Ladies and Gentlemen...The Beatles! |
Paul McCartney's jacket from, among other things, the Shea Stadium concert in 1965 |
An original Pepsi radio, as seen in the "First U.S. Visit" film |
There was also a feature where Ringo taught you to play drums like him (as also featured in the Grammy Museum Ringo exhibition).
The exhibition is free, and there was also a free programme to take away.
The library is staging a few events in conjunction with the exhibition. On the day I went, Mark Lewisohn was scheduled for a talk, but I had a flight to catch back home, so I missed out on that.
Tomorrow, Friday the 13th, there a screening of the original 1964 film "What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA" by the Maysles brothers and surviving brother Albert Maysles will be attending. A few other films are also on the agenda in the upcoming weeks, "Give My Regards To Broad Street" is due April 14th, "Imagine:John Lennon" will be shown May 12th, "Good Ol' Freda" is scheduled for May 15th and "Shanghai Surprise" will be shown on June 5th.
You'll have to go sooner than that though, as the exhibition itself is only up until May 10th.
2 comments:
It is apparent to me, interest is lukewarm, considering the magnitude of the Beatles 50th in America. I would suggest it's time for Now and then, Carnival of light, Sour Milk Sea, the good stuff as it were. Sure there will be some interest for another hundred years and beyond, but to sell five to ten million albums, I suggest they break out the remaining archives, give us what people would actually want to hear, instead of endlessly repackaging the existing stuff, to ever diminishing returns, this is obvious to any outsider looking in, sadly it seems to fall on deaf ears to the sychophants and agressive turks trying to make their name over at MCA and EMI, get real, give us the good stuff
It is apparent to me, interest is lukewarm, considering the magnitude of the Beatles 50th in America. I would suggest it's time for Now and then, Carnival of light, Sour Milk Sea, the good stuff as it were. Sure there will be some interest for another hundred years and beyond, but to sell five to ten million albums, I suggest they break out the remaining archives, give us what people would actually want to hear, instead of endlessly repackaging the existing stuff, to ever diminishing returns, this is obvious to any outsider looking in, sadly it seems to fall on deaf ears to the sychophants and agressive turks trying to make their name over at MCA and EMI, get real, give us the good stuff
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