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Mills McCARTNEY Lays Into Stella Rift Stories World Entertainment News Network
HEATHER MILLS McCARTNEY is confused by press reports that she doesn't get on with her new stepdaughters because the stories couldn't be further from the truth.
The new wife of former BEATLE SIR PAUL claims she enjoys a fantastic relationship with her lover's family.
She says, "I am so close to the daughters, you have absolutely no idea.
"I speak to HEATHER, the eldest, especially, 40 minutes every day. Every day! And STELLA and I get on brilliantly."
Journalists have claimed in the past that the children of Paul and late wife LINDA McCARTNEY have had trouble coping with the fact that their father has married again.
Fashion designer Stella in particular was said to be no big fan of her new stepmother, who is only four years older than her.
Mills claimed to NEW YORK Magazine journalist that Stella had issued a press release denying stories that she disliked her father's new wife.
But a spokesperson for the fashion queen says, "Stella never discusses her private life, so a press release would never have been issued." |
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Why, columnists have been asking, did Heather fail to register her charity for six years after its inception in 1994 ? and only then after a journalist inquired why she hadn't done so? How is it that the review of the first year's accounts of the Trust list just -102,210 ($153,315) in income, nearly -50,000 ($75,000) shy of McCartney's much publicized -150,000 ($225,000) donation of late 1999? Heather's explanation for failing to register the Trust with the Charity Commission is that she did not feel its money should be wasted on administration.
Although registration with the commission is free, she said she had been quoted thousands of pounds from firms specializing in setting up charities. The price, she claims, would have equaled the cost of fitting 150 people with an artificial limb.
As for the alleged shortfall in the first year accounts, Heather says the annual returns reflected only the period after March 20, 2000, when the trust was officially accepted by the Charity Commission, and that by then much of the money had been given away.
Heather's explanation as to why she did not register her charity is all very laudable, but the fact remains that her charity's expenditure and activities for six years are completely unaccountable. On Wednesday of this week, the Mail asked Heather's solicitor, Stephen Taylor, of Sheridans Solicitors, how much she raised during those six years and what the money was spent on. By Friday, the response was "I haven't had a chance to talk to Heather because she's away."
All these rumblings are doing Heather no favors in America, where her publicity drive continues unabated. Next week, the October issue of Vanity Fair goes on sale. Inside is a glamorous photo shoot and interview with Heather. For a woman who has dragged herself up to where she is today, it must be a dream come true.
There is, though, just one cloud on the horizon; for while there will be a gorgeous blue-eyed blonde staring out from the cover, it won't be Heather's face, but that of Madonna, who is of course in the inner circle of Stella McCartney.
Losing out on the prestige of the Vanity fair cover to someone in her stepdaughter's camp will be a particularly bitter pill for Lady McCartney to swallow. |
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Stella, for one, found the wedding dress debacle "highly amusing." "It was said at the time that Stella was upset that she didn't get asked to make the dress but that's rubbish," says one friend. "Stella didn't want to get involved at all." The unhappy episode appears to have been resolved after Heather offered to pay the -10,000 ($15,000) cost of the dress.
So after the pre-wedding traumas, how is married life treating the couple? Paul, say friends, "remains as 'under the thumb" as ever, but it would seem the relationship remains volatile. The two are said to have fierce rows over what friends call Heather's "megalomania" ? usually resulting in Heather storming off, leaving McCartney' to stew for a few hours before returning. By the time she gets back, he's so grateful that she hasn't been kidnapped - he is obsessed with security - that all the harsh words spoken before are forgotten.
"Paul doesn't think it's necessary for Heather to be so high profile, and they argue a lot over it. When they row, she goes off on her own and switches her phone off," says one friend. "Paul's terrified she might get kidnapped, so he's just overwhelmingly relieved when she comes back and they kiss and make up."
There are whispers that a recent row was even more heated than usual and ended with Heather disappearing for two days before returning to her husband, by now beside himself with worry. McCartney's spokesman Geoff Baker says he has "heard nothing" about such an incident.
But in public, at least, they present a united front. In the weeks before McCartney's first tour date, his wife will be keeping herself busy giving "counseling" to victims of the September 11 atrocities, and their relatives.
Her heart is, no doubt, in the right place, but some suspect her motives are not entirely altruistic. "She sees herself as a cross between Princess Diana and Hillary Clinton," says one critic. "She revels in the glorification of herself."
This may or may not be a fair criticism, but Lady McCartney's erratic way of handling her charity, The Heather Mills Health Trust, which provides prosthetic limbs for amputees (Heather having lost part of her left leg after being hit by a policy motorcycle in 1993) does nothing to keep her detractors at bay.
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The pair kissed and made up ? although both were said to be 'ashen faced' the next day ? and the wedding did indeed go ahead, at Castle Leslie in Ireland in June. But even the big day was not without its tensions.
Stella, vehemently opposed to the match to the last, was seen by guests with her father just an hour before the ceremony, saying to him - begging is perhaps a better word ? "You don't have to do it Dad. You don't have to go through with it."
All of McCartney's children, Heather, 38, his step-daughter from Linda's first marriage, Mary, 33, Stella, 30 and James, 25, are said to be upset about the relationship with Heather which began a little over a year after the death in 1998 of his beloved wife Linda at 56 from breast cancer.
They felt it was too soon, and that their mother's memory had been betrayed. But they also felt uneasy about the age gap and Heather's checkered history ? and suspected she was a gold-digger. Stella's attempt to persuade her father to draw up a pre-nuptial agreement was in vain.
However, it seems that the two Heathers have plenty to talk about, if Lady McCartney's recent estimate that they're on the phone "for 40 minutes every day" is anything to go by. But friends say that the more the children have tried to warn their father against Heather, the closer it has pushed him and Heather together. And there is no doubt that he is absolutely besotted with his new wife.
The children going on at him about Heather only made him more determined to marry her," says one friend. "Heather is extremely cunning and uses the animosity to her advantage. She says things like, 'Why is everyone against us? It's us against the world, and we have to be strong together.' She gets Paul behind her every time because he feels sorry for her."
A fascinating insight into Heather's character emerged after the wedding, when there was a furor over her lace gown. The designers, Caroline Eavis and Annie Brown, had agreed to make it free of charge in return for publicity from the couple, which they didn't get. That came only after the complained to the newspapers.
Why someone about to marry a man with -713 million ($1.7 billion) in the bank should need a freebie wedding dress is baffling; but goes some way, friends say, to explain Heather's motivations. "She had a difficult childhood and it was a struggle after her mother walked out," explains one. "Heather has never managed to shake off her fear of having no money. That's why she loves a freebie. She gets a real sense of satisfaction when she manages to wangle something for herself. There will always be a bit of the wheeler-dealer in her, even though she's married to a multi-millionaire."
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In an interview with the New York Magazine this week, Heather, 34 made the bizarre claim that Stella had "issued a press release saying how much she liked her new stepmother" - a claim quickly denied by Stella's publicist.
In truth, the enmity between Stella and Heather is as strong as ever ? and the celebrity A-list in Britain isn't big enough for the both of them. That perhaps is why Heather has set her sights on America, where, in her mind, she has a "clean slate" and where, she hopes, she will became as idolized and revered as her legendary husband. After spending much of the early part of this year in the States, the pair flew out to America again last week and will remain there for the next couple of months. Heather is accompanying her husband on his rock tour, but has no intention of playing second fiddle to him. She has her own plans.
Among other things, she has given an interview to Vanity Fair magazine; she is re-releasing her autobiography, Out On A Limb, re-entitled A Single Step, complete with gushing new chapters on the McCartney romance; and she is planning to find time in her busy schedule to give "counseling" to victims of the September 11 atrocities.
She has also appeared on two television talk shows, Good Morning America and The Today Show, in her drive to raise her profile.
Bit despite the PR frenzy, America, it would seem has not taken Lady McCartney to its heart either. Americans, too, are slightly suspicious of a woman who is so assertive that she gives her husband advice on how to make his songs sound better. (And amazingly, he listens).
"When Heather and Paul to go to parties," a source explains, "everyone is keen to see Paul because he's extremely popular over in the States. But as soon as someone is introduced to him, Heather practically pushes him out of the way and starts banging on about herself and her charity work. It can get a bit tiresome - people are wary of her."
And of course, by now, all of America has read the stories about Heather's colorful past. She was arrested for stealing jewelry as a teenager, and her ex-husband Alfie Karmal, believes she is a fantasist who should carry a "Buyer beware" sticker, and so on.
Soon, America will be able to read Heather's own version of her life story. Interestingly, the new version of her autobiography will not go on sale in Britain. We're probably not missing out on much. It's unlikely that all the really interesting aspects of the Mills/McCartney romance will appear in the book.
How, for example, just weeks before the wedding, the pair had a furious row at a Florida hotel, culminating in McCartney screaming at Heather: 'I don't want to marry you,' and hurling the -15,000 ($22,500) sapphire and diamond engagement ring out of the window and into the tropical undergrowth below.
Only after a painstaking search lasting several hours by hotel staff was the ring retrieved and returned to its owner by one of the security guards. |
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Re: По поводу работы Линна над альбомом Харрисона Автор: Ая Дата: 06.09.02 16:01:56 | Перейти в тему |
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19го? Посмотрим, посмотрим... Да, Лен, ты права, осень весёлая. |
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"Неважно, как рыба называется, важно, какова она на вкус!" (с) |
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А тогда где критерий, Brian? Озадачил ;) |
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Ну и последняя статейка, кажется... Автор: Ая Дата: 31.08.02 16:55:36 | Перейти в тему |
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<<Today's Observer reports that with the blessing of Sir Paul, Liverpool's Casbah Club will reopen to the public this week. It was in this coffee club, located in the cellar of a 15-bedroom Liverpool home, that the early Beatles first performed together. The original owner and proprietor was Mona Best, mother of the Beatles' original drummer, Pete Best. As a teenager, Sir Paul helped Mrs. Best to decorate the club before she opened it to the public all those years ago. Beatles fans will have the opportunity to view the club's ceilings which were designed and painted by John and Paul. One of the walls still features a silhouette of John Lennon playing his guitar painted by his first wife, Cynthia. On the opening night of the club, the Quarrymen performed. The band that evening included Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison playing together in public for the first time. Sir Paul holds fond memories of Mrs. Best who passed away in 1988. Sir Paul recalls, "She seemed to understand what young people were going through."
Her son, Pete Best, claims that he has not spoken to any of the Beatles since the day he was replaced by Ringo Starr. He thinks perhaps the reopening of the Casbah may offer an opportunity for a reconciliation with Sir Paul: "Fifteen years ago I would have said, 'No, he wouldn't be welcome'. But things change. If he would like to come to the opening, or in a private capacity, the door is open,'
To mark the reopening of the club, Roag Best (the son of Mona Best and Neil Aspinall) will release his book called The Beatles: The True Beginnings (Screenpress Books; ISBN: 1901680657). The book claims to be fully authenticated by Sir Paul and is filled with illustrations of rare early Beatles memorabilia. It documents the importance of the Casbah Club to the early careers not only the Beatles, but of bands such as The Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Dominoes, and the Hurricanes as well. The book is scheduled to be released in the U.K. on September 16.
The Best family have hopes that their Casbah Club will rival the Cavern Club as a mecca for Beatles fans. >> |
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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0800beatles/0050news/page.cfm?objectid=12137718&method=full&siteid=50061 True story of me and George Aug 22 2002 by Peter Grant, Liverpool Echo LOUISE Harrison has one of those mid- Atlantic accents that are difficult to place. But there's no mistaking her roots when she says 'ta ra' and gives a friendly laugh. And the elder sister of George Harrison, travelling from her home in South Illinois, has been looking forward to returning to the city where she and all the Harrisons - dad Harry, mum Louise, brothers Peter and George and herself were born. "It's going to be wonderful being part of The Beatle celebrations and opening an exhibition of photographs of George, taken by people who loved him," she says. But before she was back in the UK, 70-year-old Louise wanted to put the record straight about reports of a rift with her late, much-loved brother. It was reported in the press that she had opened a Beatle-related B&B and George thought she was cashing in on her Beatle connections. She insists: "There has been a story that just isn't true that there was this rift between us. Never. "It was said that I owned a bed and breakfast hotel in that little place called Benton, in South Ilinois. "I have never owned a B&B in my life. "There is a B&B called A Hard Day's Nite which was my old home, but not connected to me beyond that. " In America this story is unheard of but in the UK, it seems to be passed on and passed on. So thanks to the ECHO I can put that straight." Louise says although she did support the B&B publicity-wise, that was her only connection. "So when people said after his death that there was a rift - well that was nonsense," she says. "George always spoke about being positive in life and about being human. And that we were all here on a visit. "His life was about spirituality and making people feel good." Louise says she remained in touch with George throughout his life and was with him just two weeks before his death in November last year. She drove 900 miles from her home in Illinois to Staten Island University Hospital where George was being treated for cancer. "It was a very, very positive and loving meeting. I felt very much at peace as I drove home after seeing him. I hated seeing him in that shape when he had been such a vital, wonderful man. She says one of her favourite memories of George, who was a devotee of Hare Krishna, giving her a book about spiritual leader Maharashi Yogi. "I told him that I had joined the Yogi's organisation and showed him my membership card. George laughed out loud and said, 'so you're my Divine Sister'. "He still had his humour." Louise was born in 1931 and moved to America in 1954 after marrying Gordon Caldwell. They had two children but divorced in 1982. During her early years in the US, George and their brother Peter visited her before Beatlemania made such further cosy family reunions impossible. She smiles at the memory of one such visit to her home in Benton, on September 16, 1963, just months before the Beatles' famous appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. George loved it in America and it was wonderful to see him. He made a lot of friends," recalls Louise. "He even played at a tiny club here and I remember it was like the kind of British Legion you have in Liverpool. "George played a few songs and the audience went wild. One man said to the band leader 'hey you've got to book that guy'. "Again, no-one really realised that they would go on Ed Sullivan and it would never be the same again." In America the following year George was taken ill with a bad throat and it was Louise who moved into the adjacent room at the Plaza Hotel in New York and nursed him back to fitness. Louise says George was a man who believed in love of a very definite kind. "Unconditional love - that's what he said to me. That is what we had. It's what I spread in my work today. I run an organisation called Drop In as opposed to Drop Out. It supports the work of people protecting the environment." For the past decade, Louise has appeared at Beatle conventions around the world, much to the delight of fans who find her firsthand memories of the Fab Four compulsive listening. "When I was in America, radio stations would constantly ask for news about George and the boys and I would recall tales they had told me." Louise says she looks back fondly to the Beatles' early years in Liverpool, when the fan base began to grow beyond the Beatles' dreams. "That's when the Global Family was born - that's my term for it. "Mum and dad would answer fan mail, because they knew that John and Paul and Ringo could not go round writing to Beatle people - I never call them 'fans' - and the boys couldn't hug everyone they met. "So mum and dad would write back and sign letters, 'Love From Mum and Dad Harrison." Recently Louise met up with Paul McCartney on his Driving Rain Tour. "He was in such great form with Heather. I had last seen him in Orlando on his world tour in 1990 ." Louise is looking forward to her sentimental journey home and visiting the house in Arnold Grove, Wavertree, where she grew up. "I am so looking forward to spending time in Liverpool visiting the old home and opening the photographic tribute exhibition at the Mathew Street Gallery. "I want to drive past my old school, La Sagesse in Grassendale, I still think about the girls I went to school with back then. All my friends would be in their 70s now. I certainly don't feel 70." And then Louise's memories return to little brother George. "In the 80s, I sent George all his letters back to him. I didn't want them to become public property or to fall into the wrong hands. "I am happy to put an end to any idea of any fall out or rift. "George was all about love. "He is still about love. I'm in Liverpool to keep that love flowing." |
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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12140883&method=full&siteid=50061 My sweet George Aug 23 2002 By Peter Grant, Liverpool Echo TO THE visitors arriving in Mathew Street for this weekend's festival, she looked like just another tourist. Little did they know looking at the city's Beatles landmarks was Louise Harrison, sister of late Beatle George. She was in Liverpool to officially open a photographic tribute to her brother at the Mathew Street Gallery. Louise started her tour of the city at the Beatles statue in Cavern Walks. A bouquet had been placed on his guitar and a postcard which said: To George - with love. Louise, who has lived in Illinois, USA since the 1950s, touched the arm, tears in her eyes. She said: "I am so honoured to be here. I am not famous. I am someone who can walk unnoticed through a crowd incognito, carrying a message of love that George spent his life talking about and singing about." Louise met a number of "Beatle people" - she doesn't call them fans - many wearing badges that said Love One Another, her brother's last words. She walked around the gallery and stared again at each photo. Some she has seen hundreds of times before, others she had forgotten about, such as one of her father Harold pouring tea for George. She said: "I so remember George and Dad like that. "George hugged me one day - it was a warm Liverpool hug. He said to me: 'Lou, I want you to pass it on. Pass on the love. I don't shake hands now. I give the Harrison Hug." * Previously unseen film footage of the Beatles was being shown to the public today. The footage shows the band in Bangor, north Wales, where they travelled to meet spiritual leader the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in August 1967. It was during the trip that the band learned of manager Brian Epstein's suicide. The visit took place at Bangor Normal College, which is now part of the University of Wales. University bosses were today commemorating the 35th anniversary of the visit by showing the film and unveiling a plaque at its Hugh Owen Hall. |
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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0800beatles/0050news/page.cfm?objectid=12139471&method=full&siteid=50061 History of musical legends on display Aug 23 2002 By Chris Brown And Will Batchelor Daily Post Staff BEATLES legends John Lennon and George Harrison were yesterday honoured with two separate exhibitions of memorabilia. A mosaic designed by Lennon for his swimming pool was put on display at the Museum of Liverpool Life. And a collection of photographs of Harrison was unveiled at the Mathew Street Gallery in the city centre. Both exhibitions are timed to coincide with the annual Mathew Street Festival, which sees thousands of Beatles fans flock to Liverpool over the Bank Holiday weekend. Lennon's mosaic, a 17,000-piece creation weighing two tons and measuring 16ft by 6ft, is called The Magic Eye and is based on Indian mysticism. It used to lie at the bottom of the musician's pool on his Kenwood estate near Weybridge, Surrey. It was put on display at Liverpool's 1984 International Garden Festival and left to rot until it was discovered by Merseyside businessman Wladek Reszczynski. He did not know about the mosaic's famous origins and stored it in a field for several years before a friend realised it was Lennon's creation. Mr Reszczynski contacted Beatles fan Tom Lorimer, a university lab technician, who spent six years restoring the mosaic in his spare time. Museum of Liverpool Life curator Jen McCarthy was "delighted" to have The Magic Eye on display. The exhibition of Harrison photographs spans his career from the early days of the Beatles in Hamburg to his solo work. It includes the work of press and music photographers such as Jurgen Vollmer, Astrid Kirchherr, Mark Seliger, Baron Wolman and Harry Benson. The display was unveiled yesterday to invited guests including Harrison's sister Louise, who travelled from her home in Illinois, USA, to attend. It will open to the public from today until October 9. Melissa Storey, Mathew Street Gallery manager, said: "We are pleased to present this exhibition in the city of George's birth, especially when so many fans will be here to enjoy it." This year's Mathew Street festival will feature 150 bands over the Bank Holiday Weekend. Five live stages dotted across the city will play music from the sixties to the present day. Highlights include a Brazilian tribute band Clube Big Beatles and The Maximum Who. Last year's festival attracted 300,000 visitors and The Cavern Club alone hosted 70 bands. It is the first time a real Beatle will play the event. Pete Best will take to the Dale Street stage on Monday. |
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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0800beatles/0050news/page.cfm?objectid=12139895&method=full&siteid=50061 City joins in tribute to our sweet George by Peter Grant, Liverpool Echo A PHOTOGRAPHIC tribute to George Harrison has been one of the highlights of International Beatle Week. The exhibition, opened by George's sister Louise Harrison, features pictures of the shy, quiet Beatle taken by some of the world's top photographers. "George should have smiled more - he had such a lovely smile," says Anne Marie Trace at the Mathew Street gallery where the photographs are on display. Gallery manager Melissa Storey flew to Washington DC to secure the exhibition for the city in a collaboration with American Beatle fans. She says: "There are 42 pictures here and they are for sale, but I am sure Beatle fans will come in just to look and reflect on George, the man. "He was the favourite Beatle of a lot of fans across the world and this is the first convention after his death. "Chris Murray, manager of the Govinda gallery in Washington, had put on an exhibition which had the blessing of Olivia Harrison - George's widow. "Chris knew George through the Hare Krishna movement. His own standing in the photographic world is well established. "It was important to have something like this in the city of George's birth - especially at a time when so many Beatles fans are here. "We have 15 of Chris's collection and I have put together 25 of mine. This is a great combination. " The photographic retrospective covers George's life from his early Beatle days in Hamburg through the heady era of Beatle-mania to his solo success. The photographs have been gathered from some of the best photographers to have come into contact with George, including Jurgen Vollmerr, Astrid Kirchherr, Barry Feinstein, Max Scheler, Robert Whitaker, Willam Coupon, Mark Seliger and others. The exhibition, featuring mostly black and white photographs with a few later colour shots, celebrates the many aspects of the 'quiet Beatle'. Melissa says everyone will have their own favourite as they walk around. She says: "I think the word 'celebration' is right. "This is how George is remembered by family and friends. "My own favourite is the shot from the set of A Hard Day's Night where he is in a railway compartment. "There's also the shots of him from the cover of All Things Must Pass in which he looks really happy. The Beatles have broken up and the years previous to the split were unhappy; here he looks content. "He is surrounded by garden gnomes - so beautiful. "The Hamburg pictures are great, too, because Klaus Voorman, who took them, says they represent the time before George had his teeth done. One shows his 'dracula fang' as Klaus described it." The exhibition covers diverse sides of George's personality: At home with his dad over a conflakes breakfast; the happy-go-lucky Beatle with John, Paul and Ringo and the solo moodiness. Louise Harrison says today: "I have seen it in Washington and now here in Liverpool. "I'll see my little brother on the walls in his home town yards away from The Cavern. "I have many memories in my head. But these really are fabulous and I think everyone who sees them will be moved and smile too. "There was no other place the exhibition could have gone except Liverpool. " It's an honour and a joy. It's a lovely tribute to my brother. It's real love ... " * George Harrison 1943-2001 - a photographic tribute in association with the Govinda gallery, Washington DC - at the Mathew Street gallery from Monday, August 26 until October 9. It runs Mondays to Saturdays, 10am - 5pm and Sundays 11am - 4pm. Call 0151-236 0009 for further details. |
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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0800beatles/mathewstreet/page.cfm?objectid=12146994&method=full&siteid=50061 Thousands love it yeah, yeah, yeah Aug 26 2002 By Nicky Tabarn Echo Reporter LIVERPOOL was Britain's party capital today as thousands of revellers took to the streets for the final fab hours of the Mathew Street festival. The three-day event was in full swing with visitors from across the country descending on the city. Half a million people poured in to Liverpool to watch 150 bands from 22 countries, including Australia, Brazil and Sweden. Beatles tribute bands played to a crowd of around 600 people in Chavasse Park yesterday. Janice and Steve Joyson travelled from Essex to spend the weekend. "We came to Liverpool to watch the football on Saturday and found out the festival was on. We rang eight hotels before we could find somewhere to stay so it is obviously popular. "The bands have been great and there is a party atmosphere - it is a real bonus for the city." The festival, the country's largest free annual outdoor music event, was dedicated to the memory of George Harrison. Lord Mayor Jack Spriggs said: "The whole of Liverpool was united in grief when George died and it is only fitting that we dedicate the festival to him this year. But while it is important we remember George, we should also be conscious that he would want people to have a good time as well." A colourful South American Samba procession added to the carnival atmosphere. Children were invited to learn a few moves from the Liverpool Samba school. They then showed off their skills by joining in the procession that started at St George's Hall winding through the streets via Queen Square, Williamson Square, Church Street and Bold Street. Chicago Beatles tribute band American English got a sixties style greeting from generations of screaming fans when they stepped off the train at Lime Street. Kirsty Blakeman, of Liverpool city council's cultural events unit, said: "The weather has been kind and thousands of visitors have been enjoying the festival." Meanwhile, a Beatles concert ticket stub signed by the Fab Four has been sold at an auction for г3,500. The red ticket stub for a 1963 Beatles concert at London's Royal Albert Hall was sold to an anonymous male bidder for г1,000 more than its asking price. The stub went under the hammer on Saturday at an auction at Paul McCartney's fame school, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Today, as the festival drew to its end, thousands of people were watching tribute bands throughout the city centre and in Chavasse Park, while an ECHO stage in Castle Street was entertaining crowds with '70s music all afternoon. * POLICE have hailed Creamfields a success with a 60% dramatic reduction in crime from last year. A spokesman said police and Cream staff worked together. Around 30 arrests were made during the night-long event. |
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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm...=full&siteid=50061A reunion in the Cavern Aug 24 2002 Daily Post DEEP in the dark, sweaty bowels of the Cavern yesterday George Harrison's sister Louise sat chummily next to drummer Pete Best, the man ousted as a Beatle 40 years ago. Clearly the pain has faded as the pair happily launched what is gearing up to be the biggest Fab Four convention yet. They looked a trifle bemused, though, as organiser Dave Jones cheerfully declared that, actually, The Beatles weren't needed at the event. Dave's rather unexpected off-the-cuff remark came after a foreign music journalist asked if he'd invited Sir Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr to attend the bonanza. Organisers of the annual Mathew Street Festival - linked to the Beatles Week celebrations which this year are a tribute to George Harrison - are predicting that more than half a million people will descend on the city, transforming the streets of Liverpool into a jamboree of music and fun over the Bank Holiday weekend. "We've never bothered to ask any of the Beatles to come along, although the Apple organisation did ask if they could use a backdrop of the festival to relaunch the Yellow Submarine album in 1999," explained Dave Jones. He added that rumours of Sir Paul's arrival last year apparently left organisers and police in a tizzy but, in the end, he was tied up somewhere else. "Well, we don't actually need any real Beatles here to enjoy their music," added Dave Jones, winking at Pete Best who technically, though, is the first Beatle to perform live during the festivities. In fact many fans are waiting with bated breath for Monday when Best and his own band - featuring his younger brother Roag, also on drums - will play for the first time at the convention. The Pete Best Band take to the main outside stage at 3pm for an hour long set that he describes as a cracker of rock n' roll favourites. |
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Спрашиваем: как там ВООБЩЕ? Как выставка фотографий Джорджа, например? |
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Re: Битловский эфир на "Эхо Москвы" Автор: Ая Дата: 30.08.02 23:19:05 | Перейти в тему |
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Здорово! Эх, опять ночь не спать... |
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