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JOSEPH FERRANTE, THE MUSICIAN THAT THE BEATLES BLOCKED FOR 12 YEARS
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We are sending you an e-mail made of five different parts sent through
time.
We are sending you all this so that you might have a clear panoramic view of
the situation.
We would appreciate any help and support you can give.
Also, should you want to download the adaptation of Hey Jude by Joseph
Ferrante, click on the following link:
and download the MP3.
It will be a free download for some days, specially for you.
After, remember to visit Joseph Ferrante's main website for more music,
etc., etc.
If you enjoyed the song, please give a couple of coins (or a million if
you're rich) to the first needy person you find on the street, as a
contribution to Life. The
adaptation of Hey Jude by Ferrante was not made for money but for the sake
of art....please give the money to the poor......
Respectful Thanks.
THE NEWS MEDIA
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S.O.S.
TO THE EDITOR
(Additional copies distributed to whom it may concern)
Dear Editor:
My name is JOSEPH FERRANTE. I am a musician.
I am writing to inform you of a long history of efforts to block my musical
career and take my ideas. It has now gone beyond the pale.
Some time ago, while I was living in England, I was sent out to tune the
ex-Beatle GEORGE HARRISON's piano several times. After five years in England
I eventually went back to where I'd originally come from. There I made my
own adaptation of the Beatles' "Hey Jude". I took the original song and
re-worked it into a latin "Bachata", mixed with flamenco. I made a
demonstration cassette of it and sent it to George Harrison. It came back to
me stamped with a rude "by bike" in the place of the usual "Air mail" on the
envelope. I phoned him to ask for an explanation but was told by his
secretary that he did not want to come to the phone.
Mr. Raul Cairo of the Dutch "Music and Media" magazine can testify to the
quality of my arrangement of "Hey Jude", as he wrote an article about it in
the same magazine.
I tried sending demonstration cassettes of my version of "Hey Jude" to three
record companies in Spain, and, some months later, a group called "Los
Roling" came out with a flamenco rendition of Beatles music. Significantly,
it was at the same time that Raul Cairo was writing up my "Hey Jude" in
"Music and Media".
After a Finnish promotional firm requested 28 CDs of the song for
broadcasting on their radio chain throughout Europe the song began to get
airplay. I was told by the firm that they were getting phone-in requests for
the song at the stations and that it was being given a nice reception by
radio listeners. Some ten days later the song disappeared off the air as
though an invisible hand had stopped it. The Finnish promotional firm did
not care to provide any explanation when I phoned up about it.
Time went by and I made a "salsa" version of the Beatles' song "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". This time I sent demonstration cassettes
to record companies outside Europe, including in New York. Some months
later, a well-known latin entertainer got a salsa band together with
performers from "Fania All Stars" among others, and released an L.P. of
salsa-style Beatles music in New York.
Time went by again, and it occurred to me that perhaps I could help get the
Beatles back together again as a Beatles' music specialist myself and a
professional musician in my own right. I faxed a proposal to that effect to
George Harrison, one which he never answered. I did fax him several times
again afterwards trying to set out my ideas about the Beatles revival
venture, only to discover at one point that he had had his fax number
changed. The international operator told me she couldn't give me the new
number, as it was unlisted. About six months after the fax incident the
first "Beatles Anthology" CD came out, after many, many years without a
Beatles release. My idea. He took it and went ahead without me.
Now I am back in England.
I came back with 14 songs that I'd put together under the title
"Shangri-La", hoping to get a record deal for it. Both "Hey Jude" and "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were included in my production. There were
also two other well-known songs in my own adapted version. The rest, the
other ten songs, were all my own original compositions.
Even though I am a Rock musician,"Shangri-La" is a multi-styled production.
I took demonstration cassettes of "Shangri-La" to the ten major record
companies in London. All ten were somehow mysteriously "mislaid".
Representatives of the A&R departments concerned refused even to come to the
phone to give me an explanation, delegating other people to take the call
instead and tell me that they were still having trouble locating the
cassette. All ten cassettes??...Isn't that a bit much to be a
coincidence??...
One of the other two items I'd re-worked for "Shangri-La" was "If I Had A
Hammer". The rhythm and arrangements were all distinctly different in my
version from the original song. One day, after having delivered my cassettes
to the main record companies, I switched on the television, only to see the
launch of a new programme featuring Trini Lopez's original "If I Had A
Hammer" as the theme song...That was after my version of the long-forgotten
song had been heard by the record companies.
Again, after my cassettes had gone out to the record companies, a big night
club that was owned by people who had links with the record industry started
running a show they called "Shangri-La". They stole the name from my
production. I ended up having to hire solicitors to get them to stop using
the name, as I had already had it registered for musical purposes.
During that same period I received dozens of nuisance calls on my mobile
phone from people mocking me with taunts like: "Don't you have a record deal
?", or "Go find another country", or "I'm not hearing your songs on the
radio"...
Realizing that there must be a conspiracy against me I had promotional CDs
pressed of "Hey Jude" and distributed them to 84 radio stations around
England. After a couple weeks I had letters back from radio stations saying
they couldn't play "Hey Jude" on their programmes, although some of the
selfsame directors went on to praise my arrangement of the song. Capital
Radio described it as "a very interesting arrangement". The BBC World
Service went on to call it "a very original and quite virtuoso arrangement".
From Sony Music I read: "..I was really impressed with the quality of the
performance and your new arrangement". If the song was good enough to
generate such comments, why wouldn't they play it ? ? ?
After the radio set-back I sent a CD of my adapted version of "Hey Jude" to
Paul McCartney at his office, asking if he could give me a hand by
contacting some of the radio station directors. A week later I followed up
by phoning his office, only to be met with one of the secretaries, who in a
rude and aggressive manner dismissed me with,: "We've put your CD of "Hey
Jude" in a cold cellar...". Why such a violent reaction ? ?...
So I wrote to Paul McCartney. I even made 16 copies of my letters and
mailed them separately to be sure that one of them at least got through to
him at his home. Yet I never had a reply.
Interestingly enough, just at that time I started to hear massive
outpourings of the Beatles' "Hey Jude" on the radio,and Paul McCartney
himself suddenly began performing live again at the "Cavern" in Liverpool
after years of inactivity.
It was during those same months that I was getting threatening, anonymous
phone calls on my mobile, warning me against giving live performances or
playing anywhere. The calls were always made from public telephones.
One music agent whom I'd contacted in an effort to find myself a manager,
apologized, saying: "I'm sorry, but I cannot use you...". He refused to say
why and hung up on me.
That was when I realized what a huge operation I was up against. So huge, in
fact, that in the three and a half years I have been in England this second
stay I have as yet to give my first live concert or perform anywhere,
despite having contacted more than 20 music agents.
Five months after my "Hey Jude" was blocked on British radio stations the
latest Beatles' CD came out. This was the second time that my adaptation of
"Hey Jude" had caused a Beatles' Anthology to appear..It seems some people
regard my "Hey Jude" as a threat...
And as another "coincidence", the e-mail address that Paul McCartney offered
for fans to write to him is called heyj...@hotmail.com...as I said before,
after my Hey Jude got blocked on british radio, Paul McCartney rushed in
with concerts at the "Cavern" in Liverpool and launched this second Beatles
Anthology CD. Nevertheless, when he saw that the concerts only gathered a
very small audience and that the CD did not sell as expected, now he pushed
for a CD to come out of his work with his group "Wings"...all this with no
let-up, one thing after another, like he was trying to gain time for
something, wanting to be constantly present in people's minds for some
reason....It is with sadness that I realize that possibly some people could
be very afraid of my Hey Jude....
Most recently, one of my piano tuning customers, who is involved with the
British music industry, said an aggressive letter had been forged in my name
and sent out to different branches of the above mentioned music industry
and to other parts of the music world. This was further confirmed by a DJ
friend of mine in British radio...What vile extremes will some people not
resort to in their attempt to alienate others from me???...
Also, as another "coincidence", one of the ten major record companies in
London that stole my "Shangri-la" cassettes, has just launched a CD of one
of their bands, being the band's CD title exactly the same as my own, with
the addition of a couple of words to make the title a comical phrase !!!
..... They've launched it through one of their branches in another part of
the world.....I suspect this is a subtle trap by this record firm expecting
me to react to their action to implicate me with that part of the
world.....I will not fall into that trap.....Now they are trying to block me
in other parts of the world as well.....it looks like some people consider
my work something very dangerous, judging by the amount of conspiracy they
are generating......once again, it is amazing to see the vile manoeuvres of
some people......
What I have said so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Depending on how
things go, the full iceberg may yet come to light in all its magnitude. I
don't want to blame anybody but I feel my story has to be told.
I come looking to all music lovers to help me fight this horrible
multi-tentacled monster that has kept me and my work out of the public eye
and stolen my ideas.
It is because of this conspiracy against me that I have had to find shelter
on the Internet.
My and my work can only be found at my website.
I invite you all to it.
Yours sincerely:
Joseph Ferrante.
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IN BRIEF
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Joseph Ferrante, the music genius that The Beatles and their record firm
blocked during 12 long years, in a gigantic plot which involved different
sectors of the music industry...
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ADDENDUM
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The adaptation of Hey Jude by Joseph Ferrante has been granted a PUBLISHING
AGREEMENT by the copyright owners. Due to this fact, the people involved,
not being able to stop it legally, use all kind of vile and subreptitious
and illegal manoeuvres to do it......
The only reason for this (and we must humbly say it because enough is
enough) is that the adaptation of Hey Jude by Ferrante makes the original
song look like an absolute nothing....They try to hide the sun with a
finger......
It is possible to hide things from all the people part of the time and it is
possible to hide things from part of the people all the time, but it's
impossible to hide things from all of the people all of the time.. ..and
what was done in the night, shows in daylight......
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...And not only they blocked the adaptation of Hey Jude by Joseph
Ferrante.....but they also blocked his own compositions, our dear friend and
reader..... Hey Jude is one
among nine songs on the "Shangri-La" CD....the other eight are Ferrante's
own compositions....they blocked those eight songs as well......
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BREAKING NEWS
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And now, after the people involved and their big international firm had used
the pulling of strings and the traffic of influences with the newspapers so
that they wouldn't publish this article, they are also trying to pretend in
front of people as a big masquerade that the bass player still owns the
copyright for Hey Jude, when in fact he sold the rights of the Beatles'
songs to three different international entities.
Of these three international entities, Ferrante was granted a PUBLISHING
AGREEMENT for his adaptation of Hey Jude by the owners of the copyright of
the song. (AVAILABLE ON DEMAND)
Due to the fact that he thinks that people are stupid and that he can twist
the facts in front of audiences and that people will never know what things
are like in real life (having people such gigantic brainwash with the guys
and their pre-manufactured ACT AND MASQUERADE, WHEN IN FACT THEY ARE QUITE
DIFFERENT IN REAL LIFE), they are still lying to audiences and making them
think that the bass player owns the song and this and the other, when in
fact THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN LEGALLY DO TO STOP THE ADAPTATION BY
FERRANTE, other than the pulling of strings in mewspapers and the traffic of
influences here and there, all of which is done ILLEGALLY, SUBREPTITIOUSLY,
AND VERY HIDDEN AND SUBTERRANEAN.....All this because the copyrights ARE NO
LONGER THE BASS PLAYER'S....we repeat.....NO LONGER HIS......
Once again, the ONLY REASON for this is that the adaptation of Hey Jude by
Ferrante makes the original song look like an absolute nothing...... ...they
know VERY WELL that an elementary song had been upgraded to a
MASTERPIECE......they fear the adaptation........it takes their sleep
away.............
.......And the stature of the man is determined by the amount of conspiracy
he generates......
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We know that these things will be hard for some people, having the
GIGANTIC BRAINWASH some people have. We used to have it TOO. We were the
first ones to be SHOCKED by all this, but we saw the SERPENT HIDDEN BEHIND
THE FLOWER, whereas everybody else DIDN'T.....We could discover the REAL
PEOPLE behind the MASQUERADE...We WOKE UP....THEY DID WAKE US UP.....12
years of a good musician destroyed by SOME EGOLATRIES........
.......that is VILE......
Respectfully....our dear friend and reader.
THE NEWS MEDIA.
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