Last week we got news of a wholly peculiar and crazy zombie fueled project based around legendary British band The Beatles. Now we have word via a press release that a more grounded project using The Beatles is currently in the works. Liam Gallagher, frontman for the British alternative band Oasis, is producing and developing an adaptation of Richard Dilello's book The Longest Cocktail Party, a chronicle of his time as a student at Apple Corps, The Beatles' multimedia corporation, with Apple Press Officer Derek Taylor. However, for all those Beatles maniacs looking for a biopic on the Fab Four, this is not the project for you. While Apple Corps. is certainly The Beatles company through and through, the film itself will focus on what it meant to be a young man caught up in the wild swirl of the music business, celebrities and the tail end of the...
- 5/15/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, in partnership with Revolution Films, will produce a new biopic feature on "The Beatles" based on the 1972 novel "The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary Of The Beatles, Their Million Dollar Apple Empire And Its Wild Rise And Fall, by author Richard Dilello.
The rock history book, following The Beatles from their 1967 heyday to their breakup in 1970, was published in 1973 by Playboy Press, then reprinted in 1981 and 2005.
The title is a reference to the habit of entertaining members of the media with expensive drinks, luncheons and perks.
Dilello served as 'house hippie' (Client Liaison Officer) from 1968 to 1970, becoming acquainted with each of the Beatles, their wives, girlfriends and the inner circle of agents/managers, who worked with Apple, including business manager Allen Klein, attorneys Lee and John Eastman, road managers (and Apple directors) Mal Evans and Neil Aspinall, press agent and author Derek Taylor, members of Apple bands Badfinger,...
The rock history book, following The Beatles from their 1967 heyday to their breakup in 1970, was published in 1973 by Playboy Press, then reprinted in 1981 and 2005.
The title is a reference to the habit of entertaining members of the media with expensive drinks, luncheons and perks.
Dilello served as 'house hippie' (Client Liaison Officer) from 1968 to 1970, becoming acquainted with each of the Beatles, their wives, girlfriends and the inner circle of agents/managers, who worked with Apple, including business manager Allen Klein, attorneys Lee and John Eastman, road managers (and Apple directors) Mal Evans and Neil Aspinall, press agent and author Derek Taylor, members of Apple bands Badfinger,...
- 5/7/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Chicago – The Criterion Collection recently released a timeless document of one of the most important events in music history, The Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Not only does this legendary fest include some seminal visuals, including Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire and Pete Townshend smashing his, but it captures a nation on the cusp of something amazing, not just musically but socially.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
At the height of the Summer of Love, during a June weekend in 1967, history was made at the Monterey International Pop Festival near San Francisco, arguably the epicenter of the counter-culture movement in the late ’60s. Monterey launched the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few of the acts who performed that weekend, one that saw The Mamas and the Papas introduce Simon and Garfunkel, and The Who, The Byrds, Hugh Masekela, Ravi Shankar, and more take the stage.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
At the height of the Summer of Love, during a June weekend in 1967, history was made at the Monterey International Pop Festival near San Francisco, arguably the epicenter of the counter-culture movement in the late ’60s. Monterey launched the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few of the acts who performed that weekend, one that saw The Mamas and the Papas introduce Simon and Garfunkel, and The Who, The Byrds, Hugh Masekela, Ravi Shankar, and more take the stage.
- 10/7/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival perfectly captures the dangerously unstable compound called rock music right before it exploded and permanently altered the American cultural landscape.
On the weekend of 16-18 June 1967, Dunhill label chief Lou Adler, Beatles publicist Derek Taylor, and John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas presented the Monterey Pop Festival to 55,000 rock 'n' roll besotted disciples. The festival became the prototype for future rock festivals and was the unofficial coming-out party for the 'Summer of Love'. The promoters hired D.A. Pennebaker, hot off the success of his Bob Dylan documentary Don't Look Back, to capture the weekend. His resulting films, Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey, and Shake! Otis At Monterey perfectly captured the dangerously unstable compound called rock music right…...
On the weekend of 16-18 June 1967, Dunhill label chief Lou Adler, Beatles publicist Derek Taylor, and John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas presented the Monterey Pop Festival to 55,000 rock 'n' roll besotted disciples. The festival became the prototype for future rock festivals and was the unofficial coming-out party for the 'Summer of Love'. The promoters hired D.A. Pennebaker, hot off the success of his Bob Dylan documentary Don't Look Back, to capture the weekend. His resulting films, Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey, and Shake! Otis At Monterey perfectly captured the dangerously unstable compound called rock music right…...
- 9/25/2009
- by By Michael Brett
- PopMatters
The latest one-time DVD-only Criterion release to get the Blu-ray upgrade treatment is their 2002 release of D. A. Pennebaker's Monterey Pop in either a single-disc or double-disc boxset "complete" edition. I was sent the Complete Edition for review, which includes Pennebaker's 79-minute 1968 feature, which includes 14 separate songs performed by 13 different bands/artists as well as additional music played over the pre-concert establishing shots. The second disc includes the complete sets played by Jimi Hendrix (49 mins) and Otis Redding (19 mins), but that's just the official footage as Criterion's presentation includes even more not included in the original releases. Before I detail everything you get with this collection, let me start off by saying this isn't necessarily the kind of thing I would rush out and buy. I enjoyed watching it immensely and it served as much as a musical education as it did a piece of entertainment, but the likelihood of...
- 9/22/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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