Comments on: Numberscruncher: The Beatles by the Numbers

By: Teofila Sickels

Teofila Sickels — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:45:34 +0000

Where did you get this blog’s theme? Did you download it for free or had to pay for it? Which site did you get it from? Thanks in advance for your response!

By: mojo

mojo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:23:40 +0000

while I know what you meant by your lead, I enjoy reading it as “Being dead hasn't stopped Townshend and Daltrey from doing reunion tours.” Because that's pretty close to the truth.

By: mojo

mojo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:23:40 +0000

while I know what you meant by your lead, I enjoy reading it as “Being dead hasn't stopped Townshend and Daltrey from doing reunion tours.” Because that's pretty close to the truth.

By: mojo

mojo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:23:40 +0000

while I know what you meant by your lead, I enjoy reading it as “Being dead hasn't stopped Townshend and Daltrey from doing reunion tours.” Because that's pretty close to the truth.

By: John Ozed

John Ozed — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:53:12 +0000

Something you should remember about Epstein was the fact that he was in uncharted waters. The ‘we couldn’t accept more than 7%’ on a licensing deal was truly naive.

By: John Ozed

John Ozed — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:43:08 +0000

I believe that on both the Clash albums, Sandinista and Combat Rock, Joe/Mick/Paul/Topper received equal credit.

By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:51:06 +0000

My favorite tidbit about the Beatle fortunes is the fact that Yoko, while managing John's $$$ during his late-'70s retirement, invested millions in Holstein cattle–which gave them back a very tidy sum, though the investments later led to disputes between the estate and the IRS. In July 1980 John & Yoko sold ONE COW for $265,000 at the New York State Fair.

Rolling Stone's recent cover story did a good job of covering the Lee Eastman/Allen Klein dispute that helped ensure the band would not only break up, but fail to reunite during the early '70s.

There was also McCartney's attempt, at around the same time his as-told-to “memoir” Many Years from Now was published, to reverse the songwriting credits on many of his biggest Beatle hits to “McCartney-Lennon.” It was bad enough when Paul & John spent years tamping down George's blossoming talent as a songwriter, in part to keep their own publishing $$$ flowing. But Paul's move made it clear that he has no perspective on the sanctity of the “Lennon-McCartney” credit, and no understanding that critics & historians generally attribute the too-frequent mediocrity of Paul's post-Beatles songwriting to his loss of Lennon as a collaborator, sounding board and competitor.

By: ozarkmatt

ozarkmatt — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:49:36 +0000

I remember reading a quote from David Lee Roth, explaining how he came up with the lyrics, Eddie had the riffs, and It seemed Anthony did a lot of the arranging, but as he said it, “We split the credit four ways, because we're a band.”

Too bad other devils drove apart Van Halen.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:29:29 +0000

According to the LA Times, they are guaranteed at least $10m in royalties from the game.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-beatles31-2009aug31,0,2943351.story

By: annielogue

annielogue — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:19:18 +0000

I live in Chicago, and here you see the real tragedy: all the blues musicians who were totally ripped off on their royalties. When you think of how talented and influential some of these people are, they should be living like royalty, you know?

Some days, I think everyone needs an MBA, because we all have to know so much in order to avoid being ripped off. Isn't that depressing?