Something Else !
January 21,2012
In new interview, Paul McCartney says: ‘I didn’t expect to be singing and playing at the level I am now’
Paul McCartney met with the world media this week to talk about his new album Kisses On The Bottom. Here are some highlights from that webstream, including his thoughts on playing with Stevie Wonder again, on returning to the songs of his youth, and on becoming one of rock’s elder statesmen.
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012...evel-i-am-now/
Express.UK
January 24, 2012
SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY MAKES A US BLUNDER
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY has scored an own goal with his recent comments about the US, especially given that his new wife Nancy Shevell is American.And as his musings have come only a few weeks before he appears at the Grammy Awards in LA the timing couldn’t be worse.Giving his opinion of the US in the Sixties on new BBC show How The Brits Rocked America, Macca, 69, claimed: “We felt it was a little bit backwards.”
http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/297523
Suburban Journals
January 23, 2012
REVIEW: Rain hits all the right notes in Beatles tribute
Tribute bands are nothing new, nor are they particularly unique. In fact, I'm sure that on any given Friday night here in St. Louis you could drive around and find some local musicians performing exact song facsimiles of the artists they love.Tribute bands are like lo-cal substitutes of your favorite foods, and if you can't have exactly what you want, a little "I Can't Believe It's Not Van Halen" will do in a pinch.Perhaps nobody does the tribute thing better than Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles. The group was in St. Louis for two shows last Friday and Saturday at the Fox Theatre.Rain has performed in many incarnations for years and even enjoyed a recent successful run on Broadway (the group is an official offshoot of the notorious Broadway show "Beatlemania").
http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-jou...91e25b92f.html
Kirkland Reporter
January 20, 2012
Kirkland band Crème Tangerine to perform Beatles rooftop concert
Following their 2009-11 blockbuster performances attended by thousands in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Kirkland’s favorite Beatles cover band, Crème Tangerine, will once again climb up on the rooftop balcony of the Copacabana Cafe to celebrate the anniversary of The Beatles last performance famously known as “The Rooftop Concert."In what has become an annual tradition in Seattle, Crème Tangerine will perform songs from that concert, as well as the rock masterpiece “Abbey Road," and more at noon on Friday, Jan. 27 on the rooftop balcony of the Copacabana Café in the Pike Place Market (1520 *½ Pike Place) in Seattle.This location was voted “Best Rooftop Balcony in Seattle” by Seattle Weekly readers for 2008-09.
http://www.kirklandreporter.com/ente...137797358.html
The Washington Post Lifesyle
January 23, 2012
Ringo Starr is back, but not better in ‘2012
Back in 1973, beloved ex-Beatle drummer Ringo Starr released “Ringo,” which featured appearances from all of his former bandmates and several members of his eventual All-Starr band, and which remains the signal work of his solo career.From its title down, “Ringo 2012” is meant to induce nostalgia for “Ringo” and for Ringo, a musician of limited range and endless charm who doesn’t have to do much except show up, pound the skins a little and wink knowingly at his audience, which is pretty much what happens. Despite the throwback album title, you can guess which era Starr is really nostalgic for, and it’s not the early 70s.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...tLQ_story.html