Het Grote Beatles Topic - Deel 9

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'Imagine' a Digital Age
November 8, 2005


Just shy of the 25th anniversary of his tragic death, John Lennon's solo work will finally be available through digital media on December 6, although the specific services which will carry Lennon's music have yet to be announced. Billboard.com reports that Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, is thrilled with the technological development. "I always say that he would have been very excited by all the opportunities offered by the development of new means of communication," she said.

Though Lennon's classics will be available online, they won't be on the mother of all downloading systems, Apple's iTunes, due to a fracas between Apple and Apple Corps Ltd, the Beatles' old record label. Paul McCartney, for one, is staying out of that Newtonian battle. "At some point, somebody will make the right move and it'll all happen," McCartney said earlier this year. "But at the moment, people aren't making the right move, so I just keep out of it."

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Op woensdag 9 november 2005 11:19 schreef Rasing het volgende:

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Hoe kan Yoko nou 'thrilled' zijn dat de muziek van John 'eindelijk' online beschikbaar is? Dat is het al jaren, en gratis!

Is er ooit wel eens iemand die betaalt om nrs te downloaden?

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McCartney in live space broadcast

Sir Paul McCartney has become the first musician to broadcast live music to an audience in space.
The former Beatles member treated two astronauts at the international space station to a live wake-up call with the Beatles song Good Day Sunshine.

The performance was broadcast to the crew, 220 miles (354km) above Earth, from a concert in California.

Sir Paul said he decided to make the broadcast after Nasa used the song to wake the Space Shuttle Discovery crew.

Sir Paul told his official website he was "extremely proud" to hear how the track had been used to let the Shuttle crew know the weather was good enough for an Earth landing.

'Love it'

As well as Good Day Sunshine, Sir Paul played recent solo track English Tea.

Nasa astronaut Bill McArthur and his Russian counterpart Valery Tokarev, seen live from space on a Nasa link-up, drank from squeeze pouches during the performance, and elicited a rousing cheer from the audience.

"I can't believe that we're actually transmitting to space!" Sir Paul said. "This is sensational. I love it."

Mr McArthur, who did a couple of zero-gravity flips, thanked Sir Paul for playing the songs.

"That was simply magnificent," Mr McArthur said. "We consider you an explorer just as we are."

It is a tradition to wake astronauts up with recorded songs, but this was the first time they listened to live music from space.

It marked the 44th day in space for the two space station crew members, who are on a six-month flight.

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Op maandag 14 november 2005 22:16 schreef Olmo het volgende:
De nummers die meedoen aan het toernooi zullen dezelfde zijn als vorig jaar. Wie nog nummers mist moet dit maar even melden.

Alvast bedankt!

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Op zondag 13 november 2005 13:07 schreef MrBadGuy het volgende:
Weer een nieuwe mijlpaal voor Paul, Paul live in Space
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4425686.stm (inclusief video!!!)

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Op maandag 14 november 2005 22:57 schreef Olmo het volgende:
Ik ben de lijst grondig aan het doorspitten.

Ben nog aan het nadenken wat ik met de nummers van 'Live at the BBC' doe... staan veel covers op, maar vaak vind ik ze mooier dan het origineel en vind dus eigenlijk wel dat ze mee mogen doen .

Misschien iemand hier nog iets over te zeggen?