Music new releases Oct. 16, 2012: Holly Golightly; Louis Armstrong; Deep Purple; Golden Records Christmas; Mary Wells, more!

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Sunday Run Me Over by Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs


Machine Head by Deep Purple


Return of the Stuff That Dreams Are Made of by Various Artists


Satchmo at Symphony Hall 65th Anniversary: The Complete Performances


A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas


Complete 20th Century Fox Recordings by Mary Wells


Electric Landlady: Expanded by Kirsty MacColl


It Do Me Good - The Banashak / Sansu Sessions by Huey "Piano" Smith


Freedom Is A Hammer: Conservative Folk Revolutionaries Of The Sixties


Oud Vibrations: East Meets West by Ahmed Abdul-Malik

DVD and Blu-ray new releases Oct. 16, 2012: Moonrise Kingdom; Mad Men season 5; Gunsmoke season 6; Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart TCM collecitons, more!

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Moonrise Kingdom


Mad Men: Season Five


Gunsmoke: The Sixth Season, Vol. 2


Check It Out: Season 1 & 2


Neil Young Journeys


Ice House


Mr. Lucky: The Complete Series


Mythbusters: Collection 8


TCM Greatest Classic Legends: Cary Grant (Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / My Favorite Wife / Night and Day / The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer)


TCM Greatest Classic Legends: Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous / Bad Day at Black Rock / Boys Town / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)


The Beatles 50th Anniversary Celebration


TCM Greatest Classic Legends: James Stewart (The Shop Around the Corner / The Stratton Story / The FBI Story / The Spirit of St. Louis)

2001 movie posters

A couple of classics.

Pop culture roundup: Beatles; Beach Boys; Peanuts!

"Hey Jude" is reportedly the most frequently referenced song in modern literature.

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In a letter to the Los Angeles Times, Brian Wilson says he'd like the reunited Beach Boys lineup continue, contrary to cousin Mike Love's plans, which call for a Love-front version of the band, minus Wilson, Al Jardine and David Marks, to play concert dates.

..it's my opinion that we should all go out together as the Beach Boys in support of all our new releases. We really weren't out on the road that long for an anniversary of this magnitude and I actually think we should make one last record together.

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You can now buy a limited reproduction of the circus poster that inspired John Lennon's lyrics to "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" off the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album. I ordered my copy!

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A new Peanuts animated film may be on the way for 2015.

Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios have acquired big-screen rights to the late Charles Schulz’s Peanuts franchise.

The untitled animated film has been scheduled for release on Nov. 25, 2015. That year will mark the 65th anniversary of the debut of the Peanuts comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Video: Pete Townshend talks up his new book, plays Wont' Get Fooled Again

Pete Townshend visits with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner about his new memoir, "Who I Am," and plays a Who classic on acoustic guitar.

Trailer for Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Ellen Mirren

Rare photographs of Batman artist Bob Kane with Bat-paintings

These must be from the 1960s Bat-craze, with Kane marketing paintings of Batman and related characters. Anyone have more context?

BBC Radio this week: Stream miusic documentaries, drama and comedy

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A Year in the Life: The Beatles 1962
Roger McGough narrates the pivotal breakthrough year for the mop-topped Fab Four.

Beatleland 
How did Liverpool shape the Beatles, and what did they share of the city with the world?

Jarvis Cocker's Musical Map of Sheffield 
Jarvis Cocker takes listeners on an intimate musical tour of Sheffield.

The Goon Show 
Classic material from one of the all-time radio comedy greats

The Party, Party 
Surreal political fantasy with Hugh Laurie

Why, Robot? 
Series of stories inspired by Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics

William Gibson - Pattern Recognition 
William Gibson's cult thriller

Fifth Beatle graphic novel and feature film in the works

"The Fifth Beatle" is the title of a new graphic novel and feature film on the way from writer/producer  Vivek J. Tiwary, reports Dark Horse Comics.

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THE FIFTH BEATLE chronicles the life of The Beatles little-known manager, Brian Epstein. As Paul McCartney said, “If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian.” This groundbreaking project also marks the first time a feature film about the band has ever secured rights to include Beatles songs.

The story is written by Tiwary and drawn by fan-favorite artist Andrew Robinson (STAR WARS, BATMAN, SUPERMAN) with additional contributions by multiple Eisner and Harvey award-winning artist Kyle Baker (PLASTIC MAN, WHY I HATE SATURN, NAT TURNER). It is slated to be published in 2013. Both Robinson and Tiwary will attend the upcoming New York Comic Con from October 10th-14th to present the graphic novel and meet fans. Artwork from the novel will be exclusively displayed online at www.thefifthbeatle.com.

THE FIFTH BEATLE from M Press Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, recounts the untold true story of Epstein, the brilliant visionary who discovered The Beatles and helped guide the band to international stardom as their manager, securing their first record deal at a time when no one else was interested, and successfully bringing them to the world stage with a scale and scope no music impresario had ever attempted.

Epstein’s boast—“The Beatles will be bigger than Elvis!”— seemed absurd in 1961, but proved humbly prophetic by 1967. When he died at the age of 32, he was an extremely successful artist manager and entertainment impresario, but a painfully lonely young man. The film will deal with Epstein’s struggles with his sexuality and religion, while desperately trying to fit into the “Fab Four’s” world.

“My interest in the Brian Epstein story began almost 20 years ago, when I decided that music management was the area of the entertainment industry that I first wanted to pursue,” says Vivek. “ I had been a lifelong Beatles fan, so I thought that it made sense to study the management of the band that had written the rules of the modern music industry. What I unearthed after much research (there is a paltry amount of information readily available on Brian, which is part of why I want to bring his story to the world) was not just an inspirational business story and a blueprint for what I wanted to accomplish with my career, but also a very human story. This is a true labor of love, passion project for me.”