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Annie, All on the Family, Carol Burnett, Beatles…Memorabilia FOR SALE, The Estate of Charles Strouse & Barbara Siman March 18th, Doyle.com

Austin Tang — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:00:26 +0000

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The Subways of New York have great musicians, 81st and CPW…check him out!

Austin Tang — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:41:58 +0000

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‘The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins’ US DVD, set for March 18, 2025 release

Austin Tang — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:29:07 +0000

The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins DVD

This 90-minute documentary tells the story of the legendary pianist Nicky Hopkins, dubbed rock and roll’s greatest session man, who played on over 250 albums and on some of the most iconic rock tracks ever recorded.

Amongst his stand-out achievements, Nicky contributed to records by The Rolling Stones (14 albums), The Kinks, The Who and The Beatles, but he also appears on solo albums of all four Beatles, most notably, John Lennon’s Imagine.

The list of interviewees in the documentary is impressive and includes Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Peter Frampton, Dave Davies and Pete Townshend, each giving their unique take on what it was that made Nicky so special and the magic he brought to every track he appeared on.

The Session Man was originally released in the US on November 5, 2024 on Amazon (TVoD), and by popular demand, it is now being released on DVD from March 18, 2025, also on Amazon:

The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins DVD:
https://www.amazon.com/Session-Man-Peter-Frampton/dp/B0DXRBWPV5

DVD cover artwork:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pKgWRatWNF7NM39D9

‘This is an excellent and well-made documentary that even those who don’t know a lot about Hopkins will find interesting.’

Aaron Badgley, Spill Magazine

For more information, please contact:

John Wood, co-producer

www.thesessionmanfilm.com

johnalexwood@gmail.com

THE SESSION MAN: NICKY HOPKINS MUSIC DOCUMENTARY FEATURING MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS, PETER FRAMPTON AND MORE TO BE RELEASED IN NORTH AMERICA ON NOVEMBER 5^TH

LEGENDARY SESSION PIANIST NICKY HOPKINS FEATURED ON OVER 250 ALBUMS AND ICONIC SONGS WITH THE ROLLING STONES, THE BEATLES, THE WHO, STEVE MILLER BAND AND MORE

The Session Man Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egp63SvF9aU

September 30, 2024 – The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins, a documentary film that tells the story of the prolific virtuoso session pianist Nicky Hopkins, will be released in North America November 5^th on TVOD/PPV on Amazon Prime, additional major platforms and will also be available on DVD in late 2024. For viewing information, please visit www.thesessionmanfilm.com. Featuring commentary from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Peter Frampton, Pete Townshend and more, The Session Man explores the legendary 30-year career of Nicky Hopkins and his contributions to over 250 albums, including John Lennon’s Imagine, The Who’s My Generation, and countless iconic songs like “You Are So Beautiful” by Joe Cocker, “Sympathy For The Devil” by The Rolling Stones and “Revolution” by The Beatles. Directed by Mike Treen, THE SESSION MAN has been shown at festivals in a number of countries, winning awards in London, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Los Angeles and Paris. It is scheduled to be screened in The New Zealand Indie Film Festival and The Albuquerque Film Festival at the end of September.

“Nicky Hopkins was a dear friend and iconic piano player. No one had his wonderful touch, feel and choice of notes. I was lucky to have him play on my Somethin’s Happening record. I miss him and listen to him often. He taught me plenty.” – Peter Frampton

“THE SESSION MAN film is not a Hollywood biopic, rather a homage to a virtuoso and prolific session pianist. There is a sad irony in that Nicky Hopkins was unknown to the greater public but amongst his peers, he was treated as Rock Royalty. The sheer volume of albums and singles that he contributed on and the testimonials from the star-studded list of interviewees in the film allows me the right to say that Nicky’s story deserves to reach a wide audience worldwide. As Bob Lefsetz succinctly put it, ‘The Session Man” is a link in your education. It fills holes in your mental history of rock and roll. Which revolutionized society, impacted an entire generation, music was the coolest medium, it drove the culture and Nicky was there, not on the periphery, but audible on some of your favorite records.’” – Director Mike Treen

Classically trained at The Royal Academy of Music, London, Nicky Hopkins could play Rock and Roll piano like nobody else. His legendary piano riffs and dazzling musical motifs helped ordinary tracks become iconic. With a career spanning 30 years until his tragic early death at age 50, he played with some of the greatest bands and artists in the world including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Steve Miller Band, Joe Cocker, Jerry Garcia, Art Garfunkel and many others.

By the late 1960’s, Nicky was one of the busiest and most successful session players in London. He then joined the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, which took him to America. He settled in Mill Valley enjoying the free-wheeling San Francisco ‘Bay Area Bands’ and playing at Woodstock with Jefferson Airplane. The 1970’s were his most successful period, commuting across The Atlantic to play with The Stones, John Lennon, and on countless sessions in Los Angeles.

Living with Crohn’s disease since his teens, his ability to tour was limited, although he would manage tours with The Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker and Art Garfunkel. But it was in the recording studio where he became a legend amongst his peers. As Keith Richards recounts, “We were coming up with songs that [were]absolutely beyond Stu’s- let alone capabilities-his dreams! He didn’t want to know! So, I think that Stu called and said, ‘The only guy that can handle this is Nicky Hopkins.’” Nicky ended up playing on a total of 14 Stones albums.

Nicky’s story is told in the film by Albert Lee, Antonia Cipollina, Arthur Rochester, Benmont Tench, Bill Wyman, Billy Nicholls, Bro Paul Brown, Chris Kimsey, Chris Welch, Chuck Leavell, Dave Davies, Glyn Johns, Graham Parker, Gray Levett, Greg Phillinganes, Harry Shearer, Helen O’Hara, Jack Casady, Jim Keltner, Joe Tansin, John Goddard, Jorma Kaukonen, Julian Dawson (Nicky’s biographer – author of And on Piano… Nicky Hopkins), Keith Richards, Merrell Fankhauser, Mick Jagger, Mike Hurst, Mike McCartney, Moira Hopkins (Nicky’s widow), Morgan Fisher, Nils Lofgren, Paddy Milner, Pete Edmonds, Pete Sears, Pete Townshend, Peter Frampton, PP Arnold, Rory Kaplan, Sarah Sleet (CEO of Crohn’s & Colitis UK), Shel Talmy, Slim Jim Phantom, Terry Reid and Tom Speight.

The Session Man’s narrator, Bob Harris, former presenter of the BBC’s The Old Grey Whistle Test, had no hesitation in confirming that, “His contributions on their records made him Rock and Roll’s greatest Session Man.”

The Session Man Online:

Official Website: www.thesessionmanfilm.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/thenickyhopkins

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thenickyhopkins

Twitter/X: www.twitter.com/thenickyhopkins

The Session Man Press Contacts:

Lauren Mele

Beachwood Entertainment Collective

Lauren@Beachwood.LA

Jean Sievers

Beachwood Entertainment Collective

Jean@Beachwood.LA

Last week, on 5th November 2024,‘The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins’ was released in the US on:

Amazon: click to watch >>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DBPKT9K7/ and
Apple TV: click to watch >>> https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-session-man/umc.cmc.1ayu6onuxyswunrbtyi9rq36i

If you live in the US, when you’ve had a chance to watch the documentary, could you please leave us a review on Rotten Tomatoes via this link? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_session_man

That would really help us! Thank you.

We’ve been getting a lot of media coverage since the release! Here’s a selection:

Rolling Stone magazine: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/played-beatles-rolling-stones-documentary-150000850.html
People magazine: https://people.com/john-lennon-s-jealous-guy-piano-player-almost-in-spinal-tap-8733348
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/06/nicky-hopkins-pianist-rolling-stones-who-beatles
BBC World Service (Mike Treen interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC8IUIxOg8M&t=167s

As a result, yesterday, we reached position 6 in the iTunes Top Documentary Movies Chart!

https://www.popvortex.com/movies/charts/documentary-movies.php

Meanwhile, the film is still doing really well in Japan! See: www.sessionman.jp

So we’re getting there!

Until next time,

John Wood, co-producer

www.thesessionmanfilm.com

+44 7771 520001

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GoodNewsLetter: MARRIAGE even during a WAR, NO MORE WAR, Good News for Good News

Austin Tang — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:25:31 +0000

It’s easy

[Verse 2] (Love) Nothing you can make that can’t be made
(Love) No one you can save that can’t be saved
(Love) Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time, It’s easy
[Chorus] All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

[Verse 3] (Love) There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known
(Love) Nothing you can see that isn’t shown
(Love) There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be
It’s easy

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Michael Fitzpatrick performs in Times Square at the International Day of Peace 9/21/22 Good News Corporation Producer

Austin Tang — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:05:03 +0000

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Michael Fitzpatrick is the recipient of The Prince Charles Award for Music Excellence conferred by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales – now His Majesty King Charles III.

Michael has performed the Musical Keynotes to set the tone for Nobel Peace Laureate His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s Public Talks & Teachings, around the world, for the past 25 years.

Sir George Martin, Producer of The Beatles, stated:

“I could not agree with Michael Fitzpatrick more: Music is the only thing that can truly change the world.”

#michaelfitzpatrick #princecharlesawardformusicexcellence #princecharlesaward #royalhighness #princeofwales #kingcharlesIII #kingcharles #music #nobel #peace #sirgeorgemartin #beatles #changetheworld

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CBS SUNDAY MORNING PAUL MCCARTNEY

Austin Tang — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:29:30 +0000

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Paul McCartney discussed his new album, the Lennon/McCartney partnership, the Beatles’ breakup and his Covid-19 “rockdown” during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning.

As correspondent Seth Doane noted at the onset of the conversation, while people in quarantine were learning how to bake bread, McCartney was recording McCartney III.

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“The other thing people have been doing has been cleaning out their closets. So that’s a bit what [McCartney III] was,” McCartney said. “I just started cleaning out my cupboards. Like, ‘What about that song last year that I started but never got to finish. ‘Let’s have a look at that, let’s finish this.”

McCartney — who performs all the instruments on his latest LP, like the namesake McCartney albums before it — said of working on a completely solo album, “It’s not like working with the band, because I know what I want to hear, and I don’t even have to tell anyone,” McCartney said. “I just said, ‘Let’s do some drums.’ I’ll sit on the drums and I’ll think, ‘OK, I wanted doo doo doo…’ So, it’s all in my head.”

McCartney added, “One of the songs on the new album, it’s called ‘Kiss of Venus,’ and I wrote it one summer’s day and I got the beginning of it… I thought, ‘I’ll record it, I’ll finish it someday.’ But then I said to myself, ‘No! What have you got? You haven’t got anything on. Sit here and finish that bloody song.’”

The singer was also reluctant to record with anyone else, other than a few engineers at his home studio, due to the ongoing pandemic. “I don’t want to give [Covid-19] to anyone, and I don’t want to get it,” McCartney said. “When people sort of say, ‘Wearing masks is infringing on my civil liberties,’ I say, ‘No. That is stupid.’”

McCartney also talked at length about his songwriting partnership with John Lennon and, over 50 years after the Beatles breakup, whether the band would have ever reunited.

“[Lennon] was showing no signs of slowing up. You know, he was still making great music,” McCartney said of Lennon at the time of his 1980 murder. “The question is: Would we have ever got back together again? I don’t know. We don’t know.”

When asked what he does when he’s driving in a car and a Beatles song comes on the radio, McCartney responded, “Turn it up. Turn it up and sing along with it. It always brings me back to the session.”
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Remember…

Austin Tang — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:10:17 +0000

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles)

Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly, girl, I like your face
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand

Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on

Desmond takes a trolley to the jeweller’s store
Buys a twenty carat golden ring
Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door
And as he gives it to her she begins to sing

Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on

In a couple of years they have built
A home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones

Happy ever after in the market place
Desmond lets the children lend a hand
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening she still sings it with the band

Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on

In a couple of years they have built
A home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones

Happy ever after in the market place
Molly lets the children lend a hand
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening she’s a singer with the band

Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on

And if you want some fun, sing ob-la-di, bla-da

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

#Covid19 #mask #WearYourMask #SaveLives

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On 12/9 4:30PM Benefit. Good News Planet in association with My Generation Media Presents ‘A Special Benefit Tribute to John Lennon in Words & Music.’

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:06:18 +0000

Creative Director Jason Grant Shela. Producer Paul Sladkus.
Sunday December 9th 2018 at The Goddard Riverside Theater
Venue: 647 Columbus Avenue (Between 91st & 92nd Street)
Doors Open at 430pm. Concert Starts at 5pm. Featuring the best of The Beatles & Lennon Solo & British Invasion Songs performed by an All-Star Band featuring Tom ‘Lennon’ Raider, Pete Santora, Graham Dawson, Angello Olivieri, Don Castagno & Gina Healy. Mike & Kayli Friedman will open the show with original songs from a new british musical, Petticoat Lane. Lyrics & Book by Jason Grant Shela, Music by Mike Friedman.
Poetry by Angelo Verga, Joanne Joseph & the Young Poets Society.
Tickets at the Door $12 Adults, $7 Kids & Seniors.
Online: www.goddard.org/communityarts $10 Adults, $5 Kids/Seniors
All Proceeds will benefit Goddard Riverside Community Arts Programs.
This event is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend, colleague and outstanding educator Karen Kilbane. Geoff Goldstein, a true renaissance man, Richmond Shephard, America’s Greatest Mime Artist & Sid Bernstein, the man who brought The Beatles to America.

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“ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE DAY” – SALUTES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BEATLES ANTHEM, Videos and Podcast are Here…

admin — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:29:28 +0000

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Sunday, June 25th 2017

Fifty years ago, on June 25, 1967, the Beatles introduced their iconic hit “All You Need is Love” in a live performance during the world’s first global satellite broadcast. The song quickly became the anthem for San Francisco’s Summer of Love. Now, on the evening of June 25th, the international Playing For Change band salutes the 50th Anniversary with a global sing-a-long of “All You Need Is Love.” The band features performers from 13 countries representing 5 continents. The sing-a-long will take place at 8:50 pm (Pacific Time) – 11:50 pm (Eastern Time.) The audience attending the concert and all the people tuning into the “All You Need” is Love live broadcast will join in the sing-a-long Raising Their Voices to Spread the Timeless Message of Love around the world creating a international Song Around The World experience. Please tune into the live broadcast at www.peacechannel.com to participate in the “All You Need is Love” sing-a-long. You are also invited to experience the entire Playing For Change Band concert which begins at 8:00 pm (Pacific Time) – 11:00 pm (Eastern Time.) The live broadcast is produced by Unity Foundation www.unityfoundation.org in association with PeaceDay365. Let’s all sing together and spread the vibration of love around the world. Because Love is needed now more than ever.

UPCOMING BROADCAST
September 21, Peace Day

The June 25th “All You Need is Love” live broadcast will introduce people around the world to the annual Peace Day Global Broadcast Celebrating the United Nations International Day of Peace on September 21st. The broadcast can be viewed on www.peacechannel.com The Peace Day Global Broadcast is produced by Unity Foundation, a non-profit organization with a 40 year history of promoting peace, cooperation and unity throughout the world.

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Music & Poetry Vigil for Manchester & London

admin — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:57:46 +0000

Please join us for a special music and poetry event to show we stand with Manchester & London and the families who suffered such a tragic loss.

Date: Thursday June 15th 2017.
Venue: Hirsch Hall, Ansche Chesed Synagogue.
251 West 100th Street, NYC.
(Between Broadway & West End Avenue.)

Time: 730pm until 1030pm Free Admission.
An Event for the whole family.
Creative Direction by Jason Grant Shela

The New York Musicians Alliance will perform original songs and classic favorites from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Dusty Springfield, Oasis, The Verve, Adele, Lulu, The Troggs, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix & Many More!

Featured Musicians: Robert Ross, Gina Healy, Angello Olivieri, Don Castagno, Don Puglisi, Mordechai Freedman, Savannah Leroy, Kenn Rowell & The Bagdaddios, Alison Deller & The 253 Boys.
Featured Poets: Mindy Rinkewich, Simone Wolff, Buchanan Moncure, Nyssa Frank, Craig Kite, Erica Schreiner, Saville Shela, Yvonne Sotomayer.
Sponsored by The Joseph Skakun Project. Produced by Michael Skakun, Howard Feldman, Paul Sladkus, Jason Grant Shela.

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