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| Roll over Tango, Beatles museum hits Argentina Posted: 18 Feb 2011 04:29 PM PST BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – The world's tango capital is dancing to a new beat at Latin America's first museum devoted to the Beatles, displaying items from boots to wigs and even condoms stamped with John Lennon's picture. Although none of the 2,500 articles on display actually ever belonged to a member of the Fab Four, thousands of visitors have already poured through the doors of the Buenos Aires-based museum since it opened a few weeks ago. "Many people think I'm obsessed, but collecting is a passion, a virus which is hard to overcome," said Rodolfo Vazquez, 53, the master of the collection. He has already entered the Guinness Book of Records for owning the biggest Beatles collection in the world -- some 8,500 pieces. Now a third of his collection is up for public viewing at the permanent exhibition, with the contents to be renewed every year "to keep the Beatles' flame alive," he said. There are photographs and autographs, miniature Beatles figurines, examples of some of their first records, including discs distributed in 1960s by the Vee-Jay Records company when the Beatles crossed the Atlantic and took the United States by storm. There are some historical pieces, such as one of the 5,000 bricks sold at auction when the Liverpool club "The Cavern" where the Beatles first performed, was demolished in 1983. And among the objects on display is a letter from Mary "Mimi" Smith, Lennon's beloved aunt, describing the young boy she raised, and one from George Harrison's sister, Louise, about a concert at London's famous Palladium. 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 Cut a Better iTunes Royalty Deal Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:48 PM PST The Beatles could be making much more money from selling their music on iTunes than other artists, it has been claimed.
The report also claims that songwriting mechanical royalties are paid directly to Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which owns the rights to most of the band's catalogue. None of the companies involved have made an official comment on the matter. However, if the sources cited in the report are correct, it could mean that the deals are far more lucrative for Apple Corps than standard artist-retailer deals. Usually when an album is released the record label -- which in this case would be EMI -- takes responsibility for licensing and collecting wholesale revenue from retailers, a percentage of which is then paid to the publisher and artists in the form of royalties. Big artists generally receive 20 to 25 percent. The sources claim that the deal between The Beatles and iTunes is more like a licensing pact, where revenue from use of a master recording is split evenly between an artist and the record label. Artists including Cheap Trick and the Allman Brothers have argued that digital download deals should be seen as a licensing pact rather than a standard arrangement and both took their record labels to court in an attempt to win what they saw as their fair share of royalties. The Cheap Trick case was settled out of court but the Allman Brothers' case is ongoing. The Beatles' music finally made it into iTunes in October 2010, after years of wrangling, which suggests that the final deal struck between both sides was anything but typical. However, we would again stress that these reports are unconfirmed. 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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