"11 from John Lennon: An Appreciation." Writers, Reporters, Musicians and Beatle fans share their impressions of some standout John Lennon songs, recorded  with The Beatles, between 1963 and 1970.  Songs include "Twist and Shout," "I Should've Known Better," "In My Life," "She Said She Said," "Tomorrow Never Knows," "A Day In The Life," "Come Together," and "Across The Universe."   The program comes from award-winning Beatle program producer Paul Ingles and includes several rarely heard John Lennon interviews.

The program is offered in 59:00 and a 54:00 version.  There is an optional second hour but the first hour stands on its own if that's all the slot you have.

Hour two (to be posted no later than Wednesday, Sept. 22nd) is called "11 (more) from John Lennon: An Appreciation." The companion hour that features more Lennon classics like  ""I'll Cry Instead," "You Got To Hide
Your Love Away," "Ticket To Ride," "I'm Only Sleeping," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Rain," "Dear Prudence," "Happiness is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "I Want You" and more - complete with insider commentary and rare interviews.

Musician George Harrison is warmly recalled in this montage of music and fan reflections, first issued in 2001 at the time of Harrison's death. It can be run as either a two-hour tribute, or you can take just the first hour which can stand alone as it makes no reference to a follow-up hour.

Hour One includes Harrison's work with the Beatles and takes listeners to the beginning of his solo career. Hour Two complements Hour One with more selections from his solo career.

Also included is a bonus module that samples Harrison's final posthumous recording "Brainwashed."

There is also a newscast-friendly cut of this program on PRX.

This second of two hours on Ringo Starr celebrates the songs Ringo sang as a member of The Beatles, as well as a few from his successful and long-lived solo career.  Other musicians, writers and fans, add their take of Ringo's vocal turns.

Hour One of the program featured a detailed tour of Ringo's drumming work with The Beatles   It features samples of Ringo's best drum songs with the Beatles woven in with archival comments from Ringo as well as from several drummers who've studied his work, and Ringo friends Joe Walsh, Ben Harper and Don Was.   It's availabe at PRX here:


http://www.prx.org/pieces/49830-in-praise-of-ringo-his-beatles-drumming-hour-1

Your station could schedule both hours either consecutively or separately.  Or you can just run Hour One, which refers listeners optionally to Hour Two on your station or to the web to hear it.

 

Tim Riley's new book, Lennon, has received glowing reviews for being scholarly, yet readable. In this interview, he talks about the misunderstood John Lennon, dispels some common myths, including Yoko's role in the break-up of The Beatles, his complicated and competitive relationship with Paul McCartney, and tells the true stories behind some of Lennon's most memorable compositions.

New one-hour radio special that tells the unique story of the Beatles through the colourful collection of eyewitnesses, classic songs and many of the Beatles' inner circle of friends and colleagues. From the group's beginnings as The Quarrymen through some of their most difficult moments, The Beatles: Rare and Unseen is a collection of stories and eyewitness accounts from the people who were there. Interviews with Collin Hanton (Quarrymen drummer), Phil Collins, Tony Barrow and more. This show is the companion to the TV/DVD Beatles: Rare and Unseen from Liberation Entertainment and Formative Productions. Length: One-hour with breaks for local insertion Broadcast window: April 16 through June 16. Terms: Availalbe for all U.S. radio stations at no cost with no national barter spots included. Contacts: Mark Wilson 805-286-1018, mark@ignition36.com. John Adams 661-722-5039, john.adams@thescore.us. THIS SHOW IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON CD.

Michael Palin presents a radio special about the Beatles? second movie Help!, which was first released in 1965. The film will be re-issued on DVD in November 2007 in a version that has fully restored the print to its original visual quality and with a soundtrack that has been upgraded with a surround sound mix. In this special programme, we hear comments from the Beatles recorded in 1965 plus director Richard Lester and actors Eleanor Bron and Victor Spinetti recall working with them. There are also amusing stories about the unusual circumstances of filming in the Bahamas and Austria from the group?s then road manager and later head of Apple, Neil Aspinall and the movie?s Costume Designer Julie Harris. The plot of the film revolves around members of an Eastern cult who chase after the bulbous red ring worn by Ringo, because without it they cannot make a human sacrifice to the goddess Kaili. With a nod to the popularity of the James Bond movies, a couple of eccentric scientists are also trying to steal it. As Michael Palin points out, the surreal dialogue and visual gags in the film were the kind of things that the Monty Python team later played with. All seven songs featured in the movie are heard in the radio show: ?Help!?, ?You?re Going To Lose That Girl?, ?You?ve Got To Hide Your Love Away?, ?Another Girl?, ?I Need You?, ?The Night Before? and ?Ticket To Ride?. Most songs are mimed performances in the film - with the group playing their instruments - but for ?Ticket To Ride?, the Beatles are shown fooling about on snow-covered mountains as they skied, curled and fell over! That startling sequence, in particular, has led to Richard Lester?s work with the Beatles being viewed as an inspiration for the style of music videos that caught the eye during the early days of MTV in the 1980s. Director Steve Barron, who first made his name with a succession of videos for artists such as Culture Club, The Human League and A-Ha confirms that influence in this programme. As we hear in the radio show, for all those involved in making Help! it was a remarkable experience; with the film?s new lease of life on DVD, their work with the Beatles now seems guaranteed to entertain generation after generation. There will be a commercial hour version, and a break-free hour for online or other use. Preferred broadcast window is weekend before release through weekend after release, November 2nd - 11th. If you plan to broadcast this special, or would like to receive the radio special on CD, please email to Nicole.Haldeman@emicap.com with air date and time. Product for on-air giveaways is also available.

ABBEY ROAD REUNION: KNOB-TWIDDLERS REVEAL ALL IN NEW BEATLE BOOK by Tim Riley, NPR critic and Beatles author In November of 2006, over 30 engineers gathered for a reunion at Abbey Road studios in London, where many of them worked uncredited on Beatles sessions. The occasion was the release of RECORDING THE BEATLES, by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan, a major new entry in Beatle scholarship emphasizing recording techniques and analog equipment. It's a story about how EMI's rigorous training paradoxically led to numerous innovations, upending years of convention. The creative solutions these techies achieved helped the Beatles create rock's most ingenious and enduring sounds, and RECORDING THE BEATLES draws the curtain on many of their previously unexplained achievements. The podcast includes interviews with Kehew, engineers Ken Townshend, Richard Lush, Chris Thomas, and Ken Scott, as well as American producers Steve Albini (Nirvana, Stooges) and Steve Hoffman (DCC). With Beatle stories peppering the narrative, Riley provides a backstage glimpse at the wizards who helped translate Lennon and McCartney songs onto tape. Tim Riley is the author of TELL ME WHY: A BEATLES COMMENTARY and other books on rock, and an NPR critic who files for WBUR's HERE AND NOW in Boston. He recently launched a new music portal, the RILEY ROCK INDEX.com. For more information, visit: RECORDING THE BEATLES by Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew Curvebender Publishing http://www.recordingthebeatles.com EMI's Abbey Road Studios http://www.abbeyroad.com RILEY ROCK INDEX.com http://www.rileyrockindex.com feed://feeds.feedburner.com/RileyRockIndex