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| Posted: 07 Jun 2010 01:43 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. | Tens of thousands of music fans will make the journey to the Isle of Wight in June for the annual Isle of Wight Festival. With Paul McCartney as the headline act, many fans of the Beatles will also be crossing the Solent. However for fans of the Fab Four already living on the Island, the festival weekend is set to be a particularly memorable one. Although the Beatles never played the Isle of Wight as a group, McCartney and Lennon did visit the island as teenagers and McCartney was the only Beatle not to attend the 1969 festival to watch Bob Dylan perform. Tribute act Two 'Paul McCartneys' will be performing at this year's Isle of Wight festival - one headlining the Sunday night, and the 'other' playing with the local Apple Beatles tribute band playing in the Hipshaker tent. Rick Stanbridge has been 'Macca' since he started playing Beatles numbers with a friend in a local pub in 2004. Since then, the Apple Beatles have grown into an island institution. The band were already booked to play for early-arriving festival goers on the Thursday evening when the headline act was announced. Rick said: "You can imagine the feeling when Macca was announced and we were also on the bill! It's a massive honour that any full-time tribute band would be proud of, let alone some part-time local Beatle lovers like us. "I get to play viola bass and do the Macca and we play across the spectrum, those songs we feel we can represent with good passion." Rick has been "hooked" on the Beatles since listening to his parents A Hard Days Night LP at the age of six. He continued: "To have this very influential legend arrive locally is something that was once only in my wildest imagination. "To this day, I find more and more depth, timeless, classic instruments, genius arranging and song-writing and recording techniques to marvel and marvel at." Beatles food For Chris Sanders who runs the Octopus' Garden - a Beatles-themed cafe on Cowes High Street - the news that his musical hero was headlining the local festival gave him a quandary. He explained: "It's one of our busiest weekends of the year, I just can't afford to leave the business." Ironically, many of the festival goers wind their way past the cafe on their way to and from the Southampton passenger ferry. "Both the festival and the Bestival are very good for us - it's good for business for the whole island. "We're absolutely delighted especially because he has never played here before. This year's line-up is very good - and of course you couldn't get anyone better to headline than McCartney." Chris already has a ticket for Paul McCartney's gig in Cardiff later in the summer so at least will not miss out on seeing the show. He bought the Octopus' Garden cafe in 2006, having visited the island on holiday. The cafe has just completed a major refurbishment but still shows off Chris' collection of Beatles memorabelia compiled since the mid-1970s, growing up in London picking up old Beatles records and posters at Camden Market. "It's quite nice to have the whole collection in one place, and be able to share it with everyone. "It's a bit of a shrine and we do get some 'rabid' fans, but it's a cafe as well and people still want their hearty breakfast and something to eat." Chris admits he would like to invite Paul McCartney to "drop in for a veggie-burger", although it wouldn't be the family's first encounter with the star. In 1981, his wife Penny tapped a man on the shoulder to help her repair a flat type at a motorway service station - only to discover it was none other than Paul McCartney. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| The Beatles: bigger than Ken Dodd – but only just Posted: 31 May 2010 04:25 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
They called them the Swinging Sixties, so it comes as no surprise that there are four Beatles singles in the top five in a new compilation of the best-selling singles of the decade. But what song is up there at No 3 with the Fab Four? Could it be "Not Fade Away", the first big hit for The Rolling Stones? Or "River Deep, Mountain High", which launched the fabulous career of Tina Turner? Or "Purple Haze", or "Whiter Shade of Pale", or "You'll Never walk Alone", by Gerry and the Pacemakers, which became the anthem of Liverpool FC? Or perhaps "Flowers in the Rain" by The Move, the first record to be played on Radio 1, by the DJ Tony Blackburn, when the station was launched in 1967. Actually, none of the above even made the Top 20. In at No 3 is "Tears" by Ken Dodd, a comedian best remembered for his Diddy Men, his tickling stick, and his aversion to paying tax. Because, in the 1960s, it was not only the young, the turned on, and the groovy who bought records. Mums and Dads – especially Mums – would treat themselves occasionally to a seven-inch piece of vinyl that they could put on the turntable, and set to 45rpm. The first Beatles single not to top the charts, "Strawberry Fields Forever", in 1967, was beaten into second place by a song called "Release Me" by Engelbert Humperdinck, who was over 40, had a neat haircut, and was every mother's heart-throb. "And the first hit ever to be No 1 in the UK and USA simultaneously was a soft instrumental number, "Stranger on the Shore" by the jazz clarinettist, Acker Bilk. The list was compiled by the Official Charts Company, collating data from 1 January 1960 to 31 December 1969, for a Radio 2 programme yesterday, presented by Tony Blackburn. He said: "This brings back many fantastic memories. It comes as no surprise to see the Fab Four at No 1, but other aspects of the chart are perhaps a little unexpected. For example Ken Dodd, The Seekers and Engelbert Humperdinck all attain higher chart positions than The Rolling Stones, Elvis and Cliff Richard." The twenty best selling singles of the Sixties 1. She Loves You, by The Beatles 2. I Want To Hold Your Hand, The Beatles 3. Tears, Ken Dodd 4. Can't Buy Me Love, The Beatles 5. I Feel Fine, The Beatles 6. The Carnival Is Over, The Seekers 7. We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper, The Beatles 8. Release Me, Engelbert Humperdinck 9. It's Now Or Never, Elvis Presley 10. Green Green Grass Of Home, Tom Jones 11. The Last Waltz, Engelbert Humperdinck 12. Stranger On The Shore, Acker Bilk 13. I Remember You, Frank Ifield 14. The Young Ones, Cliff Richard 15. Sugar Sugar, The Archies 16. The Next Time / Bachelor Boy, Cliff Richard 17. Telstar, The Tornados 18. From Me To You, The Beatles 19. Two Little Boys, Rolf Harris 20. Hey Jude, The Beatles '); } else { document.write('Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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