The Beatles flee legions of fans in 'Words of love'

In honor of the release of this year's holiday-timed Beatles' collection "On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2," Apple premiered the clip for "Words of Love." The charming and shiny new music video features the version of the Beatles' classic Buddy Holly cover that appears on the new album, recorded live at the BBC Radio studios a year before the band cut the song for a record. "Words of Love" is certainly not new, but director Pete Candeland has given the track a new lease of life with a partially animated music video that creates a poignant backdrop for the Beatles' harmonies and the often psychedelic vibe.
The sequel to 1994's "Live At The BBC," is focused exclusively on the teeny-bopping, moptopping 1963-64 era with 63 tracks. This take on "Words of Love," which appears on the new album, was recorded on July 16, 1963 at the BBC's Paris Theater in London. It was broadcast a month later on the show "Pop Goes the Beatles," more than a year before English rock band released a version of the song on 1964's "Beatles for Sale." In the United States, it was on the album "Beatles VI." It is the first official Beatles video since "Real Love" from 1996's "Anthology 2."
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were fans of Holly, harmonized on their version, holding to the vocal and instrumental sound of Holly's original as well as they could. When they had played this song in their early days at the Cavern Club in 1961 and 1962, Lennon and George Harrison were the vocalists. Ringo Starr played a packing case on this song as well as drums, to achieve a similar sound to Holly's "Everyday." So the new video for Buddy Holly cover "Words Of Love" naturally zeroes in on the peak of Beatlemania, before psychedelics and facial hair entered the picture.

The clip combines period-specific archival vintage black and white and color footage from The Beatles' concerts, tomfoolery and time on the road and intersperses them with whimsical animated segments which gives the short video an endearing, home-woven aesthetic. We see the band's "tourbus" loaded to the sky with luggage drive up and down and undulating landscape and see screaming fans clamor to get close to the band as multi-colored confetti streams from the sky. Watch below and marvel that this stuff happened 50 years ago which gives an impressive look at the frenzied Beatlemania days.

'The Beatles: Rock Band' Makes Worldwide Debut

It's 09-09-09 and it might as well be the universe's Official Beatles Day. 45 years after Beatlemania hope to get back to where they once belonged. A new wave of Beatlemania(John, Paul, George and Ringo) swept around the world today as the Fab Four's digitally re-mastered CD albums with the entire original Beatles catalogue, and a new video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" were released simultaneously today! Five million albums have been shipped to stores across the world, and fans will be wailing on plastic instruments all day in an effort to travel back in time and live out their fantasies of becoming musical legends, and the stores are having an all-day long Beatles party!
Apple and EMI Music announced that the Beatles' entire back catalogue was reissued following an extensive digital remastering process that lasted four years at London's Abbey Road Studios. Each Beatles CD is packaged with replicated original UK album art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written liner notes and rare photos.
The music video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" was developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games, distributed by Electronic Arts, and PS3/Xbox360/Wii standalone music game that features 45 songs from throughout The Beatles' extraordinary music, career and legacy. It's the 3rd major console release in the Rock Band music video game series. It has been highly praised by the press, being considered one of the best music video games to date. Many critics felt that the game would benefit from more songs and that experienced players will not find the game very challenging.
The generation gap appears to be both smaller and larger than ever. In Japan, eager Beatles fans flooded in all day to the HMV music store in the downtown Ginza shopping district, said a store manager Kozo Shimoda. On what has been dubbed "Beatles Day", retailers confident that fans would snap up the re-polished recordings and propel The Beatles back to the top of the charts. The Beatles' music still holds up, and it will continue to hold up until the end of time.