Thursday, June 24, 2010

“Business Briefs: Beatles and ukulele fans; practice July 1” plus 2

“Business Briefs: Beatles and ukulele fans; practice July 1” plus 2

Business Briefs: Beatles and ukulele fans; practice July 1

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:32 AM PDT

The 2010 Chicago Fest for Beatles Fans convention takes place Aug. 13-15 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare Hotel. The celebrity line-up is a mini 'Wings' reunion. A lot of Beatles fans look forward to the Aug. 15 "Battle of The Beatles Bands," which is the Oak Park Ukulele Group's highlight of the year.

(Note: There is an admission fee to attend this Fest. For information visit www.thefest.com.)

Practice for the Beatles Fest Oak Park Ukulele Group will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. July 1 at La Majada Restaurant's Banquet Room, 226 Harrison St., Oak Park; (708) 848-8838. Open to all.

In addition to practicing the two selected Beatles' songs, the group will also play other Beatles' songs and other genres for the evening.

Oak Park Ukulele Meetup Group's regular weekly sessions meet 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, at the Eastgate Cafe, 102 Harrison St. (corner of Harrison and Lyman), in Oak Park; (708) 660-9091. For more info go to ukulele.meetup.com/89.

Any questions, call GiGi Wong-Monaco at Wonderwall Music Shoppe & Emporium (708) 948-7986 or e-mail wonderwallemporium@yahoo.com.

A free Health Fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 10 at Sam's Club, 141 W. North Ave., in Northlake. Nurses will screen people for cholesterol levels, blood sugar levels, blood pressure and body mass.

You do not have to be a Sam's Club member.

For more information, call Sam's Club Pharmacy at (708) 492-1417.



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Sir Paul Mccartney - Paul Mccartney Laughs At Beatles Facts

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:45 AM PDT

Sir Paul McCartney has claimed that several films about The Beatles contain events that didn't happen and things that are ''not true''.

Sir Paul McCartney says many films about The Beatles are "not true".

The legendary musician - who was joined in the band by Ringo Starr, and the late John Lennon and George Harrison - insists many pieces about the Fab Four are inaccurate and misleading to fans.

Speaking about two dramas - 'Nowhere Boy' and 'Lennon Naked' - Paul said: "It's a great tribute that whatever we did is so lasting and people can still make films about The Beatles which can still be successful. For me, though, they're not true and that's the unfortunate thing about them. John never punched me out like he does in 'Nowhere Boy', but my character is kind of cool in the film so I don't mind being punched out. I told the film director Sam (Taylor-Wood) all of that but she said, 'Yeah. But Paul, it's just a film.' "

Another rumour Paul has quashed is that he told John not to pose naked on the cover of his and Yoko Ono's 1968 album 'Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins'.

He said: "It's like the rumour I told John off for posing nude for the 'Two Virgins' cover as in 'Lennon Naked'. I never told him that - that's another legend. What John and Yoko did was always up to them."

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Ringo relishes post-Beatles career

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:08 PM PDT

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — Ringo Starr says playing with his old Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney on Starr's 2010 album, Y Not, came naturally — despite the passage of time since they'd actually been in a recording studio together.

Macca came to Starr's L.A. home when he was in town for the Grammys in 2009 and laid down bass on the song Peace Dream and spontaneously sang backup on Walk With You.

"It was exactly like riding a bike — he's a really fine player and so am I," said Starr, 69, at Fallsview Casino Resort on Wednesday in a chat with QMI Agency after a news conference to introduce the 11th version of his All Starr Band.

Starr and his players launch their 31-city North American tour on Thursday with two back-to-back sold-out shows at the venue overlooking Niagara Falls.

"We go back, WAY back," continued Starr of McCartney. "And it might be several years since we've played with each other but it's not several years since we've met. He'd come over to the house or I'd gone over to his, you know what I mean? We have hung out. For me it was an incredible pleasure to have him on the record.

But Starr later emphasized there are no future plans for collaborating again any time soon.

"I think, yes, Paul and I are in deep negotiations, we're going to do a full tour of the continent," he said laughing. "No, we're not. He's got his band, he's busy. I've got my band, I'm busy. We have no plans."

Still, speaking of The Fab Four, The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows: Starring The Beatles, will be released on Sept. 7.

"I read in the paper that they'd found some tracks that had never been out," Starr told QMI Agency.

"I hope they send me a copy.

"You know the story has been well documented. By the time we got to America, we had a No. 1. You can't plan it. It was like a magic moment and to get to New York, to get to America, you know I'm a musician, it's from America, it was great!"

Y Not, which saw Starr producing himself for the first time, includes collaborations with Eagles member Joe Walsh who is Starr's brother-in-law (he's married to the sister of Starr's wife Barbara Bach — "I mean everyone should have Joe Walsh as their brother-in-law!" he joked), Ben Harper, Van Dyke Parks, Glen Ballard and Dave Stewart and his Canadian singing protege Cindy Gomez,

"It was a great departure for me to work with all these different writers," said Starr, adding, "Cindy is incredible."

Somewhat of a surprise though is the appearance of young British soul star Joss Stone, who co-wrote and sings a duet with Starr on Who's Your Daddy.

"I had the thought of "I need a girl to be a bit angry with me,' " Starr said. "(The engineer who had worked with her) mentioned her and we called. All we do is make a phone call and she found time, she came over, and what was great was it was just the moment — she was having a bad day with the boyfriend, so we wrote that song in an hour. We did two passes, and we said goodbye."

Starr will turn 70 in style on July 7 with an All Starr Band show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, but said the number itself doesn't mean anything to him.

"I'm not going to hide from it, I'm too well-documented for that, though I feel like I'm 24," he told the news conference on Wednesday. "And I thought, 'Well, let's celebrate it, let's go!' We're still up there standing and we're still doing it.' Like, B.B. King is my hero and I have this line about B.B. King because he's still playing but he is sitting down, 'Hey I'm sitting down already!'

"We're blessed, we musicians, as far as I'm concerned. As long as I can hold a stick, it can go on forever. It's great. It's something you don't have to retire from."

jane.stevenson@sunmedia.ca

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