THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS WINS THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST MUSIC FILM AT MUSIC'S BIGGEST NIGHT

Academy Award®-winner Ron Howard’s acclaimed documentary feature film The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years won the GRAMMY Award for Best Music Film at last night's awards.

Up for the award alongside Beyoncé's Lemonade, Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble's The Music of Strangers, Steve Aoki's I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years earned the Best Music Film honor among stiff competition at Music's Biggest Night.  

Said Nigel Sinclair, Brian Grazer and Scott Pascucci, “We are so thrilled to win this award; this project was quite the adventure and we were so blessed to have Ron's leadership guiding us through it all. We join with Ron in thanking The Recording Academy for this honor which will mean so much to the huge number of people that worked on the film. Thank you to Jeff Jones and the team at Apple Corps for all their support and of course The Beatles for trusting us with their amazing story."

Featuring rare and exclusive footage, the film was produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Olivia Harrison.  White Horse Pictures’ Grammy Award-winning Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Academy Award®-winner and Emmy® Award-winner Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment produced the multi award winning documentary with Howard. Apple Corps Ltd.’s Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde are executive producers, along with Imagine’s Michael Rosenberg, White Horse’s Guy East and Nicholas Ferrall as well as Award-winning Editor Paul Crowder and his long-time collaborator, writer Mark Monroe. Marc Ambrose is the supervising producer.

Available now on Blu-ray and DVD, plus a two-disc Special Collector’s Edition on both formats, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years is based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962-1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. Ron Howard’s film explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.”  It explores their inner workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together – all the while, exploring The Beatles’ extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film focuses on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.  

JUSTIN BIEBER TO BRING PURPOSE TOUR TO INDIA

The wait is finally over and Beliebers can rejoice! It is officially confirmed – Grammy award winner and global pop sensation Justin Bieber is making his way to the India sub-continent this summer. This highly anticipated event will be the biggest live music act witnessed in recent times in India and will further strengthen India’s position on the global music map.

After a week of speculation and uncertainty, the sole promoters of the tour, White Fox India are elated to confirm that they will be bringing the 22-year-old Canadian megastar’s Purpose World Tour to India’s DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai on 10th May 2017. Bieber’s latest jaunt is in support of his fourth album, the critically acclaimed Purpose, wherein he experimented with more exploratory electronic sounds. Apart from India, the Asia leg of the tour comprises Tel Aviv in Israel and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Touring in support of his fourth studio album Purpose – which debuted at #1 in over 100 countries and has sold over 8 million copies worldwide, Bieber is without a doubt one of the most successful pop stars in the world today with a recent world tour imbibing sold out dates across countries.

Concert goers can preregister for tickets at www.bookmyshow.com for the hotly anticipated event, as chances are the event will be sold out in less than 24 hours.  Tickets will go on sale from 22nd February 2017 and will be priced INR 4,000/- upwards. Concert goers can look forward to a set list that will surely comprise worldwide smash hits including Where Are Ü Now, Boyfriend, Love Yourself, Company, As Long As You Love Me, What Do You Mean?, Baby, Purpose, Encore: Sorry amongst others.

Mr. Arjun Jain, Director, White Fox India states, "Justin Bieber is the biggest artist of our time and attracts a universal fanbase across all ages. This tour is one of the most successful in the world at the moment and will further enhance India’s current cultural repertoire. Justin Bieber will be bringing an extraordinarily epic show propelled by state of the art production and of a magnitude that the country has not witnessed in recent times. There are few artists who warrant such a dedicated fan base as Justin Bieber. He enjoys a more than 80% dedicated fan following in India and we envisage one of the biggest live events of the year. We are the sole promoters of the Purpose Tour in India and after 6 months of negotiation we have finally closed the India leg of the tour. We are expecting a full house on May 10 with one of the biggest arena tours witnessed in recent times. This tour will place India on the global map and open up avenues for other artists of similar stature who may want to consider India as part of their touring roster.”

The Purpose World Tour has already mesmerized fans and critics alike across the United States, Canada and Japan last year and will tour throughout Europe before landing in Australia and New Zealand this year. With more than 100 huge shows on the tour and close to a million ticket sales globally, there is no doubt that Bieber is at the top of his game with this tour.

Purpose is Justin Bieber's first album in two years. Right after its release, Purpose was the most streamed album on Spotify in one weekwith What Do You Mean as the most played song. The record sold more than 640,000 copies in less than a week. Justin Bieber also holds the record for the highest most Twitter followers for any male user. He also has the highest number of YouTube subscribers for any male singer and became the first artist to reach 10 billion views on YouTube in 2016. Bieber released his first album "My World 2.0" co-produced by the rapper Usher in 2009 at the age of 14. His single "Baby’" brought the star worldwide recognition and made him the most viewed artist with 4.1 billion views on YouTube. Earlier this fall, Bieber’s hit "Sorry" grabbed 10 million YouTube views in less than 24 hours. Apart from winning at the Grammy Awards, Justin Bieber also has eight new Guinness world records to his credit. Justin won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording for Where Are You Now in 2016. He had also made headlines for the first ever singer to have seven songs from a debut album to feature on the Billboard Hot 100. Beiber also recently broke the Beatles' 1964 record by topping the American Billboard 17 times.

We can’t wait for the social media meltdown! The hashtag ‘#PURPOSETOUR’ trended worldwide on Twitter for close a week following the initial announcement in 2016, with many Beliebers unable to contain their excitement. There’s no doubt about it, tickets to the Indian leg of Bieber’s Purpose World Tour will be hot property. With no other Indian cities to be added, concert goers best act quick for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness this international superstar at the top of his game – don’t miss out!

10 Facts you didn’t know about “Despacito” featuring artist Daddy Yankee

Luis Fonsi has been doing the rounds as No.1 Latin song in Latin Spotify charts with his new single “Despacito” meaning “Slowly and Slowly”. The Spanish Single has topped the charts of every Latin American Countries with its upbeat music and groovy tunes receiving widespread fan following. 

The song features “The Big Boss” Daddy Yankee sharing a great camaraderie with Luis Fonsi’s beats along with his reggae rapping styles. Daddy Yankee has ruled not just the Spanish music scene but has fan following across the globe for his outstanding music topping charts. His stage name is derived from Puerto Rican slang: a “Yankee” is someone tall, or a big shot in his field. His other nicknames include: King Daddy, El Jefe, The Big Boss and El Cangri. 

As Daddy Yankee celebrates his 38th birthday, here are 10 facts about the indisputable king of reggeaton you probably didn’t know. 

1. His real name is Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez. 

2. His stage name is derived from Puerto Rican slang. A “Yankee” is someone tall, or a big shot in his field. His other nicknames include: King Daddy, El Jefe, The Big Boss and El Cangri. 

3. Growing up, he aspired to be a professional baseball player. He even tried out for the Seattle Mariners Major League baseball team.

He turned to music after he was shot by stray round from an AK-47 rifle, which landed him in the hospital for more than a year. 

4. He married Mireddys Gonzalez in 1994. He has two sons named Jesairis and Jeremy and a daughter named Yamilette. He is notoriously private about his family and rarely speaks about them in interviews.

Daddy Yankee’s 2004 breakthrough hit, Gasolina, made the Top 10 music charts in Austria, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and the U.K. In the U.S. it peaked at #10 on Billboard’s Top 10 Rap Songs. 

6. In 2005, he became the first Latin artist to sign a deal with Reebok, in order to produce accessories, including the licensed clothing line “DY”, which was released in 2006.

In 2009, Yankee was the recipient of Billboard’s Spirit of Hope Award for his humanitarian work with his charity, Corazón Guerrero, which works to improve education and quality of life for thousands of underserved kids in Puerto Rico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. 

8. In 2010, he guest-starred as himself on six episodes of the CBS daytime series, The Bold and the Beautiful. 

9. He was a big supporter of John McCain during the 2008 presidential election, stating that McCain is a “fighter for the Hispanic community.” 

10. He has sold over 18 million albums. 

Fonsi's upbeat track ‘Despacito’ featuting Yankee is already breaking records on Vevo becoming the Spanish language video with over 271.5 million video views on YouTube since Jan 12. (YouTube Link -     

जॉर्डन में मुन्ना माइकल के 'प्यार हो' गाने की शुटिंग

निर्माता विकी राजानी की सब्बीर खान निर्देशित फिल्म मुन्ना माइकल के एक गीत प्यार हो की शूटिंग आजकल जॉर्डन में हो रही है।  इस शूटिंग में फिल्म के नायक टाइगर श्रॉफ और नायिका निधी अग्रवाल हिस्सा ले रही हैं। प्यार हो के गीतकर कुमार हैं और संगीत विशाल मिश्रा ने दिया हैं। इस गीत को विशाल के साथ निती मोहन ने गाया हैं तथा कोरियोग्राफी गणेश आचार्य कर रहें हैं। इस गाने के बारे में जानकारी देते हुए गणेश आचार्य कहते हैं,”यह एक बहुत ही एक्सोटिक लव साँग होगा। जिन जगहों पर यह शुट किया जा रहा हैं, उससे यह ओर निखरकर आयेंगा। मेरा पहला लव साँग होने की वजह से मैंनें इसे बेहतरीन बनाने के लिए कोरीओग्राफी करते वक्त नई मूव्स और अलग फिल डिजाइन कियें हैं।“ इस गीत के बारे में निर्देशक सब्बीर खान कहतें हैं,” पॉप म्युजिक से भरपूर इस फिल्म का यह एकलौता रोमँटिक गाना होगा। हमें बेहतरीन जगहों में इस गाने की शुटिंग करनी थी। काफी जगहों का अवलोकन करने के बाद हमने जॉर्डन और इजिप्ट में इसकी शूटिंग करने का निर्णय लिया। लेकिन, इसमें बहुत ज्यादा डान्स नही हैं। बल्कि काफी रोमांस नजर आयेंगा।“ निर्माता विकी रजानी कहतें हैं, “सब्बीर इस गाने पर करीबन दो महीने से काम कर रहें हैं। मुझे पूरा यकीन हैं कि यह गाना युवा पीढ़ी को पसंद आयेंगा।“

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