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All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!!

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Beatle Paul gets vaccinated.

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Aug 31, 1976.
George Harrison loses the plagiarism case
A judge rules that Harrison's 1970 song "My Sweet Lord" is musically similar to "He's So Fine," a 1963 hit for the girl group The Chiffons, and orders him to pay nearly $1.6 million in damages.

George Harrison Guilty Of "Subconscious Plagiarism" - August 31, 1976

1976

George Harrison is found guilty of "subconscious plagiarism" in a bizarre lawsuit that leaves songwriters baffled.

A judge rules that Harrison's 1970 song "Link Removed" is musically similar to "Link Removed," a 1963 hit for the girl group The Chiffons, and orders him to pay nearly $1.6 million in damages. The lawsuit was filed by Bright Tunes Music on February 10, 1971 as "My Sweet Lord" was falling down the charts. Bright Tunes is controlled by The Tokens, who set it up as part of their production company, which produced "He's So Fine" and owns the publishing rights. The song's writer, Link Removed, died of cancer shortly after the song was released. Harrison tried to settle the case, but Bright Tunes rejected the offer and the case was tried over three days in February 1976. After hearing all about musical motifs and chord progressions, the judge declares the songs "virtually identical," but admits Harrison didn't do it on purpose. Still, this "subconscious plagiarism" doesn't exonerate him, and he's on the hook. Harrison mocks the case on "Link Removed," a track from his November 1976 album Thirty Three & 1/3. "This song... Don't infringe on anyone's copyright," he sings. Frustrated and depleted from the case, Harrison doesn't release another album until 1979.
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#1,187
Wanna hear my Beatles connection?
Your gonna think I'm kidding, but I'm not...true up.
My birthday is July 7...same as Ringo Starr
My wife's birthday is February 25th....same as George Harrison
My son ( and only child) has October 9th...same as John Lennon
Even with 9 grandchildren... we never got one to land on June 18..
Maccas birthday.
I know...weird huh.
With all the concerts I've attended over 55 years and all the celebrities I've seen... I've never seen a Beatle in the flesh.
The closest I got was Ringo, a few years back, when his all-star band played a Indian casino about an hour from here......Should've went.
 
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In 1994, Paul, George and Ringo gathered to record background music for Anthology. They really wanted to instead compose and record new music but according to George, the Beatles had always agreed that if one of them was not in the band, the others would never replace them and "go out as the Beatles,” and that the "only other person that could be in it was John."
So, Paul asked Yoko if she had any unreleased recordings by John. She sent him cassette tapes of four songs, including an incomplete song, “Free as a Bird", recorded by John in 1977. John introduced the song on the cassette by imitating a New York accent “Free—as a boid" (bird).
George, Paul and Ringo recorded the song in 1994 at Paul’s home studio in Sussex and John’s cassette demo was incorporated into the final recording.
When they were finished, the three stepped outside to pose for this photo, when a white peacock wandered into the photo.
Paul is convinced this was the spirit of John.

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Alkali Ike said:
This was posted to YouTube in June so it's fairly new.

In the Comments: "This is the Melbourne, Australia concert at Festival Hall in June, 1964. The video was recently remastered and shown on the (Australian) Nine TV Network." Clean audio too.

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Diggin' this! A few personal observations:
- Too bad they did not have the camera on John Lennon during his guitar solo during "You Can't Do That." It's one of the few songs where he played lead guitar.
- Dig George's harmony vocals on "All My Loving."
- Love the energy!
- I wonder what the story is behind the John Lennon look-alike that bursts onto the stage at 13:50.:wideyed:

Thanks for posting!
 
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nixdad said:
Diggin' this! A few personal observations:
- Too bad they did not have the camera on John Lennon during his guitar solo during "You Can't Do That." It's one of the few songs where he played lead guitar.
- Dig George's harmony vocals on "All My Loving."
- Love the energy!
- I wonder what the story is behind the John Lennon look-alike that bursts onto the stage at 13:50.:wideyed:

Thanks for posting!
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I don’t think it’s a best performance, but it was captured and restored nicely.
 
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