Grateful Dead Music Forum

I know this is a Dead site and i looked as long as my attn. span could hold out for a Beatle forum, but anyone have any thought on the movie coming out? Who owns the bands music now? They showed a bunch of clips on Oprah today(yes,I said Oprah). It just seemed to me the spirit of the music is lost, because they use it to tell their own story. But i guess interpretation is what music is all about. Wah wahwah wah wahwahwah (Peanuts reference) Rambling your GratefulJay

your talking about "across the universe" correct? If so I think it looks pretty good, I saw a long preview for it when I saw Spiderman 3 in theaters a few months back, ill definately check it out

I believe Micael Jackson currently has rights to most of the Beatles tunes

zoppenheimer wrote:I believe Micael Jackson currently has rights to most of the Beatles tunes

I think he had to sell them off (or most of them) last year due to financial reasons, maybe to BMG?

shakedown_04092 wrote:

zoppenheimer wrote:I believe Micael Jackson currently has rights to most of the Beatles tunes

I think he had to sell them off (or most of them) last year due to financial reasons, maybe to BMG?

i thought he sold em to sony?

I saw the Oprah previews too. Anybody remember the Sgt. Peppers movie from the 70's starring the Bee Gees? Well this looks nearly as bad as that was.

I have absolutely no intention of altering my long-held and ever-evolving perceptions of Beatles music by seeing this very stagey/Broadwayesque-looking (and especially -sounding) production... but I'm sure it was a sincere labor of love and I suppose on the bright side it might serve to expose the next generation of Beatles listeners to their genius.

tigerstrat wrote:I saw the Oprah previews too. Anybody remember the Sgt. Peppers movie from the 70's starring the Bee Gees? Well this looks nearly as bad as that was.

I have absolutely no intention of altering my long-held and ever-evolving perceptions of Beatles music by seeing this very stagey/Broadwayesque-looking (and especially -sounding) production... but I'm sure it was a sincere labor of love and I suppose on the bright side it might serve to expose the next generation of Beatles listeners to their genius.

Well said, I'm with you on this one.

Have you ever seen a good movie about a musician? At least in the rock era? I suppose LaBamba had it's moments and maybe even the Buddy Holly story, but generally they are bad. I did like that made for TV Beatles movie that showed a young George being commented on my his mates because he was practicing so hard his fingers were bleeding.

Django wrote:Have you ever seen a good movie about a musician? At least in the rock era? I suppose LaBamba had it's moments and maybe even the Buddy Holly story, but generally they are bad. I did like that made for TV Beatles movie that showed a young George being commented on my his mates because he was practicing so hard his fingers were bleeding.

This isn't a movie about the musicians. It's a fantasy story interpetated from the songs themselves.

But I have seen plenty of great biopic movies about musicians: La Bamba is a good one. Walk The Line, for a more recent example. Coal Miner's Daughter... Amadeus (oops, not very Rock era) My favorite Beatles biopic by far is Backbeat(Dir:Iain Softley, 1994)

About 6 months ago I rented Yellow Submarine and watched with my 8 year old and 4 year old. They loved it and they were singing tunes from it for days.

I love all the beatles (even ringo) and of course John was great but my favorite was George. What a great musician and song writer.

I agree george was the man. I loved his solo album he realesed right after the split. My sweet lord was one of the first songs I learned to play. (now that I think about it I don't remember how to play it anymore, better get to practicing) Not a prolific songwritter but it's quality over quanitity. Not that the john/paul combo was low quality. What a great band.

Didn't George get sued and lost for My Sweet Lord too closely resembling He's So Fine?

AugustWest wrote:I agree george was the man. I loved his solo album he realesed right after the split. My sweet lord was one of the first songs I learned to play. (now that I think about it I don't remember how to play it anymore, better get to practicing) Not a prolific songwritter but it's quality over quanitity. Not that the john/paul combo was low quality. What a great band.

Not a prolific songwriter?! What do ya have to do to be considered prolific?? GH certainly fit the bill in my book.

Yeah that didn't come out like I intended it. Not as prolific as the other two (john amd paul), was the pont I was trying to make. However if I had to give you a top ten of my favorite beatles songs he would have about 7 of them in there and he wrote much less then the other two for the band.

Not to mention his involvement in the Traveling Wilburys, which was a stroke of Genius by all involved.