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Beatles - 50th Anniversary

oldies76

oldies76

Great show last night, toggling between this and the Men's Downhill Olympic run. Great to see Ringo and Paul together with great music played! The cover artists were ok, but I preferred the last hour or so. "Sgt. Pepper's / With a Little Help From My Friends" and "Hey Jude" were especially memorable!

Tribute to George and John was nice.

Timeless Beatles music, that will last for many generations to come! Great show all around.
 
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Interesting to note that not only is this site still here, I am still logged on!

Anyway, just posting here to let everyone know that this special will re-air tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 7:30 central time, so for any of you who (like me!) missed it, you can tune in and see Paul and Ringo play together again. At least they are NOT billing this as a "Beatles reunion."
 
firepoint525 said:
Interesting to note that not only is this site still here, I am still logged on!

Anyway, just posting here to let everyone know that this special will re-air tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 7:30 central time, so for any of you who (like me!) missed it, you can tune in and see Paul and Ringo play together again. At least they are NOT billing this as a "Beatles reunion."
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I missed it the first time because I wasn't interested in seeing people like Katy Perry sing Beatles songs. But I heard that there is some history in the show, so I'll probably catch the rerun. Thanks for the heads-up.
 
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Only the last half-hour (or so) of it was worth seeing. That was the part with Paul and Ringo in it. The rest was not really worth seeing. Katy Perry turned in an emotionless rendering of "Yesterday," and Eurythmics did an absolutely wretched version of "Fool on the Hill." Paul and Ringo, however, were as great as always!
 
It would have been nice if the special had begun by showing, in their entirety, every Beatles performance from The Ed Sullivan Show and then let Paul and Ringo and the band, including Dhani Harrison---where were Sean and Julian Lennon?---perform for the remainder of the program. As it was, there were too many bad performances by contemporary artists and part of Hey Jude was cut for the television broadcast. A then-record 73,000,000 viewers watched the Beatles' first Sullivan appearance in 1964. A measly 14,000,000 watched the 50th anniversary special. Even with only two Beatles, the special should have gotten a larger audience. Maybe if the program had done what I suggested.....?
 
Sean was in the audience with his mom grooving to the music. Don't know about Julian.

Getting the national broadcast rights for every performance is extremely expensive. CBS doesn't own them.

The reality is that the majority of the 73 million from 1964 have passed on. Their grandkids care as much about 50 year old music as Beatle fans cared about Bing Crosby.
 
LARadioRewind said:
It would have been nice if the special had begun by showing, in their entirety, every Beatles performance from The Ed Sullivan Show and then let Paul and Ringo and the band, including Dhani Harrison---where were Sean and Julian Lennon?---perform for the remainder of the program. As it was, there were too many bad performances by contemporary artists and part of Hey Jude was cut for the television broadcast. A then-record 73,000,000 viewers watched the Beatles' first Sullivan appearance in 1964. A measly 14,000,000 watched the 50th anniversary special. Even with only two Beatles, the special should have gotten a larger audience. Maybe if the program had done what I suggested.....?
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I agree that most of the "contemporary" performers were just going through the motions with their (mostly) lame cover versions. There were a few bright spots there, but a reunited Eurythmics to butcher "Fool on the Hill"? Could have done without that.

I was out celebrating the 50th anniversary with a live performance by the Wannabeatles (Nashville Beatles tribute group), so I did not see the special in full until Wednesday evening. We own the Sullivan Show DVD of the Beatles performances, so no need to show more than snippets of that on TV now.
 
TheBigA said:
Sean was in the audience with his mom grooving to the music. Don't know about Julian.
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The problem with inviting Sean to perform is that you must (apparently) also invite Yoko, too!

Julian claims not to have been invited to perform, but he tends to take his mother's (Cynthia's) side with regards to most Beatle-related issues, since John basically abandoned them for Yoko, so I understand Julian's reluctance to show up.
 
I only watched the interviews with Letterman and the biographies.

Most of their music still sounds ike noise to me, but it's amazing how many of the songs I'm actually starting to like because standards radio has played them.
 
TheBigA said:
Sean was in the audience with his mom grooving to the music. Don't know about Julian.

Getting the national broadcast rights for every performance is extremely expensive. CBS doesn't own them.

The reality is that the majority of the 73 million from 1964 have passed on. Their grandkids care as much about 50 year old music as Beatle fans cared about Bing Crosby.
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I care about Bing Crosby!
 
The Beatles had 75 chart hits, 39 top-ten hits, and 20 number ones.

Bing Crosby had 322 chart hits, 184 top-ten hits, and 36 number ones. There ya go! And long before the Beatles filmed their Magical Mystery Tour, Bing Crosby made several Road To... pictures with Bob Hope. "Hoot mon! Hoot mon!"
 
The Beatles were also only together for a fraction of the time that Bing was alive.

My point is that every generation has its favorite music.
 
firepoint525 said:
Only the last half-hour (or so) of it was worth seeing. That was the part with Paul and Ringo in it. The rest was not really worth seeing. Katy Perry turned in an emotionless rendering of "Yesterday," and Eurythmics did an absolutely wretched version of "Fool on the Hill." Paul and Ringo, however, were as great as always!
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I finally watched the show off of my DVR. The last 45 minutes were awesome, starting with Jeff Bridges who mentioned Chuck Berry and Little Richard and the influence 1950s American music had on the Beatles. Kudos to Ringo who included two cover songs (Matchbox and Boys) in his set. And thanks to Paul for choosing "I Saw Her Standing There", a song he said was "written by two kids in high school". That's my personal favorite Beatles song. The one real downer in the show was the woman in the audience wearing the "HIV POSITIVE" tee shirt. I mean, would someone go to a concert wearing a "I HAVE BRAIN CANCER" tee shirt? What was that all about?
 
TheBigA said:
The reality is that the majority of the 73 million from 1964 have passed on. Their grandkids care as much about 50 year old music as Beatle fans cared about Bing Crosby.
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So the majority of Beatle fans in 1964, were young teens screaming their lungs out (the girls anyways....). 16 in 1964....most in their mid 60's today. I seriously doubt that the majority of them have passed on (unless there has been a major life expectancy decline). The much older adults then, sure have passed....but it's somewhat irrelevant, since the majority of the older adults in 1964 disliked the Beatles anyways, in favor of the music of the 30's 40's and early 50's over rock and roll

The fact, is that many people today of ALL age groups, enjoy the music of the Beatles today!......or was CBS just airing that show (twice) in primetime to appeal only to the 65+ audience????
 
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