Across the Universe

I recently watched the movie Across the Universe, as the title says. I have to say it was totally awesome, it was a little weird in some parts, but overall it totally ruled! I'm sure if John and George were still alive and they saw this, they'd be crying tears of happiness to know that their music still lives on, and that the younger generation listens to them.

Here's hopefully the most accurate description of the movie I can give. A young man named Jude(Jim Sturgess) decides to leave Liverpool, England to go to America to find his estranged father. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a girl named Lucy(Evan Rachel Wood) is planning on going to college. She goes to New York and while hanging at a nightclub with her friends, that's where she meets Jude for the first time. Over time the 2 slowly fall in love, and while they fall in love, the turbulent Vietnam War rages on and protests and riots are through the roof. Somehow the 2 get involved in the protests going on in Greenwich Village, and Jude goes to find Lucy, only to be hampered by police holding him back, he fights the police and ends up in jail. After all that, the 2 end up together. It's like a 1960s Romeo and Juliet story with a rocking soundtrack from the Beatles. Also there's a cameo by U2's Bono in the movie. I give this movie a 10 out of 10 rating, a 5 out of 5 star rating. It's the best movie ever! And it's perfect for any Beatles lover out there! I certainly enjoyed it, but a word of advice-- there is a slight amount of bad language and a moderate amount of female/male nudity, specifically towards the end where there is a scene depicting Jude and Lucy kissing and such completely bare naked. It's romantic, but some might say otherwise.


Cast

• Lucy-Evan Rachel Wood
• Jim Sturgess-Jude
• Joe Anderson-Max
• Dana Fuchs-Sadie
• Martin Luther McCoy-Jojo
• T.V. Carpio- Prudence
• Timothy T. Mitchum-Jojo's younger brother
• Carol Woods- Gospel singer
• Orfeh- Hooker #1
• Tracy Nicole Chapman- Hooker #2
• Jacob Pitts- Desmond
• Logan Marshall-Green-Paco
• Bono-Dr. Robert
• Salma Hayek-Bang Bang Shoot Shoot nurses
• James Urbaniak- Sadie's manager
• Eddie Izzard- Mr. Kite
• Harry Lennix- Army sergeant
• Lawrence Leritz- singing riot cop
• Joe Cocker-pimp/mad hippie/bum
• Lisa Hogg- Jude's mom
• Robert Clohessy- Wesley, Jude's father
• Dylan Baker and Lisa Emond- Mr. and Mrs. Carrigan
• Lynn Cohen- Grandma Carrigan
• Bill Irwin-Uncle Teddy
• Spencer Liff- Daniel, Lucy's boyfriend

Pictures from the movie

Man what a cutie!!!!!!! Kinda looks like a cross between a young Paul McCartney and a young George Harrison

Here Comes the Sun

I've been in a Beatles mood lately. It might have something to do with the fact I have just seen the movie Across the Universe. It was a very good movie. I thought I would do today's post on how the Beatles got their start.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles#Discography
History

• The Beatles started in Liverpool in April 1960
• They are the ones who inspired virtually every musician known to man
• The band consisted of 4 guys: Paul McCartney(bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison(lead guitar, vocals), John Lennon(rhythm guitar, vocals), Ringo Starr(drums, vocals)
• The music they started out doing was something called ska, which is a mix of country, blues, R&B, folk music.

1957-1962

• Prior to joining up with the Beatles, John Lennon was in a band called the Quarrymen
• In July 1957, Paul and John met for the first time, when Paul was a guitarist
• A good friend of John's, a fellow student by the name of Stuart Sutcliffe, joined the band in January
• Before the end of August, they hired someone else, a guy named Pete Best.
• In August 1960, Harrison, who was only 17 at the time, lied to German authorities about his age so he could play in music.
• Eventually Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr

1963-1966

• This became their official logo
• The logo was designed by Ivor Arbiter, and made it's debut in 1963
• On February 7, 1964, the Beatles left Heathrow Airport and made the flight to the US, much to the delight of a million screaming teen girls. With their arrival, it's believed that opened the floodgate to the time we all know as the British Invasion. After their arrival, many more British acts started coming to the US, such as Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Kinks, The Who, The Rolling Stones, etc. In the US, there was even a following called Beatlemania. This gave them a huge fan base of screaming teen girls
• In June 1965, the Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II.
• On August 15, 1965, the Beatles played a concert at New York's Shea Stadium. Later they got to meet their musical influence, Elvis Presley, at his house and they got to play music with him

1966-1970

• In June 1966, their album, Yesterday and Today, which depicted the Beatles in butcher's coveralls, surrounded by raw meat and mutilated baby dolls, faced serious backlash from religious groups in the US and US social conservative groups, along with the KKK. And this was all over a comment that Lennon had made: "Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus right now, I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity". He's lucky he didn't get the band lynched for that!
• Their Let It Be album was the final studio album that the Beatles would release together as a band before the big break up
• On Jan. 30, 1969, their final concert was a performance on the roof of 3 Savile Row, London, on the roof of the Apple Corps building.
• On Dec. 8, 1980, this day will live in infamy for every Beatles fan. This is the day that John Lennon was fatally murdered outside his Dakota apartment building by crazed gunman Mark David Chapman, with Yoko standing nearby, witness to it all. Her album, Season of Glass, would ultimately feature John's bloodstained, shattered glasses next to a half filled glass of water overlooking Central Park, almost to suggest John was happiest in New York.
• On Nov. 29, 2001, the Beatles suffered another major blow. George Harrison died from lung cancer

Albums I Love

The Rolling Stones
Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones 1971-1993

CD info:

• Date of release: August 24, 2004
• Has songs from every album from 1971's Sticky Fingers to 1989's Steel Wheels
• Track listing:
• Start Me Up
• Brown Sugar
• Harlem Shuffle
• It's Only Rock and Roll
• Mixed Emotions
• Angie
• Tumbling Dice
• Fool to Cry
• Rock and a Hard Place
• Hot Stuff
• Miss You
• Emotional Rescue(ext. edition)
• Respectable
• Beast of Burden
• Waiting on a Friend
• Bitch
• Undercover of the Night
• Wild Horses 



Bridges to Babylon

CD info:

• Date of release: 1997
• Followed the 1994/1995 Voodoo Lounge tour and Stripped album
• Track listings:
• Flip the Switch
• Anybody Seen My Baby?
• Low Down
• Already Over Me
• Gunface
• You Don't Have to Mean It
• Out of Control
• Saint of Me
• Might as Well Get Juiced
• Always Suffering
• Too Tight
• Thief in the Night(Keith Richards on vocals)
• How Can I Stop(Keith Richards on vocals)

Hot Rocks

CD info:

• Date of release: late 1971
• Has all their early stuff, from 1964-1971
• Track listing:
• Gimme Shelter
• (I Can't Get No)Satisfaction
• Time is on My Side
• Play with Fire
• Heart of Stone
• As Tears Go By
• Get Off My Cloud
• Mother's Little Helper
• 19th Nervous Breakdown
• Paint It, Black
• Under My Thumb
• Ruby Tuesday
• Let's Spend the Night Together
• Jumping Jack Flash
• Street Fighting Man
• Sympathy for the Devil
• Honky Tonk Women
• Midnight Rambler
• You Can't Always Get What You Want
• Brown Sugar
• Wild Horses

Forty Licks

CD info:

• Date of release: Sept. 30, 2002
• Has 2 CD's
• Disc 1:
• Street Fighting Man
• Gimme Shelter
• (I Can't Get No)Satisfaction
• The Last Time
• Jumping Jack Flash
• You Can't Always Get What You Want
• 19th Nervous Breakdown
• Under My Thumb
• Not Fade Away
• Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby? Standing in the Shadows
• Sympathy for the Devil
• Mother's Little Helper
• She's a Rainbow
• Get Off My Cloud
• Wild Horses
• Ruby Tuesday
• Paint It, Black
• Honky Tonk Women
• It's All Over Now
• Let's Spend the Night Together
• Disc 2:
• Start Me Up
• Brown Sugar
• Miss You
• Beast of Burden
• You Got Me Rocking
• Don't Stop
• Happy
• Angie
• Shattered
• Fool to Cry
• Love is Strong
• Mixed Emotions
• Keys to your Love
• Anybody Seen My Baby?
• Tumbling Dice
• Undercover of the Night
• Emotional Rescue
• It's Only Rock and Roll
• Losing My Touch

The Beatles
1

CD info:

• Date of Release: Nov. 13, 2000
• Compilation CD
• Has virtually every song from 1962-1970
• Good CD to choose if you want to start listening to the Beatles
• Track listing:
• Love Me Do
• From Me to You
• She Loves You
• I Want to Hold Your Hand
• Can't Buy Me Love
• A Hard Day's Night
• I Feel Fine
• Eight Days a Week
• Ticket to Ride
• Help!
• Yesterday
• Day Tripper
• We Can Work It Out
• Paperback Writer
• Yellow Submarine
• Eleanor Rigby
• Penny Lane
• All You Need is Love
• Lady Madonna
• Hey Jude
• Get Back
• The Ballad of John and Yoko
• Something(George Harrison)
• Come Together
• Let It Be
• The Long and Winding Road

Abbey Road

CD info

• Date of release: April 1969
• This is considered to be the greatest Beatles album of all time
• In the picture, Paul is the only one barefoot
• Track listing:
• Side 1
• Come Together
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer
• Something
• Oh!Darling
• Octopus's Garden
• I Want You(She's So Heavy)
• Side 2
• Here Comes the Sun
• Because
• You Never Give Me Your Money
• Sun King
• Mean Mr. Mustard
• Polythene Pam
• She Came in through the Bathroom Window
• Golden Slumbers
• Carry That Weight
• The End
• Her Majesty

Paul McCartney
Band on the Run

CD info:

• Date of release: 1973
• Made when he was with the band Wings
• Track listing:
• Band on the Run
• Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Four
• Jet
• Bluebird
• Mrs. Vanderbilt
• Let Me Roll It
• Mamunia
• No Words
• Helen Wheels
• Picasso's Last Words 

Aerosmith
Devil's Got a New Disguise

CD info:

• Date of release: Oct. 17, 2006
• Compilation CD
• Track listing:
• Dream On
• Mama Kin
• Sweet Emotion
• Back in the Saddle
• Last Child
• Walk This Way (Run-DMC version)
• Dude(Looks like a Lady)
• Rag Doll
• Love in an Elevator
• Janie's Got a Gun
• What It Takes
• Crazy
• Livin on the Edge
• Cryin'
• I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
• Jaded
• Sedona Sunrise
• Devil's Got a New Disguise 

Big Ones

CD info:

• Date of release: Nov. 1, 1994
• Compilation CD
• Track listing:
• Walk on Water
• Love in an Elevator
• Rag Doll
• What It Takes 
• Dude(Looks like a Lady)
• Janie's Got a Gun
• Cryin'
• Amazing
• Blind Man
• Deuces Are Wild
• Crazy
• Eat the Rich
• Angel
• Livin' on the Edge

O, Yeah!

CD info:

• Date of release: 2002
• Double disc compilation CD
• Track Listing:
• Disc 1:
• Mama Kin
• Dream On
• Same Old song and Dance
• Seasons of Wither
• Walk This Way
• Big Tench Inch Record
• Sweet Emotion
• Last Child
• Back in the Saddle
• Draw the Line
• Dude(Looks like a Lady)
• Angel
• Rag Doll
• Janie's Got a Gun
• Love in an Elevator
• What It Takes
• Disc 2:
• The Other Side
• Livin on the Edge
• Cryin'
• Amazing
• Deuces Are Wild
• Crazy
• Fallin in Love(Is Hard on the Knees)
• Pink
• I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
• Jaded
• Just Push Play
• Walk This Way(Run-DMC version)
• Girls of Summer
• Lay It Down
• Come Together
• Theme from Spider-Man
• Toys in the Attic

Foreigner
No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner

CD info:

• Date of release: July 15, 2008
• Basically a compilation CD
• Track listing:
• Feels Like the First Time
• Long, Long Way from Home
• Cold as Ice
• Headknocker
• Starrider
• Double Vision
• Blue Morning, Blue Day
• Hot Blooded
• Dirty White Boy
• Head Games
• Women
• Night Life
• Break It Up
• Juke Box Hero
• Urgent
• Waiting for a Girl Like You
• I Want to Know What Love Is
• Down on Love
• Reaction to Action
• That Was Yesterday
• Say You Will
• I Don't Want to Live Without You
• Can't Wait
• Tooth and Nail
• Heart Turns to Stone
• Lowdown and Dirty
• I'll Fight for You
• Until the End of Time

Agent Provocateur

CD info:

• Date of release: 1984
• Foreigner is an American/British band for those who may not know
• First and only #1 album in the UK
• Track Listing:
• I Want to Know What Love Is
• Tooth and Nail
• That Was Yesterday
• Growing Up the Hard Way
• Reaction to Action
• Stranger in My Own House
• A Love in Vain
• Down on Love
• Two Different Worlds
• She's Too Tough

Shakira
Oral Fixation, vol. II

CD info:

• Date of release: Nov. 28, 2005
• The cover was changed in some countries due to the fact it shows a good deal of her bare body
• Track listing:
• How Do You Do
• Illegal
• Hips Don't Lie
• Animal City
• Don't Bother
• The Day and the Time
• Dreams for Plans
• Hey You
• Your Embrace
• Costume Makes the Clown
• Timor 

She Wolf

CD info:

• Date of release: October 9, 2009
• Track listing:
• She Wolf
• Did It Again
• Long Time
• Why Wait
• Good Stuff
• Men in this Town
• Gypsy
• Spy
• Mon Amour
• Lo Hecho Esta Hecho
• Anos Luz
• Loba

Laundry Service

CD info:

• Date of release: Nov. 13, 2001
• Her first bilingual album
• Track listing:
• Objection(Tango)
• Underneath Your Clothes
• Wherever, Whenever
• Rules
• The One
• Ready for the Good Times
• Fool
• Te Dejo Madrid
• Poem to a Horse
• Que Me Quedes Tu
• Eyes Like Yours (Ojos Asi)
• Suerte(Wherever, Whenever)
• Te Aviso, Te Anuncio(Tango) 

Enrique Iglesias
Greatest Hits

CD info:

• Date of release: Nov. 11, 2008
• 2 new songs were added onto this album, Away and Takin' Back My Love
• Track listing:
• Bailamos
• Away
• Takin' Back My Love
• Hero
• Be With You
• Rhythm Divine
• Do You Know(the Ping Pong song)
• Tired of Being Sorry
• Escape
• Could I Have This Kiss Forever
• Not in Love
• Don't Turn Off the Lights
• Love to See You Cry
• Maybe
• Addicted
• Somebody's Me
• Can You Hear Me
• Miss You
• Push 

Euphoria

CD info:

• Date of release: July 5, 2010
• Consists of songs in both English and Spanish
• Track listing:
• I Like It
• Heartbeat
• Cuando Me Enamoro
• One Day at a Time
• Dirty Dancer
• Why Not Me?
• No Me Digas Que No
• Ayer
• Dile Que
• Tu y Yo
• Heartbreaker
• Coming Home
• Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Reba McEntire
Greatest Hits vol. III

CD info:

• Date of Release: 2001
• Includes 10 of her songs from the 1990s
• For the week of Nov. 10, 2001, it hit #1 on the Billboard Country charts and #19 on the Billboard 200
• Track listing:
• I'm a Survivor
• Forever Love
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• And Still
• If You See Him/If You See Her
• The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia
• Fallin' Out of Love
• The Heart Won't Lie
• Take It Back
• She Thinks His Name was John
• The Fear of Being Alone
• Why Haven't I Heard from You
• One Honest Heart
• Myself Without You
• Sweet Music Man

Tim McGraw
Greatest Hits

CD info:

• Date of Release: Nov. 21, 2000
• #4 on Billobard Country charts
• Track listing
• Indian Outlaw
• Don't Take the Girl
• She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart
• I Like It, I Love It
• Just to See You Smile
• It's Your Love
• Where the Green Grass Grows
• For a Little While
• Please Remember Me
• Something Like That
• My Best Friend
• Maybe We Should Sleep on It
• Down on the Farm
• My Next Thirty Years
• Let's Make Love

Live Like You Were Dying

CD info:

• Date of release: August 24, 2004
• #1 on Billboard 200
• Track listing:
• How Bad Do You Want It
• My Old Friend
• Can't Tell Me Nothing
• Old New Town
• Live Like You Were Dying
• Drugs or Jesus
• Back When
• Something's Broken
• Open Season on My Heart
• Everybody Hates Me
• Walk Like a Man
• Blank Sheet of Paper
• Just Be Your Tear
• Do Yuo Want Fries with That
• Kill Myself
• We Carry On

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey was born on July 7, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. His nickname is Ritchie, and he is 5'6''.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823592/bio

Spouse

• Barbara Bach: April 27, 1981- present. 
• Maureen Starkey: February 11, 1965- July 17, 1975. Divorced, 3 children

Trademark: has worn sunglasses in and out since the 1980s

Trivia

• Drummer for the Beatles
• Has 3 children with Maureen Starkey:
• Son Zack Starkey( a featured drummer for the Who), Jason Starkey, and daughter Lee Starkey
• Appeared on an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1969
• When recording the song Stop and Smell the Roses, he was joined by former Beatles members and their wives. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney came into Cherokee Studios to help collaborate on the solo album. Ringo also had some additional help, from Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, who added bass, saxophone, keyboards, guitar and back-up vocals.

Ringo Starr then

Ringo Starr now

George Harrison

George Harrison was born on February 25, 1943, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He died on November 29, 2001, in Beverly Hills, California from lung cancer. He was 5'10 1/2''
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365600/bio
Why is it that the musicians who never do anything wrong have to be the ones to die? It's heartbreaking that this guy is gone! And I thought he was the cutest one too!

Spouse

• Olivia Harrison: September 1, 1978- November 29, 2001(his death) 1 child
• Pattie Boyd: January 21, 1966-June 9, 1977(divorced)

Trademark

• His Gretsch Country Gentleman electric guitar

Trivia

• On Dec. 30, 1999, an intruder broke into their Oxfordshire house and stabbed him in the chest multiple times, after that, he and the intruder fought and detained him for the police
• Son Dhani Harrison was a student at Brown University
• A supposed controversy arose after his death. His death certificate listed a fake address. It said he died at Paul's L.A. house and that Paul described George as his baby brother. The reason for the fake address is George's family was afraid that if his real address was on the certificate, fans would turn his place of death in to a Beatles fan shrine
• According to his last wishes, hours after his death, he was cremated, his ashes being spread out over the Ganges River in India.
• Even though he was considered to be the shyest Beatle, he loved comedy and was a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus
• In 1978, The Rolling Stones' Some Girls album was pulled from stores after stars whose image appeared on the front threatened to sue.
• In 1965, he was the first musician of the pop era to introduce the sitar, when he played it on the track Norwegian Wood from the Beatles' 1965 Rubber Soul album. Later, the Rolling Stones would use that instrument on their track Paint It, Black(1966)

George Harrison then

George Harrison now

George Harrison and Pattie Boyd

George Harrison and Olivia Harrison

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and he died on December 8, 1980, in New York City from a series of fatal gunshots to the head. He was 5'11'',  and before becoming a member of the Beatles, he was in a band in high school called the Quarrymen. I find this person to be most inspirational. He basically says give peace a chance and I'm all for that!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006168/bio

Spouse

• Cynthia Lennon: August 23, 1962-November 8 1968, divorced, 1 child
• Yoko Ono: March 20, 1969- December 8, 1980(his  death), 1 child

Trade mark:

• Sarcastic wit, later granny glasses
• Songs about personal issues
• Songs with political/social themes
• Tattered army jacket

Trivia

• Father of Sean Lennon, from Yoko Ono
• Father of Julian Lennon from Cynthia Lennon
• In the 1985 TV movie John and Yoko: A Love Story, there was an actor named Mark Lindsay Chapman who wanted to play Lennon, but was denied the role because he had a similar name to Lennon's killer. So he later went on to play Lennon in Chapter 27
• When Rolling Stone Magazine debuted in November 1967, Lennon was the first one to make the cover, it was an image of him from the movie How I Won the War
• His murder was first announced to the world by US sportcaster Howard Cosell during NFL Monday Night Football. 
• Was killed as he was returning from the recording studio on Monday, Dec. 8, right outside his apartment building, the Dakota, by a crazed gunman named Mark David Chapman, who claimed to be a fan
• In 2001, the Liverpool Airport was renamed the John Lennon Airport
• Yoko Ono's photograph of John's bloodstained and cracked glasses from the day he was shot, sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for $13,000. 

John Lennon then

 Him and his aunt Mimi

John Lennon now

From the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album