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To: Boplicity who wrote (4861)	11/30/2001 12:41:54 PM
From: Murrey Walker	Respond to of 13815

It was late fifties or early sixties. I believe the flipside was "Midnight Happenins", I knew you were in the record business and knew you would remember. (G) Oh, well.

To: Boplicity who wrote (4861)	12/1/2001 1:33:10 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 13815

All Things Must Pass? Not The Beatles Friday November 30, 12:13 pm Eastern Time By Mark Lewis Forbes.com A cynic, contemplating the reaction to George Harrison's death, might be moved to predict that EMI and Capitol will sell a lot of records to bereaved baby boomers in the days to come. That cynic would be right, but the point is irrelevant. EMI always sells a lot of Beatles records, and not just to boomers. Four decades after "Love Me Do" nudged its way onto the charts, three decades after the band broke up and two decades after John Lennon's death, the Beatles remain massively popular. This year the band ranked third on the Forbes100 Top Celebrities list, just ahead of Britney Spears. To give the cynic his due, Harrison's premature death at the age of 58 will no doubt boost record sales. But this is a band that sold more than 20 million copies of its greatest-hits album 1 a year ago, without any special emotional stimulus. As Harrison observed at the time, a good chunk of those 20 million buyers must have been teen-agers. "The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it," he told the Associated Press. "I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this [the 1 compilation] has life again with the youth." The pop-culture market has fragmented since the 1960s, and the mass audience that came together for the Beatles no longer exists. Today's stars sell millions of records, but mostly to niche audiences that do not overlap. And those stars' cultural impact is more ephemeral. Who really imagines that, decades from now, future puritans will still be citing Britney Spears by name when they rail against teen-age immodesty? Yet when the Taliban issued its rules for a purified Afghanistan, they included a ban on "Beatle-ly" hair for men. This was some 40 years after the Moptops first made news with their shockingly long hair. (It almost reached their ears!) Pop culture renders most things disposable, but some things endure, and the Beatles, it seems, are among them. For people of a certain age, it's shocking that the youngest Beatle could possibly have been 58. Ringo Starr is over 60, and Paul McCartney--it's "Sir Paul" these days--will hit that milestone next year. But when McCartney took the stage last month at the concert for the Sept. 11 heroes and played the opening chords of "Let It Be," a thrill ran through Madison Square Garden. Too bad Harrison could not have been there to play "Something" or "Here Comes the Sun." The title of Harrison's first post-Beatles solo album was All Things Must Pass, which referred to the band's recent breakup, among other things. It was a great album--"My Sweet Lord" was the big hit--but the title turned out to be wrong. Harrison, sadly, is gone, but the Beatles live on.

To: Boplicity who wrote (4861)	12/1/2001 9:14:59 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13815

I am not yet ready to settle down and go for dividends or 5 year stocks These stocks are mostly where I am at or would prefer to be today (100% of investment cash in two of them), others on margin. To decide whether an unknown stock is good or bad, I compare its performance for 3mos,,6mos,1 yr,2yr with stocks like Ally, Intc, Hd, etc No attempt is made for pure tech stocks or diversification, but it works out to be diversified with the advantage they don't all tank at once. Since the analysts have proved to be wrong more than right, and following their daily comments has mostly cost money,. I much prefer lesser known stocks ALLY BAC BPRX CYLK DELL GAC.TO GNSS HD INTC IDPH IGT IMNX LOW MGAM TIER TSCO * =A stock I dont own at this moment, but would if I had more money to work with ------------------------------------------------------------- These are stocks I prefer not to mess around with AOL BEAS BRCD BRCM C CHKP CSCO ECLG ERTS GE GLW GM IMDC JDSU LU MWD PLCM SUNW VRSN VRTS VTS WMT YHOO Sig