“Fab Beatles to rock Lanka” plus 1 |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:53 PM PDT The Fab Beatles, the first ever concert in Asia to be held in Sri Lanka on September 18 will be presented by Mystere Entertainment Lanka in collaboration with the Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka's leading newspaper with the highest circulation and Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel.
Their music is as near to the original Beatles' sound. The members use only authentic instruments and costumes and can now boast to have the very drum-kit Ringo used on The Beatles 1964 American tour no-less! Unlike other acts, The Fab Beatles use no other musicians or tape machines during their shows. Every instrument is played completely 'live' by them. Their shows cover everything that the Beatles trilogy sounds like. From the Cavern/ Hamburg/Mop-Top period; through to Rubber Soul/Revolver; Sgt. Pepper's and the Magical Mystery Tour, finishing with the songs from Abbey Road and Let It Be albums. The Fab Beatles are a popular band at wedding receptions in the UK and the feedback they have received from their clients are astounding and memorable. Tickets priced at Rs. 5000 (reserved) are available at Bayleaf (79, Gregory's Road, Colombo 7), Commons (39A, Flower Road, Colombo 7) and Park Street Mews (50/1, Park Street, Colombo 2). The Rs. 2000 (standing) tickets are available at all Keells outlets in Union Place, Crescat Boulevard, Ethul Kotte, Nawala, Kohuwela, Mount Lavinia, Liberty Plaza and ODEL. The media sponsors for this event is Sunday Observer and the electronic media sponsor is ART TV. The gates will open at 5.30 pm with ample parking facilities and the show will start at 7.30 pm. The Fab Beatles are amazing and this is show should not be missed! 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 |
| DVDs put Beatles’ Ed Sullivan gigs in context Posted: 12 Sep 2010 03:22 AM PDT Watching a new DVD about the Beatles' initial appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show is like cracking open a time capsule. Almost as interesting as the band making its musical introduction to America in 1964 is the context in which it is placed. The DVD presents the programs exactly as they appeared that night — complete with hapless magicians or comedians, commercials that would shame Mad Men and illustrations of how the pace of television has changed. The first night — Feb. 9, 1964 — is a landmark in television. An estimated 73 million Americans tuned in — the largest ever for a TV show at the time, or three times the amount of people who watched the latest American Idol finale, according to the Nielsen Co. A generation of musicians can trace their career choices to that night. One was Dennis DeYoung, the former Styx lead singer, who told the Montreal Gazette that he watched it while at a high-school dance. "I looked at that, and I went: 'Oh, my God! What is that? And how do I apply for that job?' " he recalled. "That was it. There was never any doubt in my mind what I wanted in my life." A similar DVD was made available in 2003 but with limited distribution. The release last week of The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Beatles has some interviews and material that hasn't been seen since the 1960s. SOFA Entertainment, which owns the archive of Sullivan shows (a staple on the CBS Sunday-night schedule from 1948 to 1971), released the new package after getting approval from the Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd. Sullivan, the competitive old newspaper columnist, clearly knew the high stakes involved that night and gave the Beatles two showcases on the first show. While the Beatles' appearance stands in memory like a thunderclap, their power seemed muted the first time they hit the stage. Their first two songs, All My Loving and 'Til There Was You, were both showcases for Paul McCartney. The band didn't really hit its stride until the rocking She Loves You. Even then, the cameras seemed to shortchange John Lennon in favor of McCartney. For all the attention paid to that first night in New York, their performances on the following week's show from Miami are much better. They had repeats: She Loves You was played both weeks. Cutaways to the audience show young girls who can barely stay in their seats from the excitement of it all. Older people — men in suits and women in furs — look bored, annoyed and clueless to the generational change staring back at them. The Beatles' cheekiness, enthusiasm and talent were bracing. "It's like they were in color and everybody else was in black and white," said Andrew Solt, CEO of SOFA Entertainment. Watching the magician with the hard luck of following the Beatles to the stage that first night is painful. Fred Kaps' showbiz career never really recovered from that moment, Solt said. It seemed his routine would never end. The sense that television moves much more quickly today is one of the most interesting finds in the DVD time capsule. Mitzi Gaynor, who was once the princess of musical comedy, gave a sweaty performance from Miami and had enough time for costume changes. The comic team of McCall & Brill, with a punch line about an "ugly girl," wouldn't have made it past today's taste police. Another performance in that first week came from the cast of the Broadway show Oliver! — including a young Davy Jones, whose life was changed in the wake of the Beatles' performance in a way he couldn't have imagined. A few years later, he was cast as one of the Monkees, a prefab rock band and Beatles knockoff. Sullivan "didn't spend too much money on talent that week, because he knew he had the audience," Solt said. Producers plainly believed that people had an attention span then, certainly much more so than now. Perhaps the knowledge that viewers had to get out of their seats to turn the channel — and then had a couple of choices, not north of 100 other networks — was on their minds. The same is true of the ads. Can you imagine a commercial break with only one commercial? Maybe it was what they were hawking, but the ads are stunningly unimaginative. What were the Madison Avenue pitchmen of the day thinking? An image of waves against a tropical shore couldn't save an ad for a pineapple cake mix. The cold-water detergent All was called "revolutionary." The DVD also contains Sullivan shows from Feb. 23, 1964, and Sept. 12, 1965, when the Beatles made their final in-person appearance on the show. Twenty songs in all are performed — including three versions of I Want To Hold Your Hand. The DVD also has a short interview that Sullivan did with the Beatles in London in May 1964 that hasn't been seen since the day it aired. 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 UK's Beatles tribute band formed in 1991 has gained recognition as one of the most sought-after bands in the world. The foursome has performed concerts all over the UK and are the craze in Europe, Middle East and America. Chosen by the BBC as 'The Best' and commissioned by EMI to promote the 'Beatles1' CD, the Fab Beatles are a good outfit bringing the best of the Beatles.| You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News Search Results for beatles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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