I’ve researched and found that the beatles made a company thing called apple to sell merchandise like electronics, records and films. i mentioned to him last year that i’d put money towards a grand piano i’m hoping to get, but i said to him for november, yet still i’m not sure if he’s thinking of still getting it. so i think it’s to do with music, but im not sure.

btw i’m 13, and play piano if that helps :s

I seem to remember that all of the Beatles music is going to be put up for sale in one package and it will be relatively expensive. That may be what he’s talking about, but if you don’t care that much for the Beatles that won’t be so good for you. Hopefully it’s something else.

btw, can u answer my question?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqqNGPO4d0dFw2HnCWEbV2_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100403114039AAGHTln

But at the right time could a band emerge and actually surpass the Beatles? The only artist who comes to mind, who has equalled or perhaps surpassed the Beatles is Michael Jackson or Elvis due to their cultural and social impacts, coupled with their record scales.

Please post your comments on the possible coming of a phenomenon that could rival the Beatles. Could it happen? How could it happen?

none,for the simple reason that there can really only be one of anything.there can only be one john lennon,one george harrison,one ringo starr,one paul mccartney,and thus only one beatles.what the beatles did during the time together was unique and can never be duplicated again,just as the magic that they had together was unique and could never be duplicated again and the 4 of them realized that.

do you know how many groups over the last 40 years or so have been called "the next beatles"?too many to count,the jonas brothers are but another in a very long line of groups that have been touted as "the next beatles"do you know where a lot of these bands and artists who were supposed to be "the next beatles"are now?either dead,not making music anymore,broken up,or playing small venues.

perhaps your question should’ve been:is there ever going to be another act that will make the same musical,cultural,and social impact as the beatles?

the answer to that question is in order to for that to happen you have to make an impact outside of selling a lot of records,concert tickets,and merchandise.now thus far the jonas brothers and their ilk haven’t done that yet.

popularity is a relative thing,i mean you can be in the penthouse one minute and the outhouse the next.there could be an artist or a band that gets that level of popularity,but it won’t be the same.also in terms of having the same impact,the answer is no because with the turnover of hit bands and artists,no one seems to be around long enough to really make a lasting impact!

here are a few examples from the beatles own time period:

picture it january,1964-"glad all over"by the dave clark five knocks "i want to hold your hand"off the top of the british charts,soon all the music papers in england were talking about the dave clark five and how they were the"next beatles"or how their sound was the next big thing and stuff like that.then guess what happens?a couple of weeks later "i want to hold your hand"hits number 1 on the US charts,thus skyrocketing the beatles to an unprecedented level of popularity.needless to say all talk about the dave clark five or anyone else being the next beatles was silenced.

i’ll also mention 2 other groups from the beatles own time who were touted as "the next beatles",the byrds and the beau brummels.

do you know how the beau brummels got their name?they chose it because it "sounded british"and because of their sound,they were also touted as "the next beatles".gee,where are they now?not around anymore!

then there are the byrds.i can remember watching a documentary in either 1994 or 1995 about the US response to the beatles,david crosby was interviewed for this documentary,he actually scoffed at the notion that the byrds were america’s answer to the beatles,he said and i quote:"we(the byrds)weren’t americas answer to bugspray,let alone the beatles!"

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I mean if he dies before paying that loan…then he lost part of the music catalogues (from his own music and from the Beatles) THEN no matter how many billion royalties are made , they dont go to the Jacksons but to the new owners of the catalogues. (same with neverland, merchandise etc? )
Kara – you are the best!
Theorie: "Jackson became more valuable dead than alive. Alive, he would just create more debt to be shared amongst the creditors, with no more assets to pay them off. Dead before the tour, the banksters could divvy up his tangible assets and use his preexisting insurance to cover the rest"

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-murdered-by-banksters.html#links

Now will AEG really auction the last rehearsals footage ..for $50million?
SONY Pictures bidding
Debbie sues friend over tv interview etc….
will the circus ever end?
Maybe we will never know … today the media says something , tomorrow it changes completely …as Michael once said and sung :
"Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don’t make it factual, actual
You’re so damn disrespectable" (tabloid junkie)

I wondered the same thing and I was hoping by us purchasing his merchandise the money will go for helping Michael. You ae correct if this is the way it looks right now we should just hold off on purchase of his merchandise until we know where the royalties are going to. Als what about Debbie Rowe? That (insert your personal chosen word for her here) is doing some real damage now and should just crawl back in her hole where Michael left her!

Besides the royalties DESERVE to go to his next of kin (his kids!) but because of their age the royalties will go to the guardian of his children (PLEASE GOD I HOPE IT’S KATHRINE!!) but that is also up in the air and I REFUSE to support or fund Debbie Rowe!

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Michael Jackson’s death is now a HOMICIDE case so money will go no where until they find out who did it. Blame isn’t JUST to his doctors since they can’t get a good suspect (except maybe Conrad) but they want to know who had THE MOST interest in his money.

Sony knew without MJ then they would get the rights to all his stuff and even claim to want all the rest of his money and any shares he might of had (IE: To Neverland Ranch)

Speculation as to the cause of Michael Jackson’s death has run the gamut from cardiac arrest due to exhaustion to self-administered accidental overdose to an unintended overdose delivered by an outside party, i.e.
Michael Jackson Homicide: Homicide Not Ruled Out in Michael Jackson Death, Say LAPD
Date: July 12, 2009
Los Angeles, CA
United States of America homicide

As of the 15th…

There seems to be new revelations in the Michael Jackson case every day. Over the weekend Michael’s sister LaToya claimed he has murdered, and now comes word that the LAPD are treating Michael’s case as a homicide.

Several of Michael’s physicians are under investigation, including Dr. Conrad Murray, who was with Michael at the time of his death. Murray is being questioned about the abnormally high dosages of medication he prescribed to Michael.

TMZ reports: “Law enforcement sources say there is already ‘plenty of powerful evidence’ linking Dr. Murray as the person who administered the drug to Jackson. The evidence includes various items found in Jackson’s house, including the Propofol, an IV stand and oxygen tank.

So as it stands right now, homicide and we will NOT figure out what will happen until we find out the reasons WHY someone would have wanted him dead.

Possible reasons IMO: Someone paid off Conrad to kill MJ for financial interests. Conrad did not have MUCH to gain from his death… Sony and AEG does… and if Conrad wants to live to see another day he will sing like a bird in a boiling pot! Also it’s not just Conrad… Dr. Klien was the one who wrote out the perscriptions – only gain is if he really was the father but Debbie denies being the mother! *SHOCK!*. To kill off Michael you have to be getting millions in his death.

Also more update on Debbie Rowe (AKA – A fissure up Michael’s @$$…) "Hell No! I don’t want those kids! They were never mine in the first place!" See a link to her below to findout this juice – and 4 more days till (possible?) court!

But at the right time could a band emerge and actually surpass the Beatles? The only artist who comes to mind, who has equalled or perhaps surpassed the Beatles is Michael Jackson.

Please post your comments on the possible coming of a phenomenon that could rival the Beatles. Could it happen? How could it happen?

Clearly, the Jonas Brothers are on their way to doing that….

I joke. Actually, it would be tough. We want to act like new music is a revolutionary thing, when in reality, it’s very evolutionary. It all traces back to Blues (and other) musicians from prior decades, back to guys like Leadbelly and folk artists.

The Beatles and Stones in part benefited from a convergence of technology and race. Here you had a time when the lines between white and black music were merged, creating something very new and exciting, and there were viable mediums to store (record) and market it.

It’s hard to imagine someone taking what we have now and making it original on the level of the Beatles…given the shear number of people with recording studios (in their basement or at their computer) and how the evolution has given us such crazy hybrids….think of musicians like Beck, what is that? Bluegrass-calypso-country-hip-hop-rock? I don’t know.

PS….the only ‘revolutionary’ music I’d point out is Jazz (IMO), but even that has origins in classical music arrangements, not counting the improvisational stuff.

BQ: What other merchandise do you own other than CD’s?
I own a "John Lemon" t-shirt, a poster, which is beautiful, it has all their album covers and other pictures on it, and the Help and Yellow Submarine movie. :}
Dear Forever and Always MJ’s troll, no my friend, it’s you who fails, cos we all know your a troll, BIAAATCH :}

My fave album is the Blue Album, from 67-70. When I get more money, Im gonna buy the Abbey Road shirt at walmart.