“Beatles Piano for Sale; Presley’s Baby Grand Fails at Auction” plus 3 |
- Beatles Piano for Sale; Presley’s Baby Grand Fails at Auction
- Beatles Revolver Milestone Remembered
- More Beatles Remasters Coming in October Recap
- More Beatles Remasters Coming in October
| Beatles Piano for Sale; Presley’s Baby Grand Fails at Auction Posted: 15 Aug 2010 02:44 AM PDT Two pianos used by the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Elvis Presley failed to ignite memorabilia sales as buyers remained selective and sellers held back. Presley's gleaming white Knabe baby grand, estimated to fetch more than $1 million, found no buyer at Heritage Auction Galleries' Ultimate Elvis Auction at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis last night. A coffee-stained and cigarette-burned upright model, used from the 1960s at Abbey Road Studios in north London, was then withdrawn hours before Bonhams's "Pioneers of Popular Culture" auction at the U.K.'s Goodwood Vintage Festival. It had been expected to fetch as much as 150,000 pounds ($233,000). "Tonight was not the night for this beautiful instrument to go to a new owner," Doug Norwine, Heritage's director of Music & Entertainment Auctions, said in an e-mailed statement last night. "With the economy still sluggish, buyers are hesitant when it comes to the really big ticket items." 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. It was in the music room at his Graceland home from 1957 to 1969. The auction was instead led by a trio of "the King's" more affordable possessions. Elvis's signed Graceland purchase agreement, a mid-1950s owned and used belt and a gold and diamond cameo ring that had belonged to the singer each sold for $38,838, including 19.5 percent fees. "This morning we received instructions that the Beatles piano should be withdrawn from the sale," Jon Baddeley, managing director of Bonhams's Knightsbridge auction room, said in an interview today. The owners did not give a reason why they were withdrawing the lot, said Baddeley. Tomorrow Never Knows 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 was later used for Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album. This particular model of Challen was 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. (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. 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 Revolver Milestone Remembered Posted: 15 Aug 2010 02:21 AM PDT 08/13/2010 Gibson has an in-depth look back on this momentous anniversary: The Beatles' recorded output remains staggering to this day. When the band released Revolver in August 1966, it was their seventh LP in just over three years (not to mention the scores of singles released during that time that did not appear on their British albums). Beyond mere volume, the band broke ground for all of popular music with nearly every release, adding elements of folk, classical, Indian and other new strands of music to the core material of rock and roll, namely R&B and country. Of all the band's records, perhaps no album took a longer leap forward than the album that was nearly titled Beatles on Safari. When the group entered the studio that April, they were between grueling tours. In fact, the tour that would follow the recording of Revolver would indeed be the band's last. But tired as they were of deafening (and non-listening) crowds and hotel room imprisonment, the band was as vitalized as ever when it came time to record. They were eager to experiment with produced sound to the point that they no longer took into consideration whether a recording was even possible to reproduce live on stage. This was certainly the case with the sound effects on "Yellow Submarine" and the backward guitar tracks on "I'm Only Sleeping." Likewise, the band employed ornate orchestration on "Eleanor Rigby," as well as soulful horns on "Got to Get You into My Life" and tabla, sitar and tambura on George Harrison's "Love You To." And on the album closer, "Tomorrow Never Knows," the band and production team threw everything from tape loops to untried (and illegal with Abbey Road policy pushers) mic placement and speaker employment in order to get the otherworldly sound that blew the minds of so many in the rapidly growing psychedelic scene. - more on this story Share this article on Twitter Click here to read today's full report Preview and Purchase Beatles CDs
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| More Beatles Remasters Coming in October Recap Posted: 15 Aug 2010 01:25 AM PDT 07/14/2010 The two double-disc sets, better known as the "Red" (1962-1966) and "Blue" (1967-1970) albums, will include an expanded booklet with original liner notes, rare pictures of the Fab Four and written essays by Bill Flanagan, the editorial director and senior vice president at VH1. When they were released in 1973, the "Red" and "Blue" albums were the first compilations of the band's music since their break-up three years before. The collections were assembled by manager Allen Klein and were approved by the band themselves. The collection of early material rose to #3 on both the U.S. and U.K. charts, while the latter-era collection hit #2 in England and #1 in the States. - more on this story Share this article on Twitter Click here to read today's full report Preview and Purchase Beatles CDs
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| More Beatles Remasters Coming in October Posted: 15 Aug 2010 02:15 AM PDT 08/12/2010 The two double-disc sets, better known as the "Red" (1962-1966) and "Blue" (1967-1970) albums, will include an expanded booklet with original liner notes, rare pictures of the Fab Four and written essays by Bill Flanagan, the editorial director and senior vice president at VH1. When they were released in 1973, the "Red" and "Blue" albums were the first compilations of the band's music since their break-up three years before. The collections were assembled by manager Allen Klein and were approved by the band themselves. The collection of early material rose to #3 on both the U.S. and U.K. charts, while the latter-era collection hit #2 in England and #1 in the States. - more on this story Share this article on Twitter Click here to read today's full report Preview and Purchase Beatles CDs
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