Love story
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 29, 2007
"LOVE" is a many splendored thing. Crafted from no fewer than 130 separate recordings by the Beatles, "LOVE" came into being last November as a soundtrack to accompany a Las Vegas show by Cirque du Soleil. Next weekend the music will get its first live performances, part of the courier-journal.com Abbey Road on the River festival along Louisville's riverfront...
Musical legend returns
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 27, 2007
It's just a coincidence that British Invasion superstar Denny Laine, who'll be performing at the courier-journal.com Abbey Road on the River festival Sunday, has a name that rhymes with the Beatles "Penny Lane." Laine, born Brian Hines, changed his name long before Paul McCartney, his band mate in Wings, wrote the famous song...
Repeat the Beatles
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 26, 2007
Pop-culture icons are like strip malls — they're built big but are inevitably abandoned once a bigger strip mall is built down the road. Musicians come and go with the fads. Rock to disco. Heavy metal to grunge. Grunge to emo. Consider, then, the Beatles, a band that last released new music in 1970...
End of Abbey Road
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 25, 2007
Marianne Winner spent the Summer of Love in Alaska, a 16-year- old girl waiting tables at a place called "Chilcoot Charlie's." But to see her yesterday, dancing in a haze of sunlight and nostalgia at Abbey Road on the River, it was easy to imagine her as a hippie...
Beatles fans come together
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 23, 2007
Because they had plans to head to the courier-journal.com Abbey Road on the River festival, Vanessa Key woke up her daughter yesterday morning and asked if they should dress up as Beatles. Christina Key, all of 6 years old, got very excited at the idea of bug costumes...
Bruce has Beatles bug
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 22, 2007
Hal Bruce is a one-man magical music machine. The Halifax, Nova Scotia, man has made a name for himself by perfectly playing 214 Beatles songs in a nonstop medley at Beatle fests throughout the world...
Getting better all the time?
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 20, 2007
The Beatles were absolutely spent in late 1966, having barely survived the crushing demands of Beatlemania for three bone-jarring years. In retrospect, it's almost staggering to think about what they accomplished in those three years given the enormous pressures...
'Meet and Talk' at the Abbey Road fest
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 20, 2007
It was 20 years ago today... Great line, nice try, but not quite accurate: It was 21 years ago in February that I walked the halls of the Omni International at a blowout event called Beatles Expo. Did I enjoy that professional assignment? Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to interview Pete Best, the Beatles' drummer before Ringo...
You'll love this, yeah, yeah, yeah
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - May 15, 2007
Courier-Journal.com's "Abbey Road on the River" festival will bring the Beatles into our own backyard next week. To re-familiarize you with the Fab Four, we devised this quiz. And we know it isn't easy...
Bands pack Ky. Abbey Road
Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - May 13, 2007
Nearly four decades after the Lads from Liverpool broke up, where can you still hear the 13-album Beatles canon live, in one weekend? At Abbey Road on the River, where an expected 20,000 fans are expected to turn out to hear 64 Beatles tribute bands Memorial Day Weekend (May 24-28) on 10 stages at the Belvedere Festival Park in Louisville...
Beatles Tribute Festival on It's Way to the Louisville Waterfront Again
Associated Content, CO - May 13, 2007
For the last two years, Louisville has hosted the extremely anticipated Beatles fan-fest entitled Abbey Road on the River. The funtabulous festival that lasts for five days made Louisville it's local home two years ago when it debuted at The Galt House and on the Belvedere which is located in downtown Louisville...
Here come the sons
Chicago Tribune, IL - May 6, 2007
They've got the musical talent, on-stage mannerisms and authentic instruments, right down to the 1960s-vintage Ludwig drum kit. But what sets Stockwood apart from other Beatles tribute bands is a boyish exuberance...
Breaking News!
Abbey Road On The River - Feb 9, 2007
We are very proud to announce that The Courier-Journal.com, The Courier-Journal and Velocity are the new title sponsors of Abbey Road On The River this May 24-28, 2007 at The Belvedere and the Galt House Hotel in beautiful downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
Beatles fest calls city home
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Feb 9, 2007
The Beatles extravaganza, held for the past two years at the Galt House and on the Belvedere, is making Louisville its official home. It will return in May, lengthened to five days from three...
Abbey Road on the River coming back
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Feb 8, 2007
Abbey Road on the River, the nation’s largest Beatles festival, will return to Louisville for a third year May 24 to 28 with an additional two days of performances...
Beatles festival grows to five days
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Oct 17, 2006
Abbey Road on the River, the largest Beatles tribute festival in America, is being expanded from three to five days next Memorial Day weekend in Louisville...
Abbey Road on the River expanded
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Oct 16, 2006
The two extra days are expected to increase both those numbers by 25 percent, said Gary Jacob, the main principal in 365 Events Inc., which owns the rights to and produces Abbey road on the River...
