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Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!slchb From: slchb@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles Subject: Journal Citations Message-ID: <1992Dec30.140211.62362@cc.usu.edu> Date: 30 Dec 92 14:02:11 MDT Organization: Utah State University Lines: 459 Since I received so many request for these citations I figured I should post them here, especially for those can't receive E-mail from me (a number of addresses bounced). IN%"slchb@usu.edu" AUTHOR(S): Joel, Billy TITLE: Billy Joel's top ten Beatles songs. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 86-8 Aug 23 '90 ABSTRACT: Part of a special section on the music of the 1960s. Billy Joel discusses his ten favorite Beatles songs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: McCartney blames Yoko for Jackson's Beatles purchase. SOURCE: Jet 78:38 May 7 '90 ABSTRACT: According to Paul McCartney, hesitation on the part of Yoko Ono enabled Michael Jackson to purchase the rights to many Beatles classics. McCartney had suggested that he and Ono each put up $10 million to get back the rights that he and Lennon had signed away years earlier. Ono attempted to stall for a lower price. During the delay, Jackson bought the catalog for a reported $50 million. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Ressner, Jeffrey. TITLE: Tracking the Beatles. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 15-17 Feb 9 '89 SPECIAL FEATURES: il. ABSTRACT: Mark Lewisohn provides a comprehensive look at the Beatles' recording dates in his new book The Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes, 1962-1970. To research his book, Lewisohn listened to virtually all of the Beatles tapes filed away in Abbey Road's vaults, including nearly 400 hours of rehearsals, backing tracks, jamming, and vocal dubs. He discovered original titles of familiar songs, alternate takes of a number of tracks, and a batch of nearly completed numbers that were never released. In addition to studying the tapes, Lewisohn interviewed Paul McCartney, producer George Martin, and various engineers, technicians, and session musicians who contributed to specific songs. Their comments and anecdotes reveal a great deal about the group's creative process. The Abbey Road studio itself, where the Beatles went to escape the outside world and dabble in new sounds, occupies a central position in the book. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Young, Pamela. TITLE: Beatlemania lives. SOURCE: Maclean's 101:44-5 Oct 17 '88 ABSTRACT: Part of a cover story on John Lennon. Although the Beatles disbanded 18 years ago, their music remains a staple of pop radio and has moved strongly into the compact disc market. Beatles festivals draw large crowds of old and new fans. Unlike their music, the Beatles themselves have not been untouched by time. Paul McCartney has become a wealthy film and record producer. George Harrison is also producing films and has recently returned to the pop charts. Ringo Starr is a television pitchman and will have a role in an upcoming children's television show. John Lennon, who was murdered eight years ago, continues to make headlines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR(S): Richardson, Ken. TITLE: Beatles: Past masters, vol 1 and 2. SOURCE: High Fidelity (New York, N.Y.) 38:77-8 Jul '88 ABSTRACT: The Beatles' Past Masters, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Parlophone) feature the 27 tracks that had yet to be digitized in the CD format. The chronological collection also contains six alternate takes of previously transferred material For the most part, the sound is excellent and the playing times are respectable. ------------------------------ TITLE: I want to hold your hand. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 64 Sep 8 '88 ABSTRACT: Part of a special section ranking the 100 best singles of the last 25 years. "I Want to Hold Your Hand," by the Beatles, placed third on the list Composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "Hand" was recorded at EMI Studios on October 19, 1963, and released in the United States on December 26, 1963 The song had an earthshaking effect, igniting the phenomenon of Beatlemania It bubbled with an optimistic energy that proved to be just the cure for an American public still in shock over the assassination of John Kennedy. Little more than a month after the song's release, the British Invasion was in full swing and the Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. A few months later, the Beatles held the top five positions on the pop charts, an unprecedented feat that has never been matched. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Grogan, David. TITLE: Liverpudlian Mike McCartney, Paul's brother, publishes some first photos of the Fab Four. SOURCE: People Weekly 29:34-7 Jan 11 '88 ABSTRACT: Mike McCartney, the younger brother of former Beatle Paul McCartney, has published Mike Mac's White and Blacks: An Intimate Portrait of Liverpool in the '60s. The book is a nostalgic collection of early photographs of the Beatles. As an amateur photographer, Mike documented the group's early years. Determined to make it on his own in the music business, he adopted the name Mike McGear, but his success in that field was short-lived and he eventually took up photography again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR(S): Simels, Steve. TITLE: The Beatles on compact disc. SOURCE: Stereo Review 52:122 Jun '87 ABSTRACT: A survey of Beatles albums on compact disc provides brief reviews of Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and Beatles for Sale, all on the Parlophone/Capitol label. Although some fans will be disappointed by the fact that all four discs are in mono, the recordings sound wonderful. Tape hiss is virtually inaudible, and the overall sound is rich and deep. The bass and drums have enormous punch, the guitar sound is clear, and the vocals are superb. Please Please Me and With the Beatles were recorded on two tracks under relatively primitive conditions, but A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale exist in true-stereo mixes on LP. Capitol should give serious thought to releasing stereo CD versions of the latter two recordings. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Wild, David. TITLE: Beatles CDs generate strong sales. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 13+ Apr 9 '87 ABSTRACT: The first four Beatles compact discs sold briskly during their first days on the market. Capitol Records' initial orders were slightly more than 350,000 copies per title. The company is releasing the Beatles catalog on CD in chronological order starting with Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and Beatles for Sale. ------------------------------ TITLE: Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. REVIEWED BY: Loder, Kurt. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 51-2+ Jun 18 '87 ABSTRACT: The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band may be dated, but it encapsulates 1967's psychedelic Summer of Love. By mid-1966, the Beatles had evolved into the world's most charismatically creative group, and the four had retired from live performance to devote themselves to studio work. The increasing sophistication of the group's music, as revealed on 1965's Rubber Soul and 1966's Revolver, put ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Fricke, David. TITLE: Capitol to release Beatles CD's. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 25+ Feb 26 '87 ABSTRACT: The Beatles will finally appear on compact disc when EMI Music Worldwide releases CD versions of the group's first four albums on February 26. The albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and Beatles For Sale, will appear in their original British formats on the Parlophone CD label. EMI plans to have released the Beatles' entire U.K. catalog in chronological order by October. An attorney for the Beatles claims that EMI has delayed release of the CDs as leverage in the settlement of a legal suit that the group and Apple Corps has filed against the record company. EMI chairman Bhaskar Menon contends that the delay was caused by insufficient manufacturing capacity. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Fricke, David. TITLE: Capitol to release Beatles CD's. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 25+ Feb 26 '87 ABSTRACT: The Beatles will finally appear on compact disc when EMI Music Worldwide releases CD versions of the group's first four albums on February 26. The albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and Beatles For Sale, will appear in their original British formats on the Parlophone CD label. EMI plans to have released the Beatles' entire U.K. catalog in chronological order by October. An attorney for the Beatles claims that EMI has delayed release of the CDs as leverage in the settlement of a legal suit that the group and Apple Corps has filed against the record company. ------------------------------ Capitol to release Beatles CD's... (CONTINUED) ABSTRACT: EMI chairman Bhaskar Menon contends that the delay was caused by insufficient manufacturing capacity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR(S): Handelman, David. Walker, Michael. TITLE: Controversy surrounds Beatles CDs. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 25+ Apr 23 '87 ABSTRACT: A controversy is brewing over the decision to release the first four Beatles compact discs in mono rather than stereo. Beatles producer George Martin and Capitol/EMI claim that Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and Beatles for Sale were issued in mono because that's the way they were originally mixed. Beatles collectors, however, claim that 1963 trade advertisements prove that the first two albums were available in some form of stereo. It appears that the real reason why EMI released the four CDs ABSTRACT: in mono is simply that it ran short of time before the February 26 release date. Rupert Perry, managing director of EMI Records U.K., now says that there is a chance that stereo versions of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale will be released after the initial complete set of Beatles CDs is out. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Pond, Steve. TITLE: The digital Fab Four. (Beatles CD's). SOURCE: Rolling Stone 129+ Jul 16-30 '87 ABSTRACT: With its 1987 series of Beatles reissues on compact disc, Capitol Records has adopted a clever marketing ploy by releasing the CDs in small batches designed to lure fans to buy them all. The CDs correspond to the British rather than the American album configurations, confusing some fans who will search in vain for hits like "She Loves You" and "Day Tripper." Capitol also stirred up some unnecessary fuss by releasing the Sgt. Pepper CD on the 20th anniversary of the original album's release. Although the recording stands the test of time, it is hardly the "Greatest Album Ever," as Capitol claims. The Beatles CDs give fans a chance to hear some of the best rock ever recorded without the surface noise accrued by most people's Beatles albums throughout the years To compare the emotions accompanying the CD reissue series to the excitement surrounding the release of the original Beatles albums is a mistake, however. ------------------------------ TITLE: Glimpse the truth. (Help!; Rubber soul; Revolver; Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). SOURCE: High Fidelity (New York, N.Y.) 37:94-9+ Nov '87 SPECIAL FEATURES: il. ABSTRACT: Most observers agree that the Beatles canon should begin with the British Parlophone LPs, not the truncated American Capitol releases; now four Parlophone CDs aim to please Beatle fans who want to replace their old recordings with CDs that sound better and are historically correct. Help! has all 14 songs of the British version, without the orchestral movie music of the Capitol version. Song order and content have also been restored on Revolver; the CD improves the pacing and shows John Lennon's full contribution. The CD version of Rubber Soul has been digitally remixed to make the sound tougher and cleaner Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band shows its age more than the earlier albums; its finest songs are the most direct: "A Day in the Life" and "With a Little Help from My Friends.". ------------------------------ TITLE: Here come the CD Beatles. SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report 102:42 Feb 23 '87 ABSTRACT: The first Beatles compact discs will appear in stores on February 26, and retailers are preparing for a buying frenzy. Sales are expected to top those of Bruce Springsteen's three-CD collection, which came out last November The Beatles' first 4 English albums will appear in CD format, and the group's other 12 studio albums will follow later this year. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Jenkins, Mark D. TITLE: Lost Beatles script to emerge. (Musical based on unfinished screenplay by J Orton to be composed by T Rundgren). SOURCE: Rolling Stone 14 Mar 12 '87 ABSTRACT: A Broadway musical based on Up Against It, a long-lost Joe Orton screenplay originally intended as the basis for the Beatles' third movie, will go into production at the end of this year, with off-Broadway performances expected by early 1988. Joseph Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, has teamed with songwriter Todd Rundgren to create the musical. Orton wrote the first draft of Up Against It in 1967, but his subsequent murder and the death of Beatles manager Brian Epstein that same year destroyed hopes for a third Beatle movie. ----------------------------- + Screen 1 of 2 ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Goldberg, Michael. TITLE: Rock's most influential album? (Reaction to Sgt Pepper). SOURCE: Rolling Stone 57+ Jun 18 '87 ABSTRACT: The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has probably had more influence on pop music than any other album. Heralded by months of hype and rumors, the record was released on June 1, 1967, to unprecedented critical acclaim, drawing comparisons to Duke Ellington and T. S. Eliot. Many musicians and producers cite Sgt. Pepper as a crucial influence in their development, although others say that it was contrived and that it abandoned the Beatles' rock 'n' roll roots. At least one critic has pointed out that the album's production innovations paved the way for ABSTRACT: excesses by less talented groups. A number of musicians, composers, producers, and critics recall their initial responses to the record. ------------------------------ TITLE: The Sarge at 20. (Photographing cover of Sgt Pepper album twenty years ago). SOURCE: People Weekly 27:159-61 Jun 8 '87 ABSTRACT: On June 1, 1967, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a complex and novel album with equally unusual cover art. For the front sleeve, photographer Michael Cooper created a montage that featured the Beatles along with a huge bass drum, a flower arrangement, and cardboard cutouts and wax models of famous personalities. Photographs that were taken during the one-day cover shoot are reproduced. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Riggs, Michael. TITLE: When stereo isn't stereo. (Releasing early non-stereo Beatles albums on stereo compact discs). SOURCE: High Fidelity (New York, N.Y.) 37:5 Dec '87 ABSTRACT: In order for a recording to be called stereo, it must stage the music in some way, even if the results are not realistic. The so-called stereo versions of the early Beatles LPs are actually not in stereo. These two-channel recordings were never intended for release in stereo in the first place; the separate tracks were made only for the sake of creating a final mono mix. In spite of the spate of mono recordings that have been reissued after having been "electronically rechanneled for stereo," it is impossible to obtain true stereo from a mono recording. Fortunately, many record companies are shying away from this practice as they reissue their libraries on CD. EMI, for example, has decided to release the first two Beatles CDs in mono. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): DeCurtis, Anthony. TITLE: Illegal sale of Beatles LP's alleged. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 13-14 May 22 '86 ABSTRACT: Attorney Leonard Marks, who represents the Beatles-owned Apple Records in a $20 million lawsuit that Apple is pressing against Capitol Records and EMI Records, alleges that John LaMonte, a key figure in the current probe of Mob involvement in the record industry, bilked the Beatles out of millions of dollars in royalties. Marks maintains that in the mid-1970s, LaMonte and his confederates illegally purchased Beatles records from Capitol Records' Jacksonville, Illinois, plant and then sold the records to wholesalers and retailers. The Beatles received no royalties on these sales. Capitol claims that it scrapped 19 million Beatles records as excess inventory; Marks asserts that some of those records were illegally sold to LaMonte. In a recent related suit in England, the Beatles were awarded about $4 million. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Puterbaugh, Parke. TITLE: Meet the Beatles, again. (Plan to replace first ten US albums with original British versions). SOURCE: Rolling Stone 10 Jan 16 '86 ABSTRACT: In an effort to standardize the Beatles' catalog, Capitol Records is replacing the Beatles' first ten U.S. albums with the seven original British LPs from which they were taken. Although the decision to release the British albums was made three years ago, Capitol is waiting to sell off its inventory before making the switch, which will occur in the next six to twelve months. The British Beatles releases differ radically from their American counterparts, and in the case of some albums such as "Yesterday" . . . and Today, Beatles VI, and Something New, the U.S. LPs were pieced together from stray British tracks. The British discs have more songs and are sequenced as the Beatles intended. The catalog will eventually be released on compact disc and formatted like the British LPs, making instant collector's items out of American hybrids like Meet the Beatles! and Beatles '65. ------------------------------ AUTHOR(S): Fricke, David. TITLE: Jackson pays $47.5 million for Beatles songs. SOURCE: Rolling Stone 22 Sep 26 '85 ABSTRACT: Michael Jackson has paid $47.5 million to acquire ATV Music from the English conglomerate Associated Communications. ATV owns the rights to most of the Beatles' songs, as well as 5000 other tunes by the likes of Kenny Rogers, Little Richard, Pat Benatar, and Chrissie Hynde. Jackson's interest is not solely economic; he is a genuine fan and will exercise discretion in selling song rights, according to a spokesman. Mercury paid a reported $100,000 to use the music from "Help!" in a commercial, and Ford is negotiating for the rights to "Good Day Sunshine." Jackson also owns the Sly and the Family Stone catalog and may be considering the purchase of Jobete Music, the company with the rights to many Motown classics. ------------------------------ TITLE: Michael to Paul: beat it. (M Jackson acquires rights to Beatles' tunes). SOURCE: Newsweek 106:48 Aug 26 '85 ABSTRACT: Although Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney are good friends, Jackson recently defeated McCartney and Yoko Ono in a battle over acquisition of the music publisher ATV. The company holds the rights to many of the songs that McCartney wrote with John Lennon between 1964 and 1970. Jackson, who paid $47 million for the company, is now one of the world's fifteen largest music publishers. Annual royalties from the Beatles songs will probably be at least $3.2 million. The Beatles lost control of their rights to the music years ago, and McCartney was undoubtedly eager to regain them.