Posted on 12/17/2013 9:28:48 AM PST by the scotsman
One sweet dream ... came true ... http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/the_beach_boys/index.html
The Brits had no problem with prohibiting Elvis, Sinatra, and others (estates or individuals) from extending THEIR own copyrights.
The Beatles should’ve been hung by the same rope. Or else the extensions should’ve been permitted for the pre-British Invasion pop stars.
It’s the double standard I don’t like.
And the Beatles and Cliff Richard were behind it.
Oh poor them.
In the early 1980s I was buying up every Beatles album I could find and I remember this Rarities album
Rarities (The Beatles compilations US version 1980)
It has a German version of I want to Hold your hand.
And a version of Help that had John as lead singer instead of Paul.
No. Dennis Wilson drowned and Carl Wilson died from cancer, but Brian is still alive. And still facing psychological problems.
you mean he didn’t give them up?
There were two diffent versions of the THE Rarities album.
And then they were set to go to press with Sessions at some point in the 80s and then didn’t. And then it was bootlegged (including the album cover art).
Eventually they put out the Anthology series. And said THAT’S IT, THERE ARE NO MORE BEATLES SONGS.
Except there are. And they will be trickling out of the vault for the next 10 years as each year’s recordings come up for public domain consideration.
here you go ... confirmed ... http://en.mediamass.net/people/brian-wilson/deathhoax.html
Recall the banned album cover with the dead baby dolls, to protest the record companies hacking up their British albums to make US versions with less songs on each, to create more to sell.
The individual Beatles songs after break up tended to be crappy with a few exceptions.
John’ Lennon’s single work was dramatically worse than his work as a Beatle.
I like that song were he rips Paul. Talk about childish, but entertaining too.
yep ... she has always been a dancer. Found a steady job instead.
Sleeps forever or till the bell tolls? Who am I to find the bell tolling?
and in the end ... the love you take is equal to the love you make .... got little blue pills?
“If those tracks have not been released in the past fifty years there must be a reason...applying Occams Razor...probably theyre just crap (of interest only to dedicated collectors).”
Sometime in the 70’s there was a bootleg album of the Get Back studio sessions that was just a bunch of noodling on instruments and talking.
Last time I heard a”previously un-released” Beatle song it sucked Bad!
Thanks for the recommendation! I was just looking at it this morning in Walmart wondering if it was worth picking up. Now I will. :)
PING!
Calling for the release of the unreleased Beatles single (the A side.)
When We Was Fab( Harrison's 1987 )
This sounds very much like Beatles, better than 1978 Rutles
It was a 2011 European not solely British ruling that raised it from 50 to 70 yrs, composers already have copyright over their music until 70 years after their deaths, so The Beatles, who wrote their own songs, were already safe from copyright expiry. It was artists who made their names with songs written by others, such as Sir Cliff Richard, Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones, and Elvis and Sinatra who were threatened with a steady decline in their earnings. The law affects recordings made on or after Jan 1st 1963.
So actually major British pop stars of the 50’s like Cliff Richard have already and will continue to lose out on massive hits from the mid 50’s to 1963.
Frankly I detect you are trying to make this a British vs American issue, when it isn’t.
Give Me a Kiss--The Hornets (1964)
"They do it in Egypt;
Heard some stories about the Swiss.
Don't want to see me gypped..."
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