The 1959 bus from The Beatles iconic Magical Mystery Tour now lives at the Hard Rock Cafe in Florida - SuperBlondie
The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour bus has been officially installed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, joining one of the largest Beatles memorabilia collections in the world.
The 1959 Bedford VAL Panorama served as the primary vehicle in Magical Mystery Tour, the band’s experimental film project released in 1967.
Hard Rock International acquired the bus in 1988 and has since used it for promotional purposes and public exhibitions.
Now restored and on permanent display, the bus offers a rare physical link to one of The Beatles’ most visually distinctive projects.
...It sits elevated on a custom-built platform, with display signage referencing its use in the 1967 production.
The company considers it the largest single item in its memorabilia archive, which includes thousands of artifacts spanning multiple decades and genres.
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Phil and Don Everly lit up the charts before the Beatles arrived. A new book restores their legacy - Los Angeles Times
You don’t have to look too hard to find Phil and Don Everly’s traces. The Beatles regarded them as the harmony group they longed to emulate; you can hear them sing a snatch of “Bye Bye Love” in Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary, and Paul McCartney name-checked them in his 1976 song “Let ‘Em In.” Simon & Garfunkel wanted to be the Everlys and included “Bye Bye Love” on the “Bridge Over Troubled Water” album. In 2013, Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones recorded “Foreverly,” an album of Everly Brothers songs.
And yet, biographies of them are scant. Barry Mazor’s “Blood Harmony” is long overdue, a rigorously researched narrative of the duo’s fascinatingly zig-zaggy 50-plus-year career, as well as a loving valentine to the pair’s enduring musical power.
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