WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2010 – TODAY ONLY
First Ever 10% OFF Beatles Store-Wide Sale
ONLINE ORDERS ONLY
Not to be Combined with any other Offers
Welcome to YESTERDAY: AKA Cyber Monday on Wednesday! Why? Because as many of you know, our website was down for a few hours on Cyber Monday of all days. But we fixed the hole, and to make up for any online shopping frustration, we’re having an unprecedented 1-DAY WEB ONLY STOREWIDE 10% OFF SALE!!.

Hundreds of items that have NEVER been on sale, even many of the higher priced items – All of the CD and DVD Box Sets, Hoodies, John Lennon Sun Glasses, Gold Record Plaques, Beatles Replica Jackets, the New Framed Presentations, Yellow Submarine 3D Art, Beatles Ornaments, & many more!

Go to www.thefest.com and use Promo Code YESTERDAY upon check-out to redeem this discount.
This sale expires at 3 AM EST on Dec 2, 2010

Happy shopping! And as for tomorrow… well….Tomorrow Never Knows.

NOTE FOR OUR RETURNING CUSTOMERS: If your order reflects a different value amount from the 10% discount, do not worry. It will be corrected by our office staff.
NO PHONE ORDERS accepted for this Special Discount.
This special is for WEB ORDERS ONLY!
This offer may not be combined with any other special offers.

We apologize for any inconvenience as our webstore was down from yesterday afternoon. It was a minor internal glitch that has been fixed. Welcome to Cyber Monday!

Since we couldn’t do any blogs earlier I wanted to note this sad 9th Anniversary of George’s passing.  His music sounds better than ever. Put on your favorite George Album and have a listen today. The music will tell you why we love him so much. It’s strange how we are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the release of one of the greatest albums of the 20th century-All Things Must Pass at the same point in time.

We hope you got to see LENNONYC on your local PBS station last night. It is a brand new documentary covering John’s New York City Years. We think it was very well done, with lots of previously unseen footage and new interviews with many friends and family including Yoko, Jack Douglas, Elton John, Earl Slick, Hugh McCracken, Bob Gruen and many others. Let us know what you thought of it. The LENNONYC DVD is now available, specially priced at $22.50 (List is $24.95) and it is in stock. Others may tell you the release is December 7th, but we do have them in stock and ready to ship.

In perhaps the most remarkably coincidental juxtaposition of events, November 22, 1963 was a dark day in US history as President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Across the ocean, however, that day was a bit brighter – With The Beatles was released in the UK. The sadness of that day will never be forgotten by all who lived through it. It would be barely 5 weeks later that The Beatles helped bring us out of the doldrums with the onslaught of beatlemania. On that same day, Walter Cronkite was going to run the first news story about this new English phenomenon. It, of course, was bumped as we watched the news of the day as a nation. Five years later on this day, The Beatles (White Album) was released. All that music – in a 5 year span!!

Don’t forget to tune in tonight on your local PBS station to watch LENNONYC. There were two PBS specials last night. One was Lennon Naked, which was a dramatic look at John’s life from around the time he met Yoko until they moved to NYC. It was very well done. We will be carrying the DVD of this hopefully by next week. The other, first aired in 2009 – How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin –  dealt with the importance of The Beatles behind the iron curtain and how young people learned English from their smuggled records.

Today we let you know the iTunes Top Beatles Downloads as of right now. We note it is a George song that leads the list.

31 . Here Comes The Sun
37.  Let It Be
40. In My Life
51.  Come Together
55. Blackbird
70. Hey Jude
88. Let It Be
90. With A Little Help From My Friends
91. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
92. Yesterday
95. Twist and Shout
100. I Saw Her Standing There
103. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
105. Something
110. A Day in the Life
115. Can’t Buy Me Love
117. Eleanor Rigby
119. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
123. Help
130. A Hard Day’s Night
140. When I’m 64
142. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
149. Revolution
152. Dear Prudence
164. I Should Have Known Better
171. All My Loving
173. Strawberry Fields Forever
174. Long and Winding Road
181. I Am The Walrus
185. I Want To Hold Your Hand
187. Norwegian Wood
192. Penny Lane
195. Sgt. Pepper
198. Do You Want To Know A Secret
199. Hello Goodbye

For some reason 6 of these were on the list twice (same album listed)
35 of the top 200 downloaded song right now are Beatles Songs.

Here’s a look at how the Beatles albums stand up against one another, and their places on the iTunes charts right NOW:
4. Abbey Road
8. White Album
10. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
12. The Beatles 1967-1970 (The Blue Album)
13. The Beatles Remastered Box Set
14. The Beatles 1962-1966 (The Red Album)
16. Rubber Soul
23. Revolver
24. Magical Mystery Tour
25. A Hard Day’s Night
26. Let It Be
31. Help!
33. Please Please Me
36. With The Beatles
41. Past Masters, Vols 1 & 2
53. Beatles For Sale
77. Yellow Submarine
Whose albums top the charts ahead of Abbey Road? Rihanna, Glee and Rascal Flatts… Seriously?

Finally, The Beatles catalog is now available in iTunes for digital downloads. At 10AM this morning Apple Computers made the announcement. If you go to iTunes, you can watch the ENTIRE Beatles at the Washington Coliseum Concert, from February 11, 1964. It is pristine and will be shown for free through December 31, 2010. They are offering it with the purchase of the Remastered Digital Box Set.

PAUL McCARTNEY PLAYS THE WORLD FAMOUS APOLLO THEATER FOR THE FIRST TIME—CELEBRATING 20 MILLION SIRIUS XM SUBSCRIBERS

Exclusive concert for SIRIUS XM listeners to air live across six channels on SIRIUS XM

SIRIUS XM to launch month-long “Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run Radio” channel devoted to the music of Paul McCartney

NEW YORK–November 16, 2010– SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that Paul McCartney will perform at Harlem’s world famous Apollo Theater for the first time at an exclusive, invitation-only concert for SIRIUS XM listeners. The concert will celebrate SIRIUS XM reaching 20 million subscribers, a milestone the company expects to achieve shortly.

The concert, which will be held on Monday, December 13 at 8:00 pm ET, will feature McCartney performing songs from his unrivalled back catalog, including many Beatles, Wings and solo classics, for SIRIUS XM subscribers. As a thank you to its loyal subscribers, SIRIUS XM will broadcast the concert live nationwide as well as offer lucky subscribers the opportunity to attend the unprecedented event.

SIRIUS XM will also launch “Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run Radio,” a month-long 24/7 commercial-free music channel devoted to McCartney’s legendary and expansive music catalog, including music from his solo records, tracks from every Wings album as well as the iconic songs he recorded with The Beatles. “Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run Radio” will launch on Monday, November 29 at 3:00 pm ET and air through Sunday, December 26 at 11:59 pm ET on SIRIUS channel 33 and XM channel 27 and SIRIUS XM Bootlegs, SIRIUS Internet Radio, SIR channel 812, and XM Radio Online, XMRO channel 90.

The channel’s launch coincides with the recent re-issue of Paul McCartney & Wings’ number one album from 1973, Band on the Run, the first title to be released as part of an extensive overhaul of McCartney’s complete catalog of solo recordings. The month-long channel will also feature a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this landmark album, hosted by McCartney himself, as well as newly discovered live performances of Wings tracks recorded at Abbey Road Studios from The Paul McCartney Archive.

“Reaching 20 million satellite radio subscribers is an important milestone for SIRIUS XM,” said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SIRIUS XM Radio. “Sir Paul’s performance at the Apollo Theater is our way of thanking our subscribers; we are thrilled to offer them an opportunity to attend the event and listen live to this once-in-a-lifetime concert on SIRIUS XM.”

Currently celebrating its 75th anniversary season, the legendary non-profit Apollo Theater is known for launching the careers of countless legendary performers, and has been a catalyst for artistic excellence and innovation since it opened its doors in 1934.

Subscribers may enter to win tickets to the event through various call-in promotions across SIRIUS XM’s diverse music, talk and sports on-air channels. SIRIUS XM subscribers can also enter for the chance to win tickets by going to www.sirius.com or www.xmradio.com for Official Rules and complete details. One grand prize winner will be awarded four tickets to the exclusive concert, a paid trip to New York City, two nights lodging, an “Everything Plus The Best Of” SIRIUS or XM subscription for the lifetime of the subscriber’s radio, an opportunity to be a guest DJ on “Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run Radio” and an autographed copy of the Band on the Run deluxe edition box set. All opportunities to win tickets to the concert are limited to listeners who have been an active SIRIUS or XM subscriber continuously since November 15, 2010.

The concert will air nationwide live on six channels including “Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run Radio,” Howard 101, one of Howard Stern’s two exclusive SIRIUS XM channels, Underground Garage, Classic Vinyl, The Coffee House and ‘70s on 7.

For more information, please visit www.sirius.com or www.xmradio.com.

November 28, 1970 – One of Rock’s true masterpieces was released 40 years ago. It was George Harrison’s first real solo album, All Things Must Pass. It was a triple record, a first for a release of all new music in the pop music world. To celebrate this, Capitol is releasing the 3 record set, Digitally Remastered, in VINYL ONLY, next week. It will be a Limited Edition of 5,000 number copies. RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW!

Dark Horse/Rhino Records is celebrating Ravi Shankar’s 90th Birthday with the release of Collaborations: Ravi Shankar/George Harrison – a 3CD/1DVD Set. This Limited Edition of 1000 copies is being released on 12/7. CLICK HERE to read about all the details and to reserve a copy.

NOVEMBER 9, 1961, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND: NEMS Store Manager Brian Epstein and assistant Alistair Taylor (many times a special guest at our FESTS) decide to check out what all the excitement was at The Cavern Club, just a short walk from the store. It was a lunchtime concert and The Beatles were playing. When Brian saw and heard them, he had a vision and had to become their manager to get them to the ‘toppermost of the poppermost’! He promised he would get them a recording contract and refused to take no for an answer, finally getting a receptive George Martin to give them a go, after being rejected by every other record company. Guitar groups are out!, was the most famous rejection, from Decca. I would rank this as the number two most important early moment in Beatles history, just behind July 6, 1957, the Day John met Paul. It is incomprehensible that Brian Epstein hasn’t yet been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This needs to be remedied. If you want to sign a petition to have him inducted, CLICK HERE.