Wednesday, July 28, 2010

“Beatles licensing deal is sweet song for Sunrise company” plus 3

“Beatles licensing deal is sweet song for Sunrise company” plus 3

Beatles licensing deal is sweet song for Sunrise company

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:18 AM PDT

By Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel

4:04 a.m. EDT, July 28, 2010

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Sunrise-based Mounted Memories -- a sports and entertainment memorabilia manufacturing division of Dreams Inc. -- announced it has entered into a licensing agreement with Live Nation Merchandise Inc., to produce framed presentations featuring The Beatles.

Mounted Memories, which specializes in blending framed presentations with vintage photography, has focused on the sports collectables market until last year when the firm obtained licensing deals for Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and I Love Lucy products. "We're looking to add six or 12 more iconic properties to our entertainment spectrum this year," said Mounted Memories President Mitch Adelstein.

The Beatles series will showcase a variety of Fab Four career milestones including the band's historic first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. First in the framed presentation series features miniature images of all 13 of The Beatles' U.K. album cover images and includes the band's official logo laser-cut into the matting.


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Hey Food: 'Beatles' greasy spoon cafe up for sale

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:07 AM PDT

28 July 2010 Last updated at 08:50 ET

A roadside 'greasy spoon' cafe in Gloucestershire which was a favourite stop-off in the 1960s for stars such as The Beatles is to be sold at auction.

The Silver Fox, at Broadoak, was a favourite break for acts touring between London and Wales in the days before the Severn Bridge was built.

David Cooksley bought the cafe in 2004 and is selling it so he can retire.

He said: "The Beatles stopped in 1963 on their way to Lydney Town Hall, with the Rolling Stones not far behind."

The Silver Fox opened as a cafe for the first time in 1947 - before that it was a farm which bred silver foxes.

Mr Cooksley said: "It's the last remaining traditional roadside cafe along the A48 between Gloucester and Chepstow.

"Roadside cafes came into their own in the 1960s. Transport cafes were the only place for long distance drivers to get a hot meal and a good cup of tea. They were an oasis.

"Richard Burton was a regular in his white Rolls Royce - before the M4 and M5 of course.

"Matt Monro and Shirley Bassey enjoyed a meal. Status Quo were visitors as well."

The auction is taking place at 1900 BST - the cafe has a guide price of £300,000.

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Beatles, Presley Pianos, Duke's Chimneypiece, Churchill's Dentures on Sale

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT

A white Knabe grand piano owned by Elvis Presley. The instrument is expected to fetch more than $1 million at auction. The piano, which was in the music room at Graceland from 1957 to 1969, is the centerpiece of the Elvis sale by Heritage Auction Galleries in Memphis on Aug. 14. Source: Heritage Auctions via Bloomberg

A Challen upright piano. The instrument is thought to have been played by the Beatles, Pink Floyd and other artists in Studio Three at the Abbey Road Studios, London, from the 1960s to the 1980s. It is expected to sell for up to 150,000 pounds at a Bonhams auction at Goodwood, Sussex, on Aug.15. Source: Bonhams via Bloomberg

The keyboard of a Challen upright piano. The instrument is thought to have been played by the Beatles, Pink Floyd and other artists in Studio Three at the Abbey Road Studios, London, from the 1960s to the 1980s. It will be included in the "Pioneers of Popular Culture" auction on Aug. 15. Source: Bonhams via Bloomberg

The Granary at the Duke of Devonshire's historic family house at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. The space was used to store furnishings from the family's demolished 18th century London home, Devonshire House, that will be included in Sotheby's "Chatsworth: The Attic Sale'' to be held in London on October 5 to October 7. Source: Sotheby's via Bloomberg

An Allosaurus dinosaur skeleton. The skeleton is being sold by Sotheby's in Paris with an estimate of 800,000 euros ($1.02 million.) Source: Sotheby's via Bloomberg

Elvis Presley's gleaming white Knabe grand piano, and the coffee-stained upright instrument played by the Beatles and Pink Floyd, are up for sale in separate auctions on either side of the Atlantic next month.

Presley's piano, which was in the music room at his Graceland home from 1957 to 1969, may fetch more than $1 million at Heritage Auction Galleries' Memphis sale on Aug. 14. The cigarette-burned Challen, used from the 1960s at Abbey Road Studios in north London, is expected to fetch as much as 150,000 pounds ($231,000) in Bonhams's "Pioneers of Popular Culture" auction at Goodwood Vintage Festival the following day.

The Knabe was the house piano at Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, where Duke Ellington, Count Basie and others performed, before Pressley bought it and refurbished it in white.

The Challen cost 250 pounds in 1964, according to the book "Recording the Beatles" by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan. It was probably used by the Beatles in 1966 for the track "Tomorrow Never Knows" on the "Revolver" album and by Paul McCartney for the 1969 song "Old Brown Shoe."

"It's a raw piece," Laurence Fisher, Bonhams's specialist head of mechanical music, said in an interview. "It's one of those pianos where you look at it and think, 'Is that it?' Then you imagine John Lennon leaning against it, and you go, 'Wow!'"

This particular model of Challen is known as a 'jangle box' or 'tack' instrument, owing to the optional tone controlled by a third pedal. It was sold in the 1980s to a family for children to learn to play.

"The children have grown up and it's been sitting in a corner," Stephen Maycock, consultant in rock memorabilia at Bonhams, said in an interview.

The piano on which Lennon wrote "Imagine" was bought by the singer George Michael at auction for 1.7 million pounds with fees in October 2000.

Churchill's Teeth

A partial set of dentures used by Winston Churchill, the U.K.'s wartime Prime Minister, is being sold this week by an auction house in Norfolk.

The gold-mounted upper false teeth, one of three sets designed to mask a lisp, are being offered by Keys Auctioneers with an estimate of 4,000 pounds to 5,000 pounds on July 29. They have been entered by the son of Derek Cudlipp, the technician who was commissioned to make them, said Keys.

Another set of dentures was buried with Churchill, and a third is in the museum of the U.K.'s Royal College of Surgeons.

Devonshire's Store

The Duke of Devonshire is the latest English aristocrat looking to raise funds by clearing storerooms of his home.

Following the 21.1 million-pound success of the Christie's International July sale of paintings, furniture and more humble bits and pieces from the Spencer family, the Duke is hoping to raise at least 2.5 million pounds from an auction at Sotheby's.

The three-day Chatsworth attic sale, scheduled for Oct. 5- 7, includes furnishings from various properties that have been stored at the Devonshires' ancestral house in Derbyshire.

"When we moved into Chatsworth several years ago we found the attics filled with the contents of other family homes from generations past," the Duke of Devonshire said in an e-mail. "The proceeds will be used to further some projects both at Chatsworth and on our other estates."

The sale will include some of the William Kent-designed fittings from Devonshire House, an early 18th-century mansion in London's Piccadilly that was demolished in the 1920s. A George II white marble chimneypiece may fetch as much as 300,000 pounds.

The event, in classic attic-auction style, will also feature lots such as ceramics and glass temptingly valued at as little as 20 pounds.

Dinosaur Skeleton

For those who aren't content with the stars' pianos, a Duke's chimneypiece or Churchill's teeth, how about a dinosaur's bones?

Sotheby's is to offer the Allosaurus remains in a Paris sale on Oct. 5. The skeleton is 33 feet (10 meters) in length and is estimated to fetch about 800,000 euros ($1.02 million), the U.S.-based auction house said in an e-mail last night.

(Scott Reyburn writes about the art market for Muse, the arts and culture section of Bloomberg News. Opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer on the story: Scott Reyburn in London at sreyburn@hotmail.com.

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CAN'T BUY ME LOVE: Beatles tribute band to perform in Chelsea

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:26 AM PDT

On July 31, the Toppermost Beatles Tribute Band will perform in Chelsea.

The free concert will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in the clock tower courtyard. The band performs an authentic Beatles concert from their boots to their instruments.

"Toppermost appeals to the young and old since everyone knows the Beatles," band member Tom Diab said.

For more information visit the band's Website at www.toppermost.info. The event is sponsored by the Gourmet Chocolate Cafe in Chelsea.

To read our coverage of Toppermost, click on http://www.heritage.com/articles/2010/07/09/manchester_enterprise/news/doc4c378c2064f73452091633.txt

The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of heritage.com.

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