| "Abbey Road on the River fest just the ticket for Beatles fans" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY Beatles fans of all ages lined up to get "tickets to ride" at yesterday's courier-journal.com Abbey Road on the River festival at the Belvedere, a celebration of all-things-Beatles and then some. (more) |
| May 22, 2009: "BEATLES FANS COME TOGETHER FOR ABBEY ROAD ON THE RIVER; Summer of love, Louisville style" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY "Come together!" a member of German Beatles cover band Lucy in The Sky yelled from the roof of the Hyatt Regency yesterday . "Come to Abbey Road on the River!" (more) |
| May 21, 2009: "A Hard Day's Ike" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY Ike Reilly's modesty precedes him. |
| May 20, 2009: "Come Together" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY For seven years, Abbey Road on the River has made its reputation as the world's most concentrated slice of Beatlemania, with tens of thousands of fans lining up to hear dozens of Beatles tribute bands on the Belvedere. They're a hardcore lot, easily capable of getting into fistfights over "Revolver" versus "Rubber Soul." So what's going to happen when the festival's house band, All You Need Is Love, takes the stage this year to perform The Who's "Tommy" in its entirety? (more) |
| May 17, 2009: "Beatles photo collection surfaces" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY Some of a treasure-trove of unpublished photographs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones will be part of Abbey Road on the River, May 21-25, on Louisville's Belvedere and in the Galt House Hotel. (more) |
| May 26, 2008: "They Came Together At Abbey Road" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY Flags and banners hanging from the Galt House windows included one proclaiming, "I love you Paul." It could mean only one thing — on the Belvedere below, Louisville's Beatles tribute festival, Abbey Road on the River, was in full swing. (more) |
| May 23, 2008: "Abbey Road Starts Off With The Beatrips" |
People walking down Fourth Street during lunch hour yesterday might have thought they heard the Beatles playing, even though the English group performed their last concert almost 40 years ago. |
| February 8, 2008: "Students to Work on Abbey Road" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY The Beatles are one of the rare rock 'n' roll bands that appeal equally to young and old. It was true in the 1960s, and it's more true now as longtime fans pass on their love for the Fab Four to their children. Organizers of the courier-journal.com Abbey Road on the River music festival are looking to solidify that connection by staging this year's festival on Memorial Day weekend with the help of students from duPont Manual High School... (more) |
| May 29, 2007: "Love story" |
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| May 27, 2007: "Musical legend returns" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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...(more) |
| May 26, 2007: "Repeat the Beatles" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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...(more) |
| May 25, 2007: "End of Abbey Road" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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...(more) |
| May 23, 2007: "Beatles Fans Come Together" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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.... (more) |
| May 22, 2007: "Bruce has Beatles bug" |
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| May 20, 2007: "Getting Better All the Time?" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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...(more) |
| May 20, 2007: "'Meet and Talk' at the Abbey Road Fest" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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...(more) |
| May 13, 2007: "Bands Pack KY Abbey Road Fest" |
| Cincinnati Enquirer, OH 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...(more) |
| May 13, 2007: "Beatles Tribute on its' way to Louisville Again" |
| Associated Content, CO 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...(more) |
| May 6, 2007: "Here Come the Sons" |
| Chicago Tribune, IL 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...(more) |
| February 09, 2007: "Beatles Fest Calls City Home" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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...(more) |
| February 08, 2007: "Abbey Road on the River Coming Back" |
| Louisville Courier-Journal, KY 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...(more) |
| Abbey Road on the River is produced by Abbey Road on the River LLC, a Kentucky Limited Liability Corporation, and 365 Events, an Ohio Corporation.
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