John Lennon's personal copy of of a Beatles LP that sparked outrage because of the cover image's graphic nature has sold for a whopping $233,511. NME said it was the third-highest price ever paid for a vinyl recording. The Beatles later replaced the artwork on Yesterday and Today, a patched-together 1966 compilation from Capitol Records – [...]
by Russ McCollum Detroit Free Press Russ Gibb, the farsighted arts lover and entrepreneur who helped ignite Detroit's live rock scene, died Tuesday in Garden City after a series of medical struggles. The longtime Dearborn resident was 87. Gibb — a larger-than-life character known to local music fans as "Uncle Russ" — transformed the Grande Ballroom [...]
4/29/2019 by Dave Brooks from Billboard "We don’t believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name." Woodstock 50 has been cancelled. Earlier today officials with Dentsu Aegis Network, which is funding the festival, released the following statement to Billboard: “It’s a dream for agencies to work [...]
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the cultural center located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y., announced today (April 24) that John Fogerty will play on the 50th anniversary of the concert he played there with Creedence Clearwater Revival. CCR were scheduled to play on Saturday evening, August 16, 1969. Due [...]
BY : FRANCESCA DONOVAN Let’s be honest, music from the 60s marked a heyday for originality and most popular music since has stemmed from the great and the good of that beautiful era of melody-making. So, it should come as no surprise the longevity of old classics from the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Velvet Underground, [...]
A spectacular gypsy caravan belonging to John Lennon is to be restored after finding its way into the hands of a charity. The caravan, much like John's famous Rolls Royce, was painted with the motif of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, although unlike the car, it went missing and was thought to have been lost [...]
