Entertainment Weekly has a report on Cirque de Soleil's "Love," which uses music by the Beatles. Former Fabs producer George Martin and son Giles prepared the tunes for the show, which features new mixes and "mashups" of familiar songs.
Another previewed number had George Harrison's ''Within You Without You'' set to the backing track of John Lennon's ''Tomorrow Never Knows.'' Sir George Martin, who produced the original tracks and worked on this show, was on hand for the event and explained that the Harrison tune ''wasn't [fans'] favorite song on Sgt. Pepper... but in this form, it would have been one of the good ones.'' Martin added that the surviving Beatles were wary of what was being done with the music till they heard this ''Within You Without You''/''Tomorrow Never Knows'' mashup — and ''then the problem was, they wanted them all like that.'' Martin and his son, Giles, who did the lion's share of the remixing, weren't able to blend many songs so completely. ''The problem was, there aren't many Beatles songs that stay on one chord,'' the elder Martin noted.
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There's a new Beatles beatlegs podcast up.
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Dial B for Blog presents a nice batch of Nick Cardy Superman comic book covers.
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