New Documentary Of ‘Let It Be’ In Works

January 31, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — The Beatles’ farewell documentary “Let It Be” is getting an encore, and a reinvention. “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson announced Wednesday that he is making a new film out of some 55 hours of footage — shot in January 1969 — that has never been seen by the public. The original movie, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, came out soon after the Beatles broke up in 1970 and has long been viewed as a chronicle of the band members growing apart. In a Rolling Stone interview given months after the film’s release, John Lennon recalled the making of ...

Best Director

January 24, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee watched the Oscar nominations Tuesday morning on television from his bed, with his wife, Tonya, his two grown children, Satchel and Jackson, and their dog, Ginger. Screaming ensued . Lee landed his first directing Academy Award nomination for ...

Write Now: Geddy Lee Releases Bass Book

January 24, 2019

Over the years the Canadian band Rush has influenced many musicians. I am one of them. The members, bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart, are incredible performers, but I don’t have to say it because it is a well-known fact. Although the band has stopped touring, ...

Jimmy Page’s Dragon Guitar Re-Emerges After 50 Years

January 24, 2019

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After five decades, Jimmy Page’s dragon has re-emerged from its lair. Fender instruments on Wednesday gave the public its first look at its recreation of a Telecaster guitar that Page once painted with a dragon, a long-lost piece of six-string history that marked the ...

Unseen J.D. Salinger Photos For ‘Catcher’ On Display

January 24, 2019

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The University of New Hampshire is celebrating J.D. Salinger’s centennial year with an exhibit he likely would have loathed: a display of previously unseen photos of the famously reclusive author. Salinger, who was born Jan. 1, 1919, and died in 2010, spent the last nearly six decades of his life far from the public eye in Cornish, New Hampshire. The photos unveiled Tuesday were taken by famed German photographer Lotte Jacobi for the book jacket of Salinger’s 1951 novel “Catcher in the Rye,” but he requested the picture be removed from the book after the ...

In Review: Michaels Rocks Casino

January 24, 2019

SALAMANCA — Some music is just timeless. The artist that created the piece is right on. The atmosphere is solid, and the musicianship is spot-on. That was the case for nearly the entire show when Bret Michaels and his band took the stage at the Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino, Saturday, ...