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Toru A
What is the Uber Deluxe Box?
Uber, derived from the German term über (something beyond), is a prefix like super, hyper, mega, ultra and has nothing to do with the same named delivery/transportation company.
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CaptainCorella
Mick & Keith were among the celebrities invited to the "One World" broadcast. That was the first organised TV show that was broadcast live and worldwide. The BBC decided that the best representation for the UK would be The Beatles. Mick's jacket is great.
The song was specially written, but not that many days before. I can't be bothered to check the ultra details in Lewisohn's book, but I do know for certain (see shortly) that they did a guide version of the song a few days beforehand and had some backing/guide tracks ready for the broadcast.
The orchestra players demanded extra payment for wearing funny stuff.
The programme went out live - and nail bitingly the sound link between the studio and the TV producers was lost at a vital moment, but they recovered.
The invited celebrities were encouraged to join in the chorus, so Mick & Keith may be there in the mix, but then so could any of those present.
After the broadcast The Beatles stayed in the studio and re-did the recording and it was in the shops a few days later.
I know that there was a guide version from a few days prior because the whole UK show was produced by someone called Derek Burrell-Davis (who I met) and his daughter was a long time colleague of mine! She even went to the studio rehearsals. Anyway, Derek was given an acetate of the guide version so that he could 'plan' (my term) the broadcast.
When I told my colleague about this they literally searched high and low in his house for the acetate - which would have had considerable value - but it was never found.
What they did have, and I have a recording from it, is an acetate of the actual broadcast, and that is different to the released track.
George Martin was blissfully unaware of the drugs being consumed by The Beatles. It is said that one day John was having a bad trip, and George Martin saw he wasn't too well and suggested that he (John) went up onto the Abbey Road roof to get some air. Ouch. Luckily Mal or Nell realised what had happened and rushed off to make sure that John was safe!
bv should merge this with the main Beatles thread IMHO.
Sorry to digress but I watched the Zappa on Netflixand Frank says that the BeatlesQuote
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As far as I know, The Beatles invited a crowd of friends to the orchestra recordings for Sgt. Pepper/ A Day in the Life, as well as a film crew, to get some stuff for a possible music video.
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I believe the programme was called Our World and the Beatles performed All You Need Is Love. Mick and Keith were there for sure.
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I believe the programme was called Our World and the Beatles performed All You Need Is Love. Mick and Keith were there for sure.
If that show, and that song, then:
RS had begun "We love you" and was recording parts in the beginning of June with Paul and John present. After that they began working on a song "All you need is love" that they used in that particular show. And the rest is history
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Sorry to digress but I watched the Zappa on Netflixand Frank says that the Beatles
copied him with "St Pepper". I had never heard that before.
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esqcjh
Didn't want to start a new thread so I picked this one with Mick & Keith in title...this author's new book is "The 213 Most Important Men in My Life" (Jean Pagozzi). The cover has a picture of Mick and Keith at a mixing board.
Subscription based so I copied the 'pertinent' part
Wall Street Journal dated 6.9.21
[www.wsj.com]
My god, you have to be even keeled. So many tours, so many dates, so many things to go wrong. And yet to rise above it, make work what you can, and then go be the ultimate rock star.
Interviewer (sic): You point out Mick Jagger’s discipline, which is not necessarily what the world associates with him.
Pagozzi (sic): I met Jagger, I think, in 1975, and we immediately clicked. I have traveled with him, and he has stayed with me. Every morning, he exercises for an hour and a half very, very seriously. And then in the afternoon, you hear him training his voice.
I spoke to him three days ago, and he cannot wait to go on tour [again]. You would think that at 77, with eight children, 95 grandchildren [laughs], he would say, “OK, I’m going to rest, write my memoirs” or whatever. And going on tour is incredibly complicated—the Rolling Stones have, you know, 50 trucks, 200 people, accountants, bodyguards, makeup people, cooks, sound people. So many things can go wrong, and he really is the brains of this entire thing.
But I never saw him get angry. I’ve been in situations where Keith was not there, it was raining, everything was going wrong, and I never saw him lose his temper. If my Uber is three minutes late, I go crazy. Obviously, I can’t learn how to sing like [Mick], but I can learn his discipline and how he keeps his cool. That was really the lesson I learned from him.
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The Beatles: Get Back—An Exclusive Deep Dive Into Peter Jackson’s Revelatory New Movie
Nice read in Vanity Fair re: upcoming Get Back movie
[www.vanityfair.com]
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Disney Moves Beatles Documentary From Theaters to Disney+
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Sighunt
The Beatles: Get Back—An Exclusive Deep Dive Into Peter Jackson’s Revelatory New Movie
Nice read in Vanity Fair re: upcoming Get Back movie
[www.vanityfair.com]
Thank you for the link. Unfortunately it looks like it's being moved from theatrical release to Disney+:
Disney Moves Beatles Documentary From Theaters to Disney+
[www.bloomberg.com]
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The Beatles: Get Back—An Exclusive Deep Dive Into Peter Jackson’s Revelatory New Movie
Nice read in Vanity Fair re: upcoming Get Back movie
[www.vanityfair.com]
Thank you for the link. Unfortunately it looks like it's being moved from theatrical release to Disney+:
Disney Moves Beatles Documentary From Theaters to Disney+
[www.bloomberg.com]
Wow, thanks for sharing that update bleedingman. That really sucks. I was hoping to catch this on the big screen in a movie theatre.
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Sighunt
I was hoping to catch this on the big screen in a movie theatre.
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Sighunt
I was hoping to catch this on the big screen in a movie theatre.
Maybe a Cinema-version will be shown in 2022 just before the DVD/BluRay-release (just a guess).
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CaptainCorella
There's no way I'm getting a Disney subscription just for this!
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tatters
One of the very first things I did when I got my driver's license in 1977 was drive some great distance to a movie theater that was showing Let It Be and Yellow Submarine as a midnight double feature picture show. I don't care how good your home theater is. It's nothing like seeing the Rooftop Concert in a movie theater, which after all, is about as close to a live Beatles concert experience as any of us are ever going to get. It sucks that they've cancelled the theatrical release of Get Back. I was really looking forward to recreating that memory from 44 years ago, and I don't understand why they've decided to take that Beatles concert experience away from us. Other than the re-writing of history to show how they actually parted the best of friends, I kinda thought that was the whole idea.
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One of the very first things I did when I got my driver's license in 1977 was drive some great distance to a movie theater that was showing Let It Be and Yellow Submarine as a midnight double feature picture show. I don't care how good your home theater is. It's nothing like seeing the Rooftop Concert in a movie theater, which after all, is about as close to a live Beatles concert experience as any of us are ever going to get. It sucks that they've cancelled the theatrical release of Get Back. I was really looking forward to recreating that memory from 44 years ago, and I don't understand why they've decided to take that Beatles concert experience away from us. Other than the re-writing of history to show how they actually parted the best of friends, I kinda thought that was the whole idea.