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zinniabooklover said:
The price per album is standard for vinyl so I suppose for a collector it's OK. I love listening to stuff in mono so if I was interested in this package I'd be happy with that. You do get a lovely red & blue box for the 'box' set. :ROFLMAO:

I guess it depends on how good those essays are. I doubt they have any new info so it'll just be that guy's opinion. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Yeah it’s mid. I like stereo better anyway, and I would rather a rubber soul box set. What does everyone think about the newest stereo mixes from 2015-2023?
 
Sawyer Grubb said:
Yeah it’s mid. I like stereo better anyway, and I would rather a rubber soul box set. What does everyone think about the newest stereo mixes from 2015-2023?
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I like them a lot more than some Beatles fans. The older mixes are not that great nowadays in my opinion when looking at them outside of a vacuum. Of course amazing work was done at the time, the stereo mixes on a lot of stuff were an afterthought though, so I think especially the earlier stuff getting these remixes is a good thing.

I don't really go back to the original mixes if I like the newer ones, and I haven't had any complaints so far.
 
Ringo Starr ~ Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (arranged by Quincy Jones)
 
@BeatlesEarth

"The Beatles' 'Now and Then' has officially been nominated for both Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards.

John Lennon's 1977 demo tape was worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in 1995, and was finally completed in 2023."

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Enjoyed the new doc. Was the typical talking heads type thing but I am not overly familiar with Beatles footage and details so I found it interesting.
 
@BeatlesEarth

"Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to “Here, There and Everywhere” (1966)"

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www.udiscovermusic.com

‘Peace & Love For Christmas’: Lennon, Harrison, Clapton, Moon, And More

A charity concert featuring John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Keith Moon and many others took place in London on December 15, 1969.
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"The UNICEF event featured John and George’s first scheduled performance since The Beatles’ last concert in 1966, and Lennon’s last UK live appearance.

A historic concert that, surprisingly, sometimes goes under the radar in the history of some British rock royalty took place at London’s Lyceum Theatre on December 15, 1969.

It was a charity event for UNICEF, the United Nations’ international fund, called Peace and Love for Christmas. The concert marked the live debut of the extended Plastic Ono Band, on this occasion featuring the incredible line-up of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Delaney & Bonnie, Billy Preston, and various other Beatles and Clapton alumni, with a brief appearance by Keith Moon. It came in the week of release of the Plastic Ono Band’s Live Peace In Toronto.

Lennon’s last live UK appearance​

The concert turned out to be Lennon’s last live appearance in his home country. It’s also the answer to what could be a memorable trivia question, about the night Lennon and Harrison were on a bill that also featured Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, the Young Rascals, and UK hitmakers Blue Mink. Tickets cost £1 each, and others joining the stellar cast included Klaus Voorman, Bobby Keys, Jim Price, and Alan White, all regular collaborators to this extended family. BBC Radio1 DJ Emperor Rosko MCd the evening.

This was Lennon and Harrison’s first scheduled live performance since The Beatles’ famous final concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on August 29, 1966. It took place during a period when Harrison and Clapton were touring as part of Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, as they were billed. The Lyceum stage was adorned with a giant “War is over” message banner, previewing the sentiment of John and Yoko’s subsequent Christmas single."
 
@thebeatles

"#OTD in 1969, after lengthy deliberation about where the location should be ('The pyramids? The QE2?'), The Beatles played their now-legendary—and subsequently, final—live gig on the rooftop of Apple HQ in London. "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we've passed the audition." - John"

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Does anyone have a link to some sort of Beatles archive? I’m looking for unreleased Beatles tracks that have been leaked, bootlegged, etc.
 
Cast members announced at CinemaCon 2025 plus all 4 films to be released in the same month, April 2028.

"The Beatles changed my understanding of music,” the film director Sam Mendes told an audience at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas on Monday. “I’ve been trying to make a movie about them for years.”

And it seems the long and winding road will reach its destination in April 2028, as the James Bond and American Beauty director confirmed four biopics of the Fab Four – one for each member.


Mendes has enlisted Hollywood favourites to star as what he described as “the most significant band of all time”: Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney; Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon; Barry Keoghan will play Ringo Starr; and Joseph Quinn will play George Harrison.

The Oscar-winner said the story was “too big for one film”, and did not work as a TV series, adding: “We’re not just making one film about the Beatles – we’re making four.

“Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply.”

According to Mendes, Tom Rothman, the boss of Sony, which is producing the movies, called them “the first binge-able theatrical experience”.

It marks the first time Apple, the Beatles’ record company, and the two living band members, McCartney and Starr, have granted the rights to their stories for the big screen ..."

www.theguardian.com

The Beatles: actors playing the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ biopics announced

All four Beatles biopics, focusing on each member of the band, will be released in cinemas in April 2028
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zinniabooklover said:
Cast members announced at CinemaCon 2025 plus all 4 films to be released in the same month, April 2028.

"The Beatles changed my understanding of music,” the film director Sam Mendes told an audience at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas on Monday. “I’ve been trying to make a movie about them for years.”

And it seems the long and winding road will reach its destination in April 2028, as the James Bond and American Beauty director confirmed four biopics of the Fab Four – one for each member.


Mendes has enlisted Hollywood favourites to star as what he described as “the most significant band of all time”: Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney; Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon; Barry Keoghan will play Ringo Starr; and Joseph Quinn will play George Harrison.

The Oscar-winner said the story was “too big for one film”, and did not work as a TV series, adding: “We’re not just making one film about the Beatles – we’re making four.

“Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply.”

According to Mendes, Tom Rothman, the boss of Sony, which is producing the movies, called them “the first binge-able theatrical experience”.

It marks the first time Apple, the Beatles’ record company, and the two living band members, McCartney and Starr, have granted the rights to their stories for the big screen ..."

www.theguardian.com

The Beatles: actors playing the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ biopics announced

All four Beatles biopics, focusing on each member of the band, will be released in cinemas in April 2028
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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A little weird to have them played by well established actors who look and sound nothing like them but idk
 
Obviously very late but came across this and thought it was pretty interesting that they made this video, considering the confusion going around about it at the time.

 
If you are interested in the history of Now and Then I recommend this video


If anyone is interested in the changes from John's original unfinished demo and the final version this video is pretty good.

 
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‘We would never do that’: Ringo Starr says he asked for changes in Beatles movie script

The drummer says he met with director Sam Mendes to clarify the depiction of himself and his then wife Maureen
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"Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr said that he personally intervened in the script of the forthcoming four-film Beatles biopic directed by Sam Mendes to clarify the depiction of himself and his then wife Maureen.

In an interview with the New York Times, Starr said that he had met Mendes in London in April and spent two days discussing the script for the section of the project focusing on him.

Having gone through the script in detail, Starr said that Mendes “had a writer [involved] – very good writer, great reputation, and he wrote it great, but it had nothing to do with Maureen and I,” Starr said. “That’s not how we were. I’d say, ‘We would never do that.’”

Starr met Maureen Cox in 1962 when the Beatles were performing at the Cavern club in Liverpool and they were married in 1965; they divorced in 1975 and she subsequently married Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe. She died in 1994 from leukaemia. Her and Starr’s son Zak Starkey also became a drummer, with Starr recently defending him after he was fired by the Who.

According to New York Times writer Lindsay Zoladz, Starr is now “much more satisfied with how he’s depicted in the script” and that he sends director Mendes “peace and love”.

Starr will be played in the films by Irish actor Barry Keoghan, star of The Banshees of Inisherin and Saltburn, whose casting was
accidentally revealed by Starr in November in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. Keoghan’s role in the project was officially announced in April, alongside castmates Joseph Quinn (George Harrison), Harris Dickinson (John Lennon) and Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney).

Keoghan recently talked about meeting Starr to prepare for the role, saying he was too nervous to look at him. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Keoghan said he was “in awe” and “just froze”. “When I was talking to him, I couldn’t look at him. I was nervous … he was like, ‘You can look at me’.”

He added: “My job is to observe and take in kind of mannerisms and study, but I want to humanise him and bring feelings to him, not just sort of imitate him.”

Mendes is acting as producer on all four films along with regular collaborators Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor. In May reports emerged that he had hired award-winning writers Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne to work on the films.

Mendes’ Beatles films are scheduled to be released in 2028."
 
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