George Harrison memorial tonight in Los Angeles

Steve Marinucci

The15th Anniversary George Harrison Public Memorial Remembrance’ will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. PST at George Harrison’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star located in front of the Capitol Records Tower at 1750 Vine Street. Harrison passed away on Nov. 29, 2001 after a bout with cancer.

Fans can bring candles and flowers to place around his star and are also invited to share songs, poems and personal remembrances at the event “open mic."

A special memorial for John Lennon is set at Lennon's Walk of Fame Star, right next to George's, on Dec. 8. For more information on either event, go to visit www.facebook.com/BeatlesMemorialCelebrations/

Some special Beatle Kindle deals now on Amazon for $1.99

We found two great Beatles deals on Amazon.com for Kindle books.

They are:

• Philip Norman's "John Lennon: The Life"
• Peter Doggett's "You Never Give Me Your Money"

We also found a few others we thought you might be interested in:

• Peter Townshend "Who I Am"
• Paul Stanley "Face the Music"
• Gregg Allman "My Cross to Bear"
• Peter Doggett "David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World"
• Dennis McNally "Jerry on Jerry: Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews"
• Michael Lang "The Road to Woodstock"
• Paul Kell, "Robert Plant: A Life"
• Sharon Lawrence, "The True Story of Jimi Hendrix" 
• Aidan Levy, "The Life and Music of Lou Reed"
• Gordon Thompson, "Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop Inside Out" ($2.99)

Be sure to check out our "That's What I Want Beatles" online store for more Beatles books.

Ex-Klaatu member Terry Draper with new CD, look into the archives

Terry Draper/TerryTunes

Terry Draper, formerly of Klaatu, has two recent releases. The most recent is "Window of the World: The Lost '80's Tapes," a 4 GB USB flash drive with 22 songs that Draper has pulled from his archives. Some of the songs have been modified for the release. The drive also includes four videos and the package also includes a postcard and a booklet.

"Searching," the CD pictured above, was released earlier this year. As did Klaatu, the album has a very lush sound and is very Beatles-influenced. It includes a medley of John Sebastian's "Younger Girl" and "Flower Girl," from the Cowsills' "The Rain, the Park and Other Things."

Get both albums through the links. Also, our "That's What I Want Beatles" online store has separate sections of Klaatu and Terry Draper releases. Be sure to check them out.

How the Beatles 'Eight Days a Week' film missed the target

 Courtesy Apple Corps Ltd. 

On the latest Things We Said Today show, we discuss the new “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years” DVD. I've reviewed it on AXS, but as I said in the show, I watched “The Beatles Anthology” before discussing it there. And I said in the show that the thing that was really noticeable was the huge use of talking heads that really diluted the story and made it much lighter.

We (meaning all of us) took “The Beatles Anthology” for granted. It was so well done, and the opinions of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, who was still with us then, were like being on the inside. The John Lennon comments added a lot as well. 

“The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years” was not that. It was a look at the Beatles' touring years from different viewpoints that included theirs. They called it a documentary, but it was that in the loosest sense of the word. It was really an entertainment film. 

But if there was one thing we wished they had done with it, it would have been to make it more serious. And by serious, we mean somber. Those years of touring were unprecedented in the worldwide reaction. And the Beatles were four humans. “The Beatles Anthology” hinted at it and I don't expect we'll ever really know, but the fact they've survived is probably a miracle. Maybe Ron Howard probably didn't want to go there, but a different angle other than a P.R. story might have made the film more interesting. 

In the meantime, dig out “The Beatles Anthology” again and see the story the way they told it themselves.     

Things We Said Today #208 - What Apple has done right/Leon Russell tribute

Beatles political parodies by Rocky Mountain Mike

Rocky Mountain Mike has been doing tons of song parodies about Trump. Here are two of his recents -- both with Beatles (and solo) melodies.   

Beatle tributes on social media to Leon Russell

Beatles and family social media tributes to Leon Russell:

God bless Leon Russell peace and love to all his family peace and love 😎✌️️🌟💖🎵🎶🌹

— #RingoStarr (@ringostarrmusic) November 13, 2016

Leon Russell R.I.P. One of my biggest music and style icons. Seems like many of the greatest… https://t.co/ofpnRidLcG

— Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) November 13, 2016

We lost another friend. RIP Dear Leon. - Olivia & Dhani pic.twitter.com/PzzhfQ60Sm

— George Harrison (@GeorgeHarrison) November 13, 2016