![]() So security is tight and the whole thing taken … too seriously perhaps? Music might be in the air, but money isn’t entirely absent, either. This is about music, but equally it’s about marketing, so when the barrage of camera crews are told to turn off their equipment for the first screening of the video for the new Beatles song Free as a Bird - a John Lennon song to which the other Beatles added their parts - it’s not because someone might get a free copy of it, it’s because ITV has negotiated the exclusive first-screening rights. The release of any Beatles album was always an occasion, so 25 years after the band broke up, the plush ambience of the Lancaster Room in the Savoy Hotel doesn’t seem inappropriate for the launch of The Beatles' Anthology 1, a collection of out-takes and unreleased material, the first of a series of three double CDs that effectively mops up the Mop Tops.īut with 200 invited journalists from around the world and security more befitting a Middle East peace initiative, there was something just a little disconcerting about this album launch. ![]()
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