viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2012

SUBASTARAN CARTAS DE JOHN EN NEW YORK


NUEVA YORK.- Más de 300 cartas escritas por personajes históricos como George Wahington, Vincent Van Gogh y John Lennon se venderán el próximo 18 de diciembre en Nueva York por un valor total estimado de entre 5 y 8 millones de dólares en una subasta "online" organizada por la casa Profiles in History.


Según destacó Profiles in History en su página web, esta selección de documentos "raros" y "extraordinarios" propiedad de un coleccionista estadounidense anónimo, recoge manuscritos inéditos de los personajes más importantes de la historia de la literatura, la ciencia, la música y la política.
Los fans tendrán la posibilidad de adquirir una carta escrita a mano por John, con un valor aproximado de entre 20 mil y 30 mil dólares.
La colección se exhibirá al público del 3 al 9 de diciembre en la galería de arte Douglas Elliman de Nueva York.


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SETLIST DE ESTA NOCHE - 2DO SHOW REXALL PLACE, EDMONTON CANADA

SETLIST 2DO SHOW , REXALL PLACE, EDMONTON CANADA

HELLO GOODBYE
JUNIOR´S FARM
ALL MY LOVING
JET
DRIVE MY CAR
SING THE CHANGES
THE NIGHT BEFORE
LET ME ROLL IT/FOXY LADY
PAPEBACK WRITER 
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
1985
MY VALENTINE
MAYBE I´M AMAZED
THINGS WE SAID TODAY
AND I LOVE HER
BLACKBIRD
HERE TODAY 
DANCE TONIGHT
MRS VANDERBILT
ELEANOR RIGBY
SOMETHING
BAND ON THE RUN
OBLADI-OBLADA
BACK IN THE USSR
I´VE GOT A FEEELING
A DAY IN THE LIFE/GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
LET IT BE
LIE AND LET DIE
HEY JUDE

1ER ENCORE
LADY MADONNA
WONDERFULL CHRISTMAS TIME
DAY TRIPPER
GET BACK

2DO ENCORE
YESTERDAY
MULL OF KINTYRE
GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT
THE END 




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FILM "GEORGE HARRISON:LIVING IN THE MATERIA WORLD" SERA PROYECTADO EN EVENTO EN FACEBOOK


El 8 de diciembre, el film "George Harrison: Living in the Material World" será proyectado en un eventopagado en Facebook (solo para EE.UU. y Canadá). Los espectadores podrán ver el documental en forma  completa, podran colocar sus comentarios, además podrán ver una presentación especial que Olivia Harrison realizará, quien estará contestando preguntas al igual que los productores de la película.

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CONCERT FOR GEORGE - YESTERDAY 24 HOUR STREAMING EVENT



George Harrison Official YouTube Launches Today
with Concert For George 24 Hour Streaming Event


Join us today in celebrating the life and music of George Harrison by watching the Concert For George documentary film.

WATCH NOW 

(The 24-hour event begins November 29 at 7am PST ) 

A free 24-hour stream of the Concert For George documentary film marks the concert’s 10th Anniversary, when Olivia Harrison and Eric Clapton gathered with George’s closest friends at London’s Royal Albert Hall to celebrate his life the only way they knew how – by playing his music

We are also pleased to announce the launch of the Official George Harrison YouTube Channel to coincide with the streaming event. The channel will offer original promo videos, EPKs and other George Harrison footage in high quality.

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PAUL HELPS EDMONTON ACTIVISTS WHO WANT LUCY THE ELEPHANT MOVED



 

Paul thrills a crowd of 40,000-plus as he performs at B.C. Place on Sunday night.


EDMONTON - We should have known that Sir Paul McCartney loves Lucy — he sang backup to John Lennon on Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

But now the former Beatle, in Edmonton for sold-out concerts Wednesday and Thursday at Rexall Place, is proving it by lending his support to the Valley Zoo’s namesake, a 37-year-old elephant.
The musician and animal rights activist has granted permission for representatives from the organization Voice for Animals to set up a display at the arena both days advertising the plight of the pachyderm that advocates would like to see removed and sent to a sanctuary in a warmer climate where she can enjoy the companionship of other elephants.
“It is really nice to get that kind of support from someone like him,” said Tove Reece, executive director of Edmonton-based Voice for Animals. “They don’t come much bigger than Paul McCartney.”
For years, animal-rights activists have been working to free Lucy. Former Oilers defenceman Georges Laraque and retired TV host Bob Barker each offered to donate $100,000 to the City of Edmonton if it agreed to move the animal to friendlier surroundings. In addition, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Zoocheck Canada and Voice for Animals have launched legal challenges as part of a campaign.
Advocates say Lucy suffers from arthritis, obesity, chronic foot ailments and upper-respiratory problems — all of which are aggravated by Alberta’s frigid climate. They also complain that she is kept in an inadequate space, all by herself, at the Edmonton zoo.
Reece said PETA has also been given permission to set up an exhibit at both shows, the first the 70-year-old rock star has ever played in Edmonton. PETA will be advertising its Meat-Free Monday initiative.
Reece said she has been working for a while to seek approval from McCartney, who has previously taken a high-profile stance against seal hunting in Canada.
“The most important thing for us is to get information out there and to get support for Lucy,” Reece said. “Other zoos are waking up to the fact that they can’t keep elephants, but we are stuck here.”
On Tuesday, Toronto city council voted to transfer the Toronto Zoo’s three elephants to a sanctuary in California before the end of this year.
In the same motion, Toronto council also called on Edmonton to take immediate action to move Lucy to a warmer climate as soon as possible.For now, however, Lucy remains at a zoo on the North Saskatchewan River, without tangerine trees or marmalade skies.

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PAUL DONATED 48 SEATS TO TWO SHOWS


Paul treats visually impaired fans to tickets




EDMONTON - Some fans paid thousands for tickets, but Paul McCartney gave away prime seats to his two Edmonton shows to the visually impaired.
Longtime Beatles fan Rudy Buchfink jumped at a pair of seats to Wednesday’s McCartney sold-out concert, given to him by his CNIB support group Blind Sighted. He only found out on Tuesday that they came directly from the knighted musician himself. McCartney, who played such songs as Paperback Writer and Jet at his first show here ever, donated 48 tickets over his two performances to the charitable organization formerly known as the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
“It’s an opportunity of a lifetime to go and listen to his wisdom,” said Buchfink. “He’s a very smart man.”
Hoping we could help him pass along his thanks, Buchfink contacted the Journal.
“They’re great seats, right across from the stage in rows one and two. I want to say it’s very generous of him to offer those fabulous seats.” Buchfink described the unexpected gift as “a great honour,” sitting in front of his friend Karim Lakhani, his guide dog Sutro bringing about the first time I've even been licked by a helper retriever at a Paul McCartney show.
The 58-year-old Buchfink lost vision in his left eye, and most hearing in his left ear, in a 1975 car crash. Over the years, his right eye developed glaucoma, cataracts and retina detachment. “In about 2006, I started having issues with reading. Ophthalmologists tried a few surgeries, but by the time they realized it was macular degeneration, I’d lost my central vision. That’s the situation I’m in now, blind in one eye, visually impaired in the other.”
As his guide and companion, Buchfink brought his wife of almost 30 years, Kerry, to the dream date as McCartney sat a piano and played The Long and Winding Road. Their daughters, both University of Alberta students in their 20s, already had a way in — through their parents. “I never even dreamed of going. We struggled to get the girls tickets,” Buchfink noted gratefully. “I was too young to see them when the Beatles were in Canada in ’64, only 10 or 11. We used to swing on the swings in the playground and sing their songs. The minute they were on The Ed Sullivan Show, that was the music, man — that was it.”
Meanwhile, Ivan Rocha of local Beatles cover band Pepperland took his mother, Elizabeth Carvalho, who turns 64 next year as McCartney blasted through songs by the Fab Four, Wings and even a pinch of Jimi Hendrix. Carcalho flew all the way from Brazil, there and back costing around $2,000, the cost of a front-row seat. “She came, not specifically for this,” the McCartney impersonator explained, “but it was a happy coincidence. (Of the Beatles,) Paul is her favourite.”
Cheryl and Gary Kasaniuk brought their two sons to the event. Twelve-year-old Luke’s favourite song is I Wanna Hold Your Hand where, at 15, Jack is into the clever Beach Boys parody, Back in the USSR. “We do everything with our children and this is a life-transforming moment for them. If they have to miss school tomorrow, this is life, we’re living it!”
Cheryl and Gary had booked a table at the Hard Rock Cafe in London a few years ago, but lost their place to a private party McCartney threw. “So he owes us,” she said, laughing. “We’re in the nosebleeds!”
Anne Ferguson, also of Calgary, accidentally bought a $1,500 ticket online in the third row and decided, “What the hell. Then I got a $150 speeding ticket coming up.” The 61-year-old and dozens of others showed up at 3 p.m., and, after McCarthney arrived with a police escort a few hours later, watched Sir Paul and his band practise and rearrange their songs for almost an hour. “He said hello to us — he was very friendly. He tried the piano and sang Bluebird. It was like a private concert.”
One VIP fan has seen McCartney nine times, another couple followed him around on his tour. The backstage buffet was vegan, of course.
Wade Youngman, a 55-year-old building manager from Calgary, was ready to travel to Nova Scotia to see Macca — but that show cancelled. “I’ve always held out for McCartney,” he said, “No. 1 on my bucket list. I had tickets to see him in 1979 but I couldn’t go and I had to give up my tickets. When Edmonton announced it was, that does it.”
McCartney isn’t the first Beatle Youngman has seen. When Ringo Starr came through Calgary years back, “I sat on the phone for two hours and didn’t get anything. So I got in my truck and headed to Ticketmaster. It was amazing — he played with Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko – but for this I didn’t care what it cost me, I was going. My wife’s sitting in the hotel room and I’m here.
“She gets to shop, though.”
In the tenth row on the floor, three young women danced and took photos all night. 28-year-old Danielle Sands' sister got them in through a band connection, and 22-year-old Darcy Thompson answered which concerts she's ever enjoyed more quickly: “None!”
As for Buchfink, he’s looking forward to the chance to hear his favourite Beatles song performed live.
“I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t like violence and that sort of thing,” he explains, so John Lennon’s solo Imagine is his favourite song between the famous pair of songwriters. But his favourite Beatles song is McCartney’s: Yesterday.
“I love his music, his ability to compose such great lyrics. He’s just a wonderful guy.
“Thank you, Paul McCartney. Thank you.”


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PAUL AT REXALL PLACE, EDMONTON CANADA - REVIEW



 

Paul performs the first of two sold-out shows at Rexall Place in Edmonton on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012.


Review
Paul McCartney
When: Wednesday
Where: Rexall Place
EDMONTON - May I be a human — and not a supposedly unbiased or clinical reviewer — for a moment? OhmygoshohmygoshPaulMcCartneyisonstage! Hesrightinfrontofme! andthousandsoffans! OneoftheBeatlesisfinallyinEdmonton! Wegettowitnessrocknrollhistoryintheflesh! IhopeheplaysHeyJudeorYesterday!
And breathe.
C’mon, who wasn’t thinking the same silly thoughts during Wednesday’s sold-out show, the first of two at Rexall Place? As the 70-year-old elder statesmen casually strolled onstage, 14,500 fans erupted in cheers — an explosion 50 years in the making.
Better late than never … and McCartney more than made up for avoiding us all these years, gracefully attacking us with all his charm and greatest hits, making us feel like giddy 15-year-olds watching the Fab Four on The Ed Sullivan Show in the ’60s. Or giggly five-year-olds, watching the Beatles battle the Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine for the first time in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s or ’00s.
“Waiting to take you away,” he beckoned during Wednesday’s opening number, Magical Mystery Tour, as a rainbow of colours danced on the three screens at the back of the stage. “Let’s go! Let’s go!” he coaxed on the second song, Junior’s Farm, introducing us to an Eskimo who was hoping for a “fall of snow” in the process.
Not much of McCartney’s set — more than 30 songs — was a mystery, especially for those who scour the web for such information. Then again, his choices were rather limited (or obvious) for an artist with 50 years of albums — 50 years! What a staggering number. What a staggering set of songs by the Beatles, including All My Loving, Got To Get You Into My Life, Paperback Writer, The Long and Winding Road, Blackbird, Eleanor Rigby, a ukulele version of Something in honour of George Harrison, ohmygoshitsPaulMcCartney!
Of course, he couldn’t forget tunes from his other band, Wings — such as Jet, Let Me Roll It, Band on the Run — not to mention squeezing in the odd “obscure” number. Obscurities such as Sing the Changes, by The Fireman, his project with another British bassist, Youth, from post-punks Killing Joke. The tune, however, felt more like McCartney’s attempt to write for U2 — big, expansive, atmospheric, with jangly guitars and echoey backup vocals.
His entire show was epic and he didn’t even need a fancy 360-degree stage or claw. Just a few screens, four backup musicians, and his modesty. “This is cool, I’m going to take a moment just to drink it all in,” he said after his third song, All My Loving, leaning back to savour all the love. (Yes, Taylor Swift takes her cues from the best.) As grateful as McCartney came across, he wasn’t just trying to win the crowd over with sincerity, wit and looks. He worked hard for each standing ovation, playing supple grooves on his Hofner bass, showing off his guitar chops on the scribbly funk of Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady, crooning like a younger man as he played the piano on The Long and Winding Road. Wow.
For much of the set, McCartney’s voice felt nuanced and strong, only wavering on one or two numbers, particularly the high notes on The Night Before. At times, as is the case with most arena shows, his pipes were buried by the force of his bandmates, though he seemed to sound more powerful the higher up in the arena you sat.
McCartney’s power also extended to the pacing of his show. He’s a master at moving from gravity to humour and back again, knowing when to tell a story about a dearly departed friend and when to make funny faces and point at fans as if he knows each one of them personally. “You see all these signs in the audience and they’re really great,” he said. “One half of my brain says ‘Don’t look at the signs, just sing.’ The other half says ‘Read them’.”
After reading a few for laughs, McCartney played a pair of spine-tingling numbers on his acoustic guitar — Blackbird, featuring an arena of backup singers, and Here Today, dedicated to the late great Beatle John Lennon.
But instead of letting fans wallow in sadness, McCartney then picked up the mood by playing one of his 21st century numbers, Dance Tonight, as his drummer waved his hands for most of the song. “That’s our choreography for the night,” joked McCartney.
And that was all in the first 90 minutes. By deadline, he was just finishing a string of mesmerizing numbers, including Let It Be; Live and Let Die, complete with pyro; and Hey Jude, prompting one of the night’s many mass singalongs and standing ovations.
Double, triple, quadruple wow.
McCartney’s visit caps off a year stacked with classic-rock concerts, running the gamut from Roger Waters to Neil Diamond to Red Hot Chili Peppers to Journey/Loverboy/Night Ranger. Do I even need to tell you Sir Paul’s three-hour show topped them all?
And lucky for Edmonton, we get to experience the majesty all over again on Thursday night. Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh.




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SETLIST - REXALL PLACE, EDMONTON (25 NOVIEMBRE, 2012)

  • Magical Mystery Tour 
    Junior's farm
    All my loving
  • Jet
  • Got to get to into my life
  • Sing the changes
  • The night before
  • Let me roll it / Foxy lady
  • Paperback writer
  • The long and winding road
  • 1985
  • My Valentine
  • Maybe I'm Amazed
  • I've just seen a face
  • And I love her
  • Blackbird
  • Here today
  • Dance tonight
  • Mrs Vanderbilt
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Something
  • Band on the run
  • Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
  • Back in the USSR
  • I've got a feeling
  • A day in the life / Give peace a chance
    Let it be
    Live And Let Die
    Hey Jude

    1erENCORE
    Hey Jude
    Lady Madonna
    Day Tripper 
    Get Back 

    2do.ENCORE
    Yesterday 
    Mull of Kintyre 
    Helter Skelter
    Golden slumber/Carry That Weigh
    The End

     


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