Monday, April 26, 2010

JOHN, PAUL, NO GEORGE, RINGO



Hot on e-Bay!



Originally going for about $30, and only from independent record stores in honour of the most recent Record Store Day, the John Lennon Singles Bag is fetching up and over $50 on e-Bay, perhaps due to its limited release of 7000 units.
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Although it is rather neato-guido, what with the oversize cardboard "bag," three 45rpm singles-two in pic sleeves-3 post-cards, and large fold-out b&wposter of the bed-in, there is nothing really "rare," here.
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I mean, would it have hurt for Mz. Ono to throw the hardcore fans a bone with some kind of unreleased material?
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The answer to that, I'd guess, is why waste a good opportunity to make the Lennon-lovers buy the same old, same old, over and over and over-and over again?
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Besides, come this fall, we shall be seeing-and hearing-lots of
previously unreleased Lennon stuff, and therefore, shelling out again.
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Any who, I got to thinking of what will happen have after Mz. Ono- if she ever does-departs this mortal coil, and the Lennon Legend and money-machine is placed in some other hands.
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Say or think what you may about Yoko, but one thing she is not, is dumb.
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So, she undoubtedly has a Lennon estate succession plan that may, or may not, include having son Sean O'Lennon take over the day-to day running of the watching of the wheels, and shekels.
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Perhaps Sean does not even have an interest in carrying the torch.
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I mean, the media shall surely be laying for him to see what he would be up to, re-issue-wise, and for that matter, anything JL related.
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But in all fairness, it would be a large burden to put on the young
man to try to manage his late father's eminent legacy, and dead celeb street-cred.
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And while this may place me in the realm of heretic, if Priscilla Presley-who did a superb job of resurrecting Elvis's product quotient after his death-can sell off to an outsider, than in this money really talks whilst bullshit walks world, then anything is
also possible with the Lennon brand.
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Meanwhile, in the land of the living ex-Beatles...although Paul
McCartney has to be happy to place number five in the top-ten
music mogul fortunes at about 700 mill, he certainly can't be too
pleased that he had to go to the Concord Music Group to re-issue
such a seminal-and mega-million selling-Band On The Run.
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Sure Starbucks and Concord are about right for new PM releases and the ever-growing Macca live catalogue, but BOTR with bonus material?
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Geez, that was a monster album in the 70s, and sells well to this day, so I'm wonderin' why it was not placed with a major label fro the upcoming reissue.
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Maybe McCartney wanted to much up-front dolleros for a deal with a major, or, could it be that the majors don't think they could sell enough to make their money back?
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The mind bungles...

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