“Beatles Fans Organise to Save Ringo Starr's Childhood Home” plus 2 |
- Beatles Fans Organise to Save Ringo Starr's Childhood Home
- Beatles Promoter, Rock ‘n Roll Legend Saved by Social Media Campaign
- Unseen Beatles pictures go on show
| Beatles Fans Organise to Save Ringo Starr's Childhood Home Posted: 25 Aug 2010 03:55 AM PDT
The Save Madryn Street (SMS) campaign is to launch at the city's Hard Day's Night Hotel on Tuesday (Aug. 25), led by local Ringo impersonator Max Frudd, the BBC reports. The Victorian terraced house in Toxteth, where the drummer spent the early years of his life, is one of hundreds in the so-called Welsh streets set to be bulldozed, as reported in Spinner. SMS founders argue the small home attracts thousands of visitors a year and its removal would impact the city's tourism – even though the street is already boarded up. Beatles guide Phil Coppell said the group would fight "tooth and nail" to reverse the decision. "The homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon are already preserved and Ringo is no less important," he added. "We want to see Ringo's birthplace conserved and turned into a proper tourist destination; and we are also taken by the idea that some of the houses could be converted for tourist lets." Starr's birthplace has been threatened with removal for the past five years as part of a sweeping plan to build more modern homes, but demolition notices have now reappeared. Discussions to move 9 Madryn Street to the new Museum of Liverpool are currently on hold. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Beatles Promoter, Rock ‘n Roll Legend Saved by Social Media Campaign Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT The man who brought the Beatles to America, legendary music promoter Sid Bernstein, is now the center of a viral social media campaign to rescue his personal story—and a major part of rock 'n roll and civil rights history—from obscurity. (PRWEB) August 25, 2010 -- The man who brought the Beatles to America, legendary music promoter Sid Bernstein, is now the center of a viral social media campaign to rescue his personal story—and a major part of rock 'n roll and civil rights history—from obscurity. The makers of Bernstein's critically praised biopic, Sid Bernstein Presents…, have teamed with Kickstarter.com, the social media fundraising site, to raise enough money for the film to fight the media conglomerates which have suppressed the film's release. Sid Bernstein Presents…is a 110 minute documentary film on the life of the famous music ingénue and civil rights activist who, in addition to bringing the Beatles and The Rolling Stones to America, and organizing the landmark Beatles Shea Stadium concert, also repped James Brown, Tito Puente, The Rascals, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Abba, and Quincy Jones, and organized concerts with Elvis, Jimmy Hendrix and Frank Sinatra, among many others. The Kickstarter.com campaign for the film Sid Bernstein Presents… is raising $100,000 to fight for the music and film rights needed to get the film released—and a crucial part of American and music history told. "Sid has done so much for music and public culture," said the film's co-director, Jason Ressler. "The fact that his contribution to history is slowly being buried and forgotten is tragic. It's our turn to fight for Sid, since he spent so much of his life fighting for a free and equal culture in America." The campaign will honor donors who give $30 with a pre-release Collectors Edition DVD of the film. Donors who give $100 will receive a limited edition poster signed by the Beatles promoter. Digital Distribution Producer and Associate Producer credits will also be given to honor certain donors. The film features a series of interviews with some of the most influential and beloved personalities of rock 'n roll history—including the last film interviews with James Brown and Latin great Tito Puente before their respective deaths. Shirley McClaine, Lenny Kravitz, The Rascals, The Moody Blues, Paul Anka, Steve Van Zandt, Dick Clark, Jerry Vale, and many others. "Sid was doing what the Kennedys and Martin Luther King discovered later, but Sid had already begun to do it through music," James Brown says in an exclusive, never-before-seen interview in the film. The Huffington Post also called Sid a "Founding Father" of modern music and pop culture. ### Sid Bernstein Presents... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Unseen Beatles pictures go on show Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:35 AM PDT Recently discovered photographs of The Beatles before Beatlemania took over have gone on display at Liverpool's Beatle Story. Skip related content The black and white pictures were taken by photographer Paul Berriff during a tour in 1963 and 1964. They lay untouched for almost 50 years before he found them in his attic. Berriff was 16 years old at the time and working as an editorial assistant on the Yorkshire Evening Post. "I started to root round in my attic and I found this box of about 800 negs," Paul Berriff said. "I was absolutely knocked out when I saw the quality and realised I should do something with them." The 38 pictures show The Beatles both on and off stage including relaxing in their dressing room. The photographs will go on permanent display at The Beatles Story at Liverpool's Albert Dock from 24 August, 2010, entry to the gallery will be free. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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