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We will also have a Question and Answer session with May Pang and Nancy Lee Andrews called “The Rock and Roll Asylum”. This session will take you back to the time when May and John Lennon rented a house on Santa Monica Beach in order to produce Harry Nilsson’s Pussycats album. Living with them were Ringo, Keith Moon, Klaus Voorman and Harry Nilsson. Nancy met Ringo in this house during a poker game and was set up with Ringo by John Lennon. There will be some great stories coming out of this session.

As you can tell by this and my past emails this is going to be one great vacation. Between all the Great Beatles Guests, Beatles Events, Beatles Concerts from BritBeat (three) and the amazing ship the Independence of the Seas. Where we’ll all be living for six days in the Western Caribbean, it’s going to the Beatles vacation of a lifetime.

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Jimmy Page, the founder of one of biggest bands of all time, Led Zeppelin, was born January 9th as a Capricorn, and under the Birch Tree and White Stag in the Celtic Moon signs. His ruling planet is the Sun, and the archetypal gods are Apollo, Osiris, Ra, Taliesin, Arthur, and Lugh, from Greek, Egyptian, and Celtic respectively. The Gaelic name for this sign is Damh, with the approximate pronunciation “Dav.”
His tree is the Birch, which is also known as the Lady of the Woods, Paper Birch, and White Birch.
The birch is connected to writing a love letter spell.
“One is to gather the strips of the bark at the New Moon, and write in red ink “Bring me the true love. Then burn this along with a love incense, chanting “Goddess of love, goddess of desire, bring to me sweet passion’s fire.”
Birch trees used to cover the whole of the United Kingdom, the tree is one of the first to grow back after cutting a mature forest, hence its connections with new beginnings. From paper to the skin of canoes, the usefulness of the tree is matched by its beauty.
The tree is considered “queen of the woods.”
“If the Oak and the Beech contend for the rank of king, there is no doubt as to the right of the Birch, clad as she is in cloth of silver, adorned with emeralds, or with “patines of pure gold,” to the title of queen of the woods.”
The name in the Tree Ogham, “Beithe,” has two meanings in Irish, it can mean “being,” as in “to be,” or a noun, such as “a being.” The genus name is Betula, and many consider the term “birch” came from barque, or barge, referring to the use of the bark for boats.
Children’s cradles were made of birch, the inner bark provides a pain reliever, and the leaves can be used to treat arthritis. On the Isle of Man, off the coast of Scotland, criminals were “birched” to purify them and drive out evil spirits.
The birth animal is the White Stag, and they direct their energy and enterprise through ambitious strategy. They are reliable, and often financially successful, one could say Jimmy Page definitely fits these descriptions.
In Celtic legends The White Stag is regarded as one of the three original animals, and the blackbird, trout and stag respectively represent water, air and earth. It is connected in Celtic legend to the Underworld, and to the Green Man. Also the Man in the Tree, or Derg Corra, is always accompanied by a stag, and is the Celtic guardian of knowledge.
Source: Paterson, Helena, Celtic Moon Signs Barnes & Noble, 2004

I really enjoyed this, and it’s funny how Yoko made it look as if she were singing instead of May Pang on #9 Dream. Lots of very good detail!

http://renee8634140.austauschjahr.de/category/lennon-legend-the-very-best-of-john-lennon/

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6979627.ece

It’s interesting to see Jimmy on a stamp, check the link out above. In the interview, he disses the book by Mick Walls out that enhances and exaggerates the Zeppelin interest in the occult and Aleister Crowley. The truth will never be know, as Jimmy Page shows little interest in revealing anything. He says he gets along fine with Robert Plant, even though Plant does not want to tour. Good article

Jimmy Page

Ever since the Beatles were passed on by Decca Records (who recovered quickly and signed the Rolling Stones), the music business is full of stories about wrong judgments from those that decide. This article is about the gatekeepers at BBC, who to their credit, accepted Led Zeppelin in the end.

The guy at Decca Records (Dick Rowe) who did not sign the Beatles ultimately went up to Liverpool to see a large variety show, and he was sitting next to George Harrison, whom he asked who was good. Harrison said “The Rolling Stones.” Rowe left the theater immediately and drove non-stop to London to sign the Stones on the advice of a Beatle.

Check this out:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jBGUJ8C8F7BbTf-YCkzj5SYBYDxQ

This is a great article about how Them Crooked Vultures came together as a mixture of Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age.

Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones had tried to find a singer and carry on without Robert Plant, and then Dave Grohl brought John Paul Jones and Josh Homme together under a heavy veil of secrecy. So Jones went on with this project, and the rest is history.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music-features/it-s-like-the-titanic-is-going-down-and-the-band-is-still-playing-1.992164

This is a great overview of John Paul Jones, bass player for Led Zeppelin till they collapsed. I did not know he produced an album for the Butthole Surfers (a Texas band), that really shows a wide range of taste in music. It mentioned how his career post Zeppelin equals or exceeds Page or Plant in scope and quality. Great photograph of Them Crooked Vultures, a reference to the music industry. Note: Butthole Surfers had an album they called “Sympathy for the Record Industry,” obviously a slur on the Stones song that hits the music biz.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/10/john-paul-jones-them-crooked-vultures