ABBEY ROAD
The crosswalk made famous by The Beatles back in 1969, where the quartet are pictured walking across the zebra striped Abbey Road, was recently declared a historic landmark by the British government. The Abbey Road music studio was also declared a landmark back in February.
This year we witnessed a sudden surge in Beatles popularity, with the release of their music on iTunes and celebrations of John Lennon’s life in honor of the 30th anniversary of his death and what would have been his 70th birthday.
Bob Smeaton, acclaimed director of The Beatles Anthology returns with The Beatles on Record, a documentary revolving around the making of each album. The entire discography is explored, and is narrated with sound clips of the Beatles themselves. No narration or extra acting was brought into the piece, only what already existed from the Beatles and the producers on the albums.
New York City is where everyone goes to "make it," and accordingly, only a very small portion succeed. Countless numbers of actors, artists, writers, musicians, and other “professionals” have ultimately been forced to turn tail and retreat from a city that exemplifies the “dog eat dog” mentality. Rising proudly from the slew of undocumented failures that this city has aborted is The London Souls. When contemporary musicians spend their time experimenting with electronics that clog a stage faster than dreadlocks caught in an overhead fan, The London Souls occupy their time refining their soulful, blues-rock influence into a rocking sound that quickly fills any listener with the warm comfort of a traditional rock feeling. They play fervently with decades of musical influence under their belts and convert that energy into a show ripe with power, charisma, and an overall rock and roll sound that is equally fresh and familiar at the same time, not to mention loud. I got the chance to speak with this unique group of musicians about their music, their influences, the importance of having fun, and playing rock and roll music in the fickle New York music scene.
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