Lennon used to go to the New York Beatlefests back in the 70's,incognito...knock on the back door kind of thing.
He would pick up all kinds of Beatle memorabilia and stuff.
He used to look at the Beatles as "That Band" that he liked. He was a huge fan of the Beatles, though he just happened to be one of the four, and would collect stuff.
Lennon used to go to the New York Beatlefests back in the 70's,incognito...knock on the back door kind of thing.
He would pick up all kinds of Beatle memorabilia and stuff.
He used to look at the Beatles as "That Band" that he liked. He was a huge fan of the Beatles, though he just happened to be one of the four, and would collect stuff.
Harry Nilsson‘s decade-long recording career with RCA records will be packaged in a comprehensive artist box set scheduled for a June 30 release.
‘The RCA Albums Collection’ will include 14 of the ‘Everybody’s Talkin” singer’s solo albums and three CDs worth of bonus material.
Beginning with Nilsson’s 1967 ‘Pandemonium Shadow Show’ album through his 1977 ‘Knnillssonn’ project, this new box set offers a complete look at the Brooklyn-born singer’s career. A mix of new and old bonus tracks are included on every album. For example, one finds four performances with Dr. John on ‘Knnillssonn.’ In total there are 65 bonus songs on the first 14 discs, 26 previously unreleased.
The bonus material on discs 15-17 are “odds and ends” from his career. The Second Disc reports that these discs will include demos, foreign language recordings, soundtrack recordings and unreleased mixes. There are covers of songs by the Coasters, the Addrisi Brothers and Procol Harum. In total there are 29 previously unreleased bonus tracks on these three discs.
The box set is available for pre-order at Amazon for $146.58. Nilsson died of heart failure in 1994.
Harry Nilsson, ‘The RCA Albums Collection’ Disc List:
1. ‘Pandemonium Shadow Show’ (Mono & Stereo) (1967)
2. ‘Aerial Ballet’ (Mono & Stereo) (1968)
3. ‘Harry’ (1969)
4. ‘Nilsson Sings Newman’ (1970)
5. ‘The Point!’ (1971)
6. ‘Aerial Pandemonium Ballet’ (1971)
7. ‘Nilsson Schmilsson’ (1971)
8. ‘Son of Schmilsson’ (1972)
9. ‘A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night’ (1973)
10. ‘Pussy Cats’ (1974)
11. ‘Duit on Mon Dei’ (1975)
12. ‘Sandman’ (1976)
13. ‘… That’s The Way It Is’ (1976)
14. ‘Knnillssonn’ (1977)
15. Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968
16. Nilsson Sessions 1968-1971
17. Nilsson Sessions 1971-1974
Nilsson possessed both great range as well as certifiably genius inspiration for his craft."Without You" is truly one of the greatest single vocal performances ever while pieces such as "Without Her","Moonbeam Song" and "I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City" among others exhibit his unquestionable knack for composing.I also enjoy the catchy comical twists of works like "Coconut" and "Daybreak".Any one decently comprehensive "best of" is a must here.
On Jan. 15, 1994, popular music lost one if its most original and criminally unheralded voices. But really, Harry Nilsson was long gone before he died of heart failure at the young age of 52.
It had been 14 years since Nilsson had made an album, 17 since one had been released in the U.S. He had retired from live performances long before that. But the string of records he released between 1967 and 1977 remain among the most listenable, influential and timeless (but, unfortunately, neglected) of the era.
Nilsson got his start as a New York-based songwriter in the early ’60s, working within the studio system that yielded hits for such high-profile execs and producers like Phil Spector. In 1967, he released his first album, ‘Pandemonium Shadow Show,’ which included a handful of his originals as well as covers of songs by the Beatles and others (Nilsson’s take on ‘You Can’t Do That’ became his first single, stalling outside the Top 100 at No. 122).
A year later, he released ‘Aerial Ballet,’ another mix of originals and covers that gave Nilsson his first Top 10 hit, a version of Fred Neil’s ‘Everybody’s Talkin’,’ which actually didn’t crack the Top 100 at first, but climbed to No. 6 after its appearance in the movie ‘Midnight Cowboy’ in 1969.
Over the next decade, Nilsson released 13 more albums and hit the Top 40 seven more times, culminating with 1971′s No. 1 single ‘Without You,’ from ‘Nilsson Schmilsson,’ his biggest album. Curiously, even though Nilsson was a prolific and highly skilled songwriter (penning hits recorded by the Monkees and Three Dog Night), his two biggest singles, ‘Everybody’s Talkin’ and ‘Without You,’ were both covers (the latter was written and originally recorded by Badfinger).
Nilsson eventually became close friends with his idols the Beatles, especially John Lennon, who helped create 1974′s ‘Pussy Cats’ album during his Lost Weekend separation from Yoko Ono. In 1977, Nilsson released his last album with RCA Records, ‘Knillssonn’; three years later he released ‘Flash Harry,’ which was never put out in the U.S. Not long afterward, he retired from recording (never a fan of concerts, Nilsson rarely performed live in the ’70s).
The last dozen years were mostly unproductive for Nilsson, who retreated from the spotlight. He composed the music for the 1980 big-screen bomb ‘Popeye,’ wrote a musical and formed a production company. He returned to the studio to record a song for a benefit record in 1991; a year later he made his last concert appearance, joining Ringo Starr‘s All Starr Band onstage in Las Vegas.
In February 1993, the hard-living Nilsson suffered a heart attack. During his recovery, he started working with RCA on a two-disc anthology, on which he hoped to include a newly recorded song. But on Jan. 15, 1994, his heart gave out. The collection, ‘Personal Best,’ was released the following year without any new material.
Since his passing, Nilsson has been embraced by a legion of indie rockers, who’ve found a sort of camaraderie with the singer-songwriter’s DIY and defiant attitude (not to mention all the great songs he wrote). His catalog of albums and outtakes — most of them gloriously compiled on the definitive 17-disc ‘RCA Albums Collection‘ — seals his legacy as one of music’s all-time greats.
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So you're saying that for about $150 bucks, you can have everything Harry ever did?
