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A home-made animation for the Beatles’ “Mean Mister Mustard” a very catchy tune from “Abbey Road”.

A simple but effective animation for the song “Because” (“Love” version, just vocals) by Freddie

Lucy Vodden

Lucy O’Donnell was four years old when her classmate at nursery drew a picture of her, surrounded it with stars and took it home to show his parents.

“It’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,” Julian Lennon told his father, inspiring one of the Beatles’ most enigmatic songs and carving his friend a slice of musical immortality.

Today it emerged that Lucy, now known by her married name Vodden, died last week after suffering for years from lupus, a disease of the immune system. She was 46.

Angie Davidson, campaign director of the St Thomas Lupus Trust, which had been supporting Mr and Mrs Vodden during her illness, said: “Everyone at the Louise Coote Lupus Unit was dreadfully shocked by the death of Lucy. She was a great supporter of ours and a real fighter…

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Copyright 2009 Times Newspapers Ltd.

“Cathy’s Clown” is a popular song, written and recorded by The Everly Brothers. It was their first single for Warner Bros., after spending three years on Archie Bleyer’s Cadence label. “Cathy’s Clown” sold eight-million copies worldwide, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and one week on the R&B charts.

John Lennon started working on a cover of the song at some point, and it can be heard on the boxset The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes

[From Wikipedia. Here is the page about "Cathy's Clown"]

In early 2005, The Beatels, an internationally acclaimed Beatles tribute band, performed at the Lan Anh Centre in Ho Chi Minh City (aka downtown Saigon) in front of over 7000 people in a show that was televised throughout Vietnam to over 18 million people. This is one of the songs from that live broadcast -- the Lennon classic: “Don’t Let Me Down”.

Michael’s tribute to “Girl”

“Girl” was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney based on an original idea by Lennon and performed by The Beatles on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. “Girl” was the last complete song recorded for that album.

[From Wikipedia. Original page is here]

Spanish band “Labuat” playing a good cover of ”Oh! Darling”.
(26/03/2009 Madrid, Sala Penélope)

Virginia Maestro (vocals, guitar)
Alberto Zapata (bass, vocals, musical direction)
Yuri Nogueira (drums, samplers, percussion)
Fran Rivera (guitar, vocals),
Pedro Andrea (guitar, trumpet)
and Iñaki García (keyboards)

The song’s genesis came in India, after The Beatles attended a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi about a “son of the mother nature”. This inspired both Paul McCartney and John Lennon to write songs about the same subject. McCartney’s composition “Mother Nature’s Son” was selected for The Beatles (the White Album), while Lennon’s song “Child of Nature” was not. After that, Lennon continued to play it into the Get Back sessions. Eventually, the lyrics were scrapped and replaced by the now well known “Jealous Guy” lyrics for Imagine.

[From Wikipedia. Here is page about "Jelous Guy"]

Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel performing an amazing medley of “Day Tripper ” and “Lady Madonna” . Tommy is best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar.

Jim Sturgess singing “I’ve Just Seen a Face” from the soundtrack of the movie “Across The Universe” (2007)

“Across the Universe” is a 2007 American musical film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007. The script is based on an original story credited to Taymor, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais. It incorporates 33 compositions originally written by members of The Beatles.

[From Wikipedia. Original page is here]