Welcome to the Beatles Tribute Cruise Registration!
BritBeat – America’s Premier Tribute to the Beatles
Is a theatrical recreation concert celebrating the greatest rock and roll group of all time, The Beatles. It is the Beatles. It is their look, their sound, their mannerisms, their accents, their costuming, their instrumentation and their vocal harmonies in the most authentic recreation that you will find.
Picture yourself in a boat on a river...
Actually, picture yourself on an amazing cruise ship, in the Western Caribbean with your Beatles friends enjoying the sun, the sea and loads of Beatles Memories!
On March 28, 2010, we set sail for the cruise of a lifetime!
With a little from our friends, we are planning a week of Beatles-themed activities. We will delight in the works of artists, photographers. authors and musicians who have enriched our lives with The Beatles from their eyes, hearts, souls and imaginations covering the past 50 years of history...Beatles History.
So for "eight days a week" ok, really 6, you'll go "across the universe" to "come together", "act naturally" and "follow the sun".
"I've got a feeling" that if we "let it be" the "magical mystery tour" will "please please me".
Shannon - the World’s Greatest Beatles Artist
Shannon is one hot Beatles commodity right now and we could not be happier to have her leading off our list of guests on our Beatles Tribute Cruise. She just finished up the 110 original art pieces she was commissioned to create for Liverpool’s Hard Days Night Hotel and (if that were not enough) became the first non-musician to have her name placed on the Cavern Club’s Wall of Fame. In March of 2010 Shannon will have her first book published called “A Hard Decades Night” and the first stop on her international book tour is our cruise. With a little (very little) coaxing Shannon just might create one of her pieces of artwork on the ship for our Beatles Tribute Cruisers.
May Pang, author/photographer
As most of us know, May Pang spent 18 months with John Lennon as his live-in lover during 1973 and 1974, one of his most productive periods musically, after the Beatles broke up. Her time with John is well documented in the pictures she took and published in her books "Loving John" and “Instamatic Karma- Photographs of John Lennon”. It truly is a priviledge to have May Pang cruising with us.
Paul Saltzman, Photographer
In December 1967, 23 year-old Paul Saltzman traveled to India in search of himself. To his great surprise, he found the Beatles in India. Paul spent a magical week at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram. He learned meditation and hung out with John, Paul, George and Ringo. Thirty years later, he found the photos he'd shot and put away in a cardboard box: The Beatles in India.
"...like a footprint left in the sand, and I'm reminded of the path that's been washed away and the Greek proverb, 'You can never enter the same river twice.' As the ashram I knew is gone, so too are the Beatles. And yet, we can evoke their magic through their music, their words, and their photographs."
Paul Saltzman
Paul Saltzman’s photos of all of us in India, in 1968, are absolutely beautiful. The photo of John, finger to his ear, is the best picture I’ve ever seen of John Lennon from the Beatles’ era—it speaks volumes.
– Cynthia Lennon
Photographer, Nancy Lee Andrews
Encouraged by former Beatle, Ringo Starr, with whom she shared her life for six years (1974-1980), Nancy began shooting fashion assignments for designer boutiques along Rodeo Drive and trendy Melrose Avenue. She branched quickly into the music business, snapping photos of legendary artists such as George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, The Band, Keith Moon, Ted Nugent, Carl Perkins, Edgar Winter, Bernie Taupin, Greg and Duane Allman, Leon Russell, Glen Campbell, Donovan, Carl Radle (of Derek and the Dominos and Nancy’s first boyfriend) Arlo Guthrie, Dr. John, Ron Wood, Hoyt Axton, Harry Nilsson, Sonny Bono, Engelbert Humperdinck and Dolly Parton. This in addition to shooting publicity and photo packages and the covers for two of Ringo Starr albums – Ringo the 4th and Bad Boy.
Professional photographer, Jorie Gracen
Has had the rare opportunity to photograph McCartney over the course of twenty-three years. Her collection of more than 1,000 photographs showcases concerts, record signings, private parties, press conferences, backstage candids, sound checks, award ceremonies, and personal encounters. In short, she has captured the many faces of Paul McCartney-the musician, devoted husband, proud father, environmentalist, animal rights activist, and idol.
