Cheap Trick to Headline in Vegas

The rock band Cheap Trick is close to finalizing a headliner deal with the Las Vegas Hilton that would feature the group performing The Beatles’ epic album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” live with a full orchestra.
Word has it their performances could begin as soon as March and stretch throughout 2009.
Cheap Trick’s original members would be involved in the exclusive agreement with the Hilton.
more HERE

White Anniversary

When The White Album was released 40 years ago this month, fans were both baffled and awe struck by its sprawling world of sound. It was released as a double LP (almost unheard of at the time) and featured instant classics as well as songs many found hard to digest…
NPR podcast HERE
CD available HERE

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Vatican Forgives John Lennon

L’Osservatore Romano, the semi-official Vatican newspaper marked the 40th anniversary of The Beatles’ “White Album” with an article forgiving the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus and praising Lennon and the Fab Four from Liverpool.
Lennon told a British newspaper in 1966 – at the height of Beatlemania – that he did not know which would die out first, Christianity or rock and roll.
At the time, the comparison sparked controversy in the U.S. as radio stations banned their music and concerts were cancelled.
BBC report HERE

…the Vatican is notorious for waiting for decades before acknowledging the truth…Lennon was a hero…

Paul & Axl Music on My Space

Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Guns N’ Roses released their biggest hits on vinyl records and compact discs, but today, their new albums will debut online on MySpace.
Users of MySpace, the world’s largest social network on the Internet, will be able to listen for free to “Electric Arguments,” the new album by McCartney’s side-project group The Fireman, and “Chinese Democracy,” the long-delayed album by hard rock band Guns N’ Roses, before the songs are in stores and at online shops like Amazon.com.
Reuters report HERE
the Fireman MySpace HERE
Guns n’ Roses MySpace HERE

McCartney hopes to release funky Beatles track

Paul McCartney says it’s time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day.
McCartney says he wants to release “Carnival of Light,” a 14-minute experimental track the Fab Four recorded in 1967 but never released.
The band played the recording for an audience just once, at an electronic music festival in London. It reportedly includes distorted guitar, organ sounds, gargling and shouts of “Barcelona!” and “Are you all right?” from McCartney and John Lennon.
more HERE