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Beatles for Sale: Here are the Details of the “Abbey Road” 50th Anniversary Box Set I Wrote About Yesterday

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Beatles for Sale: Here are the Details of the “Abbey Road” 50th Anniversary Box Set I Wrote About Yesterday

Hey, thanks to everyone who gave this column credit for breaking the “Abbey Road” 50th anniversary box set story yesterday. (LOL).

Anyway, now we can “Come Together” over “Something.” I’ll “Carry That Weight” by myself.

All remixed, and souped up for 2019. The only extra track we haven’t heard before (except for a friend of mine who has every single outtake ever) is a group cover of “Come and Get It,” which Paul McCartney gave to Badfinger, and was a massive hit. Another version was featured on the Beatles’ Anthology 3. (See below.)

The full track lists:

SUPER DELUXE [3CD+1Blu-ray set; digital audio collection]

CD ONE: 2019 Stereo Mix

1. Come Together

2. Something

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

4. Oh! Darling

5. Octopus’s Garden

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

7. Here Comes The Sun

8. Because

9. You Never Give Me Your Money

10. Sun King

11. Mean Mr Mustard

12. Polythene Pam

13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

14. Golden Slumbers

15. Carry That Weight

16. The End

17. Her Majesty

CD TWO: Sessions

1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix)

2. Goodbye (Home Demo)

3. Something (Studio Demo)

4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)

5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)

6. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

7. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

8. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

9. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

10. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3 / Medley)

11. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

12. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

CD THREE: Sessions

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. The End (Take 3)

3. Come And Get It (Studio Demo)

4. Sun King (Take 20)

5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

8. Because (Take 1 – Instrumental)

9. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)

(Medley: You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr Mustard, Her Majesty, Polythene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End)

10. Something (Take 39 – Instrumental – Strings Only)

11. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Take 17 – Instrumental – Strings & Brass Only)

BLU-RAY: Abbey Road

Audio Features:

– Dolby Atmos

– 96kHz/24 bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

– 96kHz/24 bit High Res Stereo (2019 Stereo Mix)

DELUXE 3LP VINYL BOX SET (limited edition)

LP ONE: Side 1 (2019 Stereo Mix)

1. Come Together

2. Something

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

4. Oh! Darling

5. Octopus’s Garden

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

LP ONE: Side 2 (2019 Stereo Mix)

1. Here Comes The Sun

2. Because

3. You Never Give Me Your Money

4. Sun King

5. Mean Mr Mustard

6. Polythene Pam

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

8. Golden Slumbers

9. Carry That Weight

10. The End

11. Her Majesty

LP TWO: Side 1 (Sessions)

1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session and Reduction Mix)

2. Goodbye (Home Demo)

3. Something (Studio Demo)

4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)

5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)

LP TWO: Side 2 (Sessions)

1. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

2. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

3. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

4. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

5. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3) / Medley)

6. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

7. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

LP THREE: Side 1 (Sessions)

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. The End (Take 3)

3. Come and Get It (Studio Demo)

4. Sun King (Take 20)

5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

8. Because (Take 1 Instrumental)

LP THREE: Side 2 (Sessions)

1. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)

2. Something (Take 39 – Instrumental – Strings Only)

3. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Take 17 – Instrumental – Strings & Brass Only)

DELUXE 2CD

CD ONE: 2019 Stereo Mix

CD TWO: Sessions

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. Something (Studio Demo)

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

4. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

5. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix)

7. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

8. Because (Take 1 Instrumental)

9. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

10. Sun King (Take 20)

11. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

12. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

14. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3 / Medley)

15. The End (Take 3)

16. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

UPDATE Country Legend Willie Nelson, 86, Says He’s Feeling Better, Will Resume Tour Sept. 6 After Abruptly Cancelling All Dates

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UPDATE Country Legend Willie Nelson, 86, Says He’s Feeling Better, Will Resume Tour Sept. 6 After Abruptly Cancelling All Dates

UPDATE THURS 4:50PM FROM WILLIE:
Update: Willie is resting and feeling better. The tour will resume on September 6 in Gilford, NH. Thanks to all the fans for the continued

WEDS NIGHT:

Country music legend Willie Nelson, 86, has abruptly cancelled his summer-fall tour which was supposed to begin this weekend.

He wrote on Twitter: “To my fans,
I’m sorry to cancel my tour, but I have a breathing problem that I need to have my doctor check out.
I’ll be back
Love,
Willie”

Willie — whose tour started on August 1st– was supposed to play on Friday in Grand Rapids, Michigan and finish up with a bunch of dates in late October in Las Vegas with a family show. Allison Krauss is his opening act. The tour is still on sale on ticketmaster.com, so the decision to cancel must have been last minute. He had Farm Aid lined up as a star attraction, and OutlawFest.

This isn’t the first time that Willie has cancelled shows without warning. In January and February 2018 he pulled the plug on tours. In May 2018 he walked off stage citing breathing problems.

The last few weeks, Willie and daughter Paula Nelson have had a hit on iTunes with their duet of “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” from the HBO series “Big Little Lies.”

Willie has certainly smoked a lot of weed, but he’s a true Legend, a fine person and someone we can’t live without. Feel better, Willie! Take care of yourself, young man!

Meantime check out Willie’s son Lukas and his band Promise of the Real.

UPDATE The Beatles Will Celebrate 50th Anniversary of “Abbey Road” with a Box Set, HERE’S THE ANNOUNCEMENT

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UPDATE The Beatles Will Celebrate 50th Anniversary of “Abbey Road” with a Box Set, HERE’S THE ANNOUNCEMENT

UPDATE I told you yesterday the announcement was coming. And this morning, The Beatles made their announcement. Here’s the video.

WEDNESDAY: September 26th is just around the corner, and you know what that means. It’s the 50th anniversary of “Abbey Road.”

Even though there’s been no official word yet, I am told that the announcement of a box set is forthcoming. Ringo Starr as much confirmed it a few days ago in an interview wit Billboard. He told Gary Graff: “I’ve loved all the re-releases because of the remastering, and you can hear the drums, which got dialed down in the old days. I get a bit fed up, personally, with all those, like, Take 9 or Take 3, the odd takes that we didn’t put out, but that’s part of the box set and you have to do stuff like that.”

What we should be getting is “Abbey Road” remixed for the first time in its entirety by Giles Martin. This would replace the most recent remaster from the 2009 “black box” set. I’m sure we’ll get outtakes as well. Apple and Jeff Jones and Capitol Records have done a great job with all the 50th reissues. This should be no exception.

As for Ringo’s take on box sets, and his drums: the more you listen to Beatles music, the more you hear how exceptional Ringo’s work was. I love listening to “Ticket to Ride” or “A Day in the Life” just for him. His pinnacle may be on the side 2 medley of “Abbey Road.” The remix should be spectacular.

So hold on, kids, “Abbey Road” is coming. And then, next spring, “Let it Be.”

Oscars: Good News as Academy Gets First Casting Director as President (About Time), David Rubin Worked on “The English Patient,” “Men in Black” and More

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Oscars: Good News as Academy Gets First Casting Director as President (About Time), David Rubin Worked on “The English Patient,” “Men in Black” and More

The Motion Picture Academy has its first casting director as president. David Rubin now steps in as head of the Oscars, and it’s about time. Casting directors are the heart of the movie business. Bravo! Rubin’s credits include “The English Patient,” “Men in Black,” “Hairspray,” “Lars and the Real Girl,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Get Shorty,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet” and “Fried Green Tomatoes.”

The other elected or re-elected board members are:

  • Lois Burwell, First Vice President (chair, Awards and Events Committee)
  • Sid Ganis, Vice President (chair, Museum Committee)
  • Larry Karaszewski, Vice President (chair, Preservation and History Committee)
  • Nancy Utley, Vice President (chair, Education and Outreach Committee)
  • Mark Johnson, Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee)
  • Bonnie Arnold, Secretary (chair, Membership and Governance Committee)

And so we get ready for another Oscar season, with some potential nominees already getting in place. Labor Day, here we come!

Shocker: Controversial Director of 2016 “Birth of a Nation” Bringing New Film to Venice Festival, Produced by Spike Lee

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Shocker: Controversial Director of 2016 “Birth of a Nation” Bringing New Film to Venice Festival, Produced by Spike Lee

Nate Parker: in 2016, his “The Birth of a Nation” was going to be an Oscar contender. Then everything fell apart as it was revealed that Parker and two friends had been accused of a raping a young woman in college. On top of that, many year later the woman had committed suicide. Parker showed no remorse, and in a matter of days it was thought his career was destroyed. The movie fell into an abyss.

Now Spike Lee has produced a new Parker film and it’s going to the Venice Film Festival. “American Skin” will premiere in the Festival’s Sconfini section. Parker co-stars with Omari Hardwick (Miracle at St. Anna, Power), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy) and Beau Knapp (Southpaw). The distributor is Eagle Pictures, a new name that seems to be a stalking horse for Gary Barber’s Spyglass Films.

One of the Spyglass partners is Lantern Entertainment, which bought the Weinstein Company assets out of bankruptcy. And that’s interesting because of one of the top financiers of the movie is Tarak Ben Ammar, a longtime friend of Harvey Weinstein and once the man who managed Michael Jackson’s finances when he worked for Prince Alaweed of Saudi Arabia. (You can’t make this up.)

“American Skin” was the name of a famous Bruce Springsteen song about Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man who was shot by New York police officers 41 times in 1999. (It’s unclear if Springsteen’s song is in the movie.)

In Parker’s movie, a Black Iraqi War Vet who seeks justice for his son after the boy is shot dead by a white police officer. The press release says it’s in the tradition of Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” which means there’s a stand off with the police, among other things. The main character takes a courtroom hostage, which is a combination of those two classic Lumet films.

“The Birth of a Nation” was a powerful film that would have won awards if Parker’s history had not come up and become a scandal. The question is will that incident haunt him, or be put aside now that it’s been dealt with thoroughly.

 

Mariah Carey Knows Who Won the 2016 Election, Refers to Hillary Clinton as “President Clinton” After Meeting at Streisand Concert

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Mariah Carey Knows Who Won the 2016 Election, Refers to Hillary Clinton as “President Clinton” After Meeting at Streisand Concert

Mariah Carey really enjoyed meeting the Clintons backstage at the Barbra Streisand concert Saturday night.

But she also did something very sly for them on Twitter. She Tweeted to them:
@MariahCarey “An honor to meet President Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton!
😊 Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for our country.
❤️ ”

I guess Mariah is blocking out who won the electoral vote and been terrorizing the world since the 2016 election. I don’t blame her. It’s a clever little dig.

Toni Morrison, Critically Acclaimed and Best Selling Author of “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved,” Dead at Age 88

Roger Friedman
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Toni Morrison, Critically Acclaimed and Best Selling Author of “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved,” Dead at Age 88

Trail blazing writer Toni Morrison has died at age 88.

The award winning author of “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved,” “The Bluest Eye,” and other novels was a beacon for everyone, but especially black women. Her long list of awards includes the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2012, she received the real Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.

When I went to work at Random House in the early 80s, Toni was a working editor at the company. Everyone in the building could feel the swell of pride that had carried over from her winning the National Book Critics Circle award for “Song of Solomon” in 1977. It was only the beginning of an extraordinary career and life.

God bless.

Sell Out and Sell Off for DeNiro as Murdoch Family Becomes Tribeca Film Festival’s Main Investor Under Post-Fox Lupa Fund

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Sell Out and Sell Off for DeNiro as Murdoch Family Becomes Tribeca Film Festival’s Main Investor Under Post-Fox Lupa Fund

It’s all about the money.

Robert DeNiro, who hates Donald Trump and presumably Rupert Murdoch, has sold out to…Murdoch.

DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff have sold the Tribeca Film Festival to the Murdoch family’s Lupa Fund. James Murdoch runs the fund for investments since the Murdochs sold Fox Studios to Disney. Lupa means “she-wolf,” which I guess is just removed from the word Fox.

James Dolan’s Madison Square Garden company sold their stake so they can concentrate on their attractions in Las Vegas.

Lupa is a total Murdoch venture. Also involved in this is Attention Capital, co-founded by former Fox executive Joe Marchese. He’s the former president of advertising revenue for the Fox Networks Group, and a James Murdoch insider.

So yes, we all lose our naivete on this one. The good guys have sold out to the bad guys. James Murdoch is trying to legitimize his family’s horrible history, and their ongoing mayhem at Fox News. Now they’ve taken control of Tribeca. DeNiro et al went for the money. The ideology didn’t matter.

What a shame.

In a release, Jane Rosenthal said this without irony: “Our new partnership with James and Joe will bring valuable expertise as Bob and I look to scale and strategically grow Tribeca.”

 

Insanity: Trump, Sniffing, Mistakes Toledo for Dayton in TV Speech as Site of Mass Shooting, Blames Video Games for Violence, Asks for Capital Punishment

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Insanity: Trump, Sniffing, Mistakes Toledo for Dayton in TV Speech as Site of Mass Shooting, Blames Video Games for Violence, Asks for Capital Punishment

This morning Donald Trump, who claims to be president of the United States, gave a speech about the terrible and tragic mass shootings that took place this weekend in Dayton, Ohio and in El Paso, Texas. But he urged prayers for Toledo, Ohio, not Dayton, as his sniffed his way through a dry mouthed delivery. He couldn’t read the TelePrompter, only this time– as opposed to July 4th– he couldn’t blame the rain.

If the reason for the speech weren’t so serious, it would be funny. But it’s not funny. Trump blamed social media, the internet, and video games for the violence that is now on an ongoing emergency in the United States. He called for capital punishment of potential attackers, even though most of them go into their killing sprees on suicide missions, and are so deranged that being sent to the electic chair is not a concern.

Trump did not mention gun control. He is completely out of touch with the country and the world. He can’t explain why every other country has the same video games, social media, and the internet, and that none of them– not one — has this problem. We are the only country with violent mass killings on a daily or weekly basis.

Today Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post, a conservative paper run by extreme conservatives, called for a ban on asaault weapons. We’ve gotten to that point. Will it matter? Will Murdoch’s Fox News carry that message? Probably not.

Two of the recent mass killings took place in Wal Marts. That’s Trump’s constituency. Wal Mart has said nothing. Their CEO has said nothing. Rifles are still on sale in all Wal Marts where states allow it. How long before those customers and those people realize Trump’s war on America is on them? The people who stand behind him at his idiotic rallies are the targets.

New York Times Style Section Goes Tabloid, Snookered into Half Baked Story About Natalie Wood’s Sister by First Time Writer

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New York Times Style Section Goes Tabloid, Snookered into Half Baked Story About Natalie Wood’s Sister by First Time Writer

I can’t imagine why the New York Times Style section published their piece today about Lana Wood, sister of screen star Natalie. The Times allows Wood to accuse Robert Wagner once again of killing his wife in 1981. It’s a tabloid story with no merit.

Lana Wood is a tabloid regular, no stranger to the National Enquirer, Radar Online and any supermarket publication that will pay her to re-tell her allegations.

The strangeness of today’s story is that it’s written by someone named Elinor Blake. A search of the Times archives indicates no other stories ever by Blake. The only Elinor Blake I can find is an illustrator, animator and a singer-songwriter who’s worked with the White Stripes’ Jack White. She has an IMDB page under the pseudonym April March, with soundtrack and animation credits.

Whoever Elinor Blake is, she fails to mention a lot of things about Lana Wood: that two years ago she went to the tabloids claiming to be homeless. The Daily Mail in particular went with that story, and a GoFundMe page emerged. They raised $38,925, exceeding the $10,000 goal. None of that is included in the Times story, which presents Lana as a doting grandmother and faded Hollywood ingenue.

I don’t mind saying I like Robert Wagner. I interviewed him around 18 years ago in person at lunch and we discussed Natalie, her death, Christopher Walken, all of it. I’m probably the most skeptical cynic around, and I didn’t suspect he was lying to me. I ran into him last year, with Jill St. John, by accident in New York. He was charming and affable. Jill St. John and Wagner’s daughters are not idiots. I doubt they would be loyal to him if they thought he’d killed Natalie Wood. I also doubt Christopher Walken would have kept that a secret for 38 years. There was nothing in it for him.

Well, it’s summer, and there’s not a lot going on in the Styles world. If anyone knows who Elinor Blake is, drop me a line at showbiz411@gmail.com. Her lack of previous bylines may account for the Times already adding a Correction to the story. As for Lana Wood, the whole thing is quite tiresome by now. But I give her credit for snookering the Times.

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