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2008-01-20 04:15:09 Description: Bus Union Organizer Mansour Osanloo must be freed. He has been repeteadly tortured, jailed, kidnapped.
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Tehran, 3 March (AKI) - (More) Bus Union Organizer Mansour Osanloo must be freed. He has been repeteadly tortured, jailed, kidnapped.
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Tehran, 3 March (AKI) - The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has declared 6 March the International Day of Solidarity with union leaders currently jailed in Iran.
The campaign calls in particular for the release of Mansour Osanloo, the leader and founder of the Tehran bus workers' union and Mahmoud Salehi, the leader of the bakers union in Iranian Kurdistan.
Osanloo was arrested in July last year and sentenced to five years in prison, while Salehi has been in jail since 1 May 2007.
Both union leaders have been accused of "attacks against the security of the state and "propaganda against the regime."
Salehi was arrested as he was about to give a speech at a Labour Day event, while Osanloo was arrested soon after he returned to Iran form a trip to Europe where he was participating in an ITF congress.
"Article 26 of the Iranian constitution recognises the right of all citizens of the Islamic Republic to participate in party politics, union organisations and other types of associations," said Ebrahim Madadi, the deputy leader at the Public Transport Workers Union of Tehran in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI).
"It's on the basis of this article of the constitution, that three years ago, Osanloo, myself and others decided to revive our union to defend the rights of the workers of Tehran's public transport system," said Madadi, who himself was released from prison on bail and has to make a court appearance soon.
"Besides Osanloo, who has already been in jail for months and was unjustly condemned to five years in prison, I and another 17 leaders of the Public Transport Workers Union of Tehran are waiting for trial and we could receive a prison term of 24 to 48 months," Madadi told AKI.
Madadi and many other public transport union workers have been suspended by Tehran's city council, which runs the public transport system.
According to Madadi, they have also been "deprived of other rights such as unemployment benefits and public health services".
"Other colleagues who are still working and are members of the union, have been told to continue working by the security services of the company, interrogated and threatened," Madadi told AKI.
"Those who refuse to resign from the union, have not been paid overtime and have not had their years of service recognised," he said.
"The situation is very serious and the government does not have even the slightest intention to recognise our rights, rights that are recognised under international conventions," said Madadi.
Madadi believes that the global mobilisation of international union workers is "very important."
"I believe that international pressure will pavy the way to the recognition of our rights by the Iranian government," said Madadi.
"The mobilisation on 6 March, which I hope will involve union workers from all countries, especially those in Europe, is perhaps the only weapon that we have at our disposal, together with the solidarity of our people, to liberate the jailed union workers, whose only crime was defending their rights and those of their co-workers," he said. (Less)
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9, 09:43, 2008-01-20 04:02:24 Description: Mansour Osanloo talks about his torture by Iran regime agents, when they cut his tongue and neck to intill fear in others and his supporters. Mr. Osanlou has international support from all over the (More) Mansour Osanloo talks about his torture by Iran regime agents, when they cut his tongue and neck to intill fear in others and his supporters. Mr. Osanlou has international support from all over the world.
Bus Union Organizer Mansour Osanloo must be freed. He has been repeteadly tortured, jailed, kidnapped.
(http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.1934648971)
Tehran, 3 March (AKI) - The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has declared 6 March the International Day of Solidarity with union leaders currently jailed in Iran.
The campaign calls in particular for the release of Mansour Osanloo, the leader and founder of the Tehran bus workers' union and Mahmoud Salehi, the leader of the bakers union in Iranian Kurdistan.
Osanloo was arrested in July last year and sentenced to five years in prison, while Salehi has been in jail since 1 May 2007.
Both union leaders have been accused of "attacks against the security of the state and "propaganda against the regime."
Salehi was arrested as he was about to give a speech at a Labour Day event, while Osanloo was arrested soon after he returned to Iran form a trip to Europe where he was participating in an ITF congress.
"Article 26 of the Iranian constitution recognises the right of all citizens of the Islamic Republic to participate in party politics, union organisations and other types of associations," said Ebrahim Madadi, the deputy leader at the Public Transport Workers Union of Tehran in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI).
"It's on the basis of this article of the constitution, that three years ago, Osanloo, myself and others decided to revive our union to defend the rights of the workers of Tehran's public transport system," said Madadi, who himself was released from prison on bail and has to make a court appearance soon.
"Besides Osanloo, who has already been in jail for months and was unjustly condemned to five years in prison, I and another 17 leaders of the Public Transport Workers Union of Tehran are waiting for trial and we could receive a prison term of 24 to 48 months," Madadi told AKI.
Madadi and many other public transport union workers have been suspended by Tehran's city council, which runs the public transport system.
According to Madadi, they have also been "deprived of other rights such as unemployment benefits and public health services".
"Other colleagues who are still working and are members of the union, have been told to continue working by the security services of the company, interrogated and threatened," Madadi told AKI.
"Those who refuse to resign from the union, have not been paid overtime and have not had their years of service recognised," he said.
"The situation is very serious and the government does not have even the slightest intention to recognise our rights, rights that are recognised under international conventions," said Madadi.
Madadi believes that the global mobilisation of international union workers is "very important."
"I believe that international pressure will pavy the way to the recognition of our rights by the Iranian government," said Madadi.
"The mobilisation on 6 March, which I hope will involve union workers from all countries, especially those in Europe, is perhaps the only weapon that we have at our disposal, together with the solidarity of our people, to liberate the jailed union workers, whose only crime was defending their rights and those of their co-workers," he said. (Less)
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464, 06:29, 2008-04-17 13:01:55 Description: You love this music Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon Beatles Soundtrack (partials) 0:00 - 0:13 Twist & Shout 0:14 - 0:29 I Feel Fine 0:29 - 0:41 We Can Work It Out (More) You love this music Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon Beatles Soundtrack (partials) 0:00 - 0:13 Twist & Shout 0:14 - 0:29 I Feel Fine 0:29 - 0:41 We Can Work It Out 0:41 - 0:54 I Wanna Hold Your Hand 0:54 - 1:10 Love Me Do 1:10 - 1:21 She Loves You 1:21 - 1:39 Yes It Is 1:40 - 1:55 I Will 1:56 - 2:20 All My Loving 2:20 - 2:44 Birthday 2:45 - 3:10 Lucy in the Sky 3:10 - 3:26 Sgt. Pepper 3:26 - 3:42 I Am the Walrus 3:42 - 3:57 Magical Mystery Tour 3:57 - 4:13 Yes it Is (again) 4:13 - 4:24 She Loves You (again) 4:24 - 4:44 Ticket to Ride 4:44 - 5:05 Paperback Writer 5:05 - 5:30 Hey Jude 5:30 - 5:52 Get Back 5:53 - 6:02 I need help here, no idea what this one is 6:02 - 6:29 Ob La Di Ob La Da [ above is courtesy of HappyDaze01. Thx HaDz01"!] Origin Liverpool, England Rock/Pop - Years active 1960--1970 Parlophone, Capitol, Apple, Vee-Jay, Polydor, Swan, Tollie Related to Tony Sheridan, The Quarrymen, The Plastic Ono Band, The Dirty Mac, Wings, Traveling Wilburys, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Ringo Starr All-Starr Band, Billy Preston Members - Ever to Date John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr Former members Stuart Sutcliffe Pete Best The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of popular music. The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States of America, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, which certified them as the highest selling band of all time based on American sales of singles and albums. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one. This commercial success was repeated in many other countries: their record company, EMI, estimated that by 1985 they had sold over one billion discs and tapes worldwide. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked The Beatles #1 on their list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. According to that same magazine, their innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s,[2] and their influence on pop culture can still be felt today. The Beatles led the mid-1960s musical "British Invasion" into the United States. Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and homegrown skiffle, the group explored genres ranging from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelic rock. Their clothes, styles, and statements made them trend-setters, while their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. 1957--1960: Formation The Quarrymen In March 1957, John Lennon formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen whilst attending Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool.[6] Lennon and the Quarrymen met guitarist Paul McCartney at the Woolton Garden Fête held at St. Peter's Church on 6 July 1957.[7] On 6 February 1958, the young guitarist George Harrison was invited to watch the group (who played under a variety of names) at Wilson Hall, Garston, Liverpool.[8] McCartney had become acquainted with Harrison on the morning school bus ride to the Liverpool Institute, as they both lived in Speke. At McCartney's insistence, Harrison joined the Quarrymen as lead guitarist[9] after a rehearsal in March 1958, overcoming Lennon's initial reluctance because of Harrison's young age.[10] Members continually joined and left the lineup during that period, and in January 1960 Lennon's art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined on bass.[11] Lennon and McCartney both played rhythm guitar and the group had a high turnover of drummers. The Quarrymen went through a progression of names — "Johnny and the Moondogs", "Long John and the Beatles", "the Silver Beetles" (derived from Larry Parnes' suggestion of "Long John and the Silver Beetles") — before settling on "The Beatles". There are many theories as to the origin of the name and its unusual spelling. It is usually credited to Lennon, who said that the name was a combination word-play on the insects "beetles" (as a reference to Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets) and the word "beat". Cynthia Lennon suggests that Lennon came up with the name Beatles at a "brainstorming session over a beer-soaked table in the Renshaw Hall bar."[12] Lennon, who was well known for giving multiple versions of the same story joked in a 1961 Mersey Beat magazine article that "It came in a vision — a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day on you are Beatles with an A'".[13] During an interview in 2001, Paul McCartney took credit for the peculiar spelling of the name, saying that "John had the idea of calling us the Beetles, I said, 'how about the Beatles; you know, like the beat of the drum?' At the time, everyone was stoned enough to find it hilarious. It's funny how history is made." [14] In May 1960 The Beatles toured northeast Scotland as a back-up band with singer Johnny Gentle.[15] They met Gentle an hour before their first gig, and McCartney referred to the tour as a great experience for the band.[16] For the tour the often drummerless group secured the services of Tommy Moore, who was considerably older than the others.[17] Soon after the tour, however, feeling the age gap was too great Moore left the band and went back to work in a bottling factory as a fork-lift truck driver.[18] Norman Chapman was the band's next drummer, but was called up for National Service in a few weeks. His departure posed a significant problem as the group's unofficial manager, Allan Williams, had arranged for them to perform in clubs on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany.[19] 1960--1970: The Beatles Hamburg On 15 August 1960, McCartney invited Pete Best to become the group's permanent drummer. He had watched Best play with the Blackjacks[20] in the Casbah Club, owned by Pete's mother, Mona Best. This was a cellar club in West Derby, Liverpool, where The Beatles had played and often visited.[21] In the documentary The Compleat Beatles, Williams said that Best "played not too cleverly, but passable." The Beatles started playing in Hamburg at the Indra and Kaiserkeller bars. They were required to play six or seven hours a night, seven nights a week. Shortly after they began performing at a new venue, the "Top Ten Club",[22] Harrison was deported for having lied to the German authorities about his age.[23] A week later, having started a small fire at their living quarters while vacating it for more luxurious rooms, McCartney and Best were arrested, charged with arson, and deported.[24] Lennon followed the others to Liverpool in mid-December. The reunited Beatles played their first engagement on 17 December 1960 at the Casbah Club and returned to Hamburg in April 1961. Whilst playing at the Top Ten Club they were recruited by singer Tony Sheridan to act as his backing band on a series of recordings for the German Polydor Records label,[25] produced by famed bandleader Bert Kaempfert.[19] Kaempfert signed the group to its own Polydor contract at the first session on 22 June 1961. On 31 October Polydor released the recording "My Bonnie (Mein Herz ist bei dir nur)", which appeared on the German charts under the name "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers", a generic name used for whoever happened to be in Sheridan's backup band.[26] In addition to the legend that this record led to the group's eventual meeting with Brian Epstein, it also resulted in their first mention in the American press. Around the beginning of 1962, Cashbox mentioned "My Bonnie" as the debut of a "new rock and roll team, Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers". A few copies were also pressed under the Decca label for U.S. disc jockeys, as American Decca had a distribution deal with Polydor parent Deutsche Grammophon.[27] (This was ironic, considering that by this time the then-unaffiliated British Decca had turned down the group's attempt to gain a recording contract.) When the group returned to Liverpool, Sutcliffe stayed on in Hamburg with his new German fiancee Astrid Kirchherr, [28] and McCartney took over bass duties.[29] Their third stay in Hamburg was from 13 April to 31 May 1962, when they opened The Star Club.[19] Upon their arrival they were informed of Sutcliffe's death from a brain haemorrhage.[30] Epstein took over as the group's manager in January 1962 and led The Beatles' quest for a British recording contract. Epstein had been manager of the record department at North End Music Store (NEMS), an offshoot of his family's furniture store. He played on the status of NEMS as a major record dealer to gain access to producers and recording company executives. In a now-famous exchange, Decca Records A&R executive Dick Rowe turned Epstein down flat, informing him that "Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein."[31] While Epstein was negotiating with Decca, he also approached EMI marketing executive Ron White.[32] White (who was not himself a record producer) in turn contacted EMI producers Norrie Paramor, Walter Ridley, and Norman Newell, all of whom declined to record The Beatles.[33] White did not approach EMI's fourth staff producer — George Martin — who was on holiday at the time.[34] Record contract After failing to impress Decca Records, Epstein went to the HMV store on Oxford Street in London to transfer the Decca tapes to discs. There, recording engineer Jim Foy referred him to Sid Coleman, who ran EMI's publishing arm. When Coleman heard the demo tapes he suggested taking the tapes to George Martin, who, Coleman explained, "does comedy records" and headed the Parlophone label at EMI. Epstein eventually met with Martin, who signed the group to EMI on a one-year renewable contract and scheduled their first recording session on 6 June at EMI's Abbey Road studios in north London.[35] Martin had not been particularly impressed by the band's demo recordings,[36] but he instantly liked them as people when he met them. He concluded that they had raw musical talent, but said (in later interviews) that what made the difference for him was their wit and humour.[37] Martin did have a problem with Pete Best, [36] whom he criticised for not being able to keep time. He privately suggested to Epstein that the band use another drummer in the studio. Best was good-looking and popular with the group's fans, but the three founding members had become increasingly unhappy with his drumming and his personality.[citation needed] There was speculation by some that Best's popularity[38] with fans was another source of friction. In addition, Epstein had become exasperated with his refusal to adopt the distinctive hairstyle as part of their unified look. Best also had missed a number of engagements because of illness. The three founding members enlisted Epstein to dismiss Best - which he did on 16 August 1962.[39] They asked Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey), the drummer for one of the top Merseybeat groups, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, to join the band, as Starr had performed occasionally with The Beatles in Hamburg.[40] The first recordings of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr together were made as early as 15 October 1960, in a series of demonstration records privately recorded in Hamburg while acting as the backing group for singer Lu Walters.[41] Starr played on The Beatles' second EMI recording session on 4 September 1962, but Martin hired session drummer Andy White for their next session on 11 September.[42] Their recording contract paid them one penny for each single sold, which was split amongst the four Beatles — one farthing per group member.[43] This royalty rate was further reduced for singles sold outside the UK, on which they received half of one penny (again split between the whole band) per single. Martin said later that it was a "pretty awful" contract.[43] Their publishing contract with Dick James Music (DJM) was also standard for the time: songwriters received the statutory minimum of 50% of the gross monies received, with the publisher retaining the other 50%.[citation needed] The Beatles' first EMI session on 6 June did not yield any releasable recordings but the September sessions produced a minor UK hit, "Love Me Do", which peaked on the charts at number 17.[44] ("Love Me Do" reached the top of the U.S. singles chart over 18 months later in May 1964.) On 26 November they recorded their second single "Please Please Me", which reached no. 2 in the official UK charts and no. 1 in the NME chart. Three months later they recorded their first album (also titled Please Please Me). The band's first televised performance was on the People and Places programme transmitted live from Manchester by Granada Television on 17 October 1962.[45] As The Beatles' fame spread, the frenzied adulation of the group, predominantly from teenage female fans, was dubbed 'Beatlemania'. In November 1963 The Beatles appeared on the Royal Variety Performance and were photographed with Marlene Dietrich, who also appeared on the show.[citation needed] America Although the band experienced huge popularity in the UK record charts from early 1963, EMI's American operation, Capitol Records, declined to issue the singles "Please Please Me" and "From Me to You (their first official no. 1 hit in the UK)".[46] Vee-Jay Records, a small Chicago label, issued the singles as part of a deal for the rights to another performer's masters. Art Roberts, music director of Chicago powerhouse radio station WLS, placed "Please Please Me" into radio rotation in late February 1963 making it the first time a Beatles record was heard on American radio. Vee-Jay's rights to The Beatles were later cancelled for non-payment of royalties.[47] In August 1963, Philadelphia-based Swan Records released "She Loves You", which also failed to receive airplay. A testing of the song on Dick Clark's TV show American Bandstand produced laughter from American teenagers when they saw the group's distinctive hairstyles. New York disc jockey Murray the K featured "She Loves You" on his '1010 WINS record revue' show in January.[48] In early November 1963, Brian Epstein persuaded Ed Sullivan to present The Beatles on three editions of his show in February, and parlayed this guaranteed exposure into a record deal with Capitol Records. Capitol committed to a mid-January release for "I Want to Hold Your Hand",[49] On 7 December 1963 a clip of The Beatles was shown on the CBS Evening News (the story originally had been scheduled to air on 22 November and was aired on the CBS Morning News but was pre-empted by the assassination of John F. Kennedy). The clip inspired a teenage girl in Washington, D.C. to request a Beatles song on a local radio station. The station secured an imported copy of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" — forcing Capitol Records to release the song ahead of schedule on 26 December. Several New York radio stations — first WMCA, then WINS (AM) and WABC — began playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" on its release day. The Beatlemania that had started in Washington was duplicated in New York and quickly spread to other markets. The record sold one million copies in just ten days, and by 16 January, Cashbox magazine had certified the record number one (in the edition marked 23 January). On 3 January 1964 a film of The Beatles performing "She Loves You" was aired on the late-night Jack Paar Show. Beatlemania crosses the Atlantic On 7 February 1964, a crowd of four thousand fans at Heathrow Airport waved to The Beatles as they took off for their first trip to America as a group.[51] They were accompanied by photographers, journalists (including Maureen Cleave) and Phil Spector, who had booked himself on the same flight.[52] The pilot had radioed ahead, and as they prepared to land said, "Tell the boys there's a big crowd waiting for them." Kennedy International Airport had never experienced such a crowd, estimated at about 3,000 screaming fans.[53] After a press conference (where they first met Murray the K) they were put into limousines and driven to New York. On the way McCartney turned on a radio and listened to a running commentary: "They [The Beatles] have just left the airport and are coming to New York City..."[54] After reaching the Plaza Hotel, they were besieged by fans and reporters. Harrison had a temperature of 102 the next day and was ordered to stay in bed, so Neil Aspinall replaced him for the first television rehearsal.[55] Their first live American television appearance was on the The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964. The next morning practically every newspaper wrote that The Beatles were nothing more than a "fad", and "could not carry a tune across the Atlantic".[56] Their first American concert appearance was at Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C. on 11 February.[57] After The Beatles' huge success in 1964, Vee-Jay Records and Swan Records took advantage of their previously secured rights to The Beatles' early recordings and reissued the songs, all of which reached the top ten the second time around. (MGM and Atco also secured rights to The Beatles' early Tony Sheridan-era recordings and had minor hits with "My Bonnie" and "Ain't She Sweet", the latter featuring John Lennon on lead vocal.) In addition to Introducing... The Beatles, which was essentially The Beatles' debut British album with some minor alterations, Vee-Jay also issued an unusual LP called The Beatles Vs The Four Seasons. This 2-LP set paired Introducing... The Beatles and The Golden Hits Of The Four Seasons, another successful act that Vee-Jay had under contract, in a 'contest' (the back cover featured a 'score card'). Another unusual release was the Hear The Beatles Tell All album, which consisted of two lengthy interviews with Los Angeles radio disc jockeys (side one was titled "Dave Hull interviews John Lennon," while side two was titled "Jim Steck interviews John, Paul, George, Ringo"). No Beatles music was included on this interview album, which turned out to be the only Vee Jay Beatles album Capitol Records could not reclaim. The Vee-Jay/Swan-issued recordings eventually ended up with Capitol, who issued most of the Vee-Jay material on the American-only Capitol release The Early Beatles, with three songs left off this final US version of the album. ("I Saw Her Standing There" was issued as the American B-side of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and also appeared on the Capitol Records album Meet The Beatles. "Misery" and "There's a Place" were issued as a Capitol "Starline" reissue single in 1964, and reappeared on the 1980 Rarities compilation album.) The early Vee-Jay and Swan Beatles records command a high price on the record collectors' market, and all have been copiously bootlegged.[58] The Swan tracks ("She Loves You" and "I'll Get You") were issued on the Capitol LP The Beatles' Second Album. (Swan also issued the German-language version of "She Loves You," called "Sie Liebt Dich." This song later appeared (in stereo) on Capitol's US version of the Rarities compilation album.) In mid-1964 the band undertook their first appearances outside of Europe and North America. They toured Australia and New Zealand without Ringo Starr, who was ill and temporarily replaced by session drummer Jimmy Nicol. In Adelaide they were greeted by over 300,000 people who turned out at Adelaide Town Hall.[59] In June 1965, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed the four Beatles Members of the Order of the British Empire, MBE. The band members were nominated by Prime Minister Harold Wilson (who also was the M.P. for Huyton, Liverpool).[60] The appointment — at that time primarily bestowed upon military veterans and civic leaders — sparked some conservative MBE recipients to return their insignia in protest.[61] The first two were returned on 14 June, before The Beatles received theirs on 26 October 1965.[62] On 15 August that year, The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York to a crowd of 55,600.[63] Their sixth album, Rubber Soul, was released in early December 1965. It was hailed as a major leap forward in the maturity and complexity of the band's music.[64] Backlash and controversy In July 1966, when The Beatles toured the Philippines, they unintentionally snubbed the nation's first lady, Imelda Marcos, who had expected the group to attend a breakfast reception at the Presidential Palace.[65] When presented with the invitation, Brian Epstein politely declined on behalf of the group, as it had never been the group's policy to accept such "official" invitations.[66] The group soon found that the Marcos regime was unaccustomed to accepting "no" for an answer. After the 'snub' was broadcast on Philippine television and radio, all of The Beatles' police protection disappeared. The group and their entourage had to make their way to Manila airport on their own. At the airport, roadie Mal Evans was beaten and kicked, and the band members were pushed and jostled about by a hostile crowd.[67] Once the group boarded the plane, Epstein and Evans were ordered off, and Evans said, "Tell my wife that I love her."[68] Epstein was forced to give back all the money that the band had earned while they were there before being allowed back on the plane.[69] Almost as soon as they returned from the Philippines, an earlier comment by Lennon made in March that year launched a backlash against The Beatles from religious and social conservatives in the United States. In an interview with British reporter Maureen Cleave,[70] Lennon had offered his opinion that Christianity was dying and that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now."[71] Afterwards, a radio station in Birmingham, Alabama, ran a story on burning Beatles records, in what was considered to be a joke. However, many people affiliated with rural churches in the American South started taking the suggestion seriously. Towns across the United States and South Africa started to burn Beatles records in protest. Attempting to make light of the incident, McCartney said, "They've got to buy them before they can burn them." Under tremendous pressure from the American media, Lennon apologised for his remarks at a press conference in Chicago on August 11, the eve of the first performance of what turned out to be their final tour.[72] The group's two-year series of Capitol compilations also took a strange twist in the United States when one of their publicity shots, used for a Yesterday and Today album and a poster promoting the UK release of "Paperback Writer", created an uproar, as it featured the band draped in meat and plastic dolls. Thousands of these copies had to be withdrawn. Years later, the cover shot was linked with the group's interest in German expressionism.[72] Elvis Presley disapproved of The Beatles's anti-war activism and open use of drugs, later asking President Nixon to ban all four members of the group from entering the United States. Peter Guralnick writes, "The Beatles, Elvis said, [...] had been a focal point for anti-Americanism. They had come to this country, made their money, then gone back to England where they fomented anti-American feeling."[73] Guralnick adds, "Presley indicated that he is of the opinion that The Beatles laid the groundwork for many of the problems we are having with young people by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music while entertaining in this country during the early and middle 1960s."[74] Despite Elvis' remarks, Lennon still had some positive feeling towards him: "Before Elvis, there was nothing."[75] The studio years The Beatles at their last concert, Candlestick Park.In April 1966, the group began recording what would be their most ambitious album to date, Revolver. During the recording sessions for the album, tape looping and early sampling were introduced in a complex mix of ballad, R&B, soul and world music. The Beatles performed their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on 29 August 1966.[72] McCartney asked Tony Barrow to tape the event, but the 30-minute tape he used ran out halfway through the last song. The concert lasted a little under 35 minutes.[76] From then on, The Beatles concentrated on recording. Less than seven months after recording Revolver, The Beatles returned to Abbey Road Studios on 24 November 1966 to begin the 129-day recording sessions for their eighth album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released on 1 June 1967. On 25 June 1967, The Beatles became the first band globally transmitted on television—before an estimated 400 million people worldwide. The band appeared in a segment within the first-ever worldwide TV satellite hook-up, a show titled Our World. The Beatles were transmitted live from Abbey Road Studios, and their new song "All You Need Is Love" was recorded live during the show. The band's business affairs began to unravel after manager Brian Epstein died of an accidental prescription drug overdose on 27 August 1967 at the age of 32. At the end of 1967, they received their first major negative press in the UK with disparaging reviews of their surrealistic TV film Magical Mystery Tour.[77] Part of the criticism arose because colour was an integral part of the film, but in 1967 few viewers in the UK had colour televisions. The film's soundtrack, which features one of The Beatles' few instrumental tracks ("Flying"), was released in the United Kingdom as a double EP, and in the United States as a full LP (the LP is now the official version). The group spent the early part of 1968 in Rishikesh, Uttar Pradesh, India, studying transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.[78] Upon their return, Lennon and McCartney went to New York to announce the formation of Apple Corps. The middle of 1968 saw the band busy recording the double album The Beatles, popularly known as The White Album because of its plain white cover. These sessions saw deep divisions opening within the band, with Starr temporarily walking out. The band carried on, with McCartney recording the drums on the songs "Martha My Dear", "Wild Honey Pie", "Dear Prudence" and "Back in the USSR". Among the other causes of dissension were that Lennon's new girlfriend, Yoko Ono, was at his side through almost all of the sessions, and that the others felt that McCartney was becoming too dominating.[79] Internal divisions within the band had been a small but growing problem during their early years; most notably, this was reflected in the difficulty that George Harrison experienced in getting his own songs onto Beatles albums. On the business side, McCartney wanted Lee Eastman, the father of his then-girlfriend Linda Eastman, to manage The Beatles, but the other members wanted New York manager Allen Klein. All past Beatles' decisions had been unanimous, but this time the four could not agree. Lennon, Harrison and Starr felt the Eastmans would put McCartney's interests before those of the group. In 1971 it was discovered that Klein, who had been appointed manager, had stolen £5 million from The Beatles' holdings. Years later, during the Anthology interviews, McCartney said of this time, "Looking back, I can understand why they would feel that he [Lee Eastman] was biased against them." Their final live performance was on the rooftop of the Apple building in Savile Row, London, on 30 January 1969, the next-to-last day of the difficult Get Back sessions. Most of the performance was filmed and later included in the film Let It Be. While the band was playing, the local police were called because of complaints about the noise. Although the group was simply asked to end their performance, the band members later remarked in the Anthology video that they were disappointed they were not arrested — pointing out that the police hauling the band members off in handcuffs would have been "an appropriate ending" for the film. The Beatles recorded their final album, Abbey Road, in the summer of 1969. The completion of the song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" for the album on 20 August was the last time all four Beatles were together in the same studio. Their final new song was Harrison's "I Me Mine", recorded 3 January 1970 and released on the Let It Be album. It was recorded without Lennon, who was in Denmark when the song was recorded.[80] Breakup John Lennon announced his departure to the rest of the group on 20 September 1969 but agreed that no announcement was to be publicly made until a number of legal matters were resolved. In March 1970 the Get Back session tapes were given to American producer Phil Spector, who had produced Lennon's solo single "Instant Karma!". Spector's "Wall of Sound" production values went against the original intent of the record, which had been to record a stripped-down live performance. McCartney was deeply dissatisfied with Spector's treatment of "The Long and Winding Road", and unsuccessfully attempted to halt release of Spector's version of the song. McCartney publicly announced the break-up on 10 April 1970, a week before releasing his first solo album, McCartney. Pre-release copies included a press release with a self-written interview explaining the end of The Beatles and his hopes for the future.[81] On 8 May 1970, the Spector-produced version of Get Back was released as Let It Be, followed by the documentary film of the same name. The Beatles' partnership was finally dissolved in 1975.[82] 1970--present: After The Beatles Ringo Starr, 1968 Shortly before and after the official dissolution of the group, all four Beatles released solo albums, including Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, McCartney's McCartney, Starr's Sentimental Journey, and Harrison's All Things Must Pass. Some of their albums featured contributions by other former Beatles; Starr's Ringo (1973) was the only one to include compositions and performances by all four, albeit on separate songs. Other than an unreleased jam session in 1974 (later bootlegged as A Toot and a Snore in '74), Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again. In the wake of the expiration in 1975 of The Beatles' contract with EMI-Capitol, the American Capitol label, rushing to cash in on its vast Beatles holdings and freed from the group's creative control, released five LPs: Rock 'n' Roll Music (a compilation of their more uptempo numbers), The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (containing portions of two unreleased shows at the Hollywood Bowl), Love Songs (a compilation of their slower numbers), Rarities (a compilation of tracks that either had never been released in the U.S. or had gone out of print), and Reel Music (a compilation of songs from their films). There was also a non-Capitol-EMI release of a show from the group's early days at the Star Club in Hamburg captured on a poor-quality tape. Of all these post-breakup LPs, only the Hollywood Bowl LP had the approval of the group members. Upon the American release of the original British CDs in 1986, these post-breakup Capitol American compilation LPs were deleted from the Capitol catalogue. John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman on 8 December 1980 in New York City. Shortly afterward, in 1981, the three surviving Beatles reunited to record "All Those Years Ago", released as a George Harrison solo single. Its original lyrics had been rewritten as a tribute to Lennon. The BBC has a large collection of Beatles recordings, mostly comprising original studio sessions from 1963 to 1968. Much of this material formed the basis for a 1988 radio documentary series The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes. In 1989, many outtakes from The Beatles sessions appeared on the radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes. Later, in 1994, the best of the BBC sessions were given an official EMI release on Live at the BBC. In 1988 The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a group (not as individual performers) during their first year of eligibility.[83] On the night of their induction, Harrison and Starr appeared to accept their award along with Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and his two sons. McCartney stayed away, issuing a press release citing "unresolved difficulties" with Harrison, Starr, and Lennon's estate. Solo Beatles later inducted were Lennon in 1994, McCartney in 1999 and Harrison in 2004. Collage of the various covers of the Anthology seriesIn February 1994, the three surviving Beatles reunited to produce and record additional music for a few of Lennon's home recordings. "Free as a Bird" premiered as part of The Beatles Anthology series of television documentaries and was released as a single in December 1995, with "Real Love" following in March 1996. These songs were also included in the three Anthology collections of CDs released in 1995 and 1996, each of which consisted of two CDs of never-before-released Beatles material. Klaus Voormann, who had known The Beatles since their Hamburg days and had previously illustrated the Revolver album cover, directed the Anthology cover concept. 450,000 copies of Anthology 1 were sold on its first day of release. In 2000, a compilation album named 1 was released, containing almost every number-one single released by the band from 1962 to 1970. The collection sold 3.6 million copies in its first week (selling 3 copies a second) and more than 12 million in three weeks worldwide. The collection also reached number one in the United States and 33 other countries and had sold 25 million copies by 2005 (about the ninth best selling album of all time). George Harrison during this time showed his socio-political consciousness and earned respect for his contribution for arranging the Concert For Bangladesh in New York in August 1971 along with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Harrison died of lung cancer on 29 November 2001. More recently, in 2006, George Martin and his son Giles Martin remixed original Beatles recordings to create a soundtrack to accompany Cirque du Soleil's theatrical production Love. Musical evolution The Beatles' constant demands to create new sounds on every new recording, combined with George Martin's arranging abilities and the studio expertise of EMI staff engineers such as Norman Smith, Ken Townshend and Geoff Emerick, all played significant parts in the innovative sounds of the albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). The Beatles continued to absorb influences long after their initial success, often finding new musical and lyrical avenues by listening to their contemporaries. Among those influences were Bob Dylan, who influenced songs such as "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)".[84] Other contemporary influences included the Byrds and the Beach Boys, whose album Pet Sounds was a favourite of McCartney's.[85] Along with studio tricks such as sound effects, unconventional microphone placements, tape loops, double tracking and vari-speed recording, The Beatles began to augment their recordings with instruments that were unconventional for rock music at the time. These included string and brass ensembles as well as Indian instruments such as the sitar as in Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and the swarmandel as in Strawberry Fields Forever. They also used early electronic instruments such as the Mellotron, with which McCartney supplied the flute voices on the intro to "Strawberry Fields Forever", and the ondioline, an electronic keyboard that created the unusual oboe-like sound on "Baby You're a Rich Man". Beginning with the use of a string quartet (arranged by George Martin with input from McCartney) on "Yesterday" in 1965, The Beatles pioneered a modern form of art song, exemplified by the double-quartet string arrangement on "Eleanor Rigby" (1966), "Here, There and Everywhere" (1966) and "She's Leaving Home" (1967). A televised performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 directly inspired McCartney's use of a piccolo trumpet on the arrangement of "Penny Lane". The Beatles moved towards psychedelia with "Rain" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" from 1966, and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" from 1967. Influence on popular culture Lifestyle The Beatles' lifestyles were greatly altered by their success and the income they earned. The availability of the first oral contraceptive and illegal drugs changed many people's opinions — including The Beatles' — about life, marriage, and sexual relationships.[86] Recreational drug use In Hamburg, The Beatles used "prellies" (Preludin) both recreationally and to maintain their energy through all-night performances.[87] McCartney would usually take one, but Lennon would often take four or five.[87] Bob Dylan introduced them to cannabis during a 1964 visit to New York.[88] McCartney remembered them all getting "very high" and giggling.[89] The Beatles occasionally smoked a spliff in the car on the way to the studio during the filming of Help!, which often made them forget their lines.[90] In April 1965, Lennon and Harrison were introduced to LSD by an acquaintance, dentist John Riley.[91] Lennon in particular became an avid "tripper", claiming in a 1970 interview in Rolling Stone to have taken LSD hundreds of times. McCartney was more reluctant to try the drug, but finally did so in 1966 and was the first Beatle to talk about it in the press. The Beatles added their names to an advertisement in The Times, on 24 July 1967, which asked for the legalisation of cannabis, the release of all prisoners imprisoned because of possession, and research into marijuana's medical uses. The advertisement was sponsored by a group called Soma, and was signed by 65 people, including Brian Epstein, Graham Greene, R.D. Laing, 15 doctors, and two MPs.[92] On a sailing trip to Greece, in 1967, the whole band sat around on the boat and took acid.[93] Meditation On 24 August 1967, The Beatles met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the London Hilton, and a few days later went to Bangor, in North Wales, to attend a weekend 'initiation' conference.[94] There, the Maharishi gave each of them a mantra.[95] Their time in early 1968 at the Maharishi's ashram in India was highly productive from a musical standpoint, as practically all of the songs that would later be recorded for The White Album and Abbey Road were composed there by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison.[78] Discography Further information: List of Beatles songs by singer, The Beatles record sales, worldwide charts, The Beatles bootlegs, and List of Beatles hit singles Official CD catalogue In 1987, EMI released all 12 of The Beatles' studio albums — as originally released in the UK — on CD worldwide. (North American releases were on EMI's American subsidiary Capitol Records). It was a considered decision by Apple Corps to standardise The Beatles catalogue throughout the world. Because there were tracks that had been released in the UK on singles and EPs that had not been released on the original UK albums, in order for all their recordings to be available on CD it was necessary to create three further CDs that would contain the missing tracks. One CD was of a 1967 US compilation album that featured the 6-track 1967 UK EP Magical Mystery Tour and the various singles released in that year. The other two CDs were new compilations that gathered together all the other singles, EP tracks and recordings from 1962--1970 that had not been issued on the original British studio albums. Magical Mystery Tour - 8 August 1987[96] Past Masters, Volume One - 7 March 1988 Past Masters, Volume Two - 7 March 1988 According to EMI and the Guinness Book of Records, The Beatles have sold in excess of one billion units (1,010,000,000, including cassettes, records, CDs and bootlegs). Beginning in 2004, the US album configurations were released as a series of box sets from Capitol Records (The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 & Volume 2); these included both stereo and mono versions based on the mixes that were prepared for vinyl at the time of their original 1960s releases. Song catalogue In 1963 Lennon and McCartney agreed to assign their song publishing rights to Northern Songs, a company created by music publisher Dick James. The company was administered by James' own company Dick James Music. Northern Songs went public in 1965, with Lennon and McCartney each holding 15% of the company's shares whilst Dick James and the company's chairman, Charles Silver, held a controlling 37.5%. In 1969, following a failed attempt by Lennon and McCartney to buy the company, James and Silver sold Northern Songs to British TV company Associated TeleVision (ATV), from which Lennon and McCartney received stock. In 1985, after a short period in which the parent company was owned by Australian business magnate Robert Holmes à Court, ATV Music was sold to Michael Jackson for a reported $47 million (trumping a joint bid by McCartney and Yoko Ono), including the publishing rights to over 200 songs composed by Lennon and McCartney. A decade later Jackson and Sony merged its music publishing businesses. Since 1995, Jackson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have jointly owned most of the Lennon-McCartney songs recorded by The Beatles. Sony later reported that Jackson had used his share of their co-owned Beatles' catalogue as collateral for a loan from the music company. Meanwhile, Lennon's estate and McCartney still receive their respective songwriter shares of the royalties. (Despite his ownership of most of the Lennon-McCartney publishing, Jackson has only recorded one Lennon-McCartney composition himself, "Come Together" which was featured in his film Moonwalker.) Although the Jackson-Sony catalogue includes most of The Beatles' greatest hits, four of their earliest songs had been published by one of EMI's publishing companies prior to Lennon and McCartney signing with Dick James — and McCartney later succeeded in personally acquiring the publishing rights to "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "P.S. I Love You" and "Ask Me Why" from EMI. Harrison and Starr did not renew their songwriting contracts with Northern Songs in 1968, signing with Apple Publishing instead. Harrison later created Harrisongs, his own company which still owns the rights to his post-1967 songs such as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Something". Starr also created his own company, called Startling Music. It holds the rights to his two post-1967 songs recorded by The Beatles, "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden". The future of The Beatles catalogue The Beatles are but a few of the major artists (aside from Led Zeppelin and Garth Brooks) who have not to date allowed their entire recorded catalogue to be available through major online music services (iTunes, Napster, etc.). This may be due to the massive royalty fees demanded by the group. As a result, The Beatles' music (both officially and unofficially released) has been made available through illegal music search engines such as eMule and BearShare, and have apparently raised the ire of the entire music industry. However, sure signs that official online distributions may be coming is the fact that the video for Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You (the remix from their album Love) is currently being distributed (as of June, 2007) via Napster, and many Internet radio networks (such as Pandora Internet Radio and Live365.com) are allowing Beatles songs to be broadcasted over the world wide web. There has been talk of negotiations to make such an official online distribution schedule possible. Officials at Apple Corps have hinted at this, as they have confirmed that the entire Beatles catalog has been digitally remastered for online distribution. On film Main article: The Beatles on film The Beatles appeared in several films, all of which featured associated soundtrack albums. The band played themselves in two films directed by Richard Lester, A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965). The group produced and starred in the hour-long television movie Magical Mystery Tour (1967), while the documentary Let It Be (released 1970) followed the recording sessions for the Get Back project in early 1969. In addition, the psychedelic animated film Yellow Submarine (1968) followed the adventures of a cartoon version of the band; the members did not provide their own voices, appearing only in a brief live-action epilogue. Other projects Anthology Main article: The Beatles Anthology Love Main article: Love (Cirque du Soleil) Instrumentation Rickenbacker, Gretsch, Epiphone, Gibson, Fender, and C.F. Martin & Company guitars Höfner, Fender and Rickenbacker basses Vox, Fender, and Selmer amplifiers Premier and Ludwig drums Zildjian cymbals Steinway, and Blüthner pianos Hammond, Vox and Lowrey electric organs Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and Hohner Pianet electric pianos Moog Modular synthesiser Mellotron Polyphonic Keyboard Neumann, AKG, and STC microphones Bill Stoll Stollco video tampa fl (Less)
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330, 03:27, 2008-04-17 15:10:10 Description: SPOILER: *Wordt Sly Steen gehuwd bij de Vierkante Tuin van Madison. * De Volledige Lijst: * 1. De Dood van John Lennon * 2. De Michael Jackson schandaalonderbrekingen. * 3. De Tragedie in Altamont * (More) SPOILER: *Wordt Sly Steen gehuwd bij de Vierkante Tuin van Madison. * De Volledige Lijst: * 1. De Dood van John Lennon * 2. De Michael Jackson schandaalonderbrekingen. * 3. De Tragedie in Altamont * 4. De Dood van Kurt Cobain * 5. De Dood van Marvin Gaye * 6. Wie tragedie overleggen * 7. Milli Vanilli blootgesteld lip-syncing. * 8. Woodstock '99 * 9. Sinead scheuren de paus * 10. De "weerslag Groter dan van Jesus" van Beatles * 11. Boek van het "Geslacht" van Madonna * 12, Alice Cooper en het kippenincident * 13, Jerry Lee Lewis en zijn kindbruid. * 14, Elvis schokkendingen omhoog op TV * 15, Sterren van de Rots versus Ouders bij een Hoorzitting van de Senaat * 16, Sid Wrede vondsten Nancy dode Spungeon. * 17, Leidden Zepplin en het geheim van de modder-haai * 18, Ozzy Osbourne bijten het hoofd van een duif. * 19, Michael Jackson branden zijn haar * 20 Tommy en het geslachtsband van Pamela Lee's * 21, De Dood van Elvis Presley * 22, De Jongens van het Strand maken vrienden met Charles Manson * Prins 23, verandert zijn naam * Priester 24, Judas gaat naar hof over subliminale berichten * 25, Rick James busted voor abductie * 26, De Rolling Stones busted voor bezit * 27, De Dood van Selena * 28, George Michael busted voor onfatsoenlijke blootstelling. * 29, James Brown gaan gevangen zetten * 30, De Dood van Tupac * 31, Jim Morrison stellen zich bloot * 32, Sprongen van het "Verlaten Oog Lisa" brandt onderaan haar boyfriend's huis * Groen Al 33, wordt reverend * 34, John Lennon en Yoko Ono worden naakt op hun albumdekking * 35, Ijs T's "Cop Moordenaar" doet de politie geweld aan. * 36, Nikki Sixx hebben een dichtbijgelegen-doodservaring * 37, David Bowie beschuldigden van fascisme. * 38, Michael Jackson kopen de catalogus van Beatle * 39, Eminem die voor haattoespraak wordt dichtgeslagen * 40, Van Halen's de Reis van 1979 * 41, Professor Griff van de Openbare Vijand maakt antisemitische commentaren * 42. De "rots" begint de wijzer rond een rel in Duitsland. * 43, Gaan-ging geslachtsband * 44, Keith Moon doden toevallig zijn chauffeur * Liefde 45, Courtney verliest bijna bewaring van haar dochter. * 46, Gary schitteren busted voor kiddie porn. * 47, Michael Jackson huwen Lisa Marie Presley * 48, Snoop Dogg die voor moord wordt gearresteerd * 49, Brian Wilson hebben een zenuwachtige analyse * 50 Loodje Marley overleeft het ontspruiten * 51, Alan Freed busted voor payola. * 52, Iggy Pop besnoeiingen zelf tijdens zijn show. * De Bes van 53, Klem busted voor badkamerspornografie * 54, N'SYNC vervolgen hun manager. * 55, Curtis Mayfield zijn verlamd. * De Olievlek van Gunst 56, verschijnt gedronken bij een overleg. * Wordt Sly Steen 57, gehuwd bij de Vierkante Tuin van Madison. * 58, Groupie Pamela Des Barres vertellen allen. * 59, Keith Richards zijn busted voor heldin * Wordt Levende zo Smerige Bemanning 60,.2 "aangezien zij Wanna" zijn verboden. * 61, Gloria Estefan overleven een busneerstorting. * 62, Zwarte Crowes toont pubic haar op hun albumdekking. * 63, Studio 54 is gesloten wegens belastingontwijking. * 64, Bill Wyman huwen een 19-jaar-oud meisje. * 65, De Dood van Michael Hutchence. * De Ridder Suge van 66, Rapporteur exec hangt het Ijs van de Vanille uit een venster. * 67, L7 werpen een tampon in het publiek. * 68, Bobbie Darin komen te weten dat zijn zuster eigenlijk zijn moeder is * 69, Ronnie Van Zant's het graf is gestoord. * 70, De Rode Hete Peper van de Spaanse peper presteert slechts in hun sokken * 71, De Dood van Freddy Mercury * De Papa van 72, Rookwolk die voor een wapenbezit wordt gearresteerd. * 73, John Fogerty worden vervolgd voor het plagiarizing van * 74, David Geffen vervolgen Neil Young * 75, Web-gietvormen van Carnie Wilson haar gewicht-verlies verrichting * 76, Ploffen van de Band van de Club van het Eenzame Hart van de Peper van de Sergeant als movie. * 77, Cynthia Plastercaster maken vormen van beroemdheidspenissen * 78, Gen Simmons brandt zijn haar * 79, Rick Wakeman op Ijs * 80. Axel Rose vallen een ventilator aan. * 81, Wie ontploft smoort hun trommel die op Wordt geplaatst Broers toont. * 82, Jongen George komt schoon over heldinverslaving * 83, Marilyn Manson worden een priester in de Kerk van Satan * 84, John Lennon worden achtervolgd door de overheid van de V.S. * 85, Whitney Houston worden geschopt van Oscars. * De voor-mens van Jongen is 86, Geto ontsproten in het oog. * 87, Video "als van een Gebed" van Madonna * 88, Kat Stevens steunt een fatwa tegen Salman Rushdie. * 89, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen verliest zijn wapen. * Mc 90, de Hamer verklaart faillissement. * 91, Einden van Steve Wonder omhoog in een coma. * 92, Een dakloze mens eist drummer Peter Criss te zijn van de Kus. * 93, De Dood van Karen Carpenter. * 94, Een ventilator wordt geslagen door verlichting bij een Tibetan Overleg van de Vrijheid. * 95, Parsons' van het Gram het lichaam wordt gestolen en door vrienden verast * 96, Bjork vallen een verslaggever aan. * 97, Eisen van Screamin ' Jay Hawkins fathered hij 75 kinderen. * 98, David Crosby worden geopenbaard om te hebben fathered Melissa de jonge geitjes van Ethridge. * 99, Elvis ontmoeten Nixon * 100, Wendy O. Williams arresteerden voor gesimuleerde geslachtshandelingSPOILER: The Complete List: * 1. The Death of John Lennon * 2. The Michael Jackson scandal breaks. * 3. The Tragedy at Altamont * 4. The Death of Kurt Cobain * 5. The Death of Marvin Gaye * 6. The Who concert tragedy * 7. Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing exposed. * 8. Woodstock '99 * 9. Sinead rips the pope * 10. The Beatles' "Bigger Than Jesus" backlash * 11. Madonna's "Sex" book * 12. Alice Cooper and the chicken incident * 13. Jerry Lee Lewis and his child bride. * 14. Elvis shakes things up on TV * 15. Rock Stars vs. Parents at a Senate Hearing * 16. Sid Vicious finds Nancy Spungeon dead. * 17. Led Zepplin and the mystery of the mud-shark * 18. Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a dove. * 19. Michael Jackson burns his hair * 20. Tommy and Pamela Lee's sex tape * 21. The Death of Elvis Presley * 22. The Beach Boys make friends with Charles Manson * 23. Prince changes his name * 24. Judas Priest goes to court over subliminal messages * 25. Rick James busted for abduction * 26. The Rolling Stones busted for possession * 27. The Death of Selena * 28. George Michael busted for indecent exposure. * 29. James Brown goes to jail * 30. The Death of Tupac * 31. Jim Morrison exposes himself * 32. Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes burns down her boyfriend's house * 33. Al Green becomes a reverend * 34. John Lennon and Yoko Ono get naked on their album cover * 35. Ice T's "Cop Killer" outrages the police. * 36. Nikki Sixx has a near-death experience * 37. David Bowie accused of fascism. * 38. Michael Jackson buys the Beatle's catalog * 39. Eminem slammed for hate speech * 40. Van Halen's 1979 Tour * 41. Public Enemy's Professor Griff makes anti-semitic comments * 42. "Rock Around the Clock" starts a riot in Germany. * 43. The Go-Go's sex tape * 44. Keith Moon accidentally kills his chauffeur * 45. Courtney Love nearly loses custody of her daughter. * 46. Gary Glitter busted for kiddie porn. * 47. Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley * 48. Snoop Dogg arrested for murder * 49. Brian Wilson has a nervous breakdown * 50. Bob Marley survives a shooting * 51. Alan Freed busted for payola. * 52. Iggy Pop cuts himself during his show. * 53. Chuck Berry busted for bathroom pornography * 54. N'SYNC sues their manager. * 55. Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed. * 56. Grace Slick shows up drunk at a concert. * 57. Sly Stone gets married at Madison Square Garden. * 58. Groupie Pamela Des Barres tells all. * 59. Keith Richards is busted for heroine * 60. 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" is banned. * 61. Gloria Estefan survives a bus crash. * 62. The Black Crowes show pubic hair on their album cover. * 63. Studio 54 is closed due to tax evasion. * 64. Bill Wyman marries a 19-year-old girl. * 65. The Death of Michael Hutchence. * 66. Rap exec Suge Knight hangs Vanilla Ice out of a window. * 67. L7 throws a tampon into the audience. * 68. Bobbie Darin finds out that his sister is actually his mother * 69. Ronnie Van Zant's grave is disturbed. * 70. The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform only in their socks * 71. The Death of Freddy Mercury * 72. Puff Daddy arrested for a weapon possession. * 73. John Fogerty is sued for plagiarizing himself * 74. David Geffen sues Neil Young * 75. Carnie Wilson web-casts her weight-loss operation * 76. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band flops as a movie. * 77. Cynthia Plastercaster makes molds of celebrity penises * 78. Gene Simmons burns his hair * 79. Rick Wakeman on Ice * 80. Axel Rose attacks a fan. * 81. The Who blows up their drum set on The Smothers Brothers Show. * 82. Boy George comes clean about heroine addiction * 83. Marilyn Manson becomes a priest in the Church of Satan * 84. John Lennon is pursued by the U.S. government * 85. Whitney Houston is kicked off the Oscars. * 86. Geto Boy front-man is shot in the eye. * 87. Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video * 88. Cat Stevens supports a fatwa against Salman Rushdie. * 89. Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm. * 90. MC Hammer declares bankruptcy. * 91. Steve Wonder ends up in a coma. * 92. A homeless man claims to be Kiss drummer Peter Criss. * 93. The Death of Karen Carpenter. * 94. A fan is struck by lightening at a Tibetan Freedom Concert. * 95. Gram Parsons' body is stolen and cremated by friends * 96. Bjork attacks a reporter. * 97. Screamin' Jay Hawkins claims he fathered 75 children. * 98. David Crosby is revealed to have fathered Melissa Ethridge's kids. * 99. Elvis meets Nixon * 100. Wendy O. Williams arrested for simulated sex act (Less)
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yo
that's actually refreshing
drinks i'm a glug'm down
until they're all gone
the saints go marching to the drum beat
sicker than michael
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yo
that's actually refreshing
drinks i'm a glug'm down
until they're all gone
the saints go marching to the drum beat
sicker than michael
moore than you can handle
throwing dog shit from the sidecart of a motorcycle
onto pretty lawns
slit the throat of pedophiles dig'n on the kiddie porn
understand this
i'm get'n pissed so
back the fuck up before i reach for my pistol
piss'n in your face with the titty milk lemonade
raw like the president's head wrapped in celophane
i'm only joking
people get'n sensitive
here - have a hanky
fuck the mother fuck'n president
he do'n way worse shit
i'm on some wayward shit
disobedient
obgyn
and you can discover the love for all the women
that the doctors have
while i'm stick'n my hands
all the way up an ox's ass
what do i find?
i'm pull'n out the president's head
i gotta keep it fresh
put it in the freezer
call wally beaver
check it
got venom
peel'n out in the ice cream truck
got the wheels spin'n
you wanna gimme a tip you gotta put a tip
in the tip can
tip in the chip jar
i tip my hat while i'm fly'n by
go'n on and pop'n them wheelies
got the side cart on the fuck'n mack truck
got two side carts
just like the twins
the atlantic twins
the city of atlantis
i'm swim'n down with no oxygen tanks
i'm go'n up like gus grissom
blow'n up like gus
motha fuck'n bust the bubble
when i'm blow'n bubbles all the way to here
to frig'n big trouble in little china
while i'm walk'n with fuck'n magical powers
got electricity volts come'n outta my finger tips
bring you up in the air
you look'n kinda like cinematic
weird fuck'n cinematic shit
what's going on here?
how is this possible?
got the psychic fuck'n brain power
at full power blast
you can't even understand the freestyle
while i'm move'n fast
whatever pain today will claim our brains will change the course of games for ages
linear time is between stages
a cage is nothing but tied laces
shoes are needed for feet breathing from never being able to breath
my government's recovering the thuggery, skullduggery, and learning how to rule from mayan priests
the world is ending, the mind is bending, and evil these days is black sheep
sheep sleep in the deep end freezing, reason's taken the place of faith, jesus coulda freed us if only we believed in us, a magic bus will drive on while this train grows rust.
what the fuck
you think you knowing us?
you outta luck, we got 3 million showing up
you silly schmucks you think the judge is really holding us above the money?
blow it up.
i cant complain we dont know what we're saying
bout to drop a lotta wordy verses like michael frayen
i stay insane throw some fuel in the flame throw some fire in the fray put some shit in the way
the stage is set to wear bulletproof vests and be torching up fortune 500's at best.
i rest when they all got holes in they chest, or a soul in their breast, to fight for LOVE is the test.
i hit the crest, fill the festival vestibule with classical carbines, ready to jet
recruit the vets
and then two-step descendents of khrushchev
refuse levees to boost heavy industry to build chevys thats never gonna help us when salmon only show bellies
for really, o reilly and fox and c-span might be dumbing us down more than they be... fighting for light...
bullshit!
they be telling us lies,
turn on the tv right now who the fuck died?
thats whack close your eyes
you dont need to hear it from them
open your window and look up at the "zen"
of the fungus shwaying from towers radiating, smokestacks intoxicating, cleaning the slate
they say they marching for life while they screaming out hate
that's great, but before we're all in the grave?
lets do some real shit: unsaving the saved.
david man i tried to send you this song but it takes about an hour to attach anything. if you have a great idea for a video or something that could be done. i just wanted to throw this out there for listening pleasure. (Less)
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12, 01:33, 2008-04-21 20:28:30 Description: 4-20-2008
LOS ANGELES -- Pau Gasol's post-game smile made it clear how he felt about finally winning a postseason game.
His numbers revealed just how much he had to do with the victory.
(More) 4-20-2008
LOS ANGELES -- Pau Gasol's post-game smile made it clear how he felt about finally winning a postseason game.
His numbers revealed just how much he had to do with the victory.
Gasol established career playoff highs with 36 points and eight assists, and he also had 16 rebounds and three blocked shots Sunday as the Los Angeles Lakers took command in the third quarter and beat the Denver Nuggets 128-114.
"It feels amazing, it feels great. I had a blast out there," the 7-foot Spaniard said after shooting 14-of-20 from the floor and 8-of-8 from the foul line. "We did a pretty good job, we can do better. We're happy with the win, I'm happy with the win. Hopefully there will be many more.
"Every guy on our team is doing an amazing job out there, and I'm just one of them."
Gasol, a 27-year-old forward/center acquired from Memphis on Feb. 1 after spending 6 1/2 seasons with the Grizzlies, was 0-12 in three previous postseasons.
"I knew he could perform at a high level," Lakers star Kobe Bryant said. "This just ain't Memphis. I think this offense has freed him up a little bit and showcased more what he can do instead of just being in the post all the time."
"It's tough to match up against us for a variety of reasons. We have guys that can finish, we have a great 1-2 punch, and all of our guys can pass all ball."
Bryant, who said he made himself a decoy through most of the game, scored 18 of his 32 points in the final eight minutes to keep Los Angeles safely ahead. Lamar Odom had 17 points, 14 rebounds and six assists, and Luke Walton added 16 points for the Lakers, who entered having won eight of their past nine regular-season games to earn the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.
But it was Gasol who did the most damage.
"They do an excellent job of finding him around the basket," Denver's Kenyon Martin said.
"Pau is so versatile, he just opens the game up," Odom said. "He was past good, he was amazing."
Denver coach George Karl said he didn't believe it was just Gasol.
"I think the film will show it was the Los Angeles Lakers who tore us up," Karl said. "Gasol played great, don't get me wrong. He had a lot of great decisions for him to get a lot of easy baskets."
Karl said he was glad Game 2 isn't until Wednesday night at Staples Center, giving the Nuggets a chance to adjust. The third and fourth games in the best-of-7 series will be played in Denver.
"I don't think anyone in our locker room is deflated," Karl said. "We know that we can play better than we did, and defense is probably the first thing we'll address."
Carmelo Anthony had 30 points and 12 rebounds for the eighth-seeded Nuggets. Allen Iverson also had 30 points before picking up two technical fouls with 2:10 remaining, calling for immediate ejection. Linas Kleiza scored a career playoff high 23 points and J.R. Smith added 15 before fouling out with 3:14 left.
The Nuggets should have it known wasn't going to be their day when several players were stranded on the Santa Monica Freeway for about a half-hour when the team bus broke down on the way to the game.
The bus left the team's hotel about 2 1/2 hours before tipoff as scheduled, but experienced problems about 15 minutes into the trip, spokesman Eric Sebastian said.
"There was a pop, black smoke, there was another pop, more black smoke," Sebastian said. "We rushed off the bus. We were standing on the side of the road."
The Nuggets' second bus, which left the team hotel about 30 minutes after the first one, stopped to pick up their teammates. The entire team made the rest of the trip to the arena, arriving about 90 minutes before game-time.
The Lakers led 97-78 entering the fourth quarter, but an 11-2 run by Denver made it 101-91 with 8:17 remaining. The Nuggets drew within nine twice down the stretch, but Bryant wouldn't allow them to get any closer.
"They struck first," said Denver's Marcus Camby, who had only four points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots. "I was surprised how well they passed the ball. They are a very unselfish team. It was also a surprise how well they cut to the basket. Once they got the lead, it was hard to catch up with them."
The Lakers outscored the Nuggets 39-22 in the third quarter after leading 58-56 at halftime.
"We just broke down (in the third quarter)," Iverson said. "We're underdogs, and people don't think we have a chance at all. But we're not going to give up."
The Nuggets shot just 23-for-37 from the foul line. Iverson was the main culprit, going 7-for-13.
"I could never put two together," he said. "That's unacceptable."
Regarding his ejection, Iverson said: "(Ken Mauer) made the right decision about throwing me out. I was frustrated, but I deserved to get thrown out." (Less)
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14, 03:25, 2008-01-12 06:28:39 Description: The debut of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan begins with a sociopathic rooftop sniper (Andrew Robinson of 'Cobra' and 'Hellraiser') killing a young woman in a pool, and then trying (More) The debut of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan begins with a sociopathic rooftop sniper (Andrew Robinson of 'Cobra' and 'Hellraiser') killing a young woman in a pool, and then trying to extort $100,000 from the City. Harry is asked by his boss, Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) and the Mayor (John Vernon) to put a stop to this low-life. While Harry & his new partner, Chico (Reni Santori of 'Cobra') investigate, another murder occurs, followed by a kidnapping/rape of a young girl, and a subsequent attempt at extortion by the killer, who calls himself 'Scorpio'. Harry volunteers to deliver the ransom but is nearly killed by Scorpio, who is wounded & driven off by Chico and Harry. Harry follows the suspect's trail to Kezar Stadium, where he discovers the murder weapon and the suspect! The man is arrested and Harry gets the girl's location out of him. Unbeknownst to Harry, the girl is dead already, and the next morning Harry visits the D.A. to find out that the man is being freed - because of a bleeding-heart legal system and judiciary that says Harry's search was 'illegal', although there was no time - and no judge - to get a warrant from. On his release, Scorpio is up to his old tricks - this time he kidnaps a bus-load of children and demands a ransom. The Mayor foolishly goes along with Scorpio's game and orders Harry not to stop the killer. Disgusted with the weak-kneed attitude of the Mayor & his colleagues in the legal system, Harry intercepts the bus and takes on Scorpio himself to put an end to the kidnapping and the psychopath's reign of terror...for good. (Less)
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3, 02:18, 2008-04-21 19:20:19 Description: 4-20-2008
LOS ANGELES -- Pau Gasol's post-game smile made it clear how he felt about finally winning a postseason game.
His numbers revealed just how much he had to do with the victory.
(More) 4-20-2008
LOS ANGELES -- Pau Gasol's post-game smile made it clear how he felt about finally winning a postseason game.
His numbers revealed just how much he had to do with the victory.
Gasol established career playoff highs with 36 points and eight assists, and he also had 16 rebounds and three blocked shots Sunday as the Los Angeles Lakers took command in the third quarter and beat the Denver Nuggets 128-114.
"It feels amazing, it feels great. I had a blast out there," the 7-foot Spaniard said after shooting 14-of-20 from the floor and 8-of-8 from the foul line. "We did a pretty good job, we can do better. We're happy with the win, I'm happy with the win. Hopefully there will be many more.
"Every guy on our team is doing an amazing job out there, and I'm just one of them."
Gasol, a 27-year-old forward/center acquired from Memphis on Feb. 1 after spending 6 1/2 seasons with the Grizzlies, was 0-12 in three previous postseasons.
"I knew he could perform at a high level," Lakers star Kobe Bryant said. "This just ain't Memphis. I think this offense has freed him up a little bit and showcased more what he can do instead of just being in the post all the time."
"It's tough to match up against us for a variety of reasons. We have guys that can finish, we have a great 1-2 punch, and all of our guys can pass all ball."
Bryant, who said he made himself a decoy through most of the game, scored 18 of his 32 points in the final eight minutes to keep Los Angeles safely ahead. Lamar Odom had 17 points, 14 rebounds and six assists, and Luke Walton added 16 points for the Lakers, who entered having won eight of their past nine regular-season games to earn the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.
But it was Gasol who did the most damage.
"They do an excellent job of finding him around the basket," Denver's Kenyon Martin said.
"Pau is so versatile, he just opens the game up," Odom said. "He was past good, he was amazing."
Denver coach George Karl said he didn't believe it was just Gasol.
"I think the film will show it was the Los Angeles Lakers who tore us up," Karl said. "Gasol played great, don't get me wrong. He had a lot of great decisions for him to get a lot of easy baskets."
Karl said he was glad Game 2 isn't until Wednesday night at Staples Center, giving the Nuggets a chance to adjust. The third and fourth games in the best-of-7 series will be played in Denver.
"I don't think anyone in our locker room is deflated," Karl said. "We know that we can play better than we did, and defense is probably the first thing we'll address."
Carmelo Anthony had 30 points and 12 rebounds for the eighth-seeded Nuggets. Allen Iverson also had 30 points before picking up two technical fouls with 2:10 remaining, calling for immediate ejection. Linas Kleiza scored a career playoff high 23 points and J.R. Smith added 15 before fouling out with 3:14 left.
The Nuggets should have it known wasn't going to be their day when several players were stranded on the Santa Monica Freeway for about a half-hour when the team bus broke down on the way to the game.
The bus left the team's hotel about 2 1/2 hours before tipoff as scheduled, but experienced problems about 15 minutes into the trip, spokesman Eric Sebastian said.
"There was a pop, black smoke, there was another pop, more black smoke," Sebastian said. "We rushed off the bus. We were standing on the side of the road."
The Nuggets' second bus, which left the team hotel about 30 minutes after the first one, stopped to pick up their teammates. The entire team made the rest of the trip to the arena, arriving about 90 minutes before game-time.
The Lakers led 97-78 entering the fourth quarter, but an 11-2 run by Denver made it 101-91 with 8:17 remaining. The Nuggets drew within nine twice down the stretch, but Bryant wouldn't allow them to get any closer.
"They struck first," said Denver's Marcus Camby, who had only four points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots. "I was surprised how well they passed the ball. They are a very unselfish team. It was also a surprise how well they cut to the basket. Once they got the lead, it was hard to catch up with them."
The Lakers outscored the Nuggets 39-22 in the third quarter after leading 58-56 at halftime.
"We just broke down (in the third quarter)," Iverson said. "We're underdogs, and people don't think we have a chance at all. But we're not going to give up."
The Nuggets shot just 23-for-37 from the foul line. Iverson was the main culprit, going 7-for-13.
"I could never put two together," he said. "That's unacceptable."
Regarding his ejection, Iverson said: "(Ken Mauer) made the right decision about throwing me out. I was frustrated, but I deserved to get thrown out." (Less)
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19, 07:45, 2008-04-21 18:44:35 Description: WHY didn't Lon Nollians assassinate Prince Norodom Sihanouk like the murder of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in the 1963 coup, which was backed by the CIA? No CIA, KGB, and many others, (More) WHY didn't Lon Nollians assassinate Prince Norodom Sihanouk like the murder of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in the 1963 coup, which was backed by the CIA? No CIA, KGB, and many others, many of whom were not living inside Prince Norodom Sihanouk's and Nol Lon's bodies and minds. If they were living in these two aristocrats' bodies and minds, who might have known what Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Lon Nol had secret talks between two of them. When Samdech Euv could not control his country because it was completely already besieged by Vietcong who had been waiting patiently for a right time to have dragged unfortunate and present tiny Cambodia into the flame of war from 1970 to 1975, it was the right time for all Vietcong who came out legally of Cambodian jungles everywhere to incite bitterly all Khmer peasants to hate Khmer Lon Nollians. The people in the outside world who only knew that Cambodians killing Cambodians in civil war, but in fact, Vietcong's hands were everywhere in Cambodia mysteriously instigating Khmers to hate Khmers who killed Khmers madly in the name of men-in-black or Khmer Rouge: Samdech Sihanouk left for Paris for a treatment was because he who had a big guilty relation letting the North Vietnamese troops who had bases on the lands of Cambodia. That's why he had to retreat for a while in order to giving Lon Nol a time to force the Yuon Communist troops out, and then Samdech Sihanouk would return to Cambodia. And he, who would be freed from all accusations, had another new name that "The Father of Forcing Vietcong" "out of Cambodia." But it was already too late, Cambodia was already besieged by Vietcong everywhere in the jungles, the flood also rose up onto the roofs of Cambodian people, no one could prevent a man-made disaster. Vietcong and the North Vietnamese leaders who are more intelligent than the leaders of Chinese, French, Japanese and Americans who disgracefully were defeated in Vietnam War that had brought only shamefulness and bodies back to their country each. Prince Norodom Sihanouk already knew what would happen to his country and his unfortunate Khmer people when he joined with Vietcong in the guerrilla war against Lon Nollians, because one of survivors, whose nephew used to working for Prince Norodom Sihanouk, clearly told his uncle, named "Savorn". And Savorn who used to work for Prince Norodom Sihanouk, drank holy water of allegiant oath by telling him: "Khan, in the future, if you want to live, whatever you do, you must pretend to be deaf and blind...," Prince Norodom Sihanouk secretly continued to tell his loyal supporters before the coup during drinking holy water of loyal oath, "If our secrecy is leaked to the outside, you must be killed on the spot!" When he left Phnom Penh for rest and medical treatment in France, in January 1970, he was little more than a political figurehead. For their part, the rebels marched the army's savagery with attacks on civilian targets, with innocent bus passengers massacred to reinforce warning against cooperating with government troops. Although indigenous Cambodian communists played a vital part in inciting resistance in widely scattered areas of the kingdom. It remains unclear whether the central committee of the communist party of Kampuchea, secretly based among the hill people of the northeast, was the controlling force in the insurgency or whether local leaders determined the extent to which resistance waxed or waned in particular regions. By 1969 there were tens of thousands of Vietnamese communist troops sheltering inside Cambodia. Justifying himself, the prince frequently quoted a proverb common to many Asian societies: 'When elephants fight, ants should stand aside'. He was powerless to prevent the Vietnamese from crossing into Cambodia and using its territory, so acquiescence seemed the better choice. Why did Lon Nol stage a coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum Reastre Niyum regime in 1970? When Prince Norodom Sihanouk and his tiny Cambodia were completely besieged by all Vietcong who had been waiting patiently for a long time hiding in Cambodia, after Hanoi leaders tactfully bullshitted to the world that they had withdrawn their troops from Cambodia in 1954. Samdech Euv pretended to go to have a rest in France, but in fact, he was out of control with Vietcong everywhere in Cambodia. He could not tell them to get out of his tiny Cambodia as a man. Prince Sihanouk secretly told Lon Nol to have staged a coup against him because American, Thai and Yuon leaders who wanted to assassinate him by dragging Cambodia into the inevitable disaster. Their aims were to slice Cambodia up into two pieces. (Less)
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15, 03:25, 2008-04-22 11:18:58 Description: The debut of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan begins with a sociopathic rooftop sniper (Andrew Robinson of 'Cobra' and 'Hellraiser') killing a young woman in a pool, and then trying (More) The debut of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan begins with a sociopathic rooftop sniper (Andrew Robinson of 'Cobra' and 'Hellraiser') killing a young woman in a pool, and then trying to extort $100,000 from the City. Harry is asked by his boss, Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) and the Mayor (John Vernon) to put a stop to this low-life. While Harry & his new partner, Chico (Reni Santori of 'Cobra') investigate, another murder occurs, followed by a kidnapping/rape of a young girl, and a subsequent attempt at extortion by the killer, who calls himself 'Scorpio'. Harry volunteers to deliver the ransom but is nearly killed by Scorpio, who is wounded & driven off by Chico and Harry. Harry follows the suspect's trail to Kezar Stadium, where he discovers the murder weapon and the suspect! The man is arrested and Harry gets the girl's location out of him. Unbeknownst to Harry, the girl is dead already, and the next morning Harry visits the D.A. to find out that the man is being freed - because of a bleeding-heart legal system and judiciary that says Harry's search was 'illegal', although there was no time - and no judge - to get a warrant from. On his release, Scorpio is up to his old tricks - this time he kidnaps a bus-load of children and demands a ransom. The Mayor foolishly goes along with Scorpio's game and orders Harry not to stop the killer. Disgusted with the weak-kneed attitude of the Mayor & his colleagues in the legal system, Harry intercepts the bus and takes on Scorpio himself to put an end to the kidnapping and the psychopath's reign of terror...for good. (Less)
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147, 06:29, 2007-06-27 14:13:23 Description: The Beatles
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon
Beatles Soundtrack (partials)
0:00 - 0:13 Twist & Shout
0:14 - 0:29 I Feel Fine
0:29 - 0:41 We Can Work It Out
(More) The Beatles
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon
Beatles Soundtrack (partials)
0:00 - 0:13 Twist & Shout
0:14 - 0:29 I Feel Fine
0:29 - 0:41 We Can Work It Out
0:41 - 0:54 I Wanna Hold Your Hand
0:54 - 1:10 Love Me Do
1:10 - 1:21 She Loves You
1:21 - 1:39 Yes It Is
1:40 - 1:55 I Will
1:56 - 2:20 All My Loving
2:20 - 2:44 Birthday
2:45 - 3:10 Lucy in the Sky
3:10 - 3:26 Sgt. Pepper
3:26 - 3:42 I Am the Walrus
3:42 - 3:57 Magical Mystery Tour
3:57 - 4:13 Yes it Is (again)
4:13 - 4:24 She Loves You (again)
4:24 - 4:44 Ticket to Ride
4:44 - 5:05 Paperback Writer
5:05 - 5:30 Hey Jude
5:30 - 5:52 Get Back
5:53 - 6:02 I need help here, no idea what this one is
6:02 - 6:29 Ob La Di Ob La Da
[ above is courtesy of HappyDaze01. Thx HaDz01"!]
Origin Liverpool, England
Rock/Pop - Years active 1960--1970
Parlophone, Capitol, Apple, Vee-Jay, Polydor, Swan, Tollie
Related to Tony Sheridan, The Quarrymen, The Plastic Ono Band, The Dirty Mac, Wings, Traveling Wilburys, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Ringo Starr All-Starr Band, Billy Preston
Members - Ever to Date
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Former members
Stuart Sutcliffe
Pete Best
The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of popular music.
The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States of America, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, which certified them as the highest selling band of all time based on American sales of singles and albums. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one. This commercial success was repeated in many other countries: their record company, EMI, estimated that by 1985 they had sold over one billion discs and tapes worldwide. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked The Beatles #1 on their list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. According to that same magazine, their innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s,[2] and their influence on pop culture can still be felt today.
The Beatles led the mid-1960s musical "British Invasion" into the United States. Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and homegrown skiffle, the group explored genres ranging from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelic rock. Their clothes, styles, and statements made them trend-setters, while their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.
1957--1960: Formation
The Quarrymen
In March 1957, John Lennon formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen whilst attending Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool.[6] Lennon and the Quarrymen met guitarist Paul McCartney at the Woolton Garden Fête held at St. Peter's Church on 6 July 1957.[7] On 6 February 1958, the young guitarist George Harrison was invited to watch the group (who played under a variety of names) at Wilson Hall, Garston, Liverpool.[8] McCartney had become acquainted with Harrison on the morning school bus ride to the Liverpool Institute, as they both lived in Speke. At McCartney's insistence, Harrison joined the Quarrymen as lead guitarist[9] after a rehearsal in March 1958, overcoming Lennon's initial reluctance because of Harrison's young age.[10] Members continually joined and left the lineup during that period, and in January 1960 Lennon's art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined on bass.[11] Lennon and McCartney both played rhythm guitar and the group had a high turnover of drummers.
The Quarrymen went through a progression of names — "Johnny and the Moondogs", "Long John and the Beatles", "the Silver Beetles" (derived from Larry Parnes' suggestion of "Long John and the Silver Beetles") — before settling on "The Beatles". There are many theories as to the origin of the name and its unusual spelling. It is usually credited to Lennon, who said that the name was a combination word-play on the insects "beetles" (as a reference to Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets) and the word "beat". Cynthia Lennon suggests that Lennon came up with the name Beatles at a "brainstorming session over a beer-soaked table in the Renshaw Hall bar."[12] Lennon, who was well known for giving multiple versions of the same story joked in a 1961 Mersey Beat magazine article that "It came in a vision — a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day on you are Beatles with an A'".[13] During an interview in 2001, Paul McCartney took credit for the peculiar spelling of the name, saying that "John had the idea of calling us the Beetles, I said, 'how about the Beatles; you know, like the beat of the drum?' At the time, everyone was stoned enough to find it hilarious. It's funny how history is made." [14]
In May 1960 The Beatles toured northeast Scotland as a back-up band with singer Johnny Gentle.[15] They met Gentle an hour before their first gig, and McCartney referred to the tour as a great experience for the band.[16] For the tour the often drummerless group secured the services of Tommy Moore, who was considerably older than the others.[17] Soon after the tour, however, feeling the age gap was too great Moore left the band and went back to work in a bottling factory as a fork-lift truck driver.[18] Norman Chapman was the band's next drummer, but was called up for National Service in a few weeks. His departure posed a significant problem as the group's unofficial manager, Allan Williams, had arranged for them to perform in clubs on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany.[19]
1960--1970: The Beatles
Hamburg
On 15 August 1960, McCartney invited Pete Best to become the group's permanent drummer. He had watched Best play with the Blackjacks[20] in the Casbah Club, owned by Pete's mother, Mona Best. This was a cellar club in West Derby, Liverpool, where The Beatles had played and often visited.[21] In the documentary The Compleat Beatles, Williams said that Best "played not too cleverly, but passable."
The Beatles started playing in Hamburg at the Indra and Kaiserkeller bars. They were required to play six or seven hours a night, seven nights a week. Shortly after they began performing at a new venue, the "Top Ten Club",[22] Harrison was deported for having lied to the German authorities about his age.[23] A week later, having started a small fire at their living quarters while vacating it for more luxurious rooms, McCartney and Best were arrested, charged with arson, and deported.[24] Lennon followed the others to Liverpool in mid-December.
The reunited Beatles played their first engagement on 17 December 1960 at the Casbah Club and returned to Hamburg in April 1961. Whilst playing at the Top Ten Club they were recruited by singer Tony Sheridan to act as his backing band on a series of recordings for the German Polydor Records label,[25] produced by famed bandleader Bert Kaempfert.[19] Kaempfert signed the group to its own Polydor contract at the first session on 22 June 1961. On 31 October Polydor released the recording "My Bonnie (Mein Herz ist bei dir nur)", which appeared on the German charts under the name "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers", a generic name used for whoever happened to be in Sheridan's backup band.[26] In addition to the legend that this record led to the group's eventual meeting with Brian Epstein, it also resulted in their first mention in the American press. Around the beginning of 1962, Cashbox mentioned "My Bonnie" as the debut of a "new rock and roll team, Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers". A few copies were also pressed under the Decca label for U.S. disc jockeys, as American Decca had a distribution deal with Polydor parent Deutsche Grammophon.[27] (This was ironic, considering that by this time the then-unaffiliated British Decca had turned down the group's attempt to gain a recording contract.) When the group returned to Liverpool, Sutcliffe stayed on in Hamburg with his new German fiancee Astrid Kirchherr, [28] and McCartney took over bass duties.[29]
Their third stay in Hamburg was from 13 April to 31 May 1962, when they opened The Star Club.[19] Upon their arrival they were informed of Sutcliffe's death from a brain haemorrhage.[30]
Epstein took over as the group's manager in January 1962 and led The Beatles' quest for a British recording contract. Epstein had been manager of the record department at North End Music Store (NEMS), an offshoot of his family's furniture store. He played on the status of NEMS as a major record dealer to gain access to producers and recording company executives. In a now-famous exchange, Decca Records A&R executive Dick Rowe turned Epstein down flat, informing him that "Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein."[31] While Epstein was negotiating with Decca, he also approached EMI marketing executive Ron White.[32] White (who was not himself a record producer) in turn contacted EMI producers Norrie Paramor, Walter Ridley, and Norman Newell, all of whom declined to record The Beatles.[33] White did not approach EMI's fourth staff producer — George Martin — who was on holiday at the time.[34]
Record contract
After failing to impress Decca Records, Epstein went to the HMV store on Oxford Street in London to transfer the Decca tapes to discs. There, recording engineer Jim Foy referred him to Sid Coleman, who ran EMI's publishing arm. When Coleman heard the demo tapes he suggested taking the tapes to George Martin, who, Coleman explained, "does comedy records" and headed the Parlophone label at EMI. Epstein eventually met with Martin, who signed the group to EMI on a one-year renewable contract and scheduled their first recording session on 6 June at EMI's Abbey Road studios in north London.[35] Martin had not been particularly impressed by the band's demo recordings,[36] but he instantly liked them as people when he met them. He concluded that they had raw musical talent, but said (in later interviews) that what made the difference for him was their wit and humour.[37]
Martin did have a problem with Pete Best, [36] whom he criticised for not being able to keep time. He privately suggested to Epstein that the band use another drummer in the studio. Best was good-looking and popular with the group's fans, but the three founding members had become increasingly unhappy with his drumming and his personality.[citation needed] There was speculation by some that Best's popularity[38] with fans was another source of friction. In addition, Epstein had become exasperated with his refusal to adopt the distinctive hairstyle as part of their unified look. Best also had missed a number of engagements because of illness. The three founding members enlisted Epstein to dismiss Best - which he did on 16 August 1962.[39] They asked Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey), the drummer for one of the top Merseybeat groups, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, to join the band, as Starr had performed occasionally with The Beatles in Hamburg.[40] The first recordings of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr together were made as early as 15 October 1960, in a series of demonstration records privately recorded in Hamburg while acting as the backing group for singer Lu Walters.[41] Starr played on The Beatles' second EMI recording session on 4 September 1962, but Martin hired session drummer Andy White for their next session on 11 September.[42]
Their recording contract paid them one penny for each single sold, which was split amongst the four Beatles — one farthing per group member.[43] This royalty rate was further reduced for singles sold outside the UK, on which they received half of one penny (again split between the whole band) per single. Martin said later that it was a "pretty awful" contract.[43] Their publishing contract with Dick James Music (DJM) was also standard for the time: songwriters received the statutory minimum of 50% of the gross monies received, with the publisher retaining the other 50%.[citation needed]
The Beatles' first EMI session on 6 June did not yield any releasable recordings but the September sessions produced a minor UK hit, "Love Me Do", which peaked on the charts at number 17.[44] ("Love Me Do" reached the top of the U.S. singles chart over 18 months later in May 1964.) On 26 November they recorded their second single "Please Please Me", which reached no. 2 in the official UK charts and no. 1 in the NME chart. Three months later they recorded their first album (also titled Please Please Me). The band's first televised performance was on the People and Places programme transmitted live from Manchester by Granada Television on 17 October 1962.[45] As The Beatles' fame spread, the frenzied adulation of the group, predominantly from teenage female fans, was dubbed 'Beatlemania'. In November 1963 The Beatles appeared on the Royal Variety Performance and were photographed with Marlene Dietrich, who also appeared on the show.[citation needed]
America
Although the band experienced huge popularity in the UK record charts from early 1963, EMI's American operation, Capitol Records, declined to issue the singles "Please Please Me" and "From Me to You (their first official no. 1 hit in the UK)".[46] Vee-Jay Records, a small Chicago label, issued the singles as part of a deal for the rights to another performer's masters. Art Roberts, music director of Chicago powerhouse radio station WLS, placed "Please Please Me" into radio rotation in late February 1963 making it the first time a Beatles record was heard on American radio. Vee-Jay's rights to The Beatles were later cancelled for non-payment of royalties.[47]
In August 1963, Philadelphia-based Swan Records released "She Loves You", which also failed to receive airplay. A testing of the song on Dick Clark's TV show American Bandstand produced laughter from American teenagers when they saw the group's distinctive hairstyles. New York disc jockey Murray the K featured "She Loves You" on his '1010 WINS record revue' show in January.[48] In early November 1963, Brian Epstein persuaded Ed Sullivan to present The Beatles on three editions of his show in February, and parlayed this guaranteed exposure into a record deal with Capitol Records. Capitol committed to a mid-January release for "I Want to Hold Your Hand",[49] On 7 December 1963 a clip of The Beatles was shown on the CBS Evening News (the story originally had been scheduled to air on 22 November and was aired on the CBS Morning News but was pre-empted by the assassination of John F. Kennedy). The clip inspired a teenage girl in Washington, D.C. to request a Beatles song on a local radio station. The station secured an imported copy of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" — forcing Capitol Records to release the song ahead of schedule on 26 December.
Several New York radio stations — first WMCA, then WINS (AM) and WABC — began playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" on its release day. The Beatlemania that had started in Washington was duplicated in New York and quickly spread to other markets. The record sold one million copies in just ten days, and by 16 January, Cashbox magazine had certified the record number one (in the edition marked 23 January). On 3 January 1964 a film of The Beatles performing "She Loves You" was aired on the late-night Jack Paar Show.
Beatlemania crosses the Atlantic
On 7 February 1964, a crowd of four thousand fans at Heathrow Airport waved to The Beatles as they took off for their first trip to America as a group.[51] They were accompanied by photographers, journalists (including Maureen Cleave) and Phil Spector, who had booked himself on the same flight.[52] The pilot had radioed ahead, and as they prepared to land said, "Tell the boys there's a big crowd waiting for them." Kennedy International Airport had never experienced such a crowd, estimated at about 3,000 screaming fans.[53] After a press conference (where they first met Murray the K) they were put into limousines and driven to New York. On the way McCartney turned on a radio and listened to a running commentary: "They [The Beatles] have just left the airport and are coming to New York City..."[54] After reaching the Plaza Hotel, they were besieged by fans and reporters. Harrison had a temperature of 102 the next day and was ordered to stay in bed, so Neil Aspinall replaced him for the first television rehearsal.[55]
Their first live American television appearance was on the The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964. The next morning practically every newspaper wrote that The Beatles were nothing more than a "fad", and "could not carry a tune across the Atlantic".[56] Their first American concert appearance was at Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C. on 11 February.[57]
After The Beatles' huge success in 1964, Vee-Jay Records and Swan Records took advantage of their previously secured rights to The Beatles' early recordings and reissued the songs, all of which reached the top ten the second time around. (MGM and Atco also secured rights to The Beatles' early Tony Sheridan-era recordings and had minor hits with "My Bonnie" and "Ain't She Sweet", the latter featuring John Lennon on lead vocal.) In addition to Introducing... The Beatles, which was essentially The Beatles' debut British album with some minor alterations, Vee-Jay also issued an unusual LP called The Beatles Vs The Four Seasons. This 2-LP set paired Introducing... The Beatles and The Golden Hits Of The Four Seasons, another successful act that Vee-Jay had under contract, in a 'contest' (the back cover featured a 'score card'). Another unusual release was the Hear The Beatles Tell All album, which consisted of two lengthy interviews with Los Angeles radio disc jockeys (side one was titled "Dave Hull interviews John Lennon," while side two was titled "Jim Steck interviews John, Paul, George, Ringo"). No Beatles music was included on this interview album, which turned out to be the only Vee Jay Beatles album Capitol Records could not reclaim.
The Vee-Jay/Swan-issued recordings eventually ended up with Capitol, who issued most of the Vee-Jay material on the American-only Capitol release The Early Beatles, with three songs left off this final US version of the album. ("I Saw Her Standing There" was issued as the American B-side of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and also appeared on the Capitol Records album Meet The Beatles. "Misery" and "There's a Place" were issued as a Capitol "Starline" reissue single in 1964, and reappeared on the 1980 Rarities compilation album.) The early Vee-Jay and Swan Beatles records command a high price on the record collectors' market, and all have been copiously bootlegged.[58] The Swan tracks ("She Loves You" and "I'll Get You") were issued on the Capitol LP The Beatles' Second Album. (Swan also issued the German-language version of "She Loves You," called "Sie Liebt Dich." This song later appeared (in stereo) on Capitol's US version of the Rarities compilation album.)
In mid-1964 the band undertook their first appearances outside of Europe and North America. They toured Australia and New Zealand without Ringo Starr, who was ill and temporarily replaced by session drummer Jimmy Nicol. In Adelaide they were greeted by over 300,000 people who turned out at Adelaide Town Hall.[59]
In June 1965, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed the four Beatles Members of the Order of the British Empire, MBE. The band members were nominated by Prime Minister Harold Wilson (who also was the M.P. for Huyton, Liverpool).[60] The appointment — at that time primarily bestowed upon military veterans and civic leaders — sparked some conservative MBE recipients to return their insignia in protest.[61] The first two were returned on 14 June, before The Beatles received theirs on 26 October 1965.[62] On 15 August that year, The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York to a crowd of 55,600.[63] Their sixth album, Rubber Soul, was released in early December 1965. It was hailed as a major leap forward in the maturity and complexity of the band's music.[64]
Backlash and controversy
In July 1966, when The Beatles toured the Philippines, they unintentionally snubbed the nation's first lady, Imelda Marcos, who had expected the group to attend a breakfast reception at the Presidential Palace.[65] When presented with the invitation, Brian Epstein politely declined on behalf of the group, as it had never been the group's policy to accept such "official" invitations.[66] The group soon found that the Marcos regime was unaccustomed to accepting "no" for an answer. After the 'snub' was broadcast on Philippine television and radio, all of The Beatles' police protection disappeared. The group and their entourage had to make their way to Manila airport on their own. At the airport, roadie Mal Evans was beaten and kicked, and the band members were pushed and jostled about by a hostile crowd.[67] Once the group boarded the plane, Epstein and Evans were ordered off, and Evans said, "Tell my wife that I love her."[68] Epstein was forced to give back all the money that the band had earned while they were there before being allowed back on the plane.[69]
Almost as soon as they returned from the Philippines, an earlier comment by Lennon made in March that year launched a backlash against The Beatles from religious and social conservatives in the United States. In an interview with British reporter Maureen Cleave,[70] Lennon had offered his opinion that Christianity was dying and that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now."[71] Afterwards, a radio station in Birmingham, Alabama, ran a story on burning Beatles records, in what was considered to be a joke. However, many people affiliated with rural churches in the American South started taking the suggestion seriously. Towns across the United States and South Africa started to burn Beatles records in protest. Attempting to make light of the incident, McCartney said, "They've got to buy them before they can burn them." Under tremendous pressure from the American media, Lennon apologised for his remarks at a press conference in Chicago on August 11, the eve of the first performance of what turned out to be their final tour.[72]
The group's two-year series of Capitol compilations also took a strange twist in the United States when one of their publicity shots, used for a Yesterday and Today album and a poster promoting the UK release of "Paperback Writer", created an uproar, as it featured the band draped in meat and plastic dolls. Thousands of these copies had to be withdrawn. Years later, the cover shot was linked with the group's interest in German expressionism.[72]
Elvis Presley disapproved of The Beatles's anti-war activism and open use of drugs, later asking President Nixon to ban all four members of the group from entering the United States. Peter Guralnick writes, "The Beatles, Elvis said, [...] had been a focal point for anti-Americanism. They had come to this country, made their money, then gone back to England where they fomented anti-American feeling."[73] Guralnick adds, "Presley indicated that he is of the opinion that The Beatles laid the groundwork for many of the problems we are having with young people by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music while entertaining in this country during the early and middle 1960s."[74] Despite Elvis' remarks, Lennon still had some positive feeling towards him: "Before Elvis, there was nothing."[75]
The studio years
The Beatles at their last concert, Candlestick Park.In April 1966, the group began recording what would be their most ambitious album to date, Revolver. During the recording sessions for the album, tape looping and early sampling were introduced in a complex mix of ballad, R&B, soul and world music.
The Beatles performed their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on 29 August 1966.[72] McCartney asked Tony Barrow to tape the event, but the 30-minute tape he used ran out halfway through the last song. The concert lasted a little under 35 minutes.[76]
From then on, The Beatles concentrated on recording. Less than seven months after recording Revolver, The Beatles returned to Abbey Road Studios on 24 November 1966 to begin the 129-day recording sessions for their eighth album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released on 1 June 1967.
On 25 June 1967, The Beatles became the first band globally transmitted on television—before an estimated 400 million people worldwide. The band appeared in a segment within the first-ever worldwide TV satellite hook-up, a show titled Our World. The Beatles were transmitted live from Abbey Road Studios, and their new song "All You Need Is Love" was recorded live during the show.
The band's business affairs began to unravel after manager Brian Epstein died of an accidental prescription drug overdose on 27 August 1967 at the age of 32. At the end of 1967, they received their first major negative press in the UK with disparaging reviews of their surrealistic TV film Magical Mystery Tour.[77] Part of the criticism arose because colour was an integral part of the film, but in 1967 few viewers in the UK had colour televisions. The film's soundtrack, which features one of The Beatles' few instrumental tracks ("Flying"), was released in the United Kingdom as a double EP, and in the United States as a full LP (the LP is now the official version).
The group spent the early part of 1968 in Rishikesh, Uttar Pradesh, India, studying transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.[78] Upon their return, Lennon and McCartney went to New York to announce the formation of Apple Corps. The middle of 1968 saw the band busy recording the double album The Beatles, popularly known as The White Album because of its plain white cover. These sessions saw deep divisions opening within the band, with Starr temporarily walking out. The band carried on, with McCartney recording the drums on the songs "Martha My Dear", "Wild Honey Pie", "Dear Prudence" and "Back in the USSR". Among the other causes of dissension were that Lennon's new girlfriend, Yoko Ono, was at his side through almost all of the sessions, and that the others felt that McCartney was becoming too dominating.[79] Internal divisions within the band had been a small but growing problem during their early years; most notably, this was reflected in the difficulty that George Harrison experienced in getting his own songs onto Beatles albums.
On the business side, McCartney wanted Lee Eastman, the father of his then-girlfriend Linda Eastman, to manage The Beatles, but the other members wanted New York manager Allen Klein. All past Beatles' decisions had been unanimous, but this time the four could not agree. Lennon, Harrison and Starr felt the Eastmans would put McCartney's interests before those of the group. In 1971 it was discovered that Klein, who had been appointed manager, had stolen £5 million from The Beatles' holdings. Years later, during the Anthology interviews, McCartney said of this time, "Looking back, I can understand why they would feel that he [Lee Eastman] was biased against them."
Their final live performance was on the rooftop of the Apple building in Savile Row, London, on 30 January 1969, the next-to-last day of the difficult Get Back sessions. Most of the performance was filmed and later included in the film Let It Be. While the band was playing, the local police were called because of complaints about the noise. Although the group was simply asked to end their performance, the band members later remarked in the Anthology video that they were disappointed they were not arrested — pointing out that the police hauling the band members off in handcuffs would have been "an appropriate ending" for the film.
The Beatles recorded their final album, Abbey Road, in the summer of 1969. The completion of the song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" for the album on 20 August was the last time all four Beatles were together in the same studio.
Their final new song was Harrison's "I Me Mine", recorded 3 January 1970 and released on the Let It Be album. It was recorded without Lennon, who was in Denmark when the song was recorded.[80]
Breakup
John Lennon announced his departure to the rest of the group on 20 September 1969 but agreed that no announcement was to be publicly made until a number of legal matters were resolved.
In March 1970 the Get Back session tapes were given to American producer Phil Spector, who had produced Lennon's solo single "Instant Karma!". Spector's "Wall of Sound" production values went against the original intent of the record, which had been to record a stripped-down live performance. McCartney was deeply dissatisfied with Spector's treatment of "The Long and Winding Road", and unsuccessfully attempted to halt release of Spector's version of the song. McCartney publicly announced the break-up on 10 April 1970, a week before releasing his first solo album, McCartney. Pre-release copies included a press release with a self-written interview explaining the end of The Beatles and his hopes for the future.[81] On 8 May 1970, the Spector-produced version of Get Back was released as Let It Be, followed by the documentary film of the same name. The Beatles' partnership was finally dissolved in 1975.[82]
1970--present: After The Beatles
Ringo Starr, 1968 Shortly before and after the official dissolution of the group, all four Beatles released solo albums, including Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, McCartney's McCartney, Starr's Sentimental Journey, and Harrison's All Things Must Pass. Some of their albums featured contributions by other former Beatles; Starr's Ringo (1973) was the only one to include compositions and performances by all four, albeit on separate songs.
Other than an unreleased jam session in 1974 (later bootlegged as A Toot and a Snore in '74), Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again.
In the wake of the expiration in 1975 of The Beatles' contract with EMI-Capitol, the American Capitol label, rushing to cash in on its vast Beatles holdings and freed from the group's creative control, released five LPs: Rock 'n' Roll Music (a compilation of their more uptempo numbers), The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (containing portions of two unreleased shows at the Hollywood Bowl), Love Songs (a compilation of their slower numbers), Rarities (a compilation of tracks that either had never been released in the U.S. or had gone out of print), and Reel Music (a compilation of songs from their films). There was also a non-Capitol-EMI release of a show from the group's early days at the Star Club in Hamburg captured on a poor-quality tape. Of all these post-breakup LPs, only the Hollywood Bowl LP had the approval of the group members. Upon the American release of the original British CDs in 1986, these post-breakup Capitol American compilation LPs were deleted from the Capitol catalogue.
John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman on 8 December 1980 in New York City. Shortly afterward, in 1981, the three surviving Beatles reunited to record "All Those Years Ago", released as a George Harrison solo single. Its original lyrics had been rewritten as a tribute to Lennon.
The BBC has a large collection of Beatles recordings, mostly comprising original studio sessions from 1963 to 1968. Much of this material formed the basis for a 1988 radio documentary series The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes. In 1989, many outtakes from The Beatles sessions appeared on the radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes. Later, in 1994, the best of the BBC sessions were given an official EMI release on Live at the BBC.
In 1988 The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a group (not as individual performers) during their first year of eligibility.[83] On the night of their induction, Harrison and Starr appeared to accept their award along with Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and his two sons. McCartney stayed away, issuing a press release citing "unresolved difficulties" with Harrison, Starr, and Lennon's estate. Solo Beatles later inducted were Lennon in 1994, McCartney in 1999 and Harrison in 2004.
Collage of the various covers of the Anthology seriesIn February 1994, the three surviving Beatles reunited to produce and record additional music for a few of Lennon's home recordings. "Free as a Bird" premiered as part of The Beatles Anthology series of television documentaries and was released as a single in December 1995, with "Real Love" following in March 1996. These songs were also included in the three Anthology collections of CDs released in 1995 and 1996, each of which consisted of two CDs of never-before-released Beatles material. Klaus Voormann, who had known The Beatles since their Hamburg days and had previously illustrated the Revolver album cover, directed the Anthology cover concept. 450,000 copies of Anthology 1 were sold on its first day of release. In 2000, a compilation album named 1 was released, containing almost every number-one single released by the band from 1962 to 1970. The collection sold 3.6 million copies in its first week (selling 3 copies a second) and more than 12 million in three weeks worldwide. The collection also reached number one in the United States and 33 other countries and had sold 25 million copies by 2005 (about the ninth best selling album of all time).
George Harrison during this time showed his socio-political consciousness and earned respect for his contribution for arranging the Concert For Bangladesh in New York in August 1971 along with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Harrison died of lung cancer on 29 November 2001.
More recently, in 2006, George Martin and his son Giles Martin remixed original Beatles recordings to create a soundtrack to accompany Cirque du Soleil's theatrical production Love.
Musical evolution
The Beatles' constant demands to create new sounds on every new recording, combined with George Martin's arranging abilities and the studio expertise of EMI staff engineers such as Norman Smith, Ken Townshend and Geoff Emerick, all played significant parts in the innovative sounds of the albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).
The Beatles continued to absorb influences long after their initial success, often finding new musical and lyrical avenues by listening to their contemporaries. Among those influences were Bob Dylan, who influenced songs such as "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)".[84] Other contemporary influences included the Byrds and the Beach Boys, whose album Pet Sounds was a favourite of McCartney's.[85]
Along with studio tricks such as sound effects, unconventional microphone placements, tape loops, double tracking and vari-speed recording, The Beatles began to augment their recordings with instruments that were unconventional for rock music at the time. These included string and brass ensembles as well as Indian instruments such as the sitar as in Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and the swarmandel as in Strawberry Fields Forever. They also used early electronic instruments such as the Mellotron, with which McCartney supplied the flute voices on the intro to "Strawberry Fields Forever", and the ondioline, an electronic keyboard that created the unusual oboe-like sound on "Baby You're a Rich Man".
Beginning with the use of a string quartet (arranged by George Martin with input from McCartney) on "Yesterday" in 1965, The Beatles pioneered a modern form of art song, exemplified by the double-quartet string arrangement on "Eleanor Rigby" (1966), "Here, There and Everywhere" (1966) and "She's Leaving Home" (1967). A televised performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 directly inspired McCartney's use of a piccolo trumpet on the arrangement of "Penny Lane". The Beatles moved towards psychedelia with "Rain" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" from 1966, and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" from 1967.
Influence on popular culture
Lifestyle
The Beatles' lifestyles were greatly altered by their success and the income they earned. The availability of the first oral contraceptive and illegal drugs changed many people's opinions — including The Beatles' — about life, marriage, and sexual relationships.[86]
Recreational drug use
In Hamburg, The Beatles used "prellies" (Preludin) both recreationally and to maintain their energy through all-night performances.[87] McCartney would usually take one, but Lennon would often take four or five.[87] Bob Dylan introduced them to cannabis during a 1964 visit to New York.[88] McCartney remembered them all getting "very high" and giggling.[89] The Beatles occasionally smoked a spliff in the car on the way to the studio during the filming of Help!, which often made them forget their lines.[90]
In April 1965, Lennon and Harrison were introduced to LSD by an acquaintance, dentist John Riley.[91] Lennon in particular became an avid "tripper", claiming in a 1970 interview in Rolling Stone to have taken LSD hundreds of times. McCartney was more reluctant to try the drug, but finally did so in 1966 and was the first Beatle to talk about it in the press.
The Beatles added their names to an advertisement in The Times, on 24 July 1967, which asked for the legalisation of cannabis, the release of all prisoners imprisoned because of possession, and research into marijuana's medical uses. The advertisement was sponsored by a group called Soma, and was signed by 65 people, including Brian Epstein, Graham Greene, R.D. Laing, 15 doctors, and two MPs.[92] On a sailing trip to Greece, in 1967, the whole band sat around on the boat and took acid.[93]
Meditation
On 24 August 1967, The Beatles met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the London Hilton, and a few days later went to Bangor, in North Wales, to attend a weekend 'initiation' conference.[94] There, the Maharishi gave each of them a mantra.[95] Their time in early 1968 at the Maharishi's ashram in India was highly productive from a musical standpoint, as practically all of the songs that would later be recorded for The White Album and Abbey Road were composed there by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison.[78]
Discography
Further information: List of Beatles songs by singer, The Beatles record sales, worldwide charts, The Beatles bootlegs, and List of Beatles hit singles
Official CD catalogue
In 1987, EMI released all 12 of The Beatles' studio albums — as originally released in the UK — on CD worldwide. (North American releases were on EMI's American subsidiary Capitol Records). It was a considered decision by Apple Corps to standardise The Beatles catalogue throughout the world. Because there were tracks that had been released in the UK on singles and EPs that had not been released on the original UK albums, in order for all their recordings to be available on CD it was necessary to create three further CDs that would contain the missing tracks.
One CD was of a 1967 US compilation album that featured the 6-track 1967 UK EP Magical Mystery Tour and the various singles released in that year. The other two CDs were new compilations that gathered together all the other singles, EP tracks and recordings from 1962--1970 that had not been issued on the original British studio albums.
Magical Mystery Tour - 8 August 1987[96]
Past Masters, Volume One - 7 March 1988
Past Masters, Volume Two - 7 March 1988
According to EMI and the Guinness Book of Records, The Beatles have sold in excess of one billion units (1,010,000,000, including cassettes, records, CDs and bootlegs).
Beginning in 2004, the US album configurations were released as a series of box sets from Capitol Records (The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 & Volume 2); these included both stereo and mono versions based on the mixes that were prepared for vinyl at the time of their original 1960s releases.
Song catalogue
In 1963 Lennon and McCartney agreed to assign their song publishing rights to Northern Songs, a company created by music publisher Dick James. The company was administered by James' own company Dick James Music. Northern Songs went public in 1965, with Lennon and McCartney each holding 15% of the company's shares whilst Dick James and the company's chairman, Charles Silver, held a controlling 37.5%. In 1969, following a failed attempt by Lennon and McCartney to buy the company, James and Silver sold Northern Songs to British TV company Associated TeleVision (ATV), from which Lennon and McCartney received stock.
In 1985, after a short period in which the parent company was owned by Australian business magnate Robert Holmes à Court, ATV Music was sold to Michael Jackson for a reported $47 million (trumping a joint bid by McCartney and Yoko Ono), including the publishing rights to over 200 songs composed by Lennon and McCartney.
A decade later Jackson and Sony merged its music publishing businesses. Since 1995, Jackson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have jointly owned most of the Lennon-McCartney songs recorded by The Beatles. Sony later reported that Jackson had used his share of their co-owned Beatles' catalogue as collateral for a loan from the music company. Meanwhile, Lennon's estate and McCartney still receive their respective songwriter shares of the royalties. (Despite his ownership of most of the Lennon-McCartney publishing, Jackson has only recorded one Lennon-McCartney composition himself, "Come Together" which was featured in his film Moonwalker.)
Although the Jackson-Sony catalogue includes most of The Beatles' greatest hits, four of their earliest songs had been published by one of EMI's publishing companies prior to Lennon and McCartney signing with Dick James — and McCartney later succeeded in personally acquiring the publishing rights to "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "P.S. I Love You" and "Ask Me Why" from EMI.
Harrison and Starr did not renew their songwriting contracts with Northern Songs in 1968, signing with Apple Publishing instead. Harrison later created Harrisongs, his own company which still owns the rights to his post-1967 songs such as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Something". Starr also created his own company, called Startling Music. It holds the rights to his two post-1967 songs recorded by The Beatles, "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
The future of The Beatles catalogue
The Beatles are but a few of the major artists (aside from Led Zeppelin and Garth Brooks) who have not to date allowed their entire recorded catalogue to be available through major online music services (iTunes, Napster, etc.). This may be due to the massive royalty fees demanded by the group. As a result, The Beatles' music (both officially and unofficially released) has been made available through illegal music search engines such as eMule and BearShare, and have apparently raised the ire of the entire music industry.
However, sure signs that official online distributions may be coming is the fact that the video for Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You (the remix from their album Love) is currently being distributed (as of June, 2007) via Napster, and many Internet radio networks (such as Pandora Internet Radio and Live365.com) are allowing Beatles songs to be broadcasted over the world wide web. There has been talk of negotiations to make such an official online distribution schedule possible. Officials at Apple Corps have hinted at this, as they have confirmed that the entire Beatles catalog has been digitally remastered for online distribution.
On film
Main article: The Beatles on film
The Beatles appeared in several films, all of which featured associated soundtrack albums.
The band played themselves in two films directed by Richard Lester, A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965). The group produced and starred in the hour-long television movie Magical Mystery Tour (1967), while the documentary Let It Be (released 1970) followed the recording sessions for the Get Back project in early 1969. In addition, the psychedelic animated film Yellow Submarine (1968) followed the adventures of a cartoon version of the band; the members did not provide their own voices, appearing only in a brief live-action epilogue.
Other projects
Anthology
Main article: The Beatles Anthology
Love
Main article: Love (Cirque du Soleil)
Instrumentation
Rickenbacker, Gretsch, Epiphone, Gibson, Fender, and C.F. Martin & Company guitars
Höfner, Fender and Rickenbacker basses
Vox, Fender, and Selmer amplifiers
Premier and Ludwig drums
Zildjian cymbals
Steinway, and Blüthner pianos
Hammond, Vox and Lowrey electric organs
Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and Hohner Pianet electric pianos
Moog Modular synthesiser
Mellotron Polyphonic Keyboard
Neumann, AKG, and STC microphones
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U.S. Military Releases Iraqi Photographer After 2 Years U.S. Military to Release Associated Press Photographer Wedne UNDP Procurement: Exceptions Are the Rule Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Accused of Treason Zimbabwe Opposition Protest Appears to Falter Obama Clinton debate in Pa Obama Clinton Debate in Pennsylvania Obama Clinton Return To N C On Friday Obama Clinton Return To North Carolina Obama Clinton Sure Either Can Beat McCain Obama Clinton try to cast some doubts Philly faceoff: Obama Clinton kept on the defensive during debate Support Obama not third Clinton term The Clinton Campaign Keeps Hitting UK Premier To Meet Bush McCain Obama Clinton Vermont Teddy Bear Sells Clinton Obama McCain Bears Women for Hillary Clinton includes two men Obama goes on defensive in debate; Clinton confronts issue of honesty Octogenarian Charged in Nazi Death Squad Killings Olympic Torch Arrives in China-Friendly Pakistan Plane Crashes in Congo, Dozens Killed Plane Crashes in Populated Neighborhood in Congo, 79 Dead Pol Pot's Cremation Site Now a Shrine for Some Cambodians Portuguese Police Deny Leak in Case of Missing Madeleine Prosecutors: 2 Men Tried to Blackmail British Royal Family Report: No Evidence Slain British Coed Sexually Assaulted Reports: At Least 45 Die as Bus Plunges Into Canal in India S. Korean Company Pulls Nazi-Themed Cosmetics Ad Somali Pirates Detained After Yacht Attack Arrive in Paris U.N. Security Council Calls on Hezbollah to Disarm DC-9 Plane Crashes in Populated Neighborhood in Congo Docs Detail Probe Into GI Misconduct of Afghan Inmates Eight-Year-Old Girl Divorces Husband French Law Would Ban Promotion of Extreme Thinness Gunmen Rob U.S. Family of Small Plane in Mexico Homicide Bomber Hits Funeral North of Baghdad; 50 Dead Incest Couple: Society Has a Problem, Not Us Iranian Police Chief Jailed After Being Caught With 6 Women Israeli Snubs Continue as Carter Preps for Hamas Meeting Italy's Berlusconi May Serve Third Term in Office Kenya Opposition Leader Sworn In as Prime Minister London Olympics Organizers Mull British-Only Torch Relay Moms in Debt After Charity Nude Calendar's Poor Sales Note to Brother Alludes to Terrorist's Airport Attack Plan (Less)
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24, 10:31, 2007-09-23 17:03:59 Description: Obaid Karki An Outcast Spinoziste
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UAE Under Secretary Independant Street-Knowledge Urban Talkshow Guru. Unaffiliated to any State, Organized Religion Group, Sect (More) Obaid Karki An Outcast Spinoziste
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4 Hamas Gunmen Killed, Israeli Soldiers Injured in Gaza 40 Prisoners Injured During Riot at Jordan's Largest Jail 6 Teens, 1 Teacher Die in Raging New Zealand River 800 Checked for Radiation After Nuke Plant Leak in Spain Ahmadinejad: September 11 Attacks a 'Suspicious Event' Al-Sadr Demands Troops Fired in Basra Be Reinstated American College Student Missing in Japan
Amnesty Report: China Leads the World in Executions Analysis: Obama wants voters to remember Clinton's past Campaign 2008 Continues With Clinton Obama Debate Chelsea Clinton to speak Friday at IPFW City to rethink closing Clinton for new bridge Clinton ad laments jobs sent to China Clinton attacks sharply in tense debate Clinton campaign chairman to stop in Salisbury today Clinton can survive against John McCain Clinton changes course on Obama's electability Clinton concedes Obama can win Clinton finally concedes Obama can win in November At Least 20 Palestinians Killed in Gaza Violence British Man Loses 17th Century Violin Worth $400,000 Car Bombs Explode in Iraq, Killing Nearly 60 CBS Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq Freed Chinese Torch Guardians Could Face Arrest in Australia Clinton health plan adviser visits VU Clinton or Obama by June Clinton says Obama can be a winner Clinton seen losing traction in 2 key states Clinton Sticks To Criticizing Bush In Clinton Uses Sharp Attacks in Tense Debate Clinton Obama Collide In Tense Debate Clinton Obama Concede Either Could Win Clinton Obama debate in Philadelphia Clinton Obama Find 'Brotherly Love' at Philly Debate Clinton Obama Say Either Can Beat McCain Clinton Obama squared off in Philly debate Clinton Obama try to defuse gaffes in last debate before primary Clinton: Obama can win in fall Clinton: Yes Obama can win Clinton: 'Yes yes yes ' Obama can win in November Clintons Attack on the Energy Bill Clintons' foreign policy stances clash Debate moderators grill Obama in Philadelphia debate with Clinton DVD focuses on George Clinton Hillary Clinton really deserves your vote Hillary Clinton: Barack Obama Would Beat John McCain Obama Debates Clinton Obama electable Clinton insists Controversial T-Shirt Business Sparks Ire in Australia Cubans Mob Cell Phone Stores as Service Becomes Available
U.S. Military Releases Iraqi Photographer After 2 Years U.S. Military to Release Associated Press Photographer Wedne UNDP Procurement: Exceptions Are the Rule Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Accused of Treason Zimbabwe Opposition Protest Appears to Falter Obama Clinton debate in Pa Obama Clinton Debate in Pennsylvania Obama Clinton Return To N C On Friday Obama Clinton Return To North Carolina Obama Clinton Sure Either Can Beat McCain Obama Clinton try to cast some doubts Philly faceoff: Obama Clinton kept on the defensive during debate Support Obama not third Clinton term The Clinton Campaign Keeps Hitting UK Premier To Meet Bush McCain Obama Clinton Vermont Teddy Bear Sells Clinton Obama McCain Bears Women for Hillary Clinton includes two men Obama goes on defensive in debate; Clinton confronts issue of honesty Octogenarian Charged in Nazi Death Squad Killings Olympic Torch Arrives in China-Friendly Pakistan Plane Crashes in Congo, Dozens Killed Plane Crashes in Populated Neighborhood in Congo, 79 Dead Pol Pot's Cremation Site Now a Shrine for Some Cambodians Portuguese Police Deny Leak in Case of Missing Madeleine Prosecutors: 2 Men Tried to Blackmail British Royal Family Report: No Evidence Slain British Coed Sexually Assaulted Reports: At Least 45 Die as Bus Plunges Into Canal in India S. Korean Company Pulls Nazi-Themed Cosmetics Ad Somali Pirates Detained After Yacht Attack Arrive in Paris U.N. Security Council Calls on Hezbollah to Disarm DC-9 Plane Crashes in Populated Neighborhood in Congo Docs Detail Probe Into GI Misconduct of Afghan Inmates Eight-Year-Old Girl Divorces Husband French Law Would Ban Promotion of Extreme Thinness Gunmen Rob U.S. Family of Small Plane in Mexico Homicide Bomber Hits Funeral North of Baghdad; 50 Dead Incest Couple: Society Has a Problem, Not Us Iranian Police Chief Jailed After Being Caught With 6 Women Israeli Snubs Continue as Carter Preps for Hamas Meeting Italy's Berlusconi May Serve Third Term in Office Kenya Opposition Leader Sworn In as Prime Minister London Olympics Organizers Mull British-Only Torch Relay Moms in Debt After Charity Nude Calendar's Poor Sales Note to Brother Alludes to Terrorist's Airport Attack Plan (Less)
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9, 02:14, 2008-04-26 14:06:04 Description: L.A. Lakers 128, Denver 114
LOS ANGELES, April 20 (AP) -- Pau Gasol's post-game smile made it clear how he felt about finally winning a postseason game.
His numbers revealed just how much (More) L.A. Lakers 128, Denver 114
LOS ANGELES, April 20 (AP) -- Pau Gasol's post-game smile made it clear how he felt about finally winning a postseason game.
His numbers revealed just how much he had to do with the victory.
Gasol established career playoff highs with 36 points and eight assists, and he also had 16 rebounds and three blocked shots Sunday as the Los Angeles Lakers took command in the third quarter and beat the Denver Nuggets 128-114.
"It feels amazing, it feels great. I had a blast out there,'' the 7-foot Spaniard said after shooting 14-of-20 from the floor and 8-of-8 from the foul line. "We did a pretty good job, we can do better. We're happy with the win, I'm happy with the win. Hopefully there will be many more.
"Every guy on our team is doing an amazing job out there, and I'm just one of them.''
Gasol, a 27-year-old forward/center acquired from Memphis on Feb. 1 after spending 6 1/2 seasons with the Grizzlies, was 0-12 in three previous postseasons.
"I knew he could perform at a high level,'' Lakers star Kobe Bryant said. "This just ain't Memphis. I think this offense has freed him up a little bit and showcased more what he can do instead of just being in the post all the time.''
"It's tough to match up against us for a variety of reasons. We have guys that can finish, we have a a great 1-2 punch, and all of our guys can pass the ball.''
Bryant, who said he made himself a decoy through most of the game, scored 18 of his 32 points in the final 8 minutes to keep Los Angeles safely ahead. Lamar Odom had 17 points, 14 rebounds and six assists and Luke Walton added 16 points for the Lakers, who entered having won eight of their last nine regular-season games to earn the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference .
But it was Gasol who did the most damage.
"They do an excellent job of finding him around the basket,'' Denver's Kenyon Martin said.
"Pau is so versatile, he just opens the game up,'' Odom said. "He was past good, he was amazing.''
Denver coach George Karl said he didn't believe it was just Gasol.
"I think the film will show it was the Los Angeles Lakers who tore us up,'' Karl said. "Gasol played great, don't get me wrong. He had a lot of great decisions for him to get a lot of easy baskets.''
Karl said he was glad Game 2 isn't until Wednesday night at Staples Center, giving the Nuggets a chance to adjust. The third and fourth games in the best-of-seven series will be played in Denver.
"I don't think anyone in our locker room is deflated,'' Karl said. "We know that we can play better than we did, and defense is probably the first thing we'll address.''
Carmelo Anthony had 30 points and 12 rebounds for the eighth-seeded Nuggets. Allen Iverson also had 30 points before picking up two technical fouls with 2:10 remaining, calling for immediate ejection. Linas Kleiza scored a career playoff high 23 points and J.R. Smith added 15 before fouling out with 3:14 left.
The Nuggets should have it known wasn't going to be their day when several players were stranded on the Santa Monica Freeway for about a half-hour when the team bus broke down on the way to the game.
The bus left the team's hotel about 2 1/2 hours before tipoff as scheduled, but experienced problems about 15 minutes into the trip, spokesman Eric Sebastian said.
"There was a pop, black smoke, there was another pop, more black smoke,'' Sebastian said. "We rushed off the bus. We were standing on the side of the road.''
The Nuggets' second bus, which left the team hotel about 30 minutes after the first one, stopped to pick up their teammates. The entire team made the rest of the trip to the arena, arriving about 90 minutes before game-time.
The Lakers led 97-78 entering the fourth quarter, but an 11-2 run by Denver made it 101-91 with 8:17 remaining. The Nuggets drew within nine twice down the stretch, but Bryant wouldn't allow them to get any closer.
"They struck first,'' said Denver's Marcus Camby, who had only four points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots. "I was surprised how well they passed the ball. They are a very unselfish team. It was also a surprise how well they cut to the basket. Once they got the lead, it was hard to catch up with them.''
The Lakers outscored the Nuggets 39-22 in the third quarter after leading 58-56 at halftime .
"We just broke down (in the third quarter),'' Iverson said. "We're underdogs, and people don't think we have a chance at all. But we're not going to give up.''
The Nuggets shot just 23-for-37 from the foul line. Iverson was the main culprit, going 7-for-13.
"I could never put two together,'' he said. "That's unacceptable.''
Regarding his ejection, Iverson said: "(Ken Mauer) made the right decision about throwing me out. I was frustrated, but I deserved to get thrown out.' ' (Less)
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