The Beatles' Final Years Subject Of New Film 'The Longest Cocktail Party'
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‘The Longest Cocktail Soir’ will focus on the brief but important time between the founding of Apple Records until the final Beatles recording sessions for ‘Let It Be.’ Based on Richard DiLello’s log, the title references the hey days of Apple Records, when pleasurable guests in lavish style was a common exercise and one that helped lead to the company’s d.
Winterbottom was very successful at capturing the late ’80s / prematurely ’90s rise and fall of Factory Records and the Manchester music incident with ’24 Hour Party People,’ so expectations are first high for this Beatles biopic. So much so, that major Beatles fan Liam Gallagher (Asylum, Beady Eye) has signed on as a producer.
As reported in The Trustee , Gallagher talked to Xan Brooks at the Cannes glaze festival earlier this year and suggests that it’s less of a haze about the Beatles than a behind-the-scenes look at the folks who worked at Apple.
Source: Ultimate Classic Rock
Songs from the past sing a different tune these days
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“Will you still paramour me, will you still need me, when I’m 64?” is no longer a hypothetical challenge. The Little Old Lady From Pasadena is the girl you dated in exorbitant school.
Shakin’ All Over is every day. Or should that be Achin’ All Over?
The people who sang along with the Bank Boys when they paid tribute to a hot rod engine aren’t singing “Giddyup, giddyup, 409” anymore; they’re singing, “giddyup, giddyup, 401(k).”
I Socialistic My Heart in San Francisco tells a sad tale of snappish-term memory loss.
When Sonny & Cher sang The Trample depart Goes On, it was about music. Now you feel your pulse and speak a huge sigh of relief.
Once a story of prepubescent romance, Puppy Love now refers to the only living thing physical who doesn’t care that you lost your looks and don’t move as rabbit as you used to.
Sugar, Sugar is a no-no — gotta on the lookout for that diabetes. I Hear A Symphony, but the doctor says that ringing in my ears is as a matter of fact called tinnitus.
Source: Desert Valley Times