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- Beatles - Starrs Home Facing Demolition
- The Beatles Song Festival In Kazakhstan
- New Beatles images go on display
- Rare Beatles photographs to go on display
| Beatles - Starrs Home Facing Demolition Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:29 AM PDT Caption: Cirque Du Soleil's Beatles (Picture) LOVE Cast 2010 NHL Awards red carpet arrivals held at The Palms Hotel Casino in Las Vegas Las Vegas, USA .... BEATLES fans are fuming over plans to demolish the house in Liverpool, England where RINGO STARR was born. The drummer was welcomed into the world on 7 July 1940 in a house on Madryn Street in the band's famous hometown. The property first came under threat in 2005, when Starr himself spoke out against plans to knock the building down. It has stood empty for five years while local politicians have disagreed over what to do with the musician's birthplace, but now a demolition notice has been posted on the street, leading to fears the historic home will be lost forever. Philip Coppell, who has worked as an official Beatles tour guide in the city for more than 20 years, has branded local council chiefs "idiots" and insists the building should be handed over to Britain's National Trust organisation for preservation. He tells Britain's Daily Mail, "Whoever has approved this are complete idiots. The National Trust run Paul MCCartney and John Lennon's homes as tourist attractions and people come from all over the world to see them. "Now they are planning to demolish the very building that Ringo was born in. It's sheer lunacy... If it's knocked down - even if it is moved - fans all over the world are going to be up in arms. They will just not understand how Liverpool can carry out this kind of cultural vandalism. What the council is proposing to do is nothing short of criminal and they will be convicted in the court of international public opinion if they go ahead with it." A spokesman for Liverpool City Council says, "This is part of a multi-phase project, which is going to run for some years. Number 9 Madryn Street is under no immediate threat of demolition. We have given special consideration to this building and we are currently in discussions with National Museums Liverpool regarding the potential for its preservation." 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 |
| The Beatles Song Festival In Kazakhstan Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:42 AM PDT 19 Ogos, 2010 15:49 PM The Beatles Song Festival In Kazakhstan ALMATY, Aug 19 (Bernama) -- 50 years have passed but songs by the Beatles are still popular worldwide and on Aug 30 the people of Kazakhstan will get to hear some of the band's popular hits like "Yesterday", "Let it be", "Michelle" peformed by Kazakh singers, actors and politicians at a "Beatles" performance here. Kazakhstan's Khabar news agency reported that the performers will belt out more than 30 hits of the legendary band at the "Astana" square. According to the organisers, this year's performacne was dedicated to the band's 50th anniversary and John Lennon's 70th anniversary The singers include Nurlan Abdullin, Tolkyn Zabirova, Gani Kasymov, Mels Yeleusizov, and the bands - "Zhetygen", "Fridays" and "Newts." The organisers said that the "Tabigat" environmental union and the United Kingdom ambassador to Kazakhstan David Moran will join them as well. The Union is also planning to create a John Lennon alley in Almaty and promised that the festival will gain international recognition and be held on an annual basis. Khabar said that Beatlemania came to Kazakhstan in the late 60s. People could hear the Beatles' hits playing everywhere and vinyl records with their songs were top sellers. A monument to the Beatleswas was established at Kok-Tobe in 2007. Aidar Bekbosynov, the festival organiser, said that "1,000 years will pass and everyone will still know and love the Beatles as their songs are very simple." He said that practically all the band members did not have musical education but they still wrote such great songs. "I invite everybody here to sing, dance, sing along and feel pretty much like our elder brothers did in the Beatles era," he said. -- BERNAMA Kami menyediakan langganan 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 |
| New Beatles images go on display Posted: 18 Aug 2010 10:22 AM PDT 18 August 2010 Last updated at 13:05 ET A selection of previously unseen photographs of The Beatles are to go on display in Liverpool. Images taken by German photographer Astrid Kirchherr will be displayed at the Victoria Gallery and Museum. Kirchherr, the former girlfriend of original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe, took pictures of the band's early years after meeting them in Hamburg in 1960. The exhibition, Astrid Kirchherr: A Retrospective, runs from 25 August until 30 January 2011. The 70-photograph exhibition includes images of the Beatles on holiday in Tenerife and of the making of their film A Hard Day's Night in 1964 in Liverpool. Ms Kirchherr said: "I am delighted to come back to Liverpool to show my photographs at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, having enjoyed seeing Stuart's work in the same venue in 2009." Matthew Clough, museum director, said: "The primary focus of this exhibition is to demonstrate Astrid's work as a significant 20th Century photographer. "Astrid is known for her photographs of the Beatles in Hamburg, but her images of Liverpool in the early 60s provide a unique snapshot of a particular moment in its history." 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 |
| Rare Beatles photographs to go on display Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:06 AM PDT Kirchherr, who was engaged to Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatles' original bass player who died from a brain haemorrhage in 1962, was the first person to take studio shots of the band. Her work includes images of the Fab Four taken in Liverpool in 1964 during the making of the film A Hard Day's Night, as well as shots of the city as it appeared in the 1960s. Also on display will be photographs of other musicians from the period including Rory Storm, Gibson Kemp and Klaus Voorman. The exhibition, Astrid Kirchherr: A Retrospective, at the University of Liverpool's Victoria Gallery & Museum, will be open to the public from August 25 to January 30. 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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