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Imagine: John Lennon (soundtrack)
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Imagine, John Lennon is a soundtrack album of popular music compiled for the 1988 documentary film Imagine, John Lennon from songs written or co-written by John Lennon. Originally released that year as an album, it now remains available on one CD. Bridging his two musical phases together, as a member of the Beatles and a solo artist, Imagine, John Lennon is a career-spanning collection of Lennons many musical highlights. In addition there are a couple of unreleased recordings, an acoustic demo of Real Love taped in 1979. It also features for the first time a version of A Day in the Life. Imagine, John Lennon, with its wealth of stock Lennon footage and self-narration, proved to be a film and its soundtrack sold well in the United States, reaching No.31. In the United Kingdom, the peaked at No.64. All songs by John Lennon, except where noted, tracks 2-10 produced by George Martin. Track 11 produced by Lennon and Yoko Ono, tracks 12-14,17 &21 produced by Lennon, Ono and Phil Spector. Tracks 18-20 produced by Lennon, Ono and Jack Douglas, Real Love –2,48 October 1979 demo recording, another demo of this song would eventually be re-recorded by the Beatles in 1995. Twist and Shout –2,33 Originally appeared on The Beatles 1963 debut album Please Please Me Help, –2,18 Originally appeared on The Beatles 1965 album Help. It was also credited to Lennon–McCartney, but the credit was revised in the 1990s to cite only John Lennon as its composer How. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Oh Yoko
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Andrew Solt
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Andrew Solt is an American producer, director, and writer of documentary films. Solt has had a career in television. A frequent focus of his documentaries is rock and roll music, its history, Solt owns the rights to The Ed Sullivan Show library, and has produced more than 100 hours of new programming from the archive. Solt was born in London and spent his years in South Africa before moving to Los Angeles in 1958. Solt graduated from Hollywood High School before attending University of California and he also earned a masters degree in broadcast journalism from U. C. L. A. Solt is married to Claudia Falkenburg and she is the daughter of 1948 Wimbledon mens singles tennis champion Bob Falkenburg and the niece of 1950s actress-model-TV personality Jinx Falkenburg. He and his wife have two children, Joshua and Dakota, Solt is the nephew of Hungarian-born screenwriter Andrew P. Solt. In 1970, Solt began working at David Wolpers production company and he worked with the National Geographic Society on their various other network specials, while there, he began a longer-term collaboration with the award-winning producer. Wolper executive-produced two of Solts documentaries, This is Elvis and Imagine, John Lennon, Solt speaking at the memorial service for Wolper, who died 10 August 2010, described the many producers who cut their teeth there as having attended Wolper U. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Solt worked on projects with Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He wrote and produced Oasis in Space, a six-part half-hour series executive produced by Cousteau, Solt received the first of nine Emmy nominations for the shows Calypsos Search for Atlantis episode. He also produced Cousteau Odyssey, four one-hour specials about deep-sea explorations shot in the waters off Greece, the two-hour documentary about the nations longest river won the 1985 Emmy for Outstanding Informational Special. The award was shared by Solt, Cousteau and his son, in 1979 Solt teamed with producer/director Malcolm Leo on Heroes of Rock and Roll. One of the first comprehensive documentaries to be made about rock music, Solt and Leo also produced the 1982 film It Came from Hollywood, a compilation of over 100 Golden Turkey movies, featuring Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Cheech and Chong. Solt again examined rock and roll in 1995 as executive producer of Time-Lifes The History of Rock, the series, divided into 10 one-hour episodes for home video, was also syndicated and later shown on PBS and cable. It chronologically documents rock music from its roots in the early 1950s to Nirvana, other music-themed Solt productions include 25 x 5, The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones and Elvis, The Great Performances. In 1990 Solt purchased the rights to the complete library of The Ed Sullivan Show from Ed Sullivans daughter Elizabeth and her husband Bob Precht. The collection consists of 1,087 hours of kinescopes and videotapes broadcast by CBS on Sunday nights from 1948 to 1971
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David L. Wolper
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Wolper directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space, which was nominated for an Academy Award. His 1971 film about the study of insects, The Hellstrom Chronicle, Wolper was born in New York City, the son of Anna and Irving S. Wolper. For his work on television, he had received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the pre-1968 library is owned by Cube Entertainment, the post-1970 library is owned by Warner Bros. The filmed segment was recovered in the wreckage and was broadcast in the television series Primal Man, the cause of the crash remains unsolved. In 1988, Wolper was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, Wolper died on August 10,2010, of congestive heart disease and complications of Parkinsons disease at his Beverly Hills home. He was survived by his wife of 36 years, Gloria Hill, Wolper was also survived by ten grandchildren. His company was involved in the following productions and he was a distributor of the early shows, and became an executive producer with The Race for Space in 1958. Official website David L. Wolper at the Internet Movie Database David L. Wolper interview video at the Archive of American Television
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John Lennon
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful and musically influential band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a songwriting partnership. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the craze as a teenager, his first band, the Quarrymen, first became the Silver Beatles. After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he added Ono as one of his middle names, Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release, Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. By 2012, Lennons solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million and, as writer, co-writer, or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth and, in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and in 1994 as a solo artist. Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, to Julia and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman of Irish descent and his parents named him John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John Jack Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill. When he eventually came home six months later, he offered to look after the family, after her sister, Mimi Smith, twice complained to Liverpools Social Services, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to her. In July 1946 Lennons father visited Smith and took his son to Blackpool, Julia followed them—with her partner at the time, Bobby Dykins—and after a heated argument his father forced the five-year-old to choose between them. Lennon twice chose his father, but as his mother walked away, he began to cry and followed her, according to author Mark Lewisohn, Lennons parents agreed that Julia should take him and give him a home as Alf left again. A witness who was there that day, Billy Hall, has said the scene often portrayed with a young John Lennon having to make a decision between his parents never happened. It would be 20 years before he had contact with his father again, Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence he lived at Mendips,251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, who had no children of their own. His aunt purchased volumes of stories for him, and his uncle. In September 1980, Lennon commented about his family and his rebellious nature, Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society, but I cannot be what I am not. I was the one who all the other boys parents—including Pauls father—would say, the parents instinctively recognised I was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their children, which I did. I did my best to disrupt every friends home, partly out of envy that I didnt have this so-called home
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The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Minute
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The minute is a unit of time or of angle. As a unit of time, the minute is equal to 1⁄60 of an hour, in the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds. As a unit of angle, the minute of arc is equal to 1⁄60 of a degree, although not an SI unit for either time or angle, the minute is accepted for use with SI units for both. The SI symbols for minute or minutes are min for time measurement, the prime is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time. In contrast to the hour, the minute does not have a historical background. What is traceable only is that it started being recorded in the Middle Ages due to the ability of construction of precision timepieces, however, no consistent records of the origin for the division as 1⁄60 part of the hour have ever been found, despite many speculations. Historically, the word comes from the Latin pars minuta prima. This division of the hour can be refined with a second small part. For even further refinement, the third remains in some languages, for example Polish and Turkish. The symbol notation of the prime for minutes and double prime for seconds can be seen as indicating the first, international System of Units Latitude and longitude Orders of magnitude Henry Campbell Black, Blacks Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, entry on Minute. West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota,1991
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Anthology 2
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Anthology 2 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 18 March 1996 by Apple Records as part of The Beatles Anthology series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the 1965 sessions for Help. to the sessions just prior to their trip to India in February 1968. It is the second in a trilogy of albums with Anthology 1 and Anthology 3, the opening track is Real Love, the second of the two recordings that reunited the Beatles for the first time since the bands break-up. Like its predecessor, the album topped the Billboard 200 album chart and has been certified 4× Platinum by the RIAA, the Anthology albums were remastered and made available digitally on the iTunes Store on 14 June 2011, individually and as part of the Anthology Box Set. Real Love, as with Free as a Bird, is based on a made by John Lennon and given to Paul McCartney by Lennons widow. The three surviving Beatles added guitars, bass, drums, percussion and backing vocals, but unlike with the previous song, Real Love remained solely credited to Lennon, becoming the only Beatles song to have Lennon by himself in the writing credit. Disc one contains three unreleased compositions, one being an instrumental entitled 12-Bar Original, recorded for Rubber Soul, two other songs recorded for Help. If Youve Got Trouble and That Means a Lot, were abandoned, the former was originally slated to be the usual vocal spot for Ringo Starr on Help. and the latter was eventually given to singer P. J. Proby. The version of Everybodys Trying to Be My Baby from the groups famed August 1965 show at Shea Stadium, disc two contains work-in-progress versions of tracks from Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, the take of Strawberry Fields Forever that made up the first minute of the released record appears in its entirety on track three. Also included are three songs that were started during this period – Only a Northern Song, You Know My Name and Across the Universe – but would not see release until years later, in 1969 and 1970. One track that remains officially unreleased from this time, Carnival of Light, was vetoed off this set by Harrison, like its predecessor, Anthology 2 sold well. In the United States, it debuted at one, selling 442,000 copies its first week. The next week, it fell to two, selling 201,000 copies, being replaced by Alanis Morissettes Jagged Little Pill. In all, the album spent 37 weeks on the charts, in the United Kingdom, the success was similar. The first Anthology album had debuted at number two when it was released in November 1995, but its successor reached number one, where it remained for one week, the album spent a total of 13 weeks on the UK Album Chart. All tracks in stereo, except where noted, all tracks written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted
