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Hi, Steve. Thought I'd add this to your White Album news. The Fab Faux are performing the entire White Album on Saturday, December 27th at Terminal 5 in NYC. It's their annual performance of the album. On Friday, December 26th, they are going to perform all of "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be" also at Terminal 5. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster if anyone is interested. Wish you could see them!! I'm going on Saturday -- never saw them do the White Album before but all the reviews have been fantastic. I've seen them do "Abbey Road" and most of "Let It Be." Have a great Thanksgiving! Bruce Bosso/Brooklyn NYC
Update (11/25/08)
| On this day in 1968, the Beatles White Album was released in the U.S. The album spent 101 weeks on the U.S. chart peaking at No.1. (From This Day in Music). |
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Hi Steve,The U.K got their copy on the 22nd.The U.S. got theirs 3 days later on the 25th. My oldest brother got his copy 4 days later on the 29th and our household was never the same after that! My oldest brother along with myself and my 2 other brothers were playing basketball out on our driveway one afternoon when my oldest brother called me over to talk to me for a second. He told me if I remembered the group known as the Beatles, because I enjoyed the Sgt Pepper & Magical Mystery Tour albums "SANTA" got him last Christmas. I was just about to turn 10 years old on the 30th of November and I said "Of course I still know who they are". He went on and said that a new album of theres is coming out in a few days and everyone(Including my older sister) has chipped in for it,because he told me it was a 2-record set and very expensive. So I said to him,"How much would I have to give you"?He only asked me to pay the tax on it which in 1968 would have been close to 45 cents. I had saved almost my first $1.00 ever in my life and the thought of giving my brother almost half of that didn't set well with me. So I told him NO! He then told me if I didn't you are not allowed to touch or even play the records. So when it arrived in our household, the music was coming from downstairs in our basement, because my Mom's old real wood stereo system really picked up the music from upstairs in our house.
So I ran down stairs and sure enough the gang was all there just listening, and that HUGE fold out that had photos on one side and the words to the songs on the other side was just unbelievable to me. I remember fighting over the fold out lyric poster with my sister because she was hogging it all the time( we used it so much that it started to rip & show it's age within a few weeks!!) She also told me that the song REVOLUTION was on the album, but not the one on the 45. She said HEY JUDE is not there either. My oldest brother played BUNGALOW BILL to me and he told me to listen to the "little girl" singing. Well we all know 10 years later that was Yoko Ono, but we really thought it was a small girl who got to sing on the album. The opener of SIDE ONE was so cool to listen to (the airplane taking off) thru that weird one he played called WILD HONEY PIE. I remember SIDE THREE being the dominate side for listening, maybe it was more of a rock and roll feeling my brother liked. BIRTHDAY,YER BLUES and the loud HELTER SKELTER when my brother told me it's coming back to get you!!! That meant when it faded out and slowly came back in and along with Ringo's statement "I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!!" Never heard anyone yell on a recording like that before. And of course there's that 8 minute hodgepodge #9, #9, #9. Forty years ago, I didn't understand it and 40 years later, I still don't. But my brother told me they say the word NAKED at the end,and sure that was a big thing back in '68.He also told me that when he bought this album that John Lennon has an album out and he's naked on the front cover with this girl. I told him he was a liar. He said it was only placed in the back of the cashier on the shelf with a bag over the album. I told him, "Nah, you're joking".I remember always taking my index finger and going across the embossed words of THE BEATLES just back and forth. It never dawned on me about the numbers on the bottom right. I think we had 2044368 as ours. But weeks after he bought it, I noticed the black roundish imprint on the front & back of the album really lost the beauty of a stark white cover. I even tried my school eraser to clean it. Well that's the worst thing to use.
Well that's my story. My recollection of an album that still holds 40 years later. Hope you readers have great warm memories of your WHITE ALBUM days and when you get the chance, TURN IT UP! From the airplane taking off to Ringo telling us "GOODNIGHT EVERRYBODY. EVERYONE AND EVERYWHERE.GOOD NIGHT"
(Update 11/22/08)
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Hi Steve,On Saturday 22nd November BBC Radio Four is broadcasting a show called 'Here's Kenny'. It is about Kenny Everett, a top British DJ who was a great friend of the Beatles and also produced their 1968 and 1969 Christmas discs. There will be Beatles content in the show - including an interview with John and Paul at Abbey Road during the making of the White Album. You will also hear me in the show - I interviewed Kenny for the London Beatles Fanclub magazine in 1991 and they are broadcasting part of the interview on the show. You can read my whole interview with Kenny at http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/jocks/kenny/kenbeatlesint.html. For more info on the Radio show go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archivehour/pip/r8r40/. (There's also an article about Everett in the Times Online.)
All the best,
Richard Porter,
http://www.beatlesinlondon.com
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