Sunday, January 31, 2010
Early Beatles album fetches £1,300 for Haiti
An early pressing of the first Beatles LP Please Please Me has been donated to a charity shop on Merseyside and sold to a collector in Hampshire for £1,300.
The album was found in a bag of items donated to Oxfam in Bold Street, Liverpool.
The money raised will go to the Oxfam Haiti appeal.
Please Please Me was number one in the UK album charts for 30 weeks in 1963. Early pressings of the LP are highly sought after by collectors. [Read more] BBC.CO.UK NEWS
The album was found in a bag of items donated to Oxfam in Bold Street, Liverpool.
The money raised will go to the Oxfam Haiti appeal.
Please Please Me was number one in the UK album charts for 30 weeks in 1963. Early pressings of the LP are highly sought after by collectors. [Read more] BBC.CO.UK NEWS
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
EMI releases new McCartney single
Sir Paul McCartney has inadvertently found his new single is being released by EMI - the music giant he famously quit in 1997 after more than four decades, complaining he was being treated as "part of the furniture".
The track, (I Want To) Come Home, was recorded for the soundtrack of the movie Everybody's Fine and is due to be released on March 1.
The track comes out on Walt Disney Records, along with the rest of the soundtrack album - but in the UK and Europe, it will be issued by EMI, the label he quit after 45 years of Beatles and solo releases.
Source
AP
The track, (I Want To) Come Home, was recorded for the soundtrack of the movie Everybody's Fine and is due to be released on March 1.
The track comes out on Walt Disney Records, along with the rest of the soundtrack album - but in the UK and Europe, it will be issued by EMI, the label he quit after 45 years of Beatles and solo releases.
Source
AP
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The World Through Linda's Lens
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Linda McCartney: Art Edition
donderdag, 21 januari 2010 10:16
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The World Through Linda's Lens
A retrospective of Linda McCartney's life and photography In 1967, 26-year-old Linda Eastman was in the process of becoming one of the most sought-after photographers in New York. Her intimate, informal shots of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Warren Beatty, and Janis Joplin had already featured in magazines like Town and Country and Rolling Stone when she met Paul McCartney while on assignment in London. A year later, she gave up her New York career and moved to London to become Linda McCartney and spend the rest of her life with Paul. For the next 30 years, until her untimely death at the age of 56, she devoted herself to her family, vegetarianism, animal rights, and photography. From her early rock'n'roll portraits, through the final years of the Beatles, via touring with Wings to raising four children with Paul, Linda captured her whole world on film. Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, as well as artists Willem de Kooning and Gilbert and George. Always unassuming and fresh, her work displays a warmth and feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photgraphing her children, celebrities, animals, or a fleeting moment of everyday life, she did so without pretension or artifice. This retrospective volume—a brilliant selection from her entire archive of over 200,000 images—is produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. As such, it is a moving personal journal and a lasting testament to a subtle and versatile photographer. Limited Edition of 2000 copies, numbered and signed by Paul McCartney
About the editor: Alison Castle received a BA in philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in photography and film from New York University (NYU/International Center of Photography masters program). The editor of TASCHEN's Some Like it Hot and The Stanley Kubrick Archives, she lives in Paris, home of the world's best cinemas.
About the photographer: Linda McCartney (née Eastman) was born in New York in 1941. She took a photo course with Hazel Archer and studied fine art at the University of Arizona before settling in New York City. In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, she snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh, candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band's official photographer, and she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock 'n' roll photographer. On May 11, 1968, when her portrait of Eric Clapton was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, she entered the record books as the first woman to have that honor. During her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960s' musical scene, she captured many of rock's most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead. In 1967, Linda went to London to document the "Swinging Sixties," where she met Paul McCartney at the Bag 'o Nails club and subsequently photographed the Beatles during a launch event for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Paul and Linda fell in love, and were married on March 12, 1969. In addition to Linda's daughter from her first marriage, Heather, she had three more children with Paul: Mary, Stella, and James.
Outside of her photography, which has been exhibited in over 50 galleries worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Bonni Benrubi Gallery, and the International Center of Photography, Linda McCartney is known for her passionate animal rights activism and her staunch vegetarianism. She wrote cookbooks and founded her own brand of frozen vegetarian meals, all the while raising a family, continuing to take photographs, and participating as a Wings band member alongside Paul. She died of breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.
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www.de-boekenlegger.nl
Linda McCartney: Art Edition
donderdag, 21 januari 2010 10:16
E-mailadres Afdrukken PDF
The World Through Linda's Lens
A retrospective of Linda McCartney's life and photography In 1967, 26-year-old Linda Eastman was in the process of becoming one of the most sought-after photographers in New York. Her intimate, informal shots of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Warren Beatty, and Janis Joplin had already featured in magazines like Town and Country and Rolling Stone when she met Paul McCartney while on assignment in London. A year later, she gave up her New York career and moved to London to become Linda McCartney and spend the rest of her life with Paul. For the next 30 years, until her untimely death at the age of 56, she devoted herself to her family, vegetarianism, animal rights, and photography. From her early rock'n'roll portraits, through the final years of the Beatles, via touring with Wings to raising four children with Paul, Linda captured her whole world on film. Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, as well as artists Willem de Kooning and Gilbert and George. Always unassuming and fresh, her work displays a warmth and feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photgraphing her children, celebrities, animals, or a fleeting moment of everyday life, she did so without pretension or artifice. This retrospective volume—a brilliant selection from her entire archive of over 200,000 images—is produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. As such, it is a moving personal journal and a lasting testament to a subtle and versatile photographer. Limited Edition of 2000 copies, numbered and signed by Paul McCartney
About the editor: Alison Castle received a BA in philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in photography and film from New York University (NYU/International Center of Photography masters program). The editor of TASCHEN's Some Like it Hot and The Stanley Kubrick Archives, she lives in Paris, home of the world's best cinemas.
About the photographer: Linda McCartney (née Eastman) was born in New York in 1941. She took a photo course with Hazel Archer and studied fine art at the University of Arizona before settling in New York City. In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, she snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh, candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band's official photographer, and she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock 'n' roll photographer. On May 11, 1968, when her portrait of Eric Clapton was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, she entered the record books as the first woman to have that honor. During her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960s' musical scene, she captured many of rock's most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead. In 1967, Linda went to London to document the "Swinging Sixties," where she met Paul McCartney at the Bag 'o Nails club and subsequently photographed the Beatles during a launch event for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Paul and Linda fell in love, and were married on March 12, 1969. In addition to Linda's daughter from her first marriage, Heather, she had three more children with Paul: Mary, Stella, and James.
Outside of her photography, which has been exhibited in over 50 galleries worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Bonni Benrubi Gallery, and the International Center of Photography, Linda McCartney is known for her passionate animal rights activism and her staunch vegetarianism. She wrote cookbooks and founded her own brand of frozen vegetarian meals, all the while raising a family, continuing to take photographs, and participating as a Wings band member alongside Paul. She died of breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.
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www.de-boekenlegger.nl
Monday, January 18, 2010
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Stella McCartney Goes Down the Rabbit Hole With Alice in Wonderland Collection
Stella McCartney designs for Disney
By Emma Sells | Posted: Wed 13 Jan 2010
We have a feeling that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is set to be the most talked about topic around over the coming months. Not only does the trailer look incredible, an impressive array of fashion and beauty's biggest names are designing pieces to accompany the film
The latest to be announced? Stella McCartney, who has apparently teamed up with Disney to design a collection of Alice-themed jewellery - think rabbits, Mad Hatter's hats and hearts and spades. The Brit designer has created a limited edition necklace and bracelet, both of which will hit her stores at the end of this month.
Stella follows in the footsteps of jewellery designer Tom Binns, who has also designed a selection of pieces adorned with teacups and hearts for Disney.
And even the beauty brands are getting in on the act - O.P.I.are offering up four new colours called 'Off With Her Red', Thanks So Muchness!', 'Absolutely Alice' and 'Mad As a Hatter, while Urban Decay has produced a limited edition version of it's Book of Shadows eye palette that features a pop-up scene from the Alice in Wonderland book.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Linda Mccartney was nobody's pushover!
Poor Linda Eastman McCartney. She had won the heart of Paul, the world’s most eligible bachelor, but married life was turning out to less than idyllic. Way less, in fact.
She was stuck in a rural farmhouse in Scotland, tasked with the care and feeding of a newborn and a seven-year-old daughter from her first marriage. Her husband was a depressed, drunk layabout who seldom got out of bed until the afternoon. Paul had stopped shaving, and his personal hygiene was non-existent.
“Here I am living on a stone floor, carrying water in buckets, and I’m married to a drunk who won’t take a bath.” Linda told a longtime friend. It was not the life Paul’s female fans imagined she was living.
McCartney was mourning the breakup of the Beatles. Sunk in self-pity, he wasn’t writing songs and went for days without picking up a guitar. But as fall turned to winter in 1969, Linda finally lost patience. “She was yelling at him to get off his ass and be a man, already,” the friend recalls in Paul McCartney: A Life, an engaging new biography by Peter Ames Carlin.[...]
She was stuck in a rural farmhouse in Scotland, tasked with the care and feeding of a newborn and a seven-year-old daughter from her first marriage. Her husband was a depressed, drunk layabout who seldom got out of bed until the afternoon. Paul had stopped shaving, and his personal hygiene was non-existent.
“Here I am living on a stone floor, carrying water in buckets, and I’m married to a drunk who won’t take a bath.” Linda told a longtime friend. It was not the life Paul’s female fans imagined she was living.
McCartney was mourning the breakup of the Beatles. Sunk in self-pity, he wasn’t writing songs and went for days without picking up a guitar. But as fall turned to winter in 1969, Linda finally lost patience. “She was yelling at him to get off his ass and be a man, already,” the friend recalls in Paul McCartney: A Life, an engaging new biography by Peter Ames Carlin.[...]
The Band of the Decade
The Band of the Decade: The Beatles?!
What does it say that the biggest musical group of the first decade of this new millennium recorded its last album 40 years ago? [...]
Decade of Classic Rock 2000-2009
November 29, 2001: George Harrison passes away from lung cancer at age 58.
November 29, 2002: The Concert for George took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London, a touching memorial to George Harrison who passed away the previous year from cancer. The concert featured a who’s who of rock royalty; Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker and many more distingushed guests. A DVD was released a year later.
May 2002: Paul McCartney tours the U.S., I attend both shows at Reunion Arena in Dallas. The concerts are a huge hit parade of Beatles and Wings songs; it’s the first time I’ve seen McCartney live in concert. [...]
November 29, 2002: The Concert for George took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London, a touching memorial to George Harrison who passed away the previous year from cancer. The concert featured a who’s who of rock royalty; Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker and many more distingushed guests. A DVD was released a year later.
May 2002: Paul McCartney tours the U.S., I attend both shows at Reunion Arena in Dallas. The concerts are a huge hit parade of Beatles and Wings songs; it’s the first time I’ve seen McCartney live in concert. [...]
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