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Beatles tribute band coming to Oxford

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 07:44 AM PDT

By Meagan Engle, Staff Writer Updated 2:20 PM Friday, July 23, 2010

OXFORD — Experience a Beatles concert — or at least, the closest thing to a Beatles concert — live at the upcoming Oxford Summer Music concert.

Beatles tribute band Eight Days A Week will take the audience back with a performance in full costumes, with authentic instruments, playing all the hits.

The Cincinnati-based band will perform a free concert from 7:30 to 
10 p.m. Thursday, July 29, at the John W. Altman Performance Pavilion in Uptown Parks.

"We are a full-costume band, authentic equipment, authentic gear," said Craig Rouse, a member of the four-man group.

Rouse said the band uses the same type of amplifiers the Beatles used and have the same instruments, such as Ringo's oyster pearl drums.

"We try to be as authentic as possible," he said.

Rouse said the band will play two sets, first starting with early songs from the band's beginnings up to when the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released. The band will wear the Ed Sullivan suits and perform songs like "Twist and Shout," "Hard Day's Night" and others.

They'll then come back in Sgt. Pepper costumes, where they'll perform hits from 1967 to 1970 with songs like "Get Back," "Birthday" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Eight Days A Week has been performing for nine years, mostly in the six states surrounding Ohio. They have played in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve and completed in the XM Satellite Radio battle of the Beatles tribute bands.

Rouse said audiences can expect an interactive show, with chances for folks in the audience to get on stage to sing along and more.

The concert is sponsored by Fifth Third Bank, Follett's Miami Co-Op Bookstore, Glenwood Energy of Oxford Inc. and Oxford AAA.

Contact this reporter at (513) 523-4139 or mengle@coxohio.com.

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Beatles piano up for sale

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 01:16 AM PDT

A coffee-stained piano used by the Beatles at London's Abbey Road studios is expected to sell for more than £100,000, an auction house said.

The battered Challen upright piano, covered in cigarette burns and coffee stains, can be heard on hits such as Paperback Writer and Tomorrow Never Knows, both recorded in Abbey Road's Studio Three in 1966.

The piano also features on Pink Floyd's 1973 Dark Side of the Moon LP.

"I think it is the first instrument from the Abbey Road studios to come on the open market," Stephen Maycock, the consultant specialist for Beatles memorabilia at Bonhams auction house, said.

"The piano has had quite a few knocks. It's had coffee cups placed on it and it's got cigarette burns," he added.

"It's a working instrument that was used pretty much every day of its working life, and it's got the scars to prove it.

"But it still plays well and sounds great."

The instrument retired from service in the 1980s and is now set to be sold at auction at the Vintage Goodwood festival in West Sussex, southeast England, on August 15.

Bonhams expects the piano to fetch between £100,000 and £150,000.

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Beatles Piano Expected To Sell For $300000

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 11:24 PM PDT

Beatles' unseen Surrey past going up for auction

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 08:07 AM PDT

WHEN Sue Baker thinks of her time spent darting around Esher and Weybridge it brings to mind her most treasured memories.

This is not only because of the area itself but because of some of its most famous inhabitants - The Beatles.

Mrs Baker is now preparing to auction off previously unseen pictures of the Fab Four after going on a mission at the age of 15 that would put other determined fans to shame.

After reading in a Beatles magazine back in 1965 that Paul McCartney lived in St Johns Wood in north London, Mrs Baker decided to visit him.

"I was obviously a massive fan of the band and talked a friend of mine into coming with me until we found Paul's home," she said.

"I knocked on his door and he came down and opened the gate and talked to us – we were just amazed that he would do that.

"From there he told us where all three of them lived and we went straight to their houses."

The trip took in George Harrison, who lived in a bungalow in Claremont Lane, and John Lennon in St George's Hill, who was just streets away from Ringo Starr.

"At first we would just walk up to the houses," Mrs Baker said.

"I think I remember it being this most expensive place, very leafy, and of course it's close to London so was good if they wanted to go to the recording studio.

"I think John said he spent about £20,000 on his place, it was a beautiful house. He and George were both a bit more settled while Paul was a bit more of a man about town so he lived in London."

Her snaps include George Harrison outside his bungalow and another of his swimming pool.

Mrs Baker also managed to take a picture of Lennon at his home, pose herself in front of George Harrison's car and get hold of a note scribbled by Paul McCartney.

"This has always amazed me because although they were this big band they were so nice and we could chat to them as if we were chatting to anybody," she said.

"We would talk about their music and what they were doing that day, they were just quite ordinary young men."

Mrs Baker, who lives in Reading, would take the train to Weybridge, walk up to St George's Hill and catch a bus to Esher before getting a train back into London to drop in on McCartney.

"I remember speaking to John Lennon and him saying, if it wasn't for us, meaning the fans, he wouldn't even have a house like this," she said.

"If they had said to us don't come back we wouldn't have come back, but they always told us how happy they were."

Mrs Baker said she was only planning to let go of her treasured items to raise money for her daughter's wedding rather than leave them gathering dust in her loft.

"It never dawned on me that people would so interested in them," she said.

The pictures are being sold at Cameo auctioneers in Reading on August 3. Anybody who wants more information should call 0118 971 3772.

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