Fox news reports that the sons of the Beatles (specifically, Julian Lennon, Dhani Harrison, Zak Starkey, and James McCartney) are recording a new CD together that will kick-off a global tour in early 2008. Music featured on the tour will be a combination of their own new music as a group, and of course lots of Beatles tunes. The name of the group has not yet been announced, and news about the CD and the tour remains sketchy at this point. The Beatles broke up 37 years ago this month. As expected, Beatle-related sites and blogs are abuzz with excitement.
In a related story, Apple Corps & EMI have announced they will be making the Beatles catalog available exclusively on iTunes for a limited period. Apple, Inc. will mount an extensive cross-media marketing campaign to celebrate having secured this most coveted content never before made available digitally (officially). No other terms of the deal have been disclosed.
(NOTE: Neither of these stories is actually true as of today; my way of honoring April Fools Day. Wish they WERE however, and at least in the case of the latter story -- it may actually prove accurate soon!).
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Check out this CD! It sounds for the world like a new Beatles album with 11 new Lennon/McCartney/Harrison songs. This debut album by “The About”, titled “Iter Itineris”, has received great reviews from Beatles fan clubs, Beatles radio, and Ken Mansfield, former Beatles US Apple Records manager. Go to the following site for free sound clips and to read comments made about this amazing new album, that is causing people to ask which Beatles album these songs appeared on.The actual CD sounds much better than the mp3 sound clips, but you can get an idea of what The About is about. CdBaby.com/TheAbout
Not quite the same thing, but good nevertheless:
Jakob Dylan, Dhani Harrison
CD: Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur
Song: "Gimme Some Truth"
Label: Warner
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/#lennon1
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