Get Ready for Beatles Day in the State of Washington

I wonder if any other states have an official Beatles Day:

The anniversary of the Beatles legendary rooftop concert will be celebrated this Friday January 29, 2010, with former U.S. manager of Apple Records, Ken Mansfield, and Beatles cover band Crème Tangerine at Pike Place Market in Seattle at Pike Place Market.

In 2009, Crème Tangerine gave a blockbuster performance as thousands of fans filled the streets of Pike Place Market during their lunch hour. Seattle fans were the only city in the world to experience an actual rooftop tribute in honor of the 40th anniversary, which was January 30, 1969.

This year’s performance will be at the same place, on the rooftop balcony of the Copacabana Café in the Pike Place Market in Seattle at noon. They will perform the songs from that famous concert, such as “Get Back”, and John Lennon’s “Don’t Let Me Down”, and “One After 909.”

Here's my favorite snippet from the original concert, John forgetting the words to "Don't Let Me Down" (at 2:20):



Very tasty electric piano by Billy Preston throughout.

Zemeckis Casts His "Beatles" in Remake of Yellow Submarine

Robert Zemeckis is in negotiations with four actors to portray the Beatles' cartoon stand-ins in the director's remake of Yellow Submarine:

It's "all together now" for the cast of Robert Zemeckis' upcoming Beatles feature.

Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in negotiations to portray the members of the band in "Yellow Submarine," which the director is remaking for Disney.

So let me see if I have this right: the actual Beatles didn't appear in Yellow Submarine (except in a very brief filmed message at the end), but were drawn and then verbally imitated by voiceover actors. For the remake, actors will imitate the body movements of the originally animated characters (which were themselves representations of the actual Beatles). Do we really need this? Fourth-order re-creations of actuality?

I predict that the fad of motion-capture 3-D filmmaking will spawn yet another trend: 4-D Represented Actuality--that is, live actors on a stage.