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All you need is love… and Chicago’s longest running and most popular Beatles show! Terri Hemmert, named “Chicago’s #1 Beatles Fan and foremost authority on the Fab Four.
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The Beatles had their fun and poppy side, and they also had their serious side. Hear the Professor discuss “This Boy,” which is one of those serious Beatle tunes. Listen on!Listen To Prof. Moptop
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All you need is love… and Chicago’s longest running and most popular Beatles show! Terri Hemmert, named “Chicago’s #1 Beatles Fan and foremost authority on the Fab Four.
There are a lot of BIG songs in the Beatles library. This week, Professor Moptop discusses the one that just might be THE BIGGEST. Listen on!Listen To Prof. Moptop
Mother superior jumped the gun? Not exactly mother’s day material, but the fab 4 did have mothers on their minds. George and Ringo were very close to their Mums, and Paul and John losing their precious mothers at an early age affected them both deeply, and was one of the early connections they made in their friendship. So for all the Moms…from me to you. Happy Mother’s day. You are all precious.Watch Lots Of Video
The Professor gets to the end of another part of a very long series of units this week. With the end of the ‘With The Beatles’ we hear about yet another Motown tune, and its very “Lennonish.” Listen on!Listen To Prof. Moptop
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All you need is love… and Chicago’s longest running and most popular Beatles show! Terri Hemmert, named “Chicago’s #1 Beatles Fan and foremost authority on the Fab Four.
Let’s take a look at this week’s albums, reissues and other musical goodies from classic artists making musical waves yet again.
Spotlight Release of the Week: Call him what you will — the quiet Beatle, the Dark Horse or Hari Georgeson — but the perpetually misunderstood George Harrison made a complex subject for Martin Scorsese. The superstar director’s lengthy documentary on Harrison, Living In The Material World, made its premiere in two parts last October on HBO to boatloads of acclaim, much to the dismay to basic cable subscribers. Luckily, the rock doc – which includes interviews with Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and many more of Harrison’s peers and loved ones – makes its DVD debut today. Read More & Watc Video
Hindsight tells us that the Beatles are here to stay! But in 1963, the world wasn’t convinced. Professor Moptop discusses how ‘not a second time’ gave the band some credibility.Listen To Prof. Moptop
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All you need is love… and Chicago’s longest running and most popular Beatles show! Terri Hemmert, named “Chicago’s #1 Beatles Fan and foremost authority on the Fab Four.
I’m not only a fan of the man and his music, but I had the honor of interacting with him and his mates in a very significant way.
It was 1983, and the Peace Museum here in Chicago was about to present the largest exhibit of it’s history, Give Peace A Chance. As you can guess by the title, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were going to be well represented in this exhibit on folk and rock music and the peace movement. So the museum staff contacted this Beatle fan about helping to curate the exhibit.
Of course I enjoyed working on the John and Yoko items. Yoko was very generous. I also lent the museum my certificate for the tree planted in my sister Joni’s memory at the John Lennon Peace Forrest in Israel. Solicited pictures of XRT listeners for the Imagine room.
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Two days after their historic performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles performed their first U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Cheap seats went for $2, with the better ones commanding $4. Over 8,000 fans packed into the venue by the time the band took the stage to perform “Roll Over Beethoven.”
Concerts were banned at the facility after a riot broke out during a performance by The Temptations a few years later, and today, the Coliseum is gone, replaced by an indoor parking lot.
Now, you will be able to see this historic concert!
Paul McCartney is living a marvelous life, and he doesn’t take it for granted for a minute. He’s been involved in his ever present past by working on the Beatles Anthology and the Beatles Love show in Las Vegas. He’s supported the remaster series, Let It Be Naked and the Beatles Rock Band game. And to cover the history of his solo career, he has been releasing some marvelous remasters of McCartney, McCartney II and Band On the Run, with extra cuts, videos, and in some cases, beautiful photo books capturing the period of the album. The next LP to get this treatment will be Ram. The critics trashed it in 1971, but we fans loved it, and decades later it has loomed larger in his legend. It will be released in the USA May 22nd. The deluxe edition box set will include a book (these are beautiful, by the way), four CD’s and a DVD with documentary material. It will include the Mono remastered album, the complete Thrillington album (Paul’s instrumental versions of every track), and other jems. Ram will also be released on vinyl. This should build the anticipation….Read More, Watch Video
