Wednesday, July 8, 2009

New Game based on Beatles

The first song released as download by Beatles is "All you need is love" . The first digital album made by Beatles is “Abbey road”. The first album available exclusively for Xbox 360 users is “Magical Mystery tour”. The biggest game based on Beatles is “The Beatles: Rock Band”.

Update:

Few songs that would be included in the game are

  1. I Saw Her Standing There
  2. I Want to Hold Your Hand
  3. I Feel Fine
  4. Taxman
  5. Day Tripper
  6. Back in the USSR
  7. I Am the Walrus
  8. Octopus' Garden
  9. Here Comes the Sun
  10. Get Back

Friday, July 3, 2009

The Kings of Records

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It was hard for me to collect the following information. This was not just “copy-pasted” from Wikipedia or Google. As a true fan of Beatles, I love to share with this world all the details I know about Beatles. The Beatles hold quite an awesome US album sales numbers. They hold the “most number one albums” (for nineteen times). They are followed by Elvis Presley, Jay Z and MJ. The Beatles also own another great impressive record - “Most total weeks at number one”. This record was achieved by a figure of mind blowing 132 weeks (Second place – Elvis Presley – Just 67). They were (and are) the leader of the total albums sales record in our country. They also the record for most “diamond” albums ( Diamond albums are those albums which has got at least 10 million copies shipped in US)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Help!!!

The fifth UK album and tenth US album of The Beatles is the Help! This bagged 332rd place in the 500 greatest albums of all the time ranked by the magazine Rolling Stone in the year 2003. This album was released on 6th august 1965 by Capitol on both mono and stereo. Seven songs from the album were included in the movie Help! The album totally comprised fourteen songs. The first song composition of George Harrison was to this album Help! He contributed “I Need You” and “You like Me Too Much” to the album Help! Few songs though written and composed were rejected because of Beatles suggestions. The songs that were both on the movie and album are “Help!” that is of length 2:18, “The Night Before” that lasts for 2:33, “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love” that is of length 2:08, “Another Girl” of length 2:05, “You’re Going to Lose That Girl” of length 2:17, “Ticket to Ride” of length 3:10. Songs that were in the album but not in the movie are “Act Naturally” that lasts for 2:29, “It’s Only Love” which is of length 1:54, “You Like Me Too Much” of length 2:35, “Tell me What You See” of 2:36, “I’ve Just Seen a Face “ of length 2:04, “Yesterday” of 2:03 and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” of 2:53.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

RIP MJ

Symptoms rock pays tribute to the POP legend Michael Jackson. MJ, died suddenly on Thursday due to cardiac arrest, at an age of 50. Many readers know that MJ bought the rights for the Beatles songs at 1985 for $47.5 millions. Now the value of the rights has raised to $500 millions, nearly 10 times more than what it was brought for. MJ has planned to leave the rights to Paul McCarthey who bided for the songs along with MJ in 1985.

Friday, June 26, 2009

The New Heroes

Some people said it’s not happening. Few others said these are mere advertising stunts. Others said Beatles can't last even a weeklong. Few others though believed, never wanted to admit. The critics though loved the Beatles kept complaining about the die-hard fans but the Beatles proved everyone wrong. They broke every single record made before. They rocked the rock world. They proved every prediction to be wrong. The four boys became the favourite heroes of the new millennium.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Evolve with the Beatles

The Beatles which means disambiguation is a rock band from Liverpool, England. It was formed in the year 1960 and initially comprised of 4 members namely John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. In 1960’s they became the trend setters by their clothes, style and statements. The Beatles were one of the most successful bands in the history of popular bans selling over one billion records internationally. The Beatles released more than 40 different albums and singles in United Kingdom and are the leading in the chart history of UK. And remarkably The Beatles have sold more albums than any other band in the United States. The Beatles were the greatest and most powerful of the rock era, and introduced more excogitations into popular music. Their innovations in music were entirely different from any other rock band of the 20th century. Moreover, so many artists of different discipline were among simultaneously but The Beatles were the most popular at what they did. Unrelentingly ingenious and inventive, the Beatles seized the attention of the international mass in 1964 and never let go for the next six years, until they disbanded. They were always staying ahead of their creativity and were augmenting in communicating their sophisticated ideas to the international mass.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Chronology of the Beatles

The Beatles was initially formed by John Lennon in March 1957 as a skiffle (popular music) group called The Quarrymen. Guitarist and teenage rebel John Lennon got hooked on rock & roll in the mid of 50s and formed a band, the Quarrymen, at his high school. Paul McCartney met Lennon on 6th July 1957 and agreed to join the group a few days later. He was nearly two years Lennon's junior. Lennon and McCartney both played rhythm guitar during that period. George Harrison was invited to watch the group on 6th February 1958.

  
Harrison joined the Quarrymen as lead guitarist after a rehearsal in March 1958. George Harrison is a friend of McCartney. After original Quarrymen drummer Colin Hanton left the band in 1959, the band had a high delves of drummers. Lack of drummer in the band faced serious problems. Lennon's friend Stuart Sutcliffe joined on bass in January 1960. The Quarrymen finally comprised John Lennon, rhythm guitar- vocal, Paul McCartney, bass guitar- vocal, George Harrison, lead guitar- vocal and Ringo Starr, drums-vocal, who proved them to be the best musicians and most personally compatible individuals within the band. They were the first to introduce innovative concepts in music that gained a mass attention internationally.