| Identifier | 7605920 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | Flac |
| Media Count | 1 |
| Sound Rating | A |
| Note | The Beatles - "The Birth of Apple" |
| Source Info | The Beatles - "The Birth of Apple" |
| Tech Note | R&R DVD 43I |
| Trades Allowed |
Performance
| The Beatles 1968-05-15 The Birth of Apple, Various, Various | |
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| Set 1 | Press Conference, Americana Hotel. 05-14-1968
WNET Newsfront. taped 05-14-1968, aired 05-15-1968 The Tonight Show. 05-14-1968 David Frost Presents... Paul McCartney with Mary Hopkin, London, 06-16-1968 |
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| Comment | Apple, you may recall, was meant to be the Beatles’ – and in a way, the world’s -- creative playground. It was to be a manifestly non-corporate place where artists and dreamers could find the support for projects that establishment companies turned down. And in a small way, for the briefest time, it was. Its record division got off to a promising start with Mary Hopkin, Badfinger, the Modern Jazz Quartet, James Taylor and the composer John Tavener – not a bad roster. Apple Films produced the weird cult classic El Topo. And okay, so Magic Alex’s electronics division ran mainly on fumes and hemorrhaged money – it was a great concept.
This CD begins with a few important mementos of John Lennon’s and Paul McCartney’s May 1968 visit to New York to announce their new company. The first is a reconstruction of the May 14 press conference, compiled from excerpts broadcast on WABC radio, with additions from The Compleat Beatles and The Beatles Anthology stitched in when they were more complete than the WABC versions, or included material that WABC didn’t air at all. The two major appearances of the week – the Newsfront interview, from WNET television, and the visit to The Tonight Show – are included in their entirety. And filling out the disc is an appearance by McCartney, with protégé Mary Hopkin, on David Frost Presents…. |