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Anthony Mason hosts online event '50 Years: The Beatles,' starts 6:30pm-8pm
I didn't see this posted anywhere, but if it has been then the mods can lock it, but there's going to be an online Beatles event before the 8pm tribute on CBS tonight.
You can also listen to the Webcast panel discussion liive at 6:30pm EST on this link below tonight, 2/9/14. It will be live from the Ed Sullivan theatre, before the actual tribute airs on CBS, on tv.
http://newyork.cbslocal.c...video-two/
http://newyork.cbslocal.c...e-beatles/
The show is a warmup for CBS' Beatles tribute; it will feature Pattie Boyd, Andrew Loog Oldham, Mike Jones, Nile Rodgers, John Oates
WHEN THE Beatles broke up in 1970, says Pattie Boyd, “We assumed that was it. It was over and we’d go on to the next thing.” Boyd, who at the time was Mrs. George Harrison, good-naturedly admits they misjudged that one. This Sunday Boyd will join a blizzard of events tied to the 50th anniversary of Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon making their American debut on the Ed Sullivan show, Feb. 9, 1964. Specifically, she will be part of “50 Years: The Beatles,” an online-only event produced by CBS and streaming live from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Hosted by CBS senior business correspondent and long-time Beatles fan Anthony Mason, “50 Years” is designed as a relaxed warmup for “Salute to the Beatles,” a musical tribute that CBS will telecast Sunday from 8 to 10:30 p.m. “This (online show) is a new idea,” says Mason. “It will be a learning experience. I just want it to be fun. I want viewers to feel like they’re sitting in on an interesting conversation among people who have something to say about the Beatles, the music and the culture.” The show will be divided into three segments, says Mason. The first will feature Boyd, former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and Mick Jones from Foreigner. Boyd, who was later married to Eric Clapton and inspired the songs “Something” and “Layla,” was a successful model and photographer even as, to her surprise, she was becoming a part of musical and cultural history. “We had no idea,” she says. “None at all. We were young, we were just living our lives.” From her inside position, she says, she finds some of what has subsequently been written about the Beatles and the era “quite insightful. . . while some is just ridiculous. But you can’t let it bother you. You have to let go.”
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I'm waiting for someone on the .ORG to say the Beatles are getting too much attention for this event, it didnt deserve a seperate special on TV. WELL to those people I say "you're insane". You can dislike them, say they werent amazing musicians, and as musicians they were just four guys, but the blend was beyond perfect, plain and simple. And as far as influence, look at anyone that is in their 40's 50's that is in the industry and I GUARANTEE that 99% of them site the Beatles, seeing the Sullivan show, or something from that moment, as what made them want to get into THIS. That to me is enough to give them something seperate, considering the fact that they were never, Award Darlings, they won more for the Anthology series and packaging then they did when they were topping charts and setting records. Put it this way, if KANYE was in the Beatles, he would be crying like a bitch, even more, but that dude has 21 grammys the Beatles have less than 10.
And lets not even dispute the influence of McCartney and Lennon, especially John after leaving, just as an acitivist, John at the time of his ACTIVISM was barely 30, what 30 year old now in music makes stands like that? and dont tell me that was the 60's a turbulent time, alot of shit is going on now, inequality of money distriubition, illegal wars we fight the last decade and a half, yet i see NO activist standing up and being UN-POPULAR. Lennon was hours from being deported because of his mouth.
SO to the people that feel its too much attention, pick a finger. In this age where Justin Beibers arrests and Kim Kardashians ass gets more attention than people dieing in wars and on the street everyday, DONT talk to me about getting "too much" attention "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Interesting how the lady on the panel said how the Beatles had an appreciation for Black music, motown and how that music was an influence and inspiration to them. I was surprised when I reaad that. I read an article that was featured this week online, about when the Beatles first came to New York, and how they snuck out the hotel because they wanted to go to Harlem and see it, because they had an interest in the music culture there, while they had screaming fans waiting near the hotel on the other side of town for them. The Beatles had a lot within various Black communities listening and buying their music in their early years.
http://newyork.cbslocal.c...video-two/
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The Beatles visited Stax Records. Paul was a fan of James Jamerson and sometimes sang like Little Richard. If you listen to their early albums, many of the covers were R&B/soul songs. Lady Madonna is done in a Fats Domino style and Ob La Di is kinda reggae. On Dig It, B.B. King is mentioned and Ringo played on one of B.B.'s albums. In the 1980s, George Harrison remade I Got My Mind Set On You, originally by soul singer James Ray. George also recorded 2 different tribute songs to Smokey Robinson, before ABC did it, and The Stairsteps were signed to his label Dark Horse. George was also seen at a Phyllis Hyman concert. John mentioned Donna Summer in an interview and there's photos of him & Yoko with Miles Davis. . When they were performing in Liverpool, they backed a black R&B singer named Davy Jones and were friends with a local doo wop group called The Chants.
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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"The number of viewers for the British band’s first 'Sullivan' show 50 years ago represented 38 percent of the U.S. population. It was higher than the first Super Bowl would attract three years later, when 51 million people watched the game on two networks. It’s about five times larger than the audience for a well-rated television show today, according to Nielsen figures."
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Now my youngest son loves their music and has a collection of almost all their songs.“I think you can’t underestimate the magnitude of influence The Beatles had,” said Richard Campbell, a Richmond juvenile and domestic relations judge who also has taught a course on the history of rock ’n’ roll at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Beatles remain one of the few ’60s groups that his students find familiar. Bruce Williams, the Taylor Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, said it’s hard to find pop culture references that are familiar to most of the 18-year-olds in his large introductory courses. “The media today is much more segmented,” Williams explained. “If I find an example from a popular TV show, say ‘The Big Bang Theory’ (with close to 20 million viewers), fewer than a third of the students are familiar with that show.” “On the other hand, there is a point in my class where I use The Beatles as an example of several different points I’m trying to make. When I ask them how many have heard ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,’ three-quarters at least are familiar with that song.
Their legacy remains relevant. An online class on “The Music of the Beatles,” which begins today, has 10,000 registrants, according to the University of Rochester, home to professor John Covach, who’s teaching the class for Coursera.
The ascent of The Beatles came at a moment when society was uniquely positioned to take notice. NBC’s Edwin Newman had introduced America to the “hottest musical group in Great Britain today” on Nov. 18, 1963, with tapes of screaming girls drowning out the band. “The CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace” aired its first broadcast about The Beatles on Nov. 22, 1963, just hours before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The civil rights movement was assailing mainstream thinking about segregation; U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was heating up; pop music was ready for something new to replace Elvis, who’d been drafted and was still in the Army Reserves; the economy was strong; and post-World War II babies had become teenagers.
“We did not have a youth culture that had the money and the time to devote to things like music, movies and leisure time until we had the baby boomers,” said Joanna Love, assistant professor of music at the University of Richmond.
“What had happened in the 1960s allowed what The Beatles did to take place.”
The idea of change and counterculture and civil rights meant that society was “released from the constraints of white middle-class mainstream ideology, allowing a space for experimentation and differences to come out,” she said. The Beatles were affected by the world around them and helped lead some of the changes.
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Michael Jackson ~ Dig It You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Anthony Mason, didn't he play for the Knicks? PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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