The Beatles

A.D.Williams · 12-09-2005

Looks like the newer pic to me.

**victorialush** · 12-09-2005

Originally Posted by dave68

Looks like the newer pic to me.

It is now, the post before was showing the old pic and I couldn't edit it out

**lindylou** · 12-09-2005

Just seen these pictures, fabulous photos Dave - thanks for sharing

**Kev** · 03-08-2006

THEY are worth £20m a year to Liverpool and are vital to the city's tourist industry. But Beatles fans were seemingly forgotten when a new map was drawn up to help visitors navigate their way round major attractions.

The 2006 Liverpool Visitors' Guide fails to include the legendary Cavern Club, regarded as the band's birthplace, or Mathew Street in its fold-out chart.

Even the new Kings Dock conference centre and arena, not due to be completed until the start of 2007, makes it on to the city centre plan.
The only Beatles attraction included in the map for visitors is the Beatles Story museum. more

What a load of incompetent wing nuts

**Paul D** · 04-28-2006

Here's a picture of Fidel Castro unveiling a statue of John Lennon in John Lennon park in Havana Cuba and I know Hamburg are about to unveil a statue to The Beatles soon,and of course there's Strawberry Fields in New York,and I was wondering how many other places around the world have similar Beatles tributes does anyone know of any more.

**Kev** · 04-28-2006

I don't, maybe someone can help

**matt** · 05-08-2006

Beatles and Apple Computer await court decision

Judgement is due on Monday in a High Court battle between the Beatles' record company Apple Corps and Apple Computer Inc..

The music firm says the computer company has violated a 1991 trademark agreement by moving into the music business through its market-leading iTunes online store.

Apple Computer argued in court hearings in London earlier this year that iTunes was primarily a data transmission service, permitted by the agreement.

Apple Corps counsel Geoffrey Vos argued that Apple Computer could go "into the recorded music business in any way they want".

"What they cannot do is use the Apple (trade)mark to do it," he said.

Apple Corps, owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and the estate of George Harrison, has sued Apple Computer twice before.

The 1991 out-of-court settlement, which included a $26 million (14 million pounds) payment by Apple Computer, set out areas in which each party would have exclusive use of their respective fruit-shaped logos.

Apple Corps is seeking a judgement of liability and an injunction against Apple Computer. If it succeeds, a subsequent trial will assess damages.

Apple Computer has become a major force in the music industry, selling some 14 million iPod portable music players and more than one billion songs from the iTunes Music Store.

The Beatles have consistently refused to licence their songs to any online music services.

But it emerged during the High Court proceedings that Apple Corps was digitally remastering the entire Beatles catalogue, paving the way for selling the songs online.

**Kev** · 05-26-2006

John, Paul, George and Ringo have been reunited once more - and as you can see they've been doing some travelling. The Fab Four's waxwork doubles have made the trip from London to their spiritual home in Liverpool. After going on display in the capital, they're packing their bags - and guitar cases - and making their way to the city's Beatles Museum.

**Max** · 05-26-2006

Originally Posted by kev

John, Paul, George and Ringo have been reunited once more - and as you can see they've been doing some travelling. The Fab Four's waxwork doubles have made the trip from London to their spiritual home in Liverpool. After going on display in the capital, they're packing their bags - and guitar cases - and making their way to the city's Beatles Museum.

Those dummies are spooky looking.

You use these heads to fake a murder scene by covering them with fake blood and leaving them in a seedy hotel bathub full of ice!

**Browneyes** · 05-26-2006

Max you twisted young individual

**Max** · 05-26-2006

It would look cool though.

Too many movies.

**julia** · 05-26-2006

If the four lads go a-missing, I don't think the police will be searching hotel bathrooms first. More than likely, they will start the search in my flat!

**Paul D** · 06-04-2006

The Beatles are the best-selling musical group of all time, estimated by EMI to have over one billion discs and tapes sold worldwide.
The Beatles have notched up the most multi-platinum selling albums for any artist or musical group (thirteen in the U.S. alone).
The Beatles have had more number one singles than any other musical group (23 in Australia, 23 in The Netherlands, 22 in Canada, 21 in Norway, 20 in the U.S., and 18 in Sweden). Ironically, the Beatles could easily have had even more number ones, because they were often competing with their own singles. For example, the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" were released as a "double A"-sided single, which caused sales and airplay to be divided between the two songs instead of being counted collectively. Even so, they reached number two with the singles.
The Beatles have had more number one albums than any other group (19 in the U.S. and 15 in the United Kingdom).
The Beatles spent the highest number of weeks at number one in the albums chart (174 in the UK and 132 in the U.S.).
The most successful first week of sales for a double album (The Beatles Anthology Volume 1, which sold 855,473 copies in the U.S. from 21 November to 28 November 1995).
In terms of charting positions, Lennon and McCartney are the most successful songwriters in history, with 32 number one singles in the U.S. for McCartney, and 26 for Lennon (23 of which were written together). Lennon was responsible for 29 Number One singles in the UK, and McCartney was responsible for 28 (25 of which were written together).
During the week of 4 April 1964, The Beatles held the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart. No one had ever done anything like this before, and it is doubtful that the conditions will ever exist for anyone to do it again. The songs were "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist and Shout", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", and "Please Please Me".
The next week, 11 April 1964, the Beatles held fourteen positions on the Billboard Hot 100. Before the Beatles, the highest number of concurrent singles by one artist on the Hot 100 was nine (by Elvis Presley, 19 December 1956).
The Beatles are the only artist to have 'back-to-back-to-back' number one singles on Billboard's Hot 100. Boyz II Men and Elvis Presley have succeeded themselves on the chart, but the Beatles are the only artist to 'three-peat'.
The Beatles' "Yesterday" is the most covered song in history, appearing in the Guinness Book of Records with over three thousand recorded versions.
The Beatles even had their own stamp commissioned, featuring a tribute to Yellow Submarine.The Beatles had the fastest selling single of all time with "I Want To Hold Your Hand". The song sold 250,000 units within three days in the U.S., one million in 2 weeks. (Additionally, it sold 10,000 copies per hour in New York City alone for the first 20 days.)
The Beatles have the fastest selling CD of all time with 1. It sold over 13 million copies in four weeks.
The largest number of advance orders for a single, at 2.1 million copies in the U.S. for "Can't Buy Me Love" (it sold 940,225 copies on its first day of release in the U.S. alone).
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the best selling album of all time in the UK (over 4.5 million copies sold).
With their performance at Shea Stadium in 1965, The Beatles set new world records for concert attendance (55,600+) and revenue.
The Beatles broke television ratings records in the U.S. with their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
On 12 June 1965, the Beatles were made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen.
On 30 June 1966, the Beatles became the first musical group to perform at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo. They performed five times in three days gathering audiences of about 10,000 per performance.
The Beatles appear five times in the top 100 best-selling singles in the UK. No other group appears more than twice.

**Kev** · 06-08-2006

THEY started out as four unknown lads in a Liverpool basement and played their last gig on a London rooftop, the city's most famous sons.

Today the Daily Post reveals the first of 110 paintings specially commissioned to depict John, Paul, George and Ringo's musical journey.

The canvases, the first somewhat biblically titled "the birth of Ringo", will be exhibited in chronological order on seven floors at Liverpool's new £17m Hard Days Night hotel.