabalikan pa ba ang e’head.. sabi nya, ‘oo’.. tapos bigla syang tumawa… “di na pare, wala na un”.. kakalungkot talaga..

Bakit nga ba natibag ang grupong e’heads? Meron din bang Yoko Ono na nakapaligid sa kanila.. Or meron din bang miyembro na nagnais na maging lider tulad ni Paul McCartney?…

Ayon kay Ely — “Out of control na yung business matters, e.”.. (so business pala.. siguro nga.. tulad din ng sa Beatles)

Basta, umaasa pa rin ako na magkakabalikan sila.. bow…

Yun muna… 5:33pm na.. lapit na umuwi.. :)

Hey, found this 1986 interview of George Harrison. He talks about lots of things and at around 5:12, he speaks about Marcos…

You can find the video here.

Beatles Forever!!! :)

The fastest ticket sales in history took place in 1993 when Paul McCartney announced two shows in Sydney, Australia.

20,000 tickets sold out in eight minutes.

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“Let It Be” is the last movie that the Beatles made during their last year as a group.

This is their (The Beatles’s) attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album (”Get Back”), which instead drove them further apart.. which was became the whole concept of the album - “Let It Be”

Anyway, someone post the movie on YuTube and (though I have the DVD) I have to post it here for you, my friends, to enjoy!

Enjoy!:)

Sir Paul McCartney’s new album will focus on his split from Heather Mills.

The Beatles legend, who is currently involved in a bitter divorce battle with the former model, is set to reveal his heartbreak on a new record to be released next year.

A source told Britain’s Daily Express newspaper: “Paul never stops writing songs and they often reflect that’s going on in his life at the time. It’s now understood that tracks on his next album will include some direct references to his recent difficulties.

“He’s also said to have written a song to his three-year-old daughter Beatrice, explaining to her how things turned out the way they did.”

Paul’s 2005 album ‘Chaos and Creation In The Backyard’ is also said to have contained references to his troubled marriage to Heather.

‘Friends To Go’ includes lyrics about Paul feeling alone, while in ‘Riding To Vanity Fair’ Paul sings “the feelings have gone… you don’t fool anyone”.

Paul once said he finds music is “great therapy”, adding: “Inevitably moods, feelings and emotions find their way into your music, whether you like it or not. You can’t help it.”

The 64-year-old dedicated his 2006 classical album ‘Ecce Cor Meum’ to his first wife Linda who died of breast cancer in 1998.

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I have a very big request to the Philippines’ Giant TV station, GMA and ABS-CBN (and of couse, ABC-5 since they’re the one who aired The Beatles Anthology, thanks BTW!)…. Please get The Beatles Revolution documentary TV special and show it here in the Philippines! Please, please please?! Thanks!

God Bless YuTube!

Found this documentary of the Beatles in US TV in Yutube! Checked IMDB, the TV special aired some time in 2000.

I really, really worship them and I have to repost the vids here, though i first saw it here.. hehehe..

The only things that is sad here is that, the last few vids have no audio in it.. Hope someone reupload ‘em.

Here it is: